Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-17
COMMERCIAL AFTAIRs.
Monetary and Commercial. G

The week opened quietly yesterday, with
good demand for Money, considering the day and
| the season, and an easy market. Tho Discount
houses did all tho approved names offered at the
prevailing rates-s@l0 per cent. per annum-and
were desirous Of purchasing Eastern and Southern
rme-bills, at moderate figures, without having an
| opportunity to do so, there are Of conse-
| quence ia the market.
The stock Of Currency is quite low AZ this season.
ysTy sT usually mSyS large in Say and Ausus being
more Currency on hand than they require 70 use in
their daily business.
without any important transactions. i''''
MUM selling, when dealers have an opportunity,
which is rare. Bankers ship their Coin East occs!
sonally but generally they have such balances ihere
Just now as prevent the desire to augment them
IN New Orleans Exchange and Uncurrent Money
Flour continued dull yesterday, with rates more
irregular than last week, and almost nominal
Fresh-ground extra from new wheat, was offered
with sales Of 900 brls. The buoysncy Of Provisions
continued, and holders asked further advance
nSSed rm Wheat was stli dull buyers S'ViSi Wishing
to put down rates, and holders refusing to make
little doing, and Oats closed firm.
The Imports and Exports OF various articles during
the forty eight hours ending yesterday noon, were
% o s5i barley bush M Butter
Coffee 2ss 2s9 6Iagsi Flour, SO 6rls; Hay 2o5 bales
5 90f Pork 9'na and Bsson % hS hGSr' q
barrel and 367 pounds; Potatoes lG brls; Sugar 10
OaE5S wRSp q HE S TBSse Bater y ~ Sr Rsckape
Candies, $50 boxes; Cheese 2s3 boxes Coeo 253 bags
oats, 1872 bush; Pork and Bacon, iSi Rhds', iSi
barrels; Sugar l4l barrels; Salt, a brls Wheat 1851
barrels; Whisky, 1920 brls.
Thefollowlng Is a. comparative statement Of the
imports Of foreign Dry Goode, at New York for the
past week and since January |;
ES % sfs Ss port Ss lsSs sSS9
Thrown ON market. 2,l76,Hi 3,97s,O2j i,i7i,63O
Entered at the se2ssi2o6 s5s o22e7s
Thrown market. 3,OOO,570 62,236,9i9 566s5,OOI
Saturdays New York Times observes concerning
Friday last;
The bulk of business in Ex 'hauge for the steamer
1drfdttc Tomorrow has been done at l09}s on Lon
proportion at shorter sight the difference Of London
TSag n TSG at S o S S s
at this difference The eng@sgepents gag e Gold and
oek Ss to b st tnTee
other moderate sums we learn, will be added in the
ter. The shipment includes some further sums Of
Mash9o Silver, in ingots, Just at hand from San
We find no special alteration in the Money Market
to-day. The employment mt of Money on temporary
paratively dull, notwithstanding the marked specu-
lation on the Stock Exchange. SO far from this
on the street we learn that several considerable par
cells of Federal and State Securities have been taken
up for out-oftown account and The temporary loans
running upon them at t9Q95 per cent. paid of Four
or five different loans of this class were voluntarily
paid up this forenoon TO a single banking firm On
the speculative shares actively dealt in at the
Board, the old-established Brokers on tho street
command Money readily at 5C95h per cent. There
is nothing new in discounts.
The following is an extract from letter from a
merchant in Yorkshire received per arabia
You have no idea of the state Of the weather. there
has not been three consecutive days of fine weather
for months, and to day we glad to got the
fire. Talk about the harvest being late don't be-
lieve that the finest weather possible, from now till
immense deficiency. 'Hurrah, then, for the West"
you Will say. However, a rule, you know corn
goes up cotton goes down. Money also, will be
deater, and the home trade bad which lead to Hut-
ting foreign markets with our goods.
Another letter from England by the same steamer,
dated from London to the New York Commercial
Advertiser, says:
The fall of rain during the six months Just ended
s believed TO have been about double the and
the pecuiaritv is that while people every week
assuming that it must end at last, the quantity
seems TO be more copous each succeeding day. Still
IL is not believed by practical that any serious
results have yet become inevitable. The visitation
could not have occurred at less critical time, and
there is yet possibility that fine July and August
may lead to the realization Of harvest Of the most
satisfactory kind great variety of miscellaneous
crops have unQuestionably derived q great benefit
The point for anxiety lies in the fact that have
arrived at date at which further prolongation of
rain and cold weather. would certainly prove fatal
instance, is one that must depend upon an immedi-
ate change. The accounts by the next two three
packets will therefore be those from which American
readers muot draw their conclusions.