Financial and commercial.
--From the Baltimore
Sun, of the 23d inst., we take the following:
‘
The discount on
Western Virginia money is 2½ a 3 per cent., and on
Eastern Virginia,
North and
South Carolina and
Georgia, 18 a 20 per cent.
’
The movements of the banks in three of the principal cities of the
Union, in which weekly reports are made, as shown by their last statements, and compared with the same period of last year, is as follows:
| Loans. | Specie. |
New York | $137,308,635 | $41,461,833 |
Boston | 62,926,072 | 7,180,001 |
Philadelphia | 27,620,784 | 7,086,809 |
Total | 227,891,491 | 55,708,643 |
Last week | 231,818,446 | 55,444,696 |
Last year | 214,197,505 | 28,093,883 |
| Circula'n. | Net Deps. |
New York | $3,799,675 | $111,121,204 |
Boston | 6,268,697 | 28,575,450 |
Philadelphia | 2,226,420 | 19,491,141 |
Total | | |
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Last year | | |