The New York herald., 1876-03-05
FINANCIAL and COMMERCIAL.
Stocks Lower and Apparently Under
PreSSure--The Bank Statement.
GOLD FIRM AT ia 5-S A ia 3-4.
Investment Securities Firm Government
Bonds Quiet-Foreign Exchange Steady.
WALL STREET,


In cabin and fo'case the standard of Saturday
night Is sweethearts and wives" 1t may bo slipped
in the seductive 'phz." gulped gluttonously in
grog; but whatever be the process 1t commentaries
weeks work ended and a happy deverance from
threatening danger
Stock brokers always have sweethearts, and fire.
quenty have wives aud in no less degree than the
mariners do thcy enjoy tho weekly day of rest
We have had all of stock exchange weather this
past week--a calm day and breeze the next
and emuIating old "Probs,n wc have endeavored to
record the history OF the same from day to day. some
times even risking prognostication OF the future
The financial wind which blew so brskly for bulls at
the close yesterday seemed to have undergone
change in the night for during the first hour of to-
days business IL was unaccountably hauled around 10
disagreeablc quarter and bad weather was made of it
for the rest OF the day.
The record OF yesterdays operations is the record OF
to-day so far regards a sensitive feversn market.
Cnlke the termination of yesterday however, that of
Today showed general falling Off in prices Mr. Pick
wick brought TO the pound from the free ndul
Eence in salmon, and our friends and acquananc
lhe stock brokers' sometimes get equally unsteady
nnder strict regimen OF oysters
On these rare occasions their confreres adure them
'braco up' and to 'be man, and is in this way
that the "ongs have been talking the market for
only wants a cab to go home and a bed to follow.
Pacific Mail turned the tpsy of the lot,
and next TO that Lake Shore had bee its bonnet,
for they showed tumble at the close respectively OF
2A per cent in the and IL per cent the
other
Western Union, on the contrary, which for so many
days has been the bete noire Of the market manifested
decided steadncss with development OF a buying
movement which prevented ythng but the slightest
fluctuations
This may be due in some occult manner to the sud-
den weakness manifested in the rival Atlantic and Pa
cac Telegraph stock which suddenly broke down from
20 to 1s under limited sales but holding at the latter
price at the close. There features the rest
OF the market the general list remaining excessively
dull The granger stocks held their own, probably
der the very reasonable impression that ii they have
been able to show Increased earnings under the pres
of the Potter law they will be able to do
still better when this weight shall be removed
Gouds eight per security, Union Pacific it may
aimed at the ridiculousy small price of 67K.
amounted to IS4, 900 shares, which were distributed
rs folows:-Ere, 5.1G6; Lake Shore 40 900; Cincin.
natl Pittsburg S72 Northwestern, 34O0; do pre-
erred 1900; Rock Island, 200; Pacific MAIL 81 375;
ST. Paul. O1O0; do. preferred, 1000; ohios 225O;
Western Union, A, 7Oo Wabash 5oO Union Pacific,
40; c., c. and l. c., 600; Atlantic and Pacific Tee-
graph, 1900
OPENING HIGHEST LOWEST PRICES
The following table shows the opening, highest and