Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1861-1862, 1862-01-06
FROM NEW YORK PAPERS.
YlSAxoIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

TUESDAY, Dec. OIL Il M
A bank meeting was held this msrniug with vie" oil
ras,oring order In the affairs Of the banks Very little
vss Effected |; seems that several Of the banks claim
that the Suspension Of specie payments OF itself cancel
led the agreement Of equaIZlion which was entered
into ia August last when the banks began TO lei mon
sy to government, and decline 70 advance any more
soss 10 the common fund ohGr banks insst that this
r. nnfair and that the equalization should at all events,
be made for Monday. l. Is very pretty quarrel as II
stands Some of the banks continue TO purPort to pay
specie; but il is coed for depostors 10 ask Tor any,
and II they would any prospect OF meeting aVors
hereafter Practically, the Suspension is general II,
after day or two the City Bank Bank OF America
peseyere In az ECCENTRIC course presume that their
eeoosiors will risk everything al carry their gold over
| TO the brokers for sale
Money seems to be abundant enough at seven per cent
on call The brokers doing somethingin paper a.
n,r cent for the highest grades The banks are do
| ing no business as yet.
Foreign exchange continues pa-alyzed. The leaoing
bankers ask ll2 llS and VIC ne Of few TRANSACTIONS
at the lower figure but most OF the drawers and I'm
porters appear to be waiting for rurher developments
American coin is ofered at one and bali premium and
il bought by the bullion brokers az but very little
business il being done in H. IL will be easy to bring the
gold to light again when it is needed nov that the banks
| have got out Of the islse position they occupied
| The stock market active this morning. without
material variation from the quotations of last evening
TIE leading speculative stocks Of the day Pac nc Mail
Central g. were steady Erie, Ere preferred and Rcek
Island we're a fraction higher while hissouus Michigan
| Southern Gaena and Toledo, were SAID l0Wer' Inc
tendency OF spectators Ia to buy for the rise but tie
recent ad, alce has naturally supplied the market with
stock enough for immediate wants II the public con
uuur 10 buy as they have been doing or day or two
further advance may be expected. Alter The board
the market was steady At the second board there was
another push 10 buy and general, though slight adj
vance took place, the market closing n'uy a' tue 'o
lowing quontiors:
Uaitei states %, registered $751; 81 "a; United
States 6's, oouoor 1881 81 l2a84; uui,ei States g
clup12, 1874 81 2aS4 4; Indiana So, 10 a IS Va
gini, Be-. As ~ so; Tennessee Ga, As IA; North
Carolina o. GO Missouri Ga, AZ ssl4 Pacific Mail
81 S4ae5; New York Cenus', 81 l.2a-, Erie, 30 ?
asa; do preferred, "a 3 iao5.
The business Of the Sub-Treasnry was as follows TO-
day; .,..,,, -.
Receipts, Sio'l iVV =,
For customs, 4" 81 VI
On account Of loan 8 555, OG5 40
cent s,,' notes 4,G6l 500 Il
The British authorities at Nassau are such violent Ad
hereuts 10 the neutrality doctrine tina: they not only retue
10 allow vessels bearing coal for AmercIn ships TO IN
load there but fobd the latter to take coal out oil one
of the former within league oil the shore, even when
the coal vessel was ready sink for the want OF lighter
ing and while the not o. all In need oil coal
PRKrrY PLOT sPOLSD.
Several dave ago Mrs. GreenhoW, who was among the
frat female arrests aud rho is still In prison. received
cake from some friend OF hers unknown 10 tue suac'
fore delivering it into her hands, Lieutenant T.
sheldon Of the Sturgess Rh,s suspecting something
wrong examined the cake and found EMBEDDED therein
noe reforming Tho: " that arrangements had been
made for her escape and conveyance to Richmond,
naming the day aud hour for her delyerance This in
formation however, was not communicated TO her ~
the lieutenant nor has tto writer of the note been dis
covered.
MRS. BANLKY THE FEMALE spy
Mrs Bailey, the female spy, arrested on board the
Baltimore ard Old Point boat with 'tters and mcmoran
doms OF tree sonable character concealed about her
person. has been brought here and awaits her examina
ZION. She maintains a dogged silence upon points con
| ncc.ed with her treason.
Mrs B1ley had, not only 10 the folds OF her dress
but in the rolls Of her hair coptrabsnd letters which
are In possession OF the proper authorities