New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-29

The total receipts or hour anu gram az Cnicago
aud Milwaukee for the same weeks compare as fol-
lows:
GRAIN 4sSi33s 2$qS5SSI Inc I Itss
Seldom has a stock speculation which was %
purely local in its character, and which was con-
fined within such narrow limits as is the present
one, exhibited such a seeming activity and such
wild fluctuations as are recorded to-day. With
known facts in view, such as the almost entire sb-
sence of business in commission brokers' offices, ons
would be something more orTess than blind to fail
to discover one manipulation which verges on the
boundary OF insecurity. Ostensbly the market
moved up and down by the various and
conflicting rumors which at the present time
affect and confuse it: and so IL
is to certain extent, but it requires moro than or
binary faith to believe that actual transactions OF
49, lbs shares about three fourths of the entire
capital can be made in st. Paul common stock
within a range of gig per cent during five hours Of
business and that after the price recently has dc.
cIned ID per cent and recovered per cent As yea.
terdays market in the late dealings wa sharply sd
yanced by reports that the Western railroad war
was settled it was natural that, when Operatou
this morning learned that they had been fooled, TO-
DAVIS market should open weak Ii did
so at figures which were from l TO 27o per cent BE-
low Yesterdays last prices But after furtha
decline of y per cent seadier feeling prevailed
and prices fluctuated within a range of par cent
according as the rumors run. A report that Presi'
dent Porter of the Omaha road had resigned wa
the first simulan to the market, because the street
has come to look upon that gentleman a. the Gauss
of the war, and the stumbling block in the wya
a settlement of it. rather than the fact that tns
stocks of Wisconsin, Illinois. Iowa and Minnesota
have been supplied with railroad capaclt. es gresta
than were required, and that all these extra eapae
ities are bonded for from $4,000 to S2o.OO0 pf
mile. We are informed, however, that Presldensrof
ter is fully backed by his Board of Directors IN ns
position which he has taken that II Is unit eieep
that some of the directors disposed to go funa
than their president is. Of course it not lona
fore it was known that there had been no enans,
in the Omaha directors or executive sna
the market again sagged of. Later IN 'as
day Mr. Porter's name was again freely USED III ".
Stock Exchange as authority for the ststem0a'
that the railroad war us fixed" Yet II VASES
that untruthful but credited report when sum~
lated the last sharp advance than 1t was tne io'
which was applied to prices, and which, IN s''s
stocks as Denver and Rio Grande, which sofa n.y.
4Sl9 ut closed 463al against Al = Ii cary s'
frightened room dealers INTO rush 10 cover '"'''
sales. AS we are informed at time OF writns ~
progress to-day has been made toward an aefscs
for conference or arbitration between the conui'.
ing interest, but it is probable that the depa''as
some of tie magnates to spend ThanKs'%s
with their families will be construed. as an .a !.
cation that progress has been made. Tue m" -.
closed at figures higher than those OF yestefuA''
| it aud not close strong.
| Government bonds were as duh as usual 'u.
cept for the Gigs the bids for the gold issues
higher Annexed are the closing quotations.