The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-10-16
THE DAILY DISPATCH
ana Commercial.

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Th.rsAay Meruins, Octeser ~, IooO.
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~-~-~-Finzncisl and Commercial
~ -. .f news By lhslPsrsia b eoasdered
-. s.vnr.als. The Bank Of England hiss anticipated
...-..., ..-,ou. and adysncsd the minimum rate Of
ss.ss.-t fyou st 20 per cent, at special nestus
80 - 80. psfpose. Cotton had advsneed sdustng
.ss.ss. lsd per H.. but this wss nearly lost IT
=. ma announcement Of the bank meeting, al
.sa,,h tho market closed firmly ct the qaotsticns
:. - Niax.ra Bresdstu6s had shown some Improve
p, durns the week for nearly all descriptiopa
bas there was little buoyency q the e'oss ens sne
s..l quotations show but little change, although the
market w.s nomipaiiy I'd. higher on wheat, H. on
Aorr and Cd. on Indian corn 4sA,f..
The letters by the Persia all sllude TO the possible
-ts,me ray ,,Yobabl suspension OF specie payments
by the Bank of France, and the adoption OF bank
{ notes az legal currency.
Fa,,ivn Circulars quote the market for American
.toes. dull. Va ss 1sss-'72, are quoted at 80. Va
O., 1855. $685. Tennessee SIS ssdss. We note
s.Iss of 600 Tennessee SIS 80 b So In New York
Tue,dsy at s9lk
rh., Nav York Journal of Commerce OF Tuesday
afternoon says: 4Ees
t-ba money market here 10 more stringent; the
steamer tomorrow will probably take nearly or quite
three quarters Of million in specie. ana ne banks ;
are obliged to disappsint The rates OF interest
an advance from last week.
The lower grades of paper are unsaleabie, there be-
ing = fsie supply of good signatures. =
9 Th. stock market 10 again heavy to-day under the
Pesis's and the pressure for money and at inc
Frat Boord prices fell of an average OF with
large business in New York Central, Erie, Reading
Cisavelsua and Toledo and Michigan Southern.
Po,s ". as Isns
for good commercial BILLS lo9i0lo9s for Bankers'
Paris 5i6i Msrssiiies S III; Amsterdam 4fa04z'
An active bushes ha. been done to-day in bread
str ffs a. better prices. Provisions are aise more
buoyant 5esss.E .vs a-'s e
The following Is a statement of the condition of
the banks of the city of New York for October l1th
as compared with the previous weekly return:
october4 sio7 s., 7o7 1io5 ic4 628 So
October IL. Io7 l47sss less275l s,74s $50 Sso7s IA
Decrease. s787,8l5 ssz,s5s 1888 2 652 $50
The statement shows q decline in all the ftems--
IN ae loans have ss sss me 9. ,s se
naily decreased S., 652.66o. The actual decrease
sl074 SIS. The banks, it 10 estimated, had only
about So 600 in their vaults Monday morning.
The California arrival replenshes their vaults, al
though the amount at the next weeks showing will
not exhibit any material increase 0iet
BY Telegraph. g
BALTIMORE, Oct Is --Breadstuffs unchanged, the
quotations being the same as yesterday
New YORK, Oct 15.-Flour of all kinds advanced
Ohio k6 90a7 Is; Southern Standard 81 2007 go.
Wheat, advanced. Red @l.5501 So: white $3.50
Ito Southern mixed corn SGT. Stocks dull. Va.
SIS S9ls. - Te
Richmond Markets, Oct. Is.
FLOUR-A sale of g small lot of choice Superfne
for shipment, 81. Market quiet and transactions
save this, that we hear q:
7ti1 WHEAT.-We continue quotations: good to
prime Red 81 4o0I.45; do white $l.5o0l.s5. Mar
ket dull-receipts light.
