The New York herald., 1876-02-02
The Stock Market HeaVy-LOwcr Prices The
Bulls Realizing-A Fresh Short III
teFeSt Being Created.
GOLD FIRMER AT ll9 A is 314A lis Is.
Money on Call Loans from to Per Cent
Railroad and Government Bonds Strong
The Public Debt Statement-A Re-
ductiOn of 81 100000.
WALL STREET,

TUESDAY, FEB. 1T T. NJ
1t is great mistake supposes that brokers'
class wedded to the ups and downs Of the
stock as be caIous 10 the ecreations which
invite them outside of their daily toll There
among their number who make it unpleasant for
pigeons thirty yards rise who could ride to hounds
IL there any to ride in this hemisphere, and
who can throw fly with the genteness OF zephyr
IN allure to the wary trout
The stock market in truth, for a day. or two back
has not been unlike trout stream. Old Izaak Walton
tells what that is and If brokers know aught of the
''contcmpative mans recreation" they will recognize
che simlle
On Saturday wc had the fast flowing stream, the
pebbly bottom and the small fry hungry to rise at
every cast On Monday the stream surged over rocks
and Instructions. To-day the waters have fallen
quietly into the repose Of pools and eddies, with
scarcely ebulhtion enough to disturb their surface
Pictured a stream, this has nearly been the story
OF the last three days. stock market AT first rapid,
afterwards turbulent and at last placid.
IL contrast with yesterday there was a notable fall
ing off dealings to-day Western Union, rs the Ad-
mirable Crichon of two days past Iell away from it,
''prde OF place. into comparative apathy Operators
pitched into the hgnt yesterday hip and thigh, but
days dulness showed that the wiling
to call for The favorte of the day has been
bane to friend and foe; bulls had failed to profit
by the and bears had gained nothing by the fall
Both sides showed dreary array Of killed and
wounded, and balm for the afflicted scarce it
was In Giead.
or course tie rest of the market being at the beck
and call os The prime favorite acted with IT. and
sequentiy changes in values were inireQuent a
prize in lottery.
In fact the Gould-osborn combination seem to be
somewhat like attack Of measles in family OF
small children which nfects after another seratim.
They have visited Lake Shore, Northwest Erie and
Western Union, and the strong probability is that
shall discern symptoms OF eruption the face
OF our maritime friend Pacific Mail We
trust there virus enough in their constitution to
keep tho epidemic of higher prices raging, and that
the upward movement will not suddenly vanish away
nnder The stigma OF being false and spasmodic.
There was l;tle Was ingon that the United
States Treasury not at home callers for interest
on the S.e5 District Of Columbia bonds. 1t is bad
enough when pleoeians Of humble degree issue
notice Of ''no cards, but when potentate like the
government keeps dark it is reprehensible indeed.
The sales to-day aggregated llS,3C0 shares which
we're distributed among active stocks follows:-Now
York Central and Hudson River 400; Erie $500; Lake
Shore $500; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 500; North
western, $500; do, preferred, 2,sco Rock Island,
29oo; Pacific Mall l., 400; Sc Paul 2 900. do. pre-
ferrcd, 1900; OA4os, So 500; Western Union, 20 4oO
Wabash, 4oc0; Union Pacific LOO; c., C. and l. C. ,
1sOo, Hannibal and ST Joseph, l,6oo; do preferred,
bOO Missouri Pacific, 1900; Atlantic and Pacific, pre-
terred, 1900; Mariposa, preferred 1,l0C a
OPENING, HIGHEST AsD LOWEST PRICES
The following table shows tho opening highest and