Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-12-01

LOnuou duNlCeS OF Yesterday QuOte
United States 5-20s at7I.
Exchange on New York was furnished
by the hanks yesterday at 81 per thou
sand.
Nashville corporation checks were bought
at 2jc discount and sold 23e discount.
There was nothing doing in govern.
ment bonds or uncurrent money.
Accounts from New England represent
business TO be in an unusually depressed
condition. The demand for nearly all
kinds of manufactured goods is diminish
ing, while there is an increasing difficulty
in obtaing market for supplies on hand,
Employment is consequently becoming
scarce, and great many mechanics are ont
of work, aud at the present time it is pro
bable that the majority of the factories in
the New England States are not working
more than three quarters time The ship
building interests are particularly depressed
The Maine ship yards are nearly all idle
In Newburyport, Mass, the ship building
trade, which formerly constituted The chief
business Of that lourishing town, is now
merit to nothing. The few vessels that we're
launched during the last year were buil
at a loss. 1t is the same in nearly all the
formerly busy hives of New England The
manufacturers have generally done losing
business, and sales have been light. Me I
chanies earn poor wages, and while labor
and property are less productive, the cost
of living has not fallen &c corresponding
degree. ---
The New York Express commenting
upon the breadstnffs market, says:
We trust breadstufs also will speedily
find that lower range. The farmers, as we'll
as the hog raisers, must come down peg.
That they can afford to do SO, admits Of
scarcely doubt, though journals in the
speculative interest, demurring to lower
prices, are asking MS TO remember that the
wheat belt OF the country is gradually
moving westward that twenty years ago
Pennsy lvania, Ohio, New York, Mary land
and Virgins were the great wheat-raising
States that, in addition to feeding their
own populations, they raised large sur
plus for export that to-day not one in the
list raises enough for home consumption
that Indiana has given out, and that even
in Illinois the spring wheat crop is not so
sure as il vas ten years ago !; that the wheat
belt is now confined 10 Illinois, Michigan,
Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin; that FROM
their surplnsage is now made up the de-
fcieneies Of the other States, and that
whenever the markets Of the Old World
are short they draw on the West for their
supplies. All Of which We are willing TO
admit, and yet we think il would not be
difiienlt TO show that the existing extrava-
CANT prices ave wholly without Justification
or excuse. Specializing, hoa riding, and a
greed for exhorbiiant prices, we suspect,
have had much more 10 do with it than
the parties Themselves wilt care IN con
Tess. 500
The New York Lgdepsadeni, Of the Goth
ult, says ofthe New York dry goods mar
kei:
The last week has been a sort of Indi an
summer TO the dry goods trade; trade has
been brisk The effect OF this revival has
been very beneficial, and the more 80 be-
cause it came when there was an unusual
pressure in the money market. Under the
influence of an increased demand for goOds,
prices, IA a matter Of course, have been
firm, and in some instances an advance has
been obtain Ell, chiefly in the better quail
ties of domestic eottons The stock has
raI.r,aA that
venience will be realized from carrying
over what remains on hand. The cons
moner kinds Of wooden goods are still
largely in excess Of the market demands
Ia brown sheetiDgs and skirtings prices
are irmer, and the stock has been con-
siderably diminished, beyond the sales for
home consumption, by large exports of the
heavier and better qualities. The supply
of blesched goods Of favorite styles ia
fully equal to the wants of the market, bnt
not IN such excess as to cause any weaken
Ing Of prices.
Drills are in better demand, and The
stock Of popular makes is much smaller
than it has been in long time.
Unbleacked printing cloths have been IN
better demand, and prices have been
shade better.
In prints there has been considerable ac-
tiyity, and the stock Of desirable styles IN
first hands has been vary much rednceh'
Ginehams, as usual at this season, are neg
lected. Roll jaconets and muslins are ~
fair demand, and prices are we'll main
tanned. Linseys have improved s0newhat
and are more firmly held.
The old stock Of muslin delsines has
been pretty we'll cleared ont, and the new
STYLES meet with ready sales at firm prices,
Our quotations are well maintained.
The recent revision Of prices in WOODEN
shawls has induced greater freedom of Pur-
ehases, and the present prices are well
maintained, except for the inferior sty les.
Italian cloths are steady, but the demand
az this season Of the year is necessarily
limited
In cloths and oassimeres there is not 80