, 1862-12-02
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
MONETAR.X.

MONDAY EVENING, Dec, j, 1854.
On. lcsa! mo,eJ ma!kt. is without material
Charge. Tie ds1ns1d f1r accommodations from
tie po1k aud provision trada IL large, aud game.
1hiy fair degree Ct activity prevails ia business
c1.c'es. Shipments Of grain by lake are a5out
c'peed, AID ut best they cannot CONTINUE much
1euEer- Just low busiDess Is mach clogged by
lhe iaet that it Is Impossible for the railways to
move Eastward tithe or the freight thst il pzess
ing for shipment.
The activity in all departments of trade fos some
time past has stifTsncd the sates Of discount, and
10 2 CENT is now pretty generally obtained Time
loans On real celate or approved colatelaR can be
had at s q cent, and VIC pre:ume thst even Q
cent-, on large Amounts Is sometimes accepted.
OF couree money il very abundant. No cne need
bare IN empty purse if he hss the right kind Of
securities OF anything marketable to Offer to the
trading public.
New York e1chsnge ia p,enty-the usual buying
price being par, and the selling rate Il pramfum.
Concessions are sometimes made from that hgnre
on 1onnd lots by a few Of the Lending banks.
While this iB the general condition Of the market,
few houses steadily charge and obtain 4 p1eni-
| I'm for I'll they sell.
| E:Tte buying price Of gold for the day was 27z
| @,eS. In New York the rate was 2875I23sz, but
| about the time cur banks closed private reports
made the rate there g. and in the evening ru-
were rife that the price had gone to 33. Very
little reliance CAL be placed on the fluctuations Of
| Wall street, bnt as far as these reports can be
| taken AZ Al index, they lave decidedly squslly
| leok. It Is believed hero that If true, they are
baeed cn very nnfavorable foreign, political CT
wat news. Probably our late dispatches will
afford come clue to the Wall street excitement.
O1dtfeasury notes were bought at 2l@2i, more
usually tie upper figure.
Silver sold at 20 toz large coins, and Is per cent
premium for sma1l.
STATE BAkK OF low4.-Frum the consolidated
report OF the fourteen branches OF the State Bank
Of Iowa, dated Nov. 8, ne obtain the following
s5nepE1s Of the condition OF the Bank
Safety fund, $72a.5so.ls; specie, s5s},75s g
current notes ct other banks, s737,s270o; currsn
fIzds due from bankE, S499, 100 20; loaus aud dt=
| counts, s1,2s6621,3l; other items, S1l2, ,703 u
capital, $3.50 9200 circulation, 81 ,27, ,6l4e0; du
ether banks. $35 l95 So; depositors, 200 503 50
other items, $167, So
| NEW CoUErEnFE1-.-Thes Journal Of this ever
ing easE new and dangerous counterf.5t-5's 0
| Cuylers Bank, Palmyra, n Z, has just mada II
appearance in this :ity. It is an exact imitatio
Of the genuine, only that the counterfeit ]
blurred Lcok ont for them.
kuwArKEE.- Sentinel Of this morning Il:
e the following:
Last .eeE was 8 rather dull one in the make
9 Tire general Wholesale t1a1e WAS aEtiYe enous
: but Ihut ia net source for which much emplo
meut fus money Is derived shipments of gra
vailed in the produce market, and the pork pic
n ;rg season had not yet fairly set in. Under the
c1Icnmt tances money WIS Of course plenty, rat
Of interest ranging from to 10 percent. Whssey
good sight produce paper waa offered found rea
s4le at i pr cent premium The ;, selling rate
- Specie snd demand no1es had a downward II
ae Denly. The 1ui;us price for gold Saturday "
le z1ler cent premium, aud it was weak at that
% rei A@e3, Old demand notes 81, md buyers
hr very plenty.