, 1864-07-09
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
FENANUIAI

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The nrst dispatches from New York this morning,
carrying Gold mp to 26 hsd the usual effect upon our
market. Flour went up Is 10 20 cents, Wheat to 1
cents, Corn to cents, &C., Ant the fancy gentlemen
vent In AZ usual The a1moet immediate decline IN
Gold mAdu nany sore heads, but they managed to
keep prices pretty well until the c1ose although ex
cesding Weakness was naulfest In sl articles. To-
night the spectators will probably hare to gtye In,
cur latest New Tofk quotations place Cole At
about per cent below quotations 1t the cloalng hour
ofthe Board OF Trade The spectators havo been
1oylug bankers terribly to-day for aid. and we are
glad h.ar that several who have been disposed to
indulge them heretofore, have ccnculed to do 60
longer, and We trust this will be tha disposition Of
all before Ha1y days. This allowing thesa fancy
gentlemen to interrupt and perrars the whole course
Of legitimate trade has gone fur enough, and the
Boomer the rcto Is pus upon It, tho better viii 1t be
fer the commercial, mercantile and monetary char
acter Of opr city. .
The demand for Money Is intensified today beyond
precedent, but thote vho really entitled to csn
slde1 atlcn have received at the regular 10 cent
rate. :
Exchange is very fat. and dealers operate without
particular resal1 to guotation1. NcnnInally 1t Ia
1ko14 buying: par selling, whta many, perhaps mn.
Jo1lty 1f the transactions, are ut lower rates.
Gold. In New Y ork. opeael this morning at 27s,
about per cent advance on yesterdaYs closing quo
tation,, but me dateiy after IL commenced deelin-
Ing until the sloae, whct II touched u.s. fall OF II
cents. The cause for this Is the mystery Of 1.-THE
rng" " The following are the quotations, as tee-
r1arhtd to james Boyd, s. Clark srEees: ~
1e III: L I'M. n ..:........2as :; a
.S3ss $Sss a:'o
HIRE. tie market opened crm at 27s, but ran down
to eto. clotug heavy. with disposition the part
Of brokers to purchase.
Government 5sts st.ady at los. the price being
the Iane In N4W York
MH. CHA sK's sEsTiNATEs-Ar. Cha8a, IN biz 1uAp.
cs1 report for the fiscal year. ending June 3o 1861
ARC which was issued on the 4th OF December, 1855
tays:-" On the euppcMsion thst tha war must be
continued with undimtnithed disbursements until
the1st July 1884, tbs debt Nkaly to have been then
Incurred muRt be estimated at u "a As sss This
estimate vns made nearly n,netsen months In 3D.
vance. when the na*ioIa debt stood at s7&too GOO,
apo the Increase for tha debt for lne month befo1e
and month afterTa1d. WAS st the average rate Of
s1l4odoo per diem In the period cov.red By the
forecaB otseczetary Chase the debt has actually in
cfeased, In round numbers. 81 a00 and at the
kyerage rate OF 800 te0 per diem Of 573 Gays. On
the 28h June, two tAyB before the period n1td, an
of1e1al publication Of the debt shows fts amount to
b, ts66s953. We add 81 cuJ CO.. for thcie two
daye which Is about the present average 1ncreasewe
hsve Mr. Chsse's estimate verified with precision
which hss 10 parallel In financial history. The dif-
ference between bis estsEkte and this actual 1gurcE
is less thna one million dollars. Mr. Chaae's
precedence In nancial matters htve been dIs11ayed
in other almost remarkable degree AZ In
this instance.
NEW TokK 6TocK MARKET,-The following we're
the clcstuG prices for cash July g. 1884, received BY F.
G. .Saltonstall d Co., Commission, Stock and Bshd
Brokers. n Clark street, Chicago: