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Second class The For short loans on good or Al collaterals 10 9 @12 their tonsors in general have full employment @10 all 18@20 surplus, and are well remunerated at 1 instances. and 24@30 Pct. But these may be isolat fro great It is manifest, however, that there is employment falling off in the amount of money seeki millions this season from last year-over fo of dollars less. quietly, The Exchange market to-day opened rath The banks and moved along under some torpidit rate for were buying very little. The count though checks on NewYork was steady at I firmed two banks asked 4, the asking was not pre at by any sales. Outside double A1 was he co sales par, at at which figures there were sales, and al rate a 1-16th dis. For good and fair sight t Three ranged from par to an 1th dis. on the stre and with days sight sold at 3-16 dis. At the ban on New real A1 drawers the selling rate of bills York was steady at par@} prem. In sig tir bills) we at note sales of sixty days sight (old fo from 1@1} dis., and other good to fair bills have been 1|@l] and 11 dis., and bills through the tige sixty done at 11@2 Pct. dis., so the In days sight rules from 1@1} to 2 range Pct. d Sterling, the market did not present so firm sales appearance as for the three past days. We no Bills, of of Clear Sterling at 1081@108}. In Docume standard make, the sales ranged at fro some 107}@1071 and 108, though there there have be market jockey bills transferred at 107@1074. T patches was operated on after meridian by à all received from the other side, suspendi was transactions not with some and certain parties. nature our province to inquire directly into 1 terested of these advices. They who are deeply in will know from what causes a depressi of foreign francs exchange arises. There were few sa on Paris direct-the rates are from 5.2 little @5.17}, and extreme rates from 5.25@5.15. Ve pire, cotton going forward from here to the E and what few commercial bills of francs & Marseilles. offering appear to be on Havre, Bordeaux a We have very little to say about stocks, a omit week our table of quotations. The chief sales t Steam have been of Bank of New Orleans, Ley To-day Cotton Press and Jackson Railroad Shar there were sold 120 shares Union Bank par. There has also been a sale of Gas Light Co pany at 199. Messrs. Palfrey & Co., will sell to-morrow, ties. 21st inst., sundry shares of stock and other secu Hotel. The sale to take place at the St. Char We learn that the directors of this Co next pany month. intend to declare a dividend of $1 50 P sh The office of the Board of Currency has be moved No. from the old location in Exchange Place This 120 Gravier street, back room, lower flo will be obviates the trotting up two pair stairs, wh our something of a relief this warm weather our pedal extremities at least. And we hope t at bank officers will get through their exchan turns as early an hour as possible, and make their of to the board before meridian, as the sea the year is at hand when a general desire at prevail to bring the business of Saturday to a cl as early an hour as possible. In the uncurrent money market there have b very rations few transactions- the season for cotton o are over in the country. Some few str their gling sums of Kentucky and Tennessee banks f way to the counters of our brokers, which cashed within the range of our quotations for la sums, under but a much higher rate is exacted for su St. $100. The currency of the great emporit ficult Louis, is of SO mixed a character that it is to ascertain what the standard is; therefo from Missouri or St. Louis bank notes range here $100 2@2} and 3 Pct. discount, and sums un from 3@5 Pct. dis. The Bank of Lawren burg, Tenn., is under the bans, that is, suspend payment, the bursted or failed; it is immaterial h words are applied. It was one of those organized under the general banking law of pe T nessee, It is and commenced with a capital of $95,0 their asserted that its owners and managers play tion cards so successfully as to get out a circu and of $250,000, mostly in Tennessee and Arkans for are now minus. If people will take such S products as well as the issues of many ot shops from year to year, it is manifest that tl never read the papers, and are sadly deficient ed general or intelligence. The many worthless ban rather shops, which have been brought forw: each within two years past, in almost every county of the Western States, have been greatly couraged from the scarcity of silver coin. The vo astute director of the United States Mint, Mr. J Ross Snowden, thought that silver was becom too plenty, and influenced the head of the Treas Department, in Mr. Cobb, to sanction the reduct from the price for silver at the Mint and Branci e. for $1 22}@$1 21 B oz. This had a telling eff a space of time on the operations of the Bra Mint of New Orleans, checking the tenders of this porters and receivers of silver bullion and coin port, and curtailing the good and usefulness tion the Mint, and interfering with the flow and circ of American silver coin through the channels of trade with the great West. In ma fa greatly benefits restricting the purposes and expec to be derived from steady and effici operations and coining at the Mint. The fore send demand for silver has now increased so much as value the price up to and above the standard be between gold and silver. Silver continues and exported to Europe, and thence it takes wir flies to India. Mexican dollars have now this vanced in NewYork to 108 and a fraction over. market the range of prices have ruled for last receipts at 1071. If these prices rule for 1