Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1818-06-26

Prices Current at Hare, May 10, 1918.
Ashes, pot, PEE 100 lbs 60 a 62f. lille
demand; cinra anon, OF China CT Cassia,
per ID 81 SOC a At scarce cloves, Isle Of
France and Cayenne, 4f SOC in eutrep"t;
cnchineal, black, 40 Act; cocoa. Ca
ratcas. Ct I5c a ct s0c. difficult sale;
Maragnon, II Zoe II 45c, current; cot.
fee, ST. Domingo, II Doc a II 90 lie;
Havana and Caracas. If 81 1.2c in en-
trepot; Brazil du do; Bourbon, II 9Oc
II CSC; copper, Peru and Mexico, II
DC If soc; cotton, Perna,nbuco, 81 l5c
a 81 z5c; Maragnon and Cayenne, 1t
Csc 81; Caracas and Cumans, 81 l2c
It ACC st. Docingo, q SOC q Coo;
Sea Island. Al zoe a al 75c; Georgia
Upland, e 75c 2f 85c; Louisiana. 81
S5c; Surs, and Bengal. II 45c IT SOC;
Elephants I eeth, 81 Al so: fustit, Gu
ba. 100 lbs l4f q ISL current; h,des,
Buenos Ayres, sound. per ID GU a 95i;
Island and LOUISIANA, 80 8Jl indigo,
Bens.! and .Guatima'a, lot y l4f 25c,
demand; Caracca.. z a IA; Loewoad,
Spanish cut, per 100 lbs IS a l6t, cur.
rent Eusli,h cut, l2a l4ij mahogany,
in log, Is Z Col. dull nankeens, M row,
per piece, 7f-broad I4f ala Soc, OUT Of
season; oil of cod, per 100 lbs ISL; whale
g.. scarce perpci, heavy, per ID II SOej
tight, If Coz Il Csc, current; Piments,
If 6Oc que, citron, Der 100 lbs 50 rice,
S8f, declining; Rncoa. per Id 9" Csc;
skins, deer shaved, sound, 81 SOC a q
IS; do in hair DO g 45c q soc; bear,
fine, -25 u S0f; do inferior ant cub, STA
Isl; sugar, Havana white cllyed, II Soc;
do brown. do Is rs l-2c, demand, in
entrepst; Brazil "hite. ciay"t, 20 75c;
brown, do II II Sc; Mus. II &c u Sc;
F.. I. raw, white, IT l5c Q II 20c; do
brown, If lOc a If l2c; tea. gun. 81 CSC
a 81 75c; Tyson, II Zoe a s;hNs"n skin,
At zoe a ST sc; souehoDg Al 9Oc ST;
pekin, l0f; congo, Al sc, scarce t"bac-
CO, Wig per 100 lbs 50 95i; Carolina,
70 a s5f ; Ken. II q 8Gf according 10
the last sales made the Reggie; tallow, B.
Ayres, none beeswax, yellow. 81 s0c;
Whalebone, with hair, Ifa II Sc; WOOL,
Merinoes, Al SEC a 81; Burr mill stones,
5OOf; plaster Of paris, per mont. Of %
otis ~ SOC.
Exchanges. On Amsterdam, at S uIan.
ces, Sc So groat. current p frances;
Hamburger, j" 1873 "a i,ancs Ter 100
mares bo.; Lond,n, do ss6 francs p. I.
sterling; spanish mIiiCd dollars, at 81
&c
Rates of Iassrance.--To the United
States, generally, ! 81 per cwtj New
Orleans and Brazil, 2 l-2.
Obse,vations.-In the duties specified
in this price current is included The Gus
tomary one Of 10 per cent additional;
goods imported direct from India, pay
lighter duty, and those from the entire
pots of Europe, a heavier one. For eI-
ample, India raw white sugars, pay in
French bottoms, direct from India, SIC
per lb ; from places out Of Europe, A
confines, and pepper from India 7lc per
h.; from other places out to Europe TIC;
and from European entrepot. Soc.
Owing to Havre's near vicinity to Pa.
ris and other manufacturing towns, a
great variety Of goods may be exported
to great advantage: such as silks every
description, and laces, lawns, Cambrics,
linens, cotton hosiery, kid and other lea.
Their gloves, clocks, watches, jewellery,
ornaments in bronze, porcelaines, glass.
ware, looking glasses, superfne and com.
mon hats, superfns and other cloths,
mer,no shawls and robes, paper hangings,
Gc.
The French quintal Of so kilrogran-
mes, equals Ill American pounds; the
metre is equal to go American inches,
and an ell is yard II inches.
Goods mot prohibited enjoy an entire
pot Of IL months. The expiration Of
specie is permitted.
s.ost of the articles designated in this
price current, aad whose expectation is
not prohibited, erj"y the privilege of
trans't through France to the ne,shboring
countries, on paying merely duty Of IS
confines per quintal.
Goods in the grocery line are sold at
three and = half months credit. Those
Tor manufactures, Including four and a
half months.
CUSTOMARY TAREs OF COMMERCE.
On mahogany, none Iogwond. per