National Republican., 1883-10-01
lnnds, 1Ol. Total sales Of mot for tho WOOL /,

lands, 1oa. Total sales of spot for the wocl
5000 bales.
Tho market for dry goods has shown loss
activity the past week, but as for the do |
morali zation which was reported early in tho
week. thcro is no foundation in fact. The
cotton goods commission houses have ex-
perienced steady demand (by personal selec.
tion and through tho medium OF orders, and
fairly satisfactory distribution for staple
and department goods was mado by leading
jobbers. The woolen goods market was some
what disturbed for a timo by tho failure of
several wholesale clothing houses and cloth
jobbers, caused by the methods of doing busi.
ness and outside enterprises Tho general
dry goods trade however, is financially sound,
owing TO the very cautious and conservative
policy which has been lately pursued.
Taken altogether any change III tho general
situation can bc said to be in the limo of inn
provement. The crops are either harvested
or so far advanced as to be out of danger.
Merchants have consequently some basis on
which to calculate the probable business of
the season. Railway earnings are very salts
factory. Money almost unpreccdently easy
and likely to continue so. Exchange is weak,
and the downward tendency is more likely
to increase than diminish as our exports in
crease. Tho only thing noodtul is the con-
fdenco of capital and the assurance that
liquidation in the several branches of trade
is nearly at an end.
TIE sioux MARkET'
Tho stock market was voIy unsettled and
generally weak during tho early part of tho
week. ON Monday morning the bears vgor-
ously assailcd the Willard stocks, following
this up by a raid first on the coalors and then
OH the Vanderbilt spocialtics On Tuesday,
under some inside support to the Northern
Pacific, the market opened fraction doarcr
but early in the afternoon the news of tho
| crash in White street had an uuscttlng
effect. OF course this event was used for all it
was worth, and perhaps II little more, by tho
Spectators for fall TO force prices down.
There was, however, decided Improvement
| both in the undortone and prices on Wednos-
day, particularly in the afternoon, when tho
| upward movement became general and tho
| market closed strong. There was q slight
| weakness perccptible on Thursdays opening,
| but i'll the afternoon rumor was current
| that q new pool had been formed the objec-
| tive point being determined advance in
prices, particularly in the Could Vanderbilt
Willard properties, This rumor scared some
of tho more timid bears into covering, and
prices were further advanced at Thursdays
! closing, which were not very well sustained
through Friday the close on that day showing
quite reaction, owing to n tolorably woll au-
thenticated report that tho Northern Pacific
| company would put out new issue of bonds
to the amount of $15,000,O0O with which to
retire the floating debt, and for other pur-
| poses, &c.
On one fact bulls and bears agree, namely,
there is nothing in the market and the adj
vance record through the latter part of the
week was merely the result of manipulation.
The Investing public" and "non-profcs-
sional spectators would receive hearty
welcome from tho bovine element Mt this par
| ticular iuncturo, but there is little evidence
at present of their long looked for arrival
The following is
SATURDAYS REVIEW.
Stocks opened weak, with the most trading
in tho Wizards and generally l@4 below
| last evening. The decline in the first hour
averaged ! to / for the Wizards, Jersey,
Michigan Central, and Northwestern, the
latter being weakest. New York Central
and Louisville were Intellectually hammered
by the bears and Western Union was scarcely
affected by the adverse tax decision, nvolv-
ing nearly million to the state of New
| York. Money 2G2l. Jersey lent fiat; New
York Central 1-64. Governments strong
Sterling unchanged. The trading was very
small up to noon, at which hour prices COM
pared with Fridays closing, for Northwest
ern Michigan Central Northern Pacific, and
Texas We're 1@14 lower. story
was current in the street that
tho Northwestern road was selling
treasury stock; another that w. X. Vanderbilt
| had sold out still another that lMyron L.
Bush, of Buffalo, had sold ont. Tho markt ;
was very dull at noon and carly on the Sec
ond call, and the range of prices somewhat
lower. The great trot at Fleetwood was ten
more times discussed than the Wall street
hippodrome. Some call loans which have "a
per cent. have been marked up to per cent
| Time loans 81 for five months and for six
months. The market continued to drag
| until closing hour was near, when the lowest
prices were current, the specially soft spots
being the Wizards Final trading was very
light, and the market closed dull, and without
| special feature.
| NoTE,-Commencng Monday, October l,
the stock exchange will resume opening at 10
| o'clock on Mondays.
Closing prices, as compared with Friday,
show tho following changes
ADVANCED.
Central Pacific, / Erie / Lake Shore, 1 /;
Louisville and Nashville, /; Union Pacific
| /; Wabash, 4; Wabash preferred, / ; Missouri
| Pacific, /; Delaware Lackawanna & Western
| /; Canada Southern, /; Philadelphia and
Reading, 3.
DECLINED.
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy, / {; West
ern Union, / New York Central, / Michi-
gan Central, 4; Chicago and Northwestern,
| ); Jersey Central, ! {; st. Paul, ! Denver,
| / Oregon Transcontinental, II; Northern
Pacific common, IL; Northern Pacific pre-
ferred, IL; Missouri, Kansas and Texas, / t;
Canada Pacific, B; Texas Pacific, /; Pacific
Mail, /; Illinois Central, / Rochester and
! Pittsburg 4 East Tennessee preferred, !.
LONDON, 12;30-St Paul, lower; Lake
Shore, lower Louisville ana Nashville,
| lower; New York Central lower; Erie,
lower Illinois, Central, higher.
STOCKS.
The following are the opening, highest,
! lowest and closing prices of the principal
| stocks for the day, as corrected by special wire
! reports received by Bateman Il Co., bankers,