New-York tribune., 1878-05-25
The following are the highest and lowest prices for
the week, and the closing sales to-day aud a week
Annexed are closing quotations


State bonds 0ere conspicuous for the great acty-
ity and advance in District of Columbia .'-G3s, on
the near prospect of the passage Of the bill for per-
manent form of government Tor the District sales
to-day were at 81 lsasIi2 Louisiana consolidated
per cents fell to 1888: Missouri Is, Hannibal and
St. joseph isSuc sold at 1Oi; and South Carolina 6s
uou-funtahe at 25s. We note sales OF Virginia
consolidated Gs, ex-maturcd coupon, al 6O4;
There was nothing new III city bank stocks. To-
DAVIS sales cover Mercantile 40 At 80, American
Exchange (35) at 9S7sG90, and Bank of Commerce
Railroad bonds. all the week. were on the whole
strong and in good demand with large sales re-
ported. There is a fair amount OF spec culglon lh
the demand for this class of securities and there rs
no good reason why certain classes OF hohds hot
vet permanently lodged in the hands OF investors
should not always attract speculative dealings as
much railroad stocks or Government bonds. Inc
dealings to-day IN over forty different descllp,
tons The per cent COuvertiblcs OF Hannibal ana
ST. Joseph advanced To % A. and the Pacihcs were
prominent at full figures; CentralS Jos, san joaquin
branch 92l2, Oregon branch "a Union trsts lOS
sinking funds 1OOl2; Missouri Pacific hrSts lO1,
seconds 90; Southern Pac'nc OF SalIio[hla nIslS s
93l2 and South Pacific trsts 1915. IT. faul
cOnsols advanced to 1922, gold IS to
lOGas, and Northwest gold bonds to 1O2'8j
frsts Of Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern rising to Il; Chesapeake and OHIO firSts
TO 30ls, aud Canada Southern debrnturc certificates
to 72St. New-York Elevated Railroad tirsts were
strong at so; Erie thirds at l072: Long Dock bonds
at 112: Syracuse, BinghamtOn and NeW-l Ork tfsts
at 1902: Michigan Southern snSing iunG at lO9A;
Cleveland aud Toledo new bonds NJ lOsl2 SINKING
fund at HOP; Cleveland. Iainsvllle ana Ashta-
bula old at 100 Lake Shore second con.
coupon at 1O9l2 registered, ex int, at 99l2 Dela,
ware and Hudson Registered, 1881, az lO2I2 ana
ONO and Mississippi consolidated sinking fund ut
09ls. Alton and lcTe lIautc income sold at 81;
Kansas Pacific frsts at 1O0ls; Nashville ana Deca-
tuT firsts at par; Missouri, Kansas and Texas con-
sols, ,aSscnted, at 43, Hudson River sinking fund 1T
113; Hannibal and Central iirsts at -: Great
Western iirsts of 1868, coupon on at par; loItd9
and Wabash tirsts, St. LOUIS division, eN maturtd
coupon, 1919: consolidated cOnveTi bic tx August,
1873, coupon and cX previous coupons at II -e-
hign and licSbarrr cOusolS at II au' irsts OF ~
Louis aud Iron Mountain at lO93sd 100.
Gold without showing any special activity or re-
maTkahlc movement, has yet been strong, the range
of pnccs having been 1908. lOl, She latter being
the current common price to-day. Ine rates today
on gold loans were |. ia and per cent paid i"T
use of gold. The Sub-lreaSuvy disbursements Tor
the week were SlJ4,OOO interest and SljG.OuO
called buudS inclusive of SSl, 900 and $4,000 to-
day. The DAYS business OF the gold clearing depart
mrut of the Bank OF the state OF NrG-l urk covered:
Gold cleared i ,5J2 900 gp.u balance. ~ no
200: currency balances 81 - 1850. The gold quo
tatiOis were as fellows:
S..-...-..-.......-- lul
There was not much doing in foreign eXcuaug"
during the week, and the market has been dro'P-
Iuu, closing to-day wcah the actual basis "i
81 last - for sixty days bits, gud - STi@
II S7l2 for demand 10 the Z. We annex current
closing quotations: