Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-27
MONEY MARKETS.
BY TELEGRAPH.

PARIS, August 26.-Rentes, 1861 40c.
NEW ORLEANS, August 26.-Gold,
tilt; New York sight, premium. Ster-
ling exchange, bankers bills, 544.
LONDON, August 26 -Amouut Of
bnIljou gone into the Bank Of Eagland
on balance to. day, els. 900. Consols for
money and on account, So Z Is; 5-20s of
1855. iO56; 8 20s of 1867, 1851; 10-40s, 107;
new IS. IO7. New York Central, SO;
Erie, I0t; Erie preferred, Is.
NEW YORK, August 26 Money easy
IL per cent. on cal. Customs receipts,
$500, 600. The assistant treasurer dis
bursed $4,000. Clearings, $27, OOO,O 600.
Sterling dull; sixty days, ASH; sigh,
4S904893 God opened and closed st
Ill, with ssles in the interim at lll5.
Borrowing, rates, IL, II and 2 per cent;
loans also made fat. Government bonds
opened weak, in sympathy with the
London. market, where the prices went
down on the announcement that the
fret call for resumption will be issued
by the secretary of the treasury in Sep
tsmber; market close act We and 10 wei /;
coupons OF 1881, ll94; do. 1855, 1881; dc.
new, Il3a; do. 1857, 11S5; do. 1868,
1901; new IS, 1853; 10-40s. regular, 116;
lO.40s, coupons, 1l9i; currency g., 1863
State securities quiet, and prices nomi-
nal; Tennessee is, old, As; Tennessee
s., new, As; Virginia IS, old, %; Vir
GINA IS, new, %; Missouri IS, LOOT.
Railroad BOMBS were higher in some
cases this afternoon. Northwestern con-
sOlidated gold coupons advanced to 93t,
and closed at that price bid. Union Pa.
cific firsts rose to 1869. The remainder
of the list was strong. The week, after
unusually active and exciting events,
row bids fair TO close comparative
ly quiet; for 80 far to-day, although rail-
rOsu shares have b3en active AID fever.
i.h, yet there is a marked absence of the
excitement and violent fluctuations that
have made the last three days memora-
bic, and there appears to be an under
tone Of fi5mness that is likely to be more
fully developed before many days have
passed. During the first hour and half
OF the stock merket the business was
quite Sctive and the changes frequent.
OpsniDg prices were b@i per cent. nigh
er than last nights final figures, and
during the first half hour pricfs ad-
vanced k02 PEI cent. Delaware, Lick.
awanna and Western leading. This was
succeeded by decline OF 49lz, the latter
on Delaware, Lackawanna anu Western,
and Michigan Central. This decline
was over by noon, since which time
prices have tended upward again to the
extent OF B91 per cent. The stock mar
ket was sLfUng and higher in the entire
list, aud there was an advance OF Holt
per cent. from the lowest point OF the
afternoon. Delaware, l. sckewanna and
Western advanced to 81, Delaware and
Hudson canal to So, New Jersey Central
to 40l, Morris and Essex TO IS, Mich.
gan Central TO 39a, Western Udion 10
69s, Pacific Mail to 23s, Rock Island to
1884, and l. AXE Shore to $50. The mar
ket closed steady. Trausactions at the
stock exchange to-day aggregated I64 =
600 shares, of which 5000 were Erie, 81,
600 Lake Shore, IA. 000 r OK Island, $500
Pacific Mail, 1900 st. Paul, SO 0G0 West
tern Union, 3S 600 Delaw are, Lacks
wanna and Western, l6, 500 New jersey
Central, and $500 Michigan Central.
The closing quotations were as followe:
Western Union telegraph, 69a; Quick
silver, ID; Quicksilver preferred, Is; Pa
cifio Mail. 2S8; MsripOsa, 6; Msrlposa
preferred, 81; Adams Express, Ito; Wells
& Fargo's Express company, 84&; Amer
lean Express company, 60; United States
Express company, 64S; New York Gen.
tIdit 1UO2y LhAci 1A2I AHLtC pAoAciAOA; 1oT
Harlem, 1877; Harlem preferred, 1873;
Michigan Central, 500; Panama, 26;
Union Pacific stock, %; Lake Shore,
So; Illinois Central, So; Cleveland and
Pittsburg, go: Northwestern, 374; North
western preferred, 613; Cleveland, Co
lumbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis,
4l3; New Jersey Central, 4GB; Rock
Island, 1881; st. Paul, 33a; st. Paul pre-
ferred, =; Wabash, 102; Wabash pre-.
ferred, 1O2; Fort Wayne, lOl; Terre
Haute, 2; Terre Haute preferred, 133;
Chicago and Alton, So; Chicago snd Al.
ton preferred, l03; Ohio and Mississippi,
liz; Delaware, Lackswanna and West
ern, "a; Atlantic and Pacific telegraph,
lit; Missouri Pacific, 144; Atlantic and
Pacific, preferred, Il; Indiana Central,
81; Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
IA; Hannibal and st. Joseph, IL; Cen.
trail Pacific bonds, IL; Union Pacific
bonds, e.; Union Pacific land grants, st
Union Pacific sinking funds, 96f.