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firm, with liberal sales at M@H for new, and 96 for old. Our readers will bear in mind that on Monday and Tuesday next, owing to the arrival of the remains of President Lincoln, business in the city will be entirely suspended. The banks and public offices will all be closed, and notes falling due on those days will have to be paid on Saturday. It would be well for business men to recollect this. - The First National Bank of Galva, Henry county, Illinois, commenced business on the 17th inst., with a capital of $50,000, and the privilege of increasing It to $100,000. Wm. L. Wiley is President, and L. W. Beck, Cashier. - The First National Bank of Cincinnati, on Tuesday last threw out the notes of all Ohio Banks. Bankable funds are now nirrowed down to Greenbacks and National Bank currency. The transactions in Petroleum Stocks at Pittsburgh, continue light. The sales on Wednesday last were at the following quotations: Federal Oil $1.00 75 Torr, Story and Cherry Run 1.50 Whitley -During the two weeks ending April 22d, the amount of national currency issued was $5,837,800, making the total issue to date $119,961,800. -The New York money market is easy "at 4@5 per cent on call. Prime endorsed bills, 60 days, 6@7 per cent; three to four months, 7@8 per cent; and other good bills, 9@10 per cent. -Ircluded in the foreign exports from New York last week were 13,556 bushels wheat, 15, 790 barrels flour, 4,825 bushels corn, 1,028 barrels pork, 779 barrels and 715 tierces beef, 1,969,706 pounds cut meats, 79,254 pounds butter, and 367,890 pounds lard. - The total value of the foreign exports at Portland during the week ending April 22d, smounts to $224,998.39. Included in the shipments were 1,454 barrels flour, 412,400 pounds cnt ments, and 41,400 pounds lard. - Eastern Exchange in Louisville is steady at par buying and 104 premium selling. State Bank of Indiana 1 discount. - The money market in Milwaukee is quiet and the rates of discount nominal at 10 per cent. Exchange easy at par to + premium. - The, notes of the Elkhorn Bank (Wisconsin) hitherto redeemed at par in Milwankee, are now refused. - In Cincinnati money continues to accumu. late, and the market is easy at 8@12 per centThere is a large amount of unemployed capital afloat. Eastern exchange Is steady at 50@75 prem. buying and 1-10 prem. selling. -Immediately after the assassination of President Lincoln, a prominent British firm in New York city issued a circular to its European correspondents, in which is the following strong recommendation of our Government bonds as a first class investment: " The war is virtually closed. The farewell address of Gen. R. E. Lee to the 64 army of Northern Virginia," admitting the impossibility of further contending against the overwhelming numbers and resources" of the Federal Government on the one hand, and the order of Mr. Secretary Stanton annulling the draft, suspending recruiting, and announcing an immediate reduction of the staff of the army. on the other hand, are as conclusive as If the result had been arrived at by a treaty of peace. The wise and moderate measures of President Lincoln in contemplation, and in sequence of this result, had given universal satisfaction. Last Friday morning his popularity was at its height, and none, even of those who had been previously opposed to his policy, but spoke in his proise. and In hopeful terms of the healing influence of the beneficent policy which he was inauguriting. Before that day bad closed he was a corp-e, the victim of a bloody, brutal. cowardly murder. This astounding and distressing calamity, into the details of which it is not our province to enter. has interrupied all branches of business, of which, under the contemplated arrangements embracing two close bolidays-Wedncsday and Thursday-there con be no general resumption till toward the end of the week. " With the return of peace, comes the assured ability of the government to fund the whole or the national indebtedness, and, as a necessary consequence, to resume specie payments. If there be any government. stocks in Europe or elsewhere, equal in point of security to the bonds of the United States, paying an interest of siz per cent per annum, we have yet townake the discovery."
