The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-07-28

u. s. Treasury Notes.
National Bank Notes.
State Bank of Indiana.
State Bank of Ohio.
UNCURRENT.
Indiana Free Banks...... to 10c dis
missouri. .....:.. ...........................5c "
Eastern Bank Notes.. .............-....... sc
BANK OF tennessee. .
Eianters DOC "
Other Tennessee Banks......... 40 to soc
Virginia, North and South Carolina
Georgia, Alabama and La,...l0 to Soc "
We have nothing of special interest to
note in commercial matters. Both at home
and abroad mercantile matters have been
full as quiet as could well be desired. The
extreme hot weather has added to the
stagnatiOn in trade. Our merchants are
beginning to turn their attention towards
the Eastern markets in view of the ap-
preaching Fab trade, which bids fair to be
good.
There has been no feeling in Dry Goods
and kindred business; the New York Econ
Oraist reports an exceedingly dull market
for all kinds of goods in this department of
trade, and the Cincinnati papers report
their merchants as having as idle time
as possible.
In groceries there is little more doing,
but the trade is light. Coffee has improved
somewhat, and is more firmly held. Sugar
has advanced q fraction, and is In good
consumptive demand as the season for
fruit preserving approaches.
There Is very little change in Provisions;
the stock is light.
Flour is still weak and lower, and the
high grades which have heretofore main
tanned good prices show signs of weakness.
Corn is in light supply in our market,
though the stocks in the lower river cities
are more than equal to the demand, so
that we do not anticipate much foreign
demand
The Memphis and New Orleans markets
are reported very dull, and the supply of
Western produce was adequate to all the
wants of the trade. Corn, which at our
last report was reported in light supply, is
now plenty, with little demand, and prices
weak. We have good accounts of the Sugar
crop of Louisiana, though of course it will
be small, compared with the yield before
the war.
The South is reported to be flooded with
counterfeit Legal Tender, National Bank,
and Fractional currency of every denomi-
nation.
A Judge of one of the District Courts of
Louisiana has decided that Confederate
currency was not an Illicit cause or consid-
Grafton of contracts when the contracting
parties were within the Confederate lines.
The question is one of much Importance to
the business interests of the South, and in
wolves some points of law not yet fully adj
Indicated.
The Memphis Avalanche has an edit orial
puff" of a New York house, indorsing its
members as honorable gentlemen, free
from oil tinctltre Of rddicoliSm, and In every
respect aoorthy Of Southern patronage" We
thought we were getting past the days
when a mans politics had TO be paraded
before the public as an inducement or
warning to the mercantile community
We are glad to note that there Is no such
spirit of folly and fanaticism among our
business men, and no respectable journal
will be guilty of such meanhess. Theques-
lions of business integrity, fair dealing,
enterprise, and competition in the trade,
| and not the opinion of the tradesmen in
the politics of the day, are the causes to
influence the business public.