The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-06-27
Financial and Commercial


Friday nIerniss. Jsss -, ISIS. -.
Financial and Commercial
saIes were msds u ne New rork Board Wed
nesday morning Of $1,000 Va. IS BIO at w; soooo
do. IS At g7f That price vas maintained ana
ruled the afternoon Board ss
The N. 4. Joarnai Of Commerce Of Wednesday.
Afternoon, Gays:
There 4 -, Increased demand for money, and
rates Of interest have slIghtly improved The or
ferines Al the Banks are larger and loans on call
are morn freely taken at 8 per cent
The stock market 10 generally easier. aithoaen
Erie was little stronger At the close OF the hrst
rarsirn Exchanges closed firmly at 1905 a no for
*, sy bills on London, ll0s for sight bills. Paris
At 90 days 5 rs. do. short sight Stiles TO-
The supply Of gold to the world appears on the
increase and ths Is particularly observable In the
recent accounts from Australia. received by the
steamer Atlantic II is estimated that the yied In
that region for 1856 VIII be fully one hundred MIL
liens of dollars. A the number OF laborers or
miners are Increased in the mines, this enormous
Weld will be further augmented, IS the metal, TO
all exists In inexhaustible quantities.
The product of the Australian and California
mines In 1855, sipgularly enough. were about
equal--the former showing S51,e53, 81, and the
latter s5s,lli,fi6.
Hacos-Tbers has been q considerable advance
recently in Bacon; and the present state OF that
commodity of first necessity" the following letter
from gentleman In Cincinnati, wei! posted on the
subject, will be interesting
$50 "CIscISNATr, June Esd. 1856
uIu view of the anticipated advance In Bacon.
which has led holders owithdraw large portion OF
their stocks from market, have thought proper to
such influence At the beginning of the present sea-
son there not, heretofore, hid. of old meat
ralnainiug consequently the new went into immedi-
ats consumption: III there any increase IN tins
ausntity cured, il counterbslanced by the def.
ciepcy in the usual remnant of old stock The stock
in this city present is less than five million pounds
while at the time last year it was estimsted ct
ifteen 10 twenty millions The meat cured IN the
country is usually brought into market before this
being sent forward it is presumed that there 10 little
mere come. The demand for expectation is double
what it last year at this time The Southern de-
maud will be greater than usual, because the high
prices of cotton and have led the farmers to
elect the raising Of corn and hogs The stock of Ba
in the Eastern markets is light and the demand.
it il expected will be large According to the best
information that can be gathered there is now small
supply than there was last summer, and the de-
En- The price Of Bacon sdvsneed last Fall to III cts
for sides and cents fer shoulders and Lard in bbls.
to 123 cts in this city"
The aggregate amount of deposites in all the
Savings Banks of New York State, is upwards of
thrtysx millions of dollars, and is invested as fol.
lows: @ = e
In bonds and mortgages upon productive property
worth at least double the amount loaned there.
In stocks Of the character authorized by
tneiT .;,.h,. ic.n. ~ .. 90
ties o9S 1881 81
The report says:
This sum of $50 oOe 600 was garnered up from the
absr the industry and the selfdenial of nearly 300
600 people. --~z.. 4a-s
The following are the footipgs of the Boston
weekly bank statement for the past week, COM
pared with those of the week previous:
ss JUNE 6 JUNE 49,
CAPITAL $3l $3.50 900 $751; $50 900
Loans and discounts..'..... o. a55a0 5S2Sl cor
Amount due from the other
bauk..;.......;;...;...;.. $4,000 "a 4977ooo
Depostes... 1885, 500 1890
Circulation ......-......... 698Z9O0 6,869000
The quantity of grain and flour coming East, by
wayof the lake ports y very large. The Cleveland
tohl. pfaanasaisr o, Saturday says the number Of
season, to thst lime. 17346 against 81 500 in the
same months of 1854 difference in favor of 1856 of
to 5s 100 bosels against 40 30 bushels in the same
months of l3s5-a difference of I12 $780,
In Virginia the wheat crop has been greatly dam
aged by the fly and the joint In the vicinity
OF MdrtlnsOufS many Deins IL u s1td, Will scarcely
be worth cutting In sections of Ohio and Ken
lucky severe drought has been prevailing for some
time. Aletter from Prebie county, Ohio, the cen,re
of the great wing region states that there has
been that region since the 9th of December
1855 and that the spring rains total failure, and
the meadows are entirely dried up, and that sxseed
will not equal fourth of crop.
NEW York, June 26.-Flour quiet and UNCHANGED
Wheat quiet-Red $l58. Corn unchanged stocks
higher--Va. SIS 97i.
BALTIMORE, June 26.-Msrkets unchanged.