The Nashville Daily Union

Commercial.

MONEY MARKET.

Louisville, October 6

The buying rate for Gold is firm at 18 @20 per cent premium, the bankers offering to sell at 25 per cent premium. Silver change is held at from 1 to 20 per cent premium, the bankers buying at 10 @12 per cent. Demand notes have appreciated in a ratio corresponding to the rise in the rates upon gold, the bankers buying at 12@15 per cent premium. The postage-stamp currency is circulated in but limited quantities, the bankers not yet having received any considerable sums. The selling rate for Eastern exchange is 1 1/2 per cent prem., the bankers offering to buy at 1/2 per cent dis. Prices of staple articles of trade are generally higher, and the business of the week has been above the ordinary average at higher rates. But small quantities of grain have been received, as the operations of the two armies in this immediate vicinity have rendered it impracticable to send forward much supplies. We have had two or three refreshing rains during the week, and the weather is now cool and pleasant. The river is still so low as to render navigation both difficult but almost impossible.