The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-12-03
Total lS47, l4S,5209l4 l92H269 469I2923 81 1856
Total 1876, 132, 2O O9t Ia 6Sl l3 4O0599 1861 l6l
Total 1851 G66 IL, 529 $40 95l 3D. ITO 26S


several millions of the reported this year the amount
is wholly private The increase in the circulation at
these ponts is $S,7O0,00O, l6 per cent, of which
81 900 900 New Orleans. The OF specie held
by the banks has slightly increased showing that the large
mporaons the past have, under the active opera
ton the mint gone into circulation, with the exception
of portion Mexico The large sales and profitable
prices of produce both food and materials have fur
nsed the means of paying the increased importation Of
goods the enhanced production of home manufacture, and
supplying considerable amount of specie currency Since
the above given made. the exports of specie
have been SO O00 During the past week. 1888 1877
went in four packetsone third to Havre The packets OF
to- day will take inside of $5OOOOO, including the
from Boston There sgreat difficulty in getting heapy
eeigns and insurance. The New York offices will not risk
$3.50 900 ship There have been considerable
received from abroad and from the interior but probably
the banks has been reduced 1000 900 since
the returns were made Confidence in bills has, in some
degree revived. Few came back by the last
steamer; but many had matured and paid Should
similar accounts be received by the next steamer due
Saturday, the specie movement will probably The
amount of bills taken for these packets fair, and
rather low prices for avorte signatures The imports
of desirable goods will probably not be large For the
spring. French goods already here But the civil
war Switzerland, and the distress in England, will go
far to break assortmens from those quarters The spring
goods generally leave Liverpool from the close OF
the beginning Of January the most costly description
generally coming by steamers The pressure in the money
market at this opporune may curta orders to
During the past week the mporations of du
table goods have exceeded those for the corresponding
week last year about 80 per censay $6S7OO0 against
$476 964-whie the duties l66, S7S against $SS 5b9
very many going into warehouse last to wait the
Grafton of the tariff the LIST December. Nowith-
standing the large imports the balance has been and is in
favor of this country without taking into account the specie
which has been shipped The quantity of produce abroad to
be paid for larger than the amount due for goods together
with the specie that has been loaned there For the
coming year new of things is presented Produce
and cotton which last year sold high yet slowly
dropping prices The great staple of the south is two
cents under the price of last year. with but indifferent
before it, There Is prospect of an increased
consumption in England, and the crop promises much bet
than expected time since although, we think
great many under the usual disposition to run into
extremes would have it. The prospects, that farm produce
will again sell well and in considerable quantities. The
rice tobacco crops will probably be short The naviga
of the Erie canal is closed Hence the remaining sup
plies tdewater from the lake and canal region will not
large and the stocks here supposed short The time
of canal has been the shortest known, viz
2l3 days The longest in 1SS7-23i days The tolls
have been 49, 60225 against 81 759 Should the guam
y Of the crop SUFFICE at the low price, to realize as
much money short at high price, the general
of the in all sections to buy goods may be
great last Cotton manufactures may be afforded
for less by of the decline i'm the material Should
however the supply from England not suffice to compete
the manufacturer WILL usual feed the home MARKET and
ship a, any price the surplus necessary sustain the price
Under all circumstances, it may be inferred, that if the
i'm of specie not large as last year. there
will be no excess Of export.
There have been some company calls for money during
the past monthvizi the Syracuse and Utica railroad
$40 per share the New York and New Haven also $40
share the Hudson river, $40 per share-making the
fourth while the money is lying with the Now York Life
and Trust at per interest The Delaware and Hud
canal have called for $50 the scrip, payable
December D.
Col Robbins, Of Mississippi, of the trustees of the
Vcksbrg Bank, is in this city, his way England Us
deputy from number of planters in that State, who sub
scribed 1880 pay his expenses in order ascertain
who the holders of Mississippi repudated bonds
what compromise might be entered into for their settlement
This is certainly pubbc-spirited movements and should
Mississippi, the mother of reputation, pay up, tina
Maryland has resumed, Aho ghost of Sidney Smith will b'
appeased.
Provisions generally have rather fallen off, and auction