Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1823-02-04
COMMERCIAL.

We have been favored by respectable
friend with the following commercial let
ters:
Prices at Kingston Jam Dec, I9. 1872.
Imports. FLOUR super6oe pr Dbl Dll,
duty o., sales; corn meal, kiln dried
D4l do 59i I; rice, PEI loo lbs 81, do 5s3;
pilot bread pr Dbl a do 6st; ship bread,
d. 3 do So; crackers do s, do 5st, dull
Do per keg, so 60 cts, do 523 per 100
lbs; peas, per bush Il, do l2t; corn do 1t,
do la, ia demand and scarce oats do
Is cents, do ls1. Tobacco, IL pr loo lbs
do 5; pitch, 81 per Dbl. do tar, - pr
bbl 10 /; turpcntine, 81 per Dbl, do |.
Lumber, W oak hid slaves and beading
D5O per m, do 3 37A cts; o. bid slaves
a. a As dollars per ID, do SO CTS; wood
hoops D50 per m, do +, lx5 cents pitch
pine boards, do plank, do ranging timber,
81 D60 per m feet, do 1 50 cents; while
pine boards and plank, ~ S6 per m feet,
do 4 90 cents; shingles. cyprus, 70 inch,
DIS per m, DO D3; d. do l8 inch, 8 a
DlO per IN, DO D3-ail the lumber scarce
and III good demand.
Exports. Freel Sugar, fine, 5 D53
dolls per 100 lbs; do Drown ! dollar, per
100 lbs, very dull; moia,ses, none; coffee.
fine FL cts per 10 do nlddii"s 10 Se".o,
do TRACE 8 a II cents; pimenlo, iz5 cents
per ID; rum, 3lt cents per gallon cochi-
neal 81 dolls per 10; indigo ID dolls; tor
toise shell 8 a dolls; iustic, II dolls per
ton logwood 2a dolls; nicaragua, 81 dis;
sailed hides 4 dollars each,
Erchange-On London. on the par 42O
dolls or LOO sterling, ~ 20 per CT. ad
vance. u. States, none. Dollars.
per cent, Doubloons, i6 dollars each.
Extract o. letter from Kingston, ia
maica, Gated
DEcKnsER 9.-In reply TO your que
~, relative to The duty on American yes
sells and their cargoes, we beg leave to IN
form you that they are subject 10 no high
or or other duties or charges than british
vessels" [Charleston City Gazette.
From the Philadelphia freeman's Journal o.
January 20.
Per schr. Favorite, Capt. Morrison.
Extracts Of letters receiced az tbs e.'ty.
"Buesos AYREs, Nov 6tb, 8as.-Flour
j. here al 81 a II SO The quantity in
troduced of late and the approaching haI'
vest being uncertain, there can be no CAL
cula;ion until got 10.
OcToBER 3-"The packet Despatch,
capt Campoeil, arrived this day from Mon,
teviedo, and bring, news OF a shipwrecked
vessel. supposed to be The ship Rising
