The New York Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1876, Page 9

FINANCIAL AND COMMERCHL. ‘An Erratic Stock Market—Priees a Trifle Firmer, but Speculdtion Limited and Operators Nervous. GOLD HIGHER AT 113 38-4. $1,700,000 Shipped To-Day— Government, Railroad and Investment Securities Strong—Money on Call 31-2 Per Cent. , ; Wart Srrazr, Tacaspay, Feb ite Fi} ‘The “Old Probabilities” of the street, under, the guise of public opmion, was not borne out in prognosti- cations of #@tormy financial weather w-day, The tornado which was viewed as imminent last dhgns swept over the market only as Frésh gales and gentle airs, and the havoc which was half feared ana half desired failed to prevail, The bull element evidently took the might to think over the situation, and the result was an endeavor to check the threatening evil vefore it had assumed any very serious shape. At the opening the very pronounced disposition to get out of stocks which hhad exhibited itself at the close of dealing yesterday ‘was again manifest, only to be quickly met by a power which stopped the decline and later in the day carried prices to slightly higher figures. While Lake Shore was abruptly checked in its decline Western Union broke through all bounds and was not brought to a sense of its position until it nad@puched 73, a drop of four points from the quotation of two days back. At this figure was developed an inclination on the part o¢ the Twenty-third street party to cover, which was fol- lowed by large purchases by a prominent speculative trader, who in this instance was supposed to be em- ployed in the capacity of a commission broker, with Jay Gould as his principal. Wo give this simply as board talk, and for further particulars refer the reader to the Mephistopheles of Forty-seventh street himself, who will undoubtedly express himself with all the veracity of “Truth{ul _-Jeemes."” If Gould {s short of 30,000 shares of Western Union, ‘as the street gives him the credit for, he would scarcely attempt to cover at so small a decline, and we may look for another stampede which will carry the shares still lower, As far as the “Wygord of the day goes, however, the erally improved quotations some three-quarters per _ cent, and with this gain the stock closed. Tho granger stocks may be regarded as the best bower, which kept the vessel of speculation from drag- ging on the dangerous quicksands of fancy prices; or were rather like the placid gentleman who aagures an - andience that there {s positively no danger when a cry of fire has been raised. The Northwest and St. Paul stocks refused to believe in any conflagration whatever, and, In their steady determination not to budge from prevailing quotations, reassured the rest of the market, So when Lake Shore was halted and Western Union -brought up with a roand turn things took a more cheerful aspect, and eventually closed, if mot at better prices, at least with a stronger feel- ing than prevailed last evening. The admirers of the St. Paul stocks seem to still exist in the shape of acombination or pool, whether because they think they cannot have too much of a g@d thing, or because, like Sinbad the Sailor and the Old Man of the Sea, they cannot get rid of their load, is an open question. Certain itis that they have been very busy to-day in giving - out points to buy with promise of a roseate future, and -as we all know stockjobbers ignore self when they can benefit their friends, their information must be— Well, jast what it is worth, J Apart from the speculations we bave named there ‘was nothing in the light timbered or tissue paper - securities to attract attention. * There was no gossip nor rumors of any sort to bias ‘the hesitancy of bull or bear, and beyond the desire of a crowd of small shorts to gather in profits the market exhibited no salient feature. It cannot be denied, however, a feeling of doubt has set in as to a further advance of prices just at present. Is w argued that a sixty days’ bull movement usually brings Taurus to the end of his tetber, and the board begins to realize the fact that the combinations have pretty effectively plastered the street with their hold- ings. The advancing pillar of fre has been quenched, and the pillar of a cloud, which may typify Gould in his destruction capacity, is too sombre and threatening to attract followers from the sunny promises of the centennial year. OPENING, HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES. The foliowing table shows the opening, highest and lowest prices of the day :— 8 heh ag Highest. Loneet Ee ha Mi 7 66; 6 6% 5 “ ray 66% C3"4 ml0xy 109% Pittsburg . M6 93. 93: Milwaukee and St, Paul... 4439 45 43 Mil. and St. Paul Cyd we TOK ng Ohio and Mississi) 22 2 < 107% 107% ug 17 ere 34, 144 TB: 19% 19 83 ig 131 1304 THE BALES TO-DAY. ‘The transactions on the Stock Exchange to-day ag- gregated 163,000 shares, as follows:—New York Central and Hudson River, 620; Erie, 11,040; Lake Shore, 94,587; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 352; Northwestern, \ 80005 do. preferred, 3,000; Rock Island, 3,334; Pacific Mall, 14,900; St. Paul, 18,300; do. preferred, 2,500; Ohtos, 6,000; Western Union, 53,900; Wabash, 100; Union Pacific, 700; ©., C, and 1,C., 100; Panama, 100; 29 {ea sce Be BF onze end i « jon Pacific... 68) Missouri Pac.. 1 “ADVANCE AND DROLINR Ze gegseSgaassevetas Bt The changes in closing prices, compared with those- of yesterday, are as follows:— Apvance.—Michigan Dela Lackawanna and Western, Wabash and Di i of Columbia 3.65 bonds and gold, each % ; Union Pacific, ; Brie, Lake Shore, eink common, Oho 4, Mistso\ 1, and Rock Island, each %; Panama, enawenler. Mj St. Paul preferred and New Jersey Ue {ay Haniel and St Joseph, i n sb inragh, Nem York Costa, tnd" Harlem, Te " peatwmany.— racific Mail and Quicksilver. THE GOLD MARKET was somewhat active. The price declined from usK to 113%, advanced to 119% and closed at 119%. The carrying rates were 1), 1, 2, 234, 3, 334 and 4 per cont, OPERATIONS OF THE GOLD EXCHANGR BAXK. ius 51,007,000 The specte shipments to-day were large, “snd clees on to the estimates of yesterday. The steamer Pomme- ania took out $1,700,000, of which $1,540,000 was gold soin and the balance silver, ‘The sum of $50,000 In coin and $42,726 in bullion was shipped for the East at San Francisco to-day. ‘THR MONEY MARKRT. Money closed easy at 334 por cent, with the ex- ‘pemes at 3 and 4 per cent, The foreign exchanges were Grmer in the afternoon, and at the close bankers’ alls were quoted at 4.85% & 4.86 for long and 4.89% a 490 for demand The rates for New York exchange aro an follows:—Charleston, unchanged; Savannah, * NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, "| econ; New Orleans, commercial 1-16, bank ‘x; Chicago, 75c. discount; St, Louis, T5c. discount, THE UNITED STATES TREASURY, The receipts from internal revenue today were $284,208 42 and from customs $494,398 30, The As- sistant Treasurer paid out to-day $162,000, gold, on ac- count of interest, and $451,000 in redemption of five- twenty bonds, Owing to the great proauctivencss of the silver mines in Nevada and Colorado the San Fran- cisco market is reported to be overflowing with this metal, and it is a serious financial question how to dis- pose of it, Meanwhile, on the Eastern slope, prepara- tions are in active progress to supplant fractional paper currency with silver coin. Bank notes received for re- demption to-day, $500,000, 2 UNITED S¥ATES BONDS. ‘There was a good demand for United States bonds to-day, it coming chiefly from city and out of town banks, The market at the close was strong at the following quotations:—United States currency sixes, 126% 9127; do, do., 1881, registered, 123% 2 123%5; do, da, do., coupon, 12334 a 123%{; do, five-twenties, 1865, rogistered, 118 a 118%; do. do., do., coupon, 118 118%; do. do., do., new, registered, 120 a 12044 ; do. do., do, do., coupon, 119% a 120%; do. do., 1867, regis- tered, 122% 9 1227 ; do. do., do., coupon, 12244 a 122%; do, do., 1868, registered, 123% a 124; do. do., do., coupon, 123% a 124; do ten-forties, registered, 118. 1184; do. do., do., coupon, 121 a 121%; do. fives, 1881, registered, 118% a 119%; do. do., do,, coupon, 1187 a 11934. RAILROAD BONDS. These were generally firm, but less active than yes- terday. New York Central firsts advanced to 122, Harlem firsts to 118, Northwestern gold coupons to 92 and Western Paciffy sold at 101 a 102 The follow- ing were the closing quotations for Pacific Rallroad bonds:—Union Pacific firsts, 1053 a 105%; Union Pa- cifle land grants, 102% a 103; Union Pacifie sinking funds, 97 a 9734; Central Pacifics, 1085.0 109. INVESTMENT SECURITIES, Rock Island was steady at 110 a 100% a 110% a 110%, Morris and Essex at 104, Delaware and Lackawanna at 117K @ 117%, Cleveland and Pitisburg guaranteed at 934 093%, New York Central at 115X a 114K a 115, New Jersey Central at 1073¢ a 108, Harlem at 42 BXPRESS STOCKS, ‘These were quiet, United States closing, after sates, at 73% a 7434; Adams, 109, ex dividend; American, 64, and Wells- ei 8734. BANK SHARES. Bank shares were dull. Ninth National sold at 814 and Metropolitan at 128, STATE BONDS. ‘In State bonds the sales were confined to New Yurk registered bounty loan at 104%, District of Columbia 8.65's at 74.0 7434, Virginia sixes, consolidated, ex ma- tured coupons, at 69, and old Tennessee sixes at 46. ‘THE PORKIGN MARKET. London advices report no change in the Bank of England rate of discount, which remains at 4 per cent. The gain in bullion by the bank during the past week was £370,000, the proportion of reserve to liabili- ties being 42% per cont, against 425 last week. Con- sols and United States bonds were firm. The specie in the Bank of France increased 18,470,000f. during the past week.. The following are half-past five P. M. quotations :—Consols for money, 943; do. for account, 944%; °65 bonds, old, 1060 106%; °67 bonds, 10934 a 109%; ten-forty bonds, 106% a 10644; now fives, 106% ; Erie, 1534 a 15% ; do. preferred, 32. The following table of prices of the prominent gold and silver mining shares, as received by telegraph from San Francisco, 1s furnished by Mr, William Ward, No. 5 Broad street (Drexel Building) :— Feb. = no 17th, C! 26 Advanced 3 au FH = Advanced 1 Alph: Belcher Best & Belcher. 