Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-24
NONE FAIRY.

Yesterday was blue day in more respects than
one. 1t was cold, rainy sleety and snowy, by turns
The fail season gave birth to unprOpitious
day. In the business calendar the day will also be
marked as a blue, most blue one. Monetary affairs
were IN the most stringent condition. What shall
do to meet our eDgagementss-how put or the day OF
saspensions was the cry of men with all sorts of
means except money. What must the banks do TO
afford relefs Must they suspends This would sub
ject them to penalties they could not long endure
What thens Shall the Legislature be called together
to remove the penatiess This thought the proper
plan, and petition was put in circulation for sigma
lures asking the Governor to act.
Foreign bank notes continue to 60 downfall 10
the rate of discount Increases For particulars see
table.
Tie Cincinnati G;-ts IN its Monetary report Of the
22d, says it hears Of distress as yet amongst the
merchants of that city, and failures of moment.
1t adds:
The uncurrent money market was more unsettled
to-day than lie etofore: The suspension OF the Far
mers INK OF Vifg mia led the throwing out of tn
paper ol all The bans of that Sate with Keep
ton of Wheeling and braGches. The Latter are gard
ed as sfe Tins evening we have adv the sus-
pension of the Richmond and Petersburg bal ks.
Rates of discount Virginia ranges from
10 t. 20 per cent. Limos range fr m 10 TO % dis
Wisconsin I'd Iowa were 10 uls; II to s. and
fenne see 2 To 5. Tie Commonwealth Bank vi Ere
Were both III poor credit Our par funds now ar !:
OHIO, lidsna. Ke lucky, Wheeling aud bra: cues,
PM ideIpha, Plttsbu New YORK STATE and New Eng
Land, ana uiSana- The bulk of our currency is OF
TIE b mss of the three naused st ties. lad ana
st OK banks ami well, being generally taken at par
though nomina ly they are at discount of Xt9sc
The New York Times, of the goth, says:
On the STOCK Echang to-day the eary sion of the
brokers was marked by heavier sacfafces than had ut
any time occurred during the pr crisis but this
feeling d:d not obtain to the close OF the day reac
ton ON some OF the railway shares wing naif stsd
Itself IN the afternoon, producing at te hour quite
furry the upward turn-New York Ce trail at "a x
after being done AS low as 70a the printed list in
81; Mchi .an Guaranteed IS alter 60 Toledo
90, after 24a, and Erie shares were fairly
st ady through the day, and New York Central was
"gaiu scarce for immaculate delivery, and brought J.
o. per cent. more In this way than seller or 10
days. The City Bank stock feI from to 10 per cent
The State stocks again suffered; T. nnessees fell of 10
a. decline since Saturday of 1i01s; Virginias IT;
Mi souris COX. The heaviest re.tive decline was in
Unit ID States fves OF 1874 which sold down to e5 in
GLIDING current coupon equal to SO for the
Of interest. The sales were of a forced character.
BosToS, Nov. 17.-P. M.
Saturday was hard day for stocks, and where
pressed fer sale they were literally saugh This
particularly the Auction, because at
the Brokers' Board many lots of stock are held for
sale, but as matter of policy are not even offered
when the market Is SO much depressed
The money market continues excited, and the past
week has been an exceedingly hard one in financial
circles 1t was in fact the first rod of real ssstrin-
gency" for nearly three years, since comfortably
getting over the commercial reyusion OF October,
1851, and people took il unkindiy: tr