Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-11-28
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

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THURSDAY, Nov. 81.
We have no change to note in the price Of Gold, the
selling premium being $2.25 Virginia bank notes are
bought blythe brokers lat 20, and sold at rs per cent
prem. North Carolina notes have advanced to III per
cent. =
The Sock market continues q1ist, with increased In.
curry for Virginia registered skies, for which log are
now offered. Confederate bonds 200 NJ are selling at
100 and int. do. do. Us ny at lS and int; North
Carolina si1ss 1888; do. eigh's 100 and int Virginia
coupon bonds lint. susp'j) l25; Virginia Central R.R
bonds, lt. mort, 10 and int. do. do, 81 mort, los
and int. city Of Lynchburg bonds 100 aud int South
Side z. r. guard bonds 100 and int. Richmond and
Petersburg R. R. stock lc4; Richmond and Dan.
byils Railroad stock 100; Bank of Commonwealth
hos; Bank of Richmond 80; Virginia Fire and Marine
i, suranos stock 40.
Fayetteville IN. o. shsetings are selling, in that mar.
ket, at SOC. per yard BY the bale, Ss,. BY the piece
~oznaburss So 6Oa spirits t~urpentins soc. per gal. I;
sweet potatoes Slal 90 per bus sAll 400. per h.; lard
S6s. cotton yarn So 8 per bunch egss S5a. per dcz. {;
wheat 81 SO per bua onions s.. Per bus.
Cotton in BfownsVills, TeI.t, ION the Rio Gtande)
has advanced to 80 cents per pouad, specie, or 60 cents
Confederate money. This Is understood to be the extreme
price. The Flag says that one pound Of cotton in. Browns
vile Will bring . pound of oofse, or two yards OF do
msstio, or one and Q half of calico, &C., which 10 more
than 1t would do In time of peace.
Tho Directors Of the Wilmington and Weldon Rail
load have reesaly declared q dividend Of IL per cent
On lie capital stock, payable on and after the Il. Of Jan
any next. The Directors Of the W ~ilmington and Man
chester Railroad have declared . dividend Of ten per
/ amt n.yahi. nm and affair thu 90 I If Novephsr mat
At kessrs. Kent, Paine & Co.'S auction sale Of dry
goods, ETC., yesterday, the following prices were OBJ.
tanned
Heavy Southern oI1sburgs, rs, cit cents; 7s and
a. brown shee'iugs, 64s72; lat previous sale, 62 II y
super. O'nt,n Ainnsl, 80 100 cotton vars, $5,l0;
black and white prints. 81. rs; fancy do, 81. 4 IS; S4
crab iuned cloth. IS rs 8 so; Ga do, sll. % AZ 80 /;
gray Cashmere, $6.76.7 90; black cloth, sSl; black siiks,
So So so; Irish linen. 81 6OaS % Drown holland,
sbiso C s; plaid wool shsuls, $l7 80; bheached shee'-
ing, 1874 Hamilton, $3.50; d., snirung, sl06 'lb0; "a
gray finrl, $40; red q n o, t2a2. %; white do, (Nelso)
SASH; PLAID linssys, - 20 5; white cotton hose, 70 50
cs India rubber COATS, SIS; oil cloth do, sl0,l2 %
mems shoes, SIS 20; boys do IS 90 $50; ladies' last.
ing CATERS SlSal4 6O; wcmens leather and morocco
boots, $40 30 IL 10; mems brogArs, IS solo; cavalry
boots, $3.50; extra beaver overcoats, Si4 so, etc.
At hessrs. W liamson 4 Co.. misoelIAneou, sale to-
day, Virginia salt brought IL 25 per ID Rio cctf, o Sass
per ID Irish potatoes 81. 25 per bushsl.
At hessrs. Tsrdy & Williams auction sale Of groce-
ries, ETC., to day, the following pdoes we're obtained;
N. o. sugar, in hhdI, 65 csnts for good. 20 cents for
choice in bbs., 70 cents, Rio coffee sS,l7f cents per
ID, turp. soap 80 rents, o d. nails $40 81 Der key, cot
ton rope, as'd s;z g, 81 40Il 90. salt 81 Al, 27-lAtHr for
Miton's-tannsr's oil 81 so per gal, MID TOBACCO 40 l0l
cs smoking do so GU, adm. candles 81, 25. soda 81 35.
staIca as, castle soap s2 %; Mssou's blscking IS 80
per dez sss ,ncs Of coh.s $40 oer doz.; shot 81 95 2
per ID. crushed sugar $l.07,l "a per Id. butter sl06
al 20 per ID, etc.
The sholts lie prices Of articles not embraced IN
above repors remain at abou. last q~iotationA. 1t vii
b, observed that Sugar aud all, are higher. Molasses
is nov held at a. l0l4.i 10 per gall. Tas market is bet.
ter supplied WITH butter, and PRICES arc lower. Wheat is
6rm at $4.4 Is per bus. Tobacco market less excited.
There are la 6, stocks Of msrchaldx ID, particularly dry
goods, 10 til, city, at this time, and constant additions
arc being made, by blockade runners" and shipments
from Charleston.
Tho Lynohburg virginisn, in a recent article urging
tie nssaslty Of limiting the issue Of Treasury notes,
says:
II our people, capitalists especially, who are so vitality
interested in preserving the public credit BY K ,epiog up
the pa, value OFF 8 CUR. neg, will no, invest their meins
in tho public bon 9, then nothing rem iins for US bu'
heavy, CALLING taxation. /! must come TO this at last
and II the Govern snt be com pelled TO labor und " the
d eidyAnfa2e OF cepreclated currency, p 'ylnS ther WIN
enormous prices for all that il needs !, en- lola il to ks,
al army in the 6,ld, aud to provide for the pu' lie Dc
{ nc; the pubii debt ct the end Of the war will have
assumed the most startling proportions.
We arc inclined 10 the opinion tina: a heavy or ct tar
should BE- iUd W Congress at = neIt session, to en'b =
the G)vernmel. to suspend, partially at lesH, the fur
th,T issue Of p,per moLss, aud - give an earnts, Tia
the war ia not /, be waged wholly upon he credit Of a
iepr oiatfd paper currency. Mt onlS should property
bs' aI,d, bat prob The men who have sccumula.od
fortune, By specu'a ion, 10 Which h noDd e paper nc
ney has contri0ur d should be made 10 render an AZ.
count Of their profits, and taxed as merchants are by o
) ato lass on tho amcu n Of their sales PsCfts as vel 4
capital should bear the burthens OF a war that has col
tribuled to an unI r ceientei multiplication Of capital
Consider as 40 abs 7 c: proposition, sc sh lull b, willirg
to b, .1ee,h TO posteIi y, the debt incurred In occurring
the . ions libery bu. eXps1tnre has demo lstrat' d
that our Te1p,o rt91ire TO he toGcbel more heavily in
their pocke,s, iu tic way Of tax .tion, to enabls them 10
reaiz, ami ~ npI;h'z, With the pccsHiiry enbIrrass
msnrs of the government. Tne balvies. tax thai. Ia,
p.ople can now bear, will tend 10 baOg cur currency "
az iiu; will ,ghel the burtheia OF the government
add, parsdoIicsl as 1t my appesr, will serve to alleviate
tbs dIsIre4ses OF the p ,ople, who hays paid vss.ly mere
taxes TO cK,orti0ners, whoA the redundant s,ate Of tbt
currency has & vsu opportunity 10 eIict what they chose
than tbs heaviest t-Iition Of lbs government, that
you'd have sersoq TO prevent this state Of thing ',could
have amounted 10
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II Is a fac, sortl OF note says the s savannah Rsplt
lean, that Mr.. 10 u Sl,sp, OF Oolq nc county,, Ga, hal