58 58 _ Caledonia. 40 60 50 Advanced 10 Califorma, 82 8382 Choliar- Potosi. 85 90 90 Advanced 5 5 411 416 413 Declined Dh 25 25 5 BerecaQonmolicasey, 16 16 16 16 Gould & Curry... 21 Hate & Norcross. i 61 61 ~ 26 26 28 Declined 1 li oy 16 Dechned 1 19 619) «(19 6s =«60 69 Advanced 7 65 (68 66 Declined 1 Pride 22 22 22 - 19 «20 = =©620 Advanced 1 20 20 (20 - Silver Hill. 12 12 12 _- Union Consolidated. 10 10 10 10 Yellow Jacket...... 106 106 103 102 Declined 4 MILWAUKEE AND ST. PAUL RAILWAY? ‘The gross earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St, Paul Railroad Company for the second week in Febru_ ary compare with the two previous years as follows:— 1874, $160,800; 1875, $74,600; 1876, $125,000, 1876 over 1876, $50,400; 1876 less than 1874, $35,800. The large loss of 1875 from 1874 was owing to the road being badly blocked by snow during the whole month o¢ February, 1875. y ‘THE POTTER Law. A despatch from Madison, Wis., says that the Vance Dill 1s now in the hands of the Senate Railroad Com- mittee, which stands five im favor of the Potter repeal, and four, including Potter himself, against, The rail- road men count from two to three majority in favor of the repeal. Potter, however, thinks it will not have a majority as it stands. The Senate committeo will dis- cuss the bill to-day, and a warm time is expected. The principal amendments to be considered are those re- stricting passenger fares to three cents per mile and prohibiting discriminations. . PRILADBLPRIA QUOTATIONS The following are the Philadelphia stock quotations at three o'clock this day :— Asked. 109 140% 5535 51% wissa Railroad, ‘ Phusdeipbia and Erie Railroad. 21% Northern Central Railroad = Lebigh Navigation........ oy Lehigh Navigation gold joan, 10655 ‘THE COMMISSION SALES OF BROKERS. A petition to reduce the rates of commission on the Stock Exchange is in circulation, of which the follow- ing is a copy:— The rates of commission shall be as follows :—One- of 1 per cent on the par value of stocks, banks and other securities when the transaction is made for a regular investor, and 1-16 of 1 per cent on the par value of all secart! when the transaction ts a speculative one, And no business shall be done at Jess than this latter rate for any person or firms not members of the Exchange or for any banking or other institutions. One-eighth of 1 percent on the par value of all securities when the transaction is not closed in ten all securities it or sold for members of the Exchange the rates shall be 1-32 per cent on the par value, except when a member merely buys and sells for another and substitates his princi cums, bs basiness hours of the of the transaction. whic! case the commission be $2 per 100 prensa On government securities the minimam rate to non- members shall be 1-16 to 1 per cent on the par value. Commissions shail oe charged under all the circum- stances on purchases and sales of stocks, bonds or other securities, either for members of the Exchange or for other parties; and any member violating my article, directly or indirectly, shall, upon conviction, cease to be a member of the Stock ’ Ex and bis membership sball escheat to the Exchange mem- bership however, be subject to the provisions of article 14 of the constitution as regards claims of mem- bers who are creditors of such persons, NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE SALES Tuurspar, Fob. 17, 1876, BRFORE CALL—10 A. M. 10000 Di: 74 10yshe Brie Bit...b00 17) Soo 80 ii 4 TR | tee 17 é, 17% 100 17 a7 21 100 atl & 19% 700 21 2010 Were 4 6 1000 1000 do. 65) 2600 Tay 168T do. 65 300 1000 do. 65: 1400 4090 do. 65) 3800 Ts, 1000 do. 65; 600, 73% 700 do. 600 73 10 Del, L aony at 100 do. 600 Pac 100 Pae RR lw 400 Chi & N 100 00 do. 500 do ‘700 do. 100 B00 do. 500 300 do. 300, 200 do. 1300 300 Cht & N 1900 200, do 1000 ‘300 wo 100 do. ONT 200 do. 100 Chi 800 Mil & St 200 lo. 200 do... edo 900 do. a B & 100 Cn Pee 200, 800 do. 500 25 do. 500 100 Brie RR 900 i Se = maze flre Fr = 5 rs me # Fe3z.8 = ee 300 do. BEFORE CALL—! 300 she Erie BE, . Sooo P, F 1 som we W 8 G3 2000 Gt West of ‘33. 000 ©. C&C ist... 5000 TRW Lst,StL.be 10 sha NY Gas Uo... 60 Del & Hud Can. be do. ae Erie KR COTTON ON THE SPOT WAS DULL—FUTURES | * WERE WEAK—FLOUB DULL—WHEAT DULL AND | NOMINAL—CORN DULL, BUT A SHADE FIRMER— OATS DULI-—POBK FIRMER-—LARD FIRMER— | WHISKEY DULL AND LOWEB—PETROLEUM QUIET—68PIRITS TURPENTINE FIRMER— ROSIN FIRMER—OILS QUIRT--FREIGHTS INACTIVE AND TAME—COFFEE QUIET—-SUGAR STEADY, Taoxspay, Feb. 17—6 P. M. The markets remainded quiet, and with few excep- tions prices were nominally unchanged. Flour was dull, Wheat was dull, and in the absence of transac- tions prices were nominal, Corn was dull, but a shade firmer, Oats dull. Whiskey dull and lower, jons firmer. Freights were quiet and tame. Cotton was dull Coffee was quiet leum was quiet. Naval stores were firmer throughout. Sugar was steady. Covrenz.—Market quiet on all grades. We note sale of 5,000 bags Rio, ex Patria, on privateterms. The gtock of mild coffee in first hands is as follows :—Java, grass mats, 140,078; Singapore, grass mata, 2.489; Ceylon, 7,743 bags; Maracaibo, 21,921 do. ; Laguayra, 200 do, ; Jamaica, 830 do. ; St. Domingo, $70 do. ; Porto Rico, 1,022 do ; Macassar, 12,020 do. ; Mexican, 1,148 do,; Savanilla, 1,897 do, Total, 47,151 bags, 140,078 mee Java, ogy nna mats mes bags. o ibe. nite. UrRCoa, we at ri fol BO Sethe Feb... iota Mareh.. Bae - pri. dion and neva store running in quali ‘& grade above or below the Uplands. sales were as follows epee, two ofeli Marek, 800 bules at 1 1 Ci 1d . 100 ‘at 13 29-82e., ., #0 at 13 31-820. 82,500 bales. ‘The rae at the ports were as tollows :—¢ w Orleans, 7,476 javennah, 5 } Norfolk, 2.207: by steam, lo. mal State, Western and thern, embraced 13,000 Corn meal was steady but quiet. bis. and 300 sucks at $3 Round hoop Ohio, shipping ‘bran ound boop Obio, trade brands. Bt Loule, strates extn Bt. Louis, choice double extr St. Louis, choice fami Kye flour, fine to supe: Southern, No, 2 Corn mesl, Western. Corn meal, Jersey. Corn meal, Brandywine. emwoOmeenIerormrneoee tS 2 twas dull and nominal fons of moment for No. 2 Milwaukeo! in The sules were abont $40,000 bushels at $1 18 for un- 88 for No. 1.in store; 61 47 for amber Penn- ‘$i 23 for No. 2 Milwaukee, in store. The sales amounted to abo for ungraded mrxed, 620. te. for new mixed, 64e. . onnsyty: s Barley was quiet, with parties apart in their views.” Burley malt wan, also given ut Doc. a 81'05 Yor two-rowed State, und $i 10 a $1 20 for four-rowed do. Oats ‘The sales were 43,000 bushels at 26 Tol &Wab itRibe 25 Mor & Ess RR 104 were dull and unchanged. 3c. for inferior Western mixed, afloat 2 Chicago, atloat, and 46440. for do., xiks.—We note sale of 909 Foils bagging at L2N¢c. Jure.—The market was quiet but steady. $250 & $235 for don- 200 a $.05 for single and $120 4 9190 nominal 100 Atl & Pac pf... uote American 100 Han & 8 Jo RR.De the latter tor fine: Russia lesa, oid w gai Motassxs.—The fair to dene 4 fold on ‘private. terms. B8)ge.; rosin, common to good strained. SL OY Nive ‘2 12: Wilmington, $2 Wilt ston were as follows :— steady; Wilm 4734. Tar at coe any $1 25; yellow dip and virgin, $1 15. as nothing new to report in the home mar- ices from Boston report the arrival there ot the ship sor, with 1,200" bbls. sperm, We a de. ; Southern yellow, S8e. a 6Uc. ; yellow linseed, ‘casks, 62c. a a 200 Ohio & Mins RR. “1 white winter, 00s. ‘a 65e. ¢ Miard, wintor, $1 04; menhaden, "Sound, doc, $1.00 a $1, 09; do., bleached winter, $1 95; *s Northern, 70c!; do., south olive, casks,” $1 1734 0 winter bleached fish, be market was quiet and without impor- bbls. refined, at closing quotations 74246. dow in, bots. LONE. Ise. @ 15e. for ordi 4 $15000 U S 5-20, «, 68. 123% 20000 U S 10-40, 1 1000 U8 6's, ¢ SECOND BOARD—1 P. M, 700 she Brie RE. ..b3 100% 10018 & M8 ithe. 'b 96° «600 do ? hae. Advices from the Creek lows Titusville, no demand this, A. nominal, $2 123g; i declined to $1 96'4 wells; more sellers than buyers; transaction Rouseville duiet and frm ; nothing doing in futures. Tidioute very firm and Bi “pRdtistoxs. Beane ork, “ lard, 1,087 tierces; cut ments, tierces and 1,949 boxes; beet, beef hams, Gud bois.’ T under a fair inguiry, brices were Spot was quoted at $2: ae: at $20 50 o Go., at 123g6.; and 10 do., 20 do. do., at 126. Age. @ 154ge. for hang and 10}¢e. for shoulders. Bacon was st ely at Lc. ® 12%. for city long clear; 20 Beef was steady bat quiet wo a S12 beg for extra mes: $16 for packet, VL a $27 for prime Westerns fold, ot $23, Lard wae drmer, but “call” prices were as follows ocd March. $13 S75 pid, $1 #23, nake: id, $13 55° asked: did, 73 year, $12 55 bid, 1,000 terces March at 813.40; February, o ante: State dairies, fair to . We. w BAe, ; do., choice to ‘eastern, good to choice, 22 good, 16 e:20e., Ohecse was. firm, wit State factory, commun to sped ney, fresh tubs, 28. doy Mod sr Singe w 00, cul Set The market for raw Irae steady. | The sales wore 280 hhds. centri ft 7c. and OO bi still Hmited, bi Wait, Creighton & Morrison sam up thus :— Hhds. Boxes. Stock (ascertained by actual cludi 100 Pac KK of Mo, ~ Mil 4 St P RE. february 1, 16,249 Totals... + Sales since February 1. on a Soe wit a A P Pot. day, February 1500 LS &4MSRRB 6.44 COMMERCIAL REPORT. Tihds. and boxes, Gige. a Tye; common to pela, i pam rootn to Liverpool per steam wa: shipment, ‘Sut steady for next week's from grain shippers. In an ‘and rates were unchanged. erubrace :—To Liverpool, per_ste am, ber this week's steamer, xs 7d. a shipment next week, Gi.'s aie’ fo Landon,» ; 9,000 bia. olleake at 2s. wie tobaceo at 78, 6d, Oils were quiet. Petro- m0 o aon ot Havre, 4s. 6 =e wie a Philadelphia to New Ross, with farvers grain Fr quarte Oo Gork for orders, "with 'S. British quarters do. at Gs. “Od. ; an Talian bark, theneo e the United Kingaom direc, vith option of flour at 3s, id. ed from. Baltitnore to quarters re itive! ner an Cop hes od schooner, "hence 2 h 1,060 bbe, general cargo "Port au Paix, with 1,000 bis. do. tis oe Ei tebe: bonse te" Mowserises: with ma es cargo on DOMESTIO MARKETS. [Sse | two Norws t.000 or orders ea scopy of at $1, nding, 63,000, ase wt date, 195, Average Bd fete 7,300 bags. Price, grind Sh Ga Cotton quiets, middiing, 12%e i Mi ree = i Ni A coast tees 2u2, Bal ‘17a 'e idee; Manila, wanilla, 16e. % Ise. ; ‘The market for spot cotton was dull. Futares ing prices to-day compare with FS ack: 3 27-99 New 01 Cotton tiered and easier; sae od ordinary, Yasc. Net roaelp Exporte—fo Great Britain, t mad 1,648; coastwise, 338%, um, Feb. 17, 1876. iin. 12\e.; low middling, ary, We. Nes receipts, 431 baiei c Sales, 2,500, iste By ne | Feb, 17, 1876. 96. j xostura, 176. 8.18340. ; Bales, 6,000, ‘stock, Buperte acastwion, ‘ pee Gulls qaadiing, 12% 12N6¢. ports to Great Britain, asi Cotton dull and ¢ nominal: i ore Fe “To” Wrens Britain, 5,000; const Peb. 17, 1876. ¥en tea; strained, op ee Feb. 17, 1876. of 1, bole, Wheat quiet; ito: No, 1 wie Michi e tocndin sh od of adh. pokh ab ak 8. tine firm at 32igo 4M iebislahe wo. meal; niet Doited arte “Shorin bend a 617, KI Sis By" ae middiings, 1876. --TRIPLE SHEET. jock P. M.— Fil, 1,900 at jeston, 1,606 15, : to Hamburg, omen ty vloung: 16, e0ene ‘to ‘Liverpool, by steam, S-16d.; Market uominal, Fioun axp Graix.—Receipts—Plour, 11,800 bbls. wheat, 12.400 bushels; corm meal. 1,708 bbis. and G63 sacks; o 22,270" do.: barley, 9.000 ley malt, 2,775 do. , Tel dour market wed without de- Bia 525 408 650 85a 525 Soa 65) 00a 800 oo a6 25 25a 6 50 Oa 800 oa 950 Oe 535 90 425 won 450 25 650 Ha 900 a 325 Toa 320 for Southern yel i Te, gold, gold, ian, 400, is 0 centrifugal and 280. "a, 36; moscovado & 38e.; Porto te. -—" islande Soe Taser; Now Orleans, entine were firmer; 75 bbls Rosin was also firmer. s sold at Wilmington at t, 38, Gd, Tar was sown 70) bbls. Wilmington We quote :—Spirits turpentine, + itton- bbls., 13sec. and at were as fol- “gf ones prices $1 9894 for Unived “Gall and. weak ‘on rumor of sinall, 15) was) firm f March, ‘Jaime, 822 00 bid, $25.09 neked ThS 30 bbls. February a S22 70; 250 tierees April $22 90, and 1,000 tierees do. at Prime mess was ~ and extra prime do. at $16 5: extra prime sold in Chicago Cut meats were quiet but firm: we note sales of 11 Ibs. average, at 136. ; 50 boxes d Smoked’ me: $15.50 a nd $10 % were quiet as Southern at $1363. |, 25e. @ Be. ; fick.—The market was active for domestic grades and ny 4150 casks Carolina at Gig. a The. a Ode. and 50 bags Patna ef ina, fair to prime, Giye. w Gi¥e. ; fair to good aw “Ke. gold; Rangoon, in hds. Muscovado 96,978 ~ 19,447 14,346 141.676 578 its, 7 bhds and 2 casks ; salos, 100 tierces ecaea is tierces at 14. 22 hhds, and 384 bbis. salon were 40,000 ibs. @t 9'y0. a hia Waveney, ae 243 bbls. whiskey and 156 bbls. high- The market was dail and lower, The market [Ov bbis sold as $1 11 tong other way ites ‘he engagements 16,000 baahely grain, gi. and 24,000 do., for auckages provisions 0 bushels grain, at ‘To Hremen, by sai, 1,000 bbls. shoe pegs and ‘000 do, tons measurement goods at ‘o Hamburg, by steam, ch ised cloverseed at A Norwegian bark, from Belslmace to gel goans Trelend, with 8,00) quarters grain at option of Cork for orde' on k, SES tone, hence to Antwerp fined Feorgi ae as 10) rk, thence jALYESTON, Feb. 17, 1878, lew, ta middiing, Lge; 1,000; to ihe Ponti 2,719. ‘Stock, 89, axe, Fob, in wie, 26"; Tow mid- receipts, Bo? Not oa Fans eter mize 17, 1878. * 85,000 busheles ‘barloy, 4,000 pire’, $9.00 wusnel t, steady; sales on rack, Onis Dest tected. Rye neglected, Barley, heavy, lowor; sales of ton be ‘ix cars do, on private ‘4c. Highwines . with « mod 03 firm; No. i white Mi oF ett. yh to Mpg Z I extra, white Mic! ‘high. $1 iar amber Michi- 1 « $1 05; No, 2 red winter ch mixed, Abe. 5 = de. ; do. Dayton an \, 87 2,000 bushels wheat, flour, 2,000 bushels wi demand, but af 5 Core very firm and holders fo. 2 mixed, 41%. a 41 %o., wpot; 415; bid riety ike bid Sprit Oars —Deroand light, ‘but he PAS aud cloge ul and lower ut O0ie. a 61, Rye quiet and w Dreasea’ boxe. strong and higher et $9'35 « $0 80. a $21 5 oes =, 7 strong and “highe mts ti corm, 74,000 do. At the atternoon’ call Me al. cash; 821 70 bid Apel, $21 97 May. 97 May PRINTING CLOTHS MARKET. Provipencs, R. L. Printing cloths steady at last quotations, with light sales BRAZIL COFFEE MARKET. Rio Jawxiny, Feb, 14, 1876, The coffee market is mnehianged. Rio Janxino, Feb, 16, 1870. The coffee market is animated and prices are f 5,700 # 5,850 reis per ten kilo; E>) Lard de. higher. F the woek have been Sales of the week have been as follows bags; for the United States, 44,000, and for the Mediter- ments have been —~ nited States, 27,000. Freights, per sail, 700 ‘or Europe, 114,000 "0 bazs, and for the L The t total stock on hand is 203,390 bags, to the English Channel, 300 kilogrammes. ‘Santos, Feb. 16, 1876. of coffee for the week have of the week have been :—Kor 3,000 bags; tor ree Calted 5 States, 2,000 do. shipments ior the week lave been 9,000 ‘The stock on hand is 113,000 bags. HAVANA MARKET, Havana, Fob. 17, 1876. Spanish gold, 21421446. Exchango flat and dgelining. 8) days, ousrengy. 10 a 8h Tho average dai bags, all to Europe. Ou the United st short sight do., 8 a7 mium; short sight do, 4 0 43 On Paris, 234 a EUROPEAN MARKET. Loxvon Propuck ManketT—Loxpon, Feb. 17—Evening,— Linseed oil, 238, 3d. per cw. Spirits of turpentine. & £3 158 tor Wisconsin Premiam Suger dat Hope frm at £3 10s re £4 10s, for Ameri ee eae FINANCIAL. A UGUST BELMONT & CO., Bankers, 19 and 21 Nassau st. ise Travellers’ Credits, available in ull paris of the world, Messrs. DE ROTHSCHILD and their correspondents. ‘Also Commercial Credits and Telegraphic fransfers of Money on California and Europe. q Le perigee fo bo, issue Letters of C adit for travellers, payable in any part of Europe, Eee , Africa, Australia aud draw Bills of Exchange, and make telegraphic transfers of money to Europe and California, ing valuable fnforcastion as may be limited and K, JUS faved illustrations, cont for stock speculators, and how profits increased, Bankers ai nud Brokers, No, 2 T REASONABLI Endowment Insurans securities: insurance of sil, Kinds effected wit Policies, Mortgag REFERENCES Te NEW YoRe ND LEAD! NEW BOOK ON STOCK SPECULATION, mailed free to any address, active stocks for mission at best market rates by LL, W. HAMILTON (OUNT TRUST this elty or Brook: LEAVI ining how large profits are 'uts, calls, spreads or strdd- , bought on com- 8 alee ta the po ipstion 6 tues; ths payment of interest on, the Consolidation Bonds and Stocks of the State of South Carolina will be postponed until April shall make it possible, an earlier Tf receipts from tax for payment will aa Ganbozo, Treasurer Sou ig pa hee A AND WESTERN, NDIANAPOLIS, and Danville, U: bondholders rae line, who hi sation, on obtain one on app THE Lrg FOR ed copy of she a oa TAINT OR, 5 Broad st. __ JOstAH B. BLOSSOM. 76 Wau st. MADE ON CITY<PROPE from estate funds for or of ¥ WITHOUT are, 145 Broadway. ONEY TO LOAN ON BOND AND “MORTOAGE Bs is, JOHN L, CAVA: mnity Building, New fotatalabs LOAN ON aye FOR THREE YEARS, upon city property, 4 Broadway, room $10,000. $9,000 a AMES PRICE, 200 ri eden ANTED MORTGAGES. ON WESTERN PROPERTY; de in this elty. Address W, 119 Supers Braneh office. V ANTED TO BORROW #20.000, SECURED BY FIRS moi ‘on improved Pittsburg elt; Z Address 3M MOFFAT. Herald offi > an + box 182 Horaid (OR ONE cy ample, Address W. X. tik, We fe SECOND MORTGAGE OF $2,000; W 200 avd have other sum: . H. STREBTEK or 0. G. | y THAR URAGB: t; $5,000 and i JAMES SLO’. PSON 59 on aye —$25,000 oF $75,000 TO LOAN ON Mout. gaxe on prime paying Property; of town property. HORATIO § mented on ood, out WN, 190 West 53d at. __COPARTNERSHIPS. ot ng COPARTNERSUT? or Ff PPORAMEIMER, DREY- by. limita ‘it Habilicies ‘and will collect ait ss will be continued under the Srm'asme st Piorchstener & Fuanvany 16, 1876, = | $34,900. Ess _ OPPORTUNI A PARTY WITH $8, $6,000 TO INVEST INA WHOLE. sale Manufnctering Confectionery. ade, For further information address 0. ¥. long established Ley Herald office. MAN WITH $300 CASH CAN WAKE $5 A DAY IN G, leasetnane basiness. No peoeet. Ft rights hombug; hance on small investment; no risk, LAWSEN, 192 34 a GENTLEMAN WITH tae manufacturing of Indi eon with capital as parti Saltuntion In such » deparment. Advortisor is o first class designer and cutter end has » good trade. WHOLESALE YANCY, GROCERY HOUSE, Wisi. ing.90 Sta aay spectaltion to thelt ine nst- wr w oa RIGGS eros 98 Brondway. co fo investment that will yield « large percentage once, with facilities for it, Address BOOKS, NT? st to loan ; $10 por week salary and interest ; Irood references required Address By town Branch office. AND OF NEW AND POPU- ntonninl Skyrockets,"” at cost of security for mons Hd 0 1? WEAVER, A COMMISSION AS n ton jerms cash, Address \TOTARY PUBLIC.—WANTE! not particular when it expire jars and lowest price. Address CENTENN RINER WANTED—WITH $1,0000ASH, IN A BUSI- nose paying 9.00 & year; Fedl estate security given. STATE AND COUNTY RIGHTS VOR SALE—IN A patent on & wooden article used in every family. rome MANSAID, 17 Dey wt wier 4 UX,. with Ow ite toxt TH Herat omiee: $15,000 OR $20,000, Business; reference Al. Uptown Branch otice. WITH A PEW HUNDRED ying wine and billiard ARDS, Herald Uptown anufacturing business, b: NTED_SPECIAL ; CAPITAL, | in = ny white aay PARTN: lars, in one of the best the city. Address BILL office, ANTED—A SUPERINTENDENT YOR | A ‘woollen {aetory ; must invest $2,000 to $.,000 in the W. T. MANN, Fort Spring. Greenbrier county, W. Va id Uptown rm ranch oftiee. “piaiir FOR NEW YORK st vs age for introduetion at Centennias tg oe tod Powe 3) CAN BR KASILY DOUBLED ished Jobbi: wrade: st TIN, So Broad eh fairs and in pablio BUSINESS TROUBLES. Adele Neuman, dealer im fancy goods at No. 479 Eighth avenue, who recently made an assignment to M. Magnus, has gone into bankruptcy. Ther seventy-three creditors, who have claims amounting te about $10,000, the principal one being 8, J. Rosenthal, whose claim is for $2,272. Her assets are estimatee at about $3,000. A petition in bankruptcy bas been flied by Jacob N Molintire, attorney in patent matters, of No. 32¢ Broadway, His liabilities amount to about $15,000, dis- tributed among thirty-seven creditors. Among the largest creditors are the following:—Arthur L. Meln- tire, Jr., $2,260; Abbey “G. Allen, $2 Robert W, Bassett, $2,000; Joseph Blumenthal, $1,202 58. His aesets are merely nominal. In relation to the affairs of E. A. Packer & €o., FE. B. Ely & Co. and Braman & Hartweil, coal commission dealers, of No. 111 Broadway, Mr, Packer stated yester- day that no definite proposition for a compromise with thelr creditors could be made until full information of the affairs of 8. R. Smith & Co., of New Haven, is ob tained. Ata meeting of the creditors of the latter firm in New Haven, on Wednesday, ® committee was ap- Pointed to investigate the accounts and to report at a future meeting. Until then the matter will remain to abeyance. A meeting of the creditors of James Schliesser, yowelry, of No. 11 Maiden lane, was held yesterday at the National Hotel. Mr. Schliesser submitted a state- ment of his affairs, showing that whiie his liabilities amounted to $34,000 he had assets valued at 009, and he asked an extension of trom three to eighteen months to pay 100 cents on the dollar. The creditors eXpressed the greatest confidence and unanimously ac- cepted the conditions granting an extension. Messrs. A. Limberger, 8. Blackinton and FE. F. Dorrance were appointed 4 committee to examine the accounts, &c. The committee subsequently visited the sto; nd on examining the affairs found that they were oven moro favorable than Mr, Schitesser had supposed, and were highly satistied with the result. A meoting of the creditors of Ross & Smith, dealers in tea and coffee, wax called yesterday before Register Ketcham, at No. 129 Fulton street, on an application for the discharge of Theodore Ross. No creditor op. posed the discharge, and it will accordingly be granted. It will be remembered that James Grillin, wholesale and retail dealer in boots and shoes, of No. 52 Warren street, and Eighth avenue, went into bankruptcy early in November last, and at the first composition meeting of the creditors, held November 10, the offer of twenty- five cents on the dollar was accepted by them. ihe assets of Mr, Grifly were put into the hands ofa re- ceiver, and by January of this year, so large were the expenses incurred during the interim, it was found im- possible to pay the twenty-five per cent, and anotl offer of twenty cents only had to be extended. The second composition meeting was held on Wednesday last, before Register Dwight, of No. T Beekman street, when a large majority of the creditors agreed to take the twenty per cent Oifered. Butone or two of them took exception to the vote and will carry the case ta the United States District Court. The second composition meeting of the creditors or ars, Krauskop! & Gunsen, dealers in hosiery, of No. Broadway, was bi%d yesterday at the office of Register Dwight, whin the previous acceptance of twenty-five cents on the dollar was confirmed. The insolvent firm's liabilities are $23,833, and its assets $6,600, Among the larger creditors aro:—E. W. Sad- ler, $2,095; Edmund Yard, Jr., & Co., $1,582; M. Shottuck, $1,500; A. Friedman & Co., $1,380; Amort o Suspender Company, $1,141, and S. Krauskopf, 1, 500, Stihe following insolvent schedules were filed in the Court of Common Pleas yesterday William Witters; liabilities, $11,018 15; nominal assets, $8,756 89; actual assets, $3,000, Bond ordered in the sam of $5,000. Abraham Hecht and Meyer Newman; liabilities, $56,623; nominal assets, $47,756; actual asvets, $23,435. Bond ordered in the suin of $40,000. Otto Henshel; liabilities, $8,372; nominal assets, $2,804; actual assets, $2,243. Bond ordered in the sum of $3,000. The hearing of George E. Phelan, manufacturer of billiard tables, of No. 7 Barclay street, to show cause for a discharge, will take place on Friday, 251h, inst, | before Register Dwight. His liabilities are’ $41,207 40, $10,238 14 of which is secured, His assets are osti- mated at $30,104 43. ‘The creditors of Jeremiah L. Smith, a contractor who failed some time ago, held a meeting yesterday at the office of Register Dayton, No. 32 Broadway, and strongly opposed his discharge.’ The reason for their opposition was not made public, z | NOT THE FIRM. ree 10 Pine os. Laby wot ub “LIKE THE LOAN OF $300—WILL 000 worth of elegant furniture. Ad- IBLE, box’ 128 Herald Uptown Branch No, 72 Broan Strut, New York, Feb. 17, 18%... To Ta Eprror or tas HeraLp:— In tho Heratp of yesterday, under the head os | “Business Troubles," we Oud you report the adjourn- mentof the second meeting bf the creditors of Fowler Brom. As we believe we are the only firm of Fowler Bros. in this city, and never bave been in any business trouble, we wouid be obliged by your correctitig the mis- take. Yours truly, FOWLER BROS. {The announcement was made in the case of Fowler Bros., No. 94 Wall street, on the authority of the Register of Bankruptcy.) THE M. A. MITCHELL ESTATE. The accounting in the matter of the estate of Maria A. Mitchell, ot Flushing, L. I, before Surrogate | Haynor, at Jamaica, is not yet qompletea, Benjamin | G Mitchell, the executor, was cited to appear at an adjourned meeting on Thursday of last week, bat failed | to do so, and bis counsel endeavored to effect a com- promise by the payment of a certain sum of money. Counsel for the estate objected, and insisted upon full permet of the alleged delinquency or the production of Mitchell’s body, and the Surrogate granted the attach- ment, The parties again met at the Surrogate’s office esterday, but the case could not be proceeded with, aa ‘tchell Was still absent, the officers having been’ un- able to find him. It was understood that he haa taken refuge in New Jersey REAL ESTATE SALES. | Atthe Exchange, yesterday, Adrian H. Muller sold | the two two story brick front houses, each 14x33.4, | with plot 31x75, known as Nos. 33 and 40 Oliver street, between Madison and Oak streets, to Dean 0, Chamber. lin for $6,800. V. K. Stevenson, Jr., sold the two story house and lot, 23x78.6, No. 128 Sixth avenue, adjoining the south- east corner of Tenth avenue, with alleyway 36 feet ia rear to Tenth streot, to Thomas McKee for $18,800. A. J. Bloecker sold four lots, consisting of plot of Jand 100.11x100, on the Grand Boulevard, northwest corner of ‘Ninety- eighth street, to F. C. Wetmore for POST OF Postmaster James reports that the ocean mails de- spatched yesterday wore as follows:—Ex Pommerania, 22,000 letters and sixty-nine bags of newspapers; ex City of New York, 3,500 letters and throe bags of pa- pel x Genbra) Barnes, 677 letters and one bag of pa- rs; ex Claribel, 990 letters and one bag of papers, ‘otal, 37,067 letters and seventy-four bags of papers ‘The attention of the custodian of the Post Oiflee building (s calied to the fact that on the north front of the edifice there are several mautraps, nearly twenty feet in depth, without guards of screens, and that @ Prominent citizen narrowly escaped death i one of them night before last. Safeguards should be placed over them immediately. * SMUGGLING AT QUARANTINE. Atan early hour yesterday morning Custom House Inspector Van Zandt received iniormation that @ quan= tity of cigars had been taken from on board the Havana steamship Crescent City, while lying at Quarantine, im asmall boat, The inspector continaed bis investiga- tions, and found that the coutrabsnd cigars had been bronght to the ferry house of the North Shore Staten Island ferry, and were tp be called for, Mr. Van Zandt, by virtue of bis office, calied for them himself, and took them, to the numbor of several hundred, to the seizure room at the Custom How: where he doe- livered them to the keeping of Mr. Noble, chief of the Seizure Department. The seizure will be reported to~ day by Deputy Collector Phelps to the United States Diatrict Attorney for condemnation. No advances in salaries will be made at the Custom House before the 28th inst, PASSING A FORGED CHECK. Superintendent Walling recerved information yos-. terday afternoon that a boy presented at the grocery store of A. T. Albro, No. 828 Bowery, a check on tha Bull's Head Bank for $25, accompanied by a note signed Dr. Jarod Linsley, of No. 22 Lafayette place, asking: them to cash it The check was signed George N.) Hill, and was made out to the order of ‘Jared Lins ty. The diflerence in the spelling of Mr. Linsiey'& name first aroused suspicion, and Detective Reilly took charge of the case, He found the boy who tind the check cashed and questioned him closely. Tuo, doy said that two strange had asked bim to taka the note to Mr. Aibro's store and bad not given hima anything for bis troubl NEWARK'S PUBLIC DEBT. A special meeting of the Board of Trade of the city of Newark, N. J., was held Wednesday ovening to listem a ¢ report of @ committee appointed to confer with the Water Board concerning an application to the Logislavure for'permission to issue $250,000 worth of bonds. The committer mted a statement of the Ginancial condition of the Boara, showing ficiency \ about $196,000, An exceedingly animated debate a CA) was finally resolved ne Mt Boat bs ie ouy dabe cbr vse esse tthe Wonde now saan tae FICE NOTES.