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FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES. 



Closing prices of seonrities in London hare been as follows : 



The following table, from the Financial of railway and miscellaneons Blocks, during 

 and Commercial Chronicle, will show the the months of August and September of the 

 opening, highest, lowest, and closing prices year 1873: 



RAILROAD STOCKS. 



Albany and Snsquebanna 



Atlantic A Paclnc preferred 



Boeum, Hartford & Erie 



Chicago A Alton 



Chicago, Burlington * Quincy 



Chicago A Northwestern 



Chicago A Northwestern preferred 



Chicago A Rock Island 



Colombia, Cbii-auo * Indiana Central 



Cleveland A Plltuburg taaranteert 



Cleveland, Colambtu, Cincinnati & Indiana... 



Delaware, Lackawanna A Western 



Erie 



Erie preferred 



Harlem 



Hannibal & 8 1. Joseph 



II mntbal A St. Joseph preferred 



Illinois Central 



Illinois Central scrip 



Lake Shore A Michigan Southern 



Michigan Centra] 



Milwaukee & St. Paul 



Milwaukee A St. Paul preferred 



M.irriu A Essex 



New Jersey 



New Jency Cent ral 



New Jersey Southern 



New York Central & Hudson Ulver 



New York Central. New Haven A Hartford 



Ohio A Mississippi 



Ohio A Mlssi'uippl preferred 



Pacific of Missouri 



Panama 



Plttbuiv. Fort Wayne A Chicago guaranteed. 



Rensselaer A Saratoga 



St. Louis A Iron Mountain 



St. Louis, Kansaa City 4 Nebraska preferred.. 



Union Paclnc 



Toledo, Wabash A Weatern 



Warren 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Consolidated Coal 



American Coal 



Maryland Coal 



Atlantic Mall 



Pacific Mall 



Canton. 



New Jeney Land Improvement Company. 

 Western union Telegraph 



Amertran 



United Slates 



t'srzo A Co 



Delaware A Hudson Canal. 



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58 



65 



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98 



80 



no* 



106 



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MS 



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103 



64 

 78X- 



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 39* 



MS 



109 

 103 



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ar 



110JJ 



MN 



104 

 70 

 47 

 29 

 78 



55 



H 

 MX 



66 



89 



I08M 

 KM 



TO 



52 

 106 

 100V 



s* 



91 



38 



7 



46 

 113 



93^ 

 104 



64 

 65 

 S4 



60 



87 



P 



67 



98 



85 





53 

 107 

 100X 



P 



T;* 



104X 

 187 



39 



7 



47* 



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tat 



IIU 



70 

 45 

 86,V 

 6S 



M.S, 



55 



68 

 H* 



60 

 91 K 



74 



uS 



108 



85 



MM 



KI.V., 



100 

 K 

 BOJ2 



go)i 



71 1-, 

 91* 



28 



45 



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104 

 70 

 44 



48 



93 



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114 



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85 

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 78S 

 180M 



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 50 



100 

 93 



103 

 33 



10BU 

 US* 



45 

 117H 



94H 

 104 



TO 



44 



37V 



a* 



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65 



73 

 114 



txiwct. 



90 

 40 

 64 

 N! 

 19 



M 



78 

 86 



B0 



5 



90 

 19 

 33 



100 

 78 

 80 

 80 

 56 

 91 



70 

 45 



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98* 



100 

 70 

 44 

 16 

 88* 

 88 



40 

 

 15 

 1 

 31 

 70 

 63 



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wv 



67* 

 51 

 56 

 111 



90 

 43 



UK 



79 

 61 



M 



83 



100 

 75 

 80 

 34 



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135* 



45 

 96 

 M 



1(10 

 70 

 44 



41 



66 



15 



1 



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 63 

 66 

 84* 



SP* 



5ft 

 111 



Relative to the redemption of the national 

 bank notes, and the elasticity of the curri-n y. 

 the Controller of the Currency thus expressed 

 himself: 



The amount of national bank note* now anthnr- 

 iMd to be tamed It $864,000,000, and of legal-tender 

 notea 1866,000.000 : so that the amount of ]. L M|- 

 tcndar money. In which the national bank note* are 

 now redeemable, ta nearly identical with that of 

 uch note*, though slightly in exceai. If the na- 

 tional banking law wen 10 amended at to require 

 the redemption of the national bank notea in the 



legal-tender notea at one-fourth of one per cent. 

 discount, aa in the New York State law, instead of 

 at pur, aa provided in tho national-currency ai't, mill 

 the national banka of the whole country would 

 airroe to uch a provision of tlie law, the prompt re- 

 li'tiiption of the imtiipiial bunk notea would be in- 

 sured ; but the redemption of this vast amount of 

 circulating notes, if n "li'i-ini'd but liinv n yMir, > 

 remilt in a lom to the people "f tho United S 

 of 1900,000; if the notes were to be Ndswiad four 

 timea annually, $8,600,000; and if r1'im<l six 

 timea annually, $5,400,000. A system "f redemp- 

 tion of thin kind would also at once increase tho 