~ CORN-hrm at 7oO8o cts.-receipts light
80 20 -Ezrx.a.az1Eae
3 THE Sources OF THE MIssIssIPPI-In the
following eloquent description of the Mississippi
riyer-the Father of Waters"-we have itrep.
resentation of the mingled interests of this great
Union, uniting from thousand points, and flowing
on In one deep broad channel of national wealth
aud prosperity:
Lit bucket of water from the Mississippi river
at New Orleans, and ask yourself the question,
"From whence it came,h and the answer may
be- from the sandy deserts of New Mexico
from the pine hills of Carolina from the rolling
lpraries of Nebraska, or from the cotton fields of
Georgia; from the British possessions north of the
29th degree of latitude, separated by thin ridge
of ice.covered rocks from the streams that flow in
to the Arctic ocean, or from bowers Of orange and
magnolia that perfume the canefelds of Louisiana;
from the frozen lakes that gem the bosom of Min.
nesota and Wisconsin, or from the sunny fountains
Z that gush up from the fowery plains of Alabama
and Tennessee from the lake bound peninsula of
Michigan from the hill sides of waving grain in
!, Pennsylvania and New York; from the tobacco
fields of Virginia and Maryland It may be a part
of those mighty volumes that roll their never tr.
ing waves though Iowa and Missouri; through Hi
nois, Indiana and Ohio; through Kentucky and
Arkansas, Mississippi and Texas. "a
1t il part of the ten thousand little rills
that come by inning their way from thst noun
tain range wherein arise the Columbia and the Colo
RADIO of the of those from whence the Della.
ware and Snsquehanna hasten away to meet the
rising sun In the spur of the Alleshany it has
luted the springs of the Roanoke and the Saluda,
and far beyond the black hills it has locked arms
with the mighty Saskatchewan he hurried on his
The listen to the roar Of Niagara and the
fountains of the Platte overlook the of the
extinct VOLCANOES of Utah 1t has ferti,zed country
greater than the empire of Alexander and has car
ried richer commerce than ali the rivers tributary
? to Imperial Rome. -e sa a-
sa SHOCKING LADYs MoDEsTY. "A singular &C.
currence happened during the past summer in one
= OF the provinces of France. An honest country
gentleman. possessed of a very handsome park,
! had found the weather very oppressive, and WAS
in the habit of taking morning walk in his park,
with cigar in his mouth and no clothes upon his
back A lady of the neighborhood, from whose
Z windows the park might be seen, considered the
gentieman's proceedings as entirely too primitive
and cited him before magistrate. The defend
ant contended that. upon his own property, he
had the rightto do what he pleased, and, more
: over, that the lady's house was a mile from the
spot where he was In the habit of walking in nat
uralis aaturalibns. "She must have goood eyes to
distinguish at that distance whether am dressed
or not" said the gen leman. ,
Interrogatcd by the magistrate upon this point,
the lady, whose modesty had been SO rudely
shocked, naiyely repiied-"Oh, but looked at
him with the aid of an excellent telescope!'
FROM CHINA-Adviees from Hong Kong are
to the 9lst of July. United States Consul Keenan,
had had another difficulty with the magistrates -
The Shanghai reyoutionists dreaded the nterfer-
ence of the American Commissioner between
. themselves and the imperialists. An heir to the
imperial throne had been born at Pekin but not
of The empress. His mother had, however been
elevated TO a noble rank by the Emperor. and his
legitimacy decreed. Foo chow had been visited
by q severe fire. Severe typhoons had ragged
along the Annoy coast, and the beach at Whampoa
had suffered from a waterspout
SINGULAR BuRIAL.-Mr. John Wilson, of Mil
Ter county Mo, who died on the 29th of August
In the so,h year of his age, buried by his own
express desire, in the following manner: A dinner
was provided for his friends, with plenty of liquor,
after which physician removed the entrails OF the
corpse, which was then filed with salt and placed
in cef6n. The funeral cortege then proceeded
to a rocky bluff and the coffin was placed In a