The New York herald., 1876-01-27
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
Stocks Generally Firm and Higher The
Bulls Still Rampant.
GOLD DULL All 112 rs.
Money on Call Per Cent-Exchange Firm
Government Bonds StrOng-lnvestmen !.
Securities Tending Upward.
WALL STREET,


In spite OF the spiritess Market which the fea-
Gure yesterday the stock world seemed all agog for
the opening this morning, under the impression that
day OF quietude would naturally be followed by day
OF activity and that the of prices to be
upward and onward. To certain degree the opinion
was a correct one for stocks showed advancing
tendency and for the first hour bulls hilarious
If they had free range Of China shop Anerward
matters did not look auspicious and rampagng
bulls quoted down and left financial fields and pastures
for quiet midday browse at Delmonco's.
After this hour the market ruled dub steady ap-
parenty abandoned by the controlling powers and left
to the mercy Of the predatory savages who gather in
scaps the profit of eighth or fee from the loss of
a quarter with equal celebrity The market, like the
secedng States previous the unpleasantness mani
tested a strong desire TO be let alone, and most
operators inclined to grant the request Hence
the day might almost be described dies non, and
although there recorded fair amount of transac
tons proved Disappointing TO those who sought
for profits beyond such could be reaped from
limited crop OF fluctuations.
Lake Shore, like the performing elephant In a me-
nagerie, still billed the chief attraction in the
financial show to-day but its antics tecomlng
quated its grossness is longer grotesque hence
the crowd which has for weeks past been steady ap
plicant for reserved beginning 10 slink away
hands OF deadheads, who employed to execute
matched orders OF the 'caque which is in itself
the clique
With this diminuton OF interest in the prevailing
attractonwith neither Could, Twenty third street
Mr.. Merryman to give zest to the enterainment-what
wonder that there should be returned beggary ac-
count of empty boxesn the result days per-
iormance So will dismiss Lake Shore with the
single remark that at the moment the pool is largely
loaded with the security that there outlet for
waters and that stagnaton may possibly rest upon its
surface uiIl some unexpected Stock Exchange angel
shall again trouble its depths
What ave have written about Lake Shore may be as
sumed as the aays history of the of the market
Pacific Mail, Western Union and Ohios, which have
been most prominently before the public in bulk OF
transactions though passaby active to-day varied but
slightly in the way Of fluctuations They simply
iet alone by outsiders, and whatever activity they
manifested was due the ''chifonniers' OF the
ket, who turned over shares In the search for an
eighth precisely their coeres of the street grub
into the dust heap in quest OF shrcds and patches.
There Is particular cable information, foreign
domestic except that bonds considerable de-
mand In the London market orders from this side,
which Is an additional proof that capital is inclined
even the ocean for investment stocks in prefer
ence to embarkng the speculative market offered to
It here
The shndy between Tom Scott and Colonel Hunting
don President the Central Pacific Railroad,
tnued to-day before the Congressional Committee but
the latter referees, have postponed their decision
as shall handle the prize money in the shape OF
subsidy until next week. II would not break the
nations heart If Congress should vote to leave Poor
Tom a-coldn and keep the tin in the Treasury.
Mr.. Belts, member Of Assembly from this city, this
morning introduced bill in the Legislature proposing
various pains and penalties to be inflicted upon sellers
Of puts and "calls" stocks. We afraid Mr..
Belts has found his a disastrous trade mark in
Wall street operations and has bet his money the
wrong way else why desire to interfere with busi-
ness which founded upon the fair and square system
OF eheads win tails you loser"
THE TOTAL TRANSACTIONS
Of the day aggregated ILL., 500 shares which dis
tributsd among the active stocks ioows:-Western
Union, 5000; Pacific Mail 1000; Erie % 200; Lake
Shore 90 200; Union Pacific, 700; Northwestern 260O
do. preferred 16oo; St. Paul, 10, 7oo do preferred,
1900; St. Joseph, $780, do. preferred, 1890; Ohio
and Mississippi IA 100; Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph,
e0O New York Central and Hudson, 3OO Rock Island,
e00 Wabash 400; Atlantic and Pacific preferred 400
Michigan Central, 1900; New Jersey Central, 800;
Pacific OF Missouri, AGO. and Panama, zoo
OPENING, HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRIcRs
The following table shows tho opening, highest and