The New York herald., 1876-10-28
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The Stock Market Dull and Weak
Prices Irregular.
GOLD 100 ga A 100 rs.
Money on Call and 2 Per Cent-Govern-
ment Bonds Quiet and Firm-Rail-
way Bonds Steady.
WALL STREET,


Brokers are speculating in a twoiold sense
financially and mentally The nrst usual In
shares and the latter to the of prices They
confess DO unable their way clearly, that
the market has considerably advanced, and that
tho trump cards OF revived trade, great crops
md cessation OF the railroad have been
played. There is nothing new as an incentive TO
fresh advance the best that leaders do IS
to the glass let the sands back agaiu
Meanwhile there is offered very slim market outside
OF tho professional one and outlet for the block Of
stocks which The bull cques are carrying So argue
the bears, and they add that tho TALL business IS
over, the Centennial intoxication nearly SO, and
set back in prices inevitable. With theso
views stock obbers find themselves .halting between
two opinions" and the uncertain, motted appearance
prices for the past day two is the result OF the
doubt.
Tho market was as varcgated to-day the frescoed
Greek at tho circus, and many bull in Lake Shore
was as blue his body.
In spite OF the of higher railroad rates. sug-
gosed dividends aud pressing reights, 1t is evident
that the pool IN Lake Shore have been willing to part
with their valuable property to whoever would tako II
at 81 For two days 1t has been ''set up"
regularly as pins on alley only to be BOWED down
10 this figure whenever the stock has boon sufficiently
steudy to receive the ball.
This morning the services OF Western Union were
called in 'boy" but the strength that stock
did not help matters than M per cent. faci-
late the unloading process greatly.
The Telegraph fancy was by all odds at the head Of
The class in the days work. Nearly CO. 900 shares
dealt u, between the 1871 aud 74s with the
attendant circumstances OF corresponding excitement.
The stock develops nothing but mystery and dissas-
faction, and Gould is at the bottom Of both, through
he hearlless rcticcnce which rcstrains HIM from max.
Ing clean breast 10 the street us to whether he be
short or long. He certainly has the credit OF each
though the present manipuators acting upon
the theory that he has becL the seller Of
other peoples Stock Part OF to-day's strength
was due as have intimatcd to pur-
rhases by the Mills Osborn faction who en-
doavored this way to give tone TO the of the
market; but the effect was in degree nulliled by
sales OF long stock the account OF the Twen
~ third street professors which broke the price
to "a, and from which there was rally at the close
The st. Paul shares offered but cold comfort their
friends, remaining in a sckly state, and with but
small show OF returning vgor SO long the weekly
returns reflect such beggary accounts They
getting as bad the historic dog, and, If half
the i'll that said Of them be true destined for no
better fate.
Ths riprlo in Pacific Mail has subsided into dead
cam The frenor Park speculation Is said to be closed
up npd the stock have been distributed during the
furry TO the innocents OF the street.
In regard to the peace patching cement OF the
railroads. tho story Is that as tho mountain would
60 TO Mohammed, Mohammed has gone tho noun
in other words that the agents of tho roads in
town have waited upon Mr. W, L. Vanderbilt to-day to
consult and decide, If possible, upon terms which
cnd tho Improbable war. At the time of writing
nothing definite known OF the results OF the meet
nu though tho wish, father to the thought started
tie market on the upward grade, and stiGened prices
materially.
The close, in Of the railways, the best prices
OF the day were made while all showed improve
mcnt On tho mornings depression
sALEs TODAY.
Tho transactions the Stock Exchange to-day aggre-
gated l67, ,4o5 sharos-New York Central and Hudson
500; Ere, 215o; Lake shore, o9,,0o Cleveland and
Ptsburg, 200; Northwestern, 1000; do. preferred,
l,9oo Rock Island. 6oo Pacific Mail, 1900; st. Paul.
D,1t0; do. preferred, lo,4Uo; Ohos, 500; Western
Union, $4,000; Wabash, 1900; Union Pacific, 400;
Panama, 300; Delaware, Lackawanna and Western,
3d. l40; New Jersey Central $50; Michigan Central,
1900; Delaware and Hudson Canal, 1850
OPENING, HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES.
The following table shows tho opening, highest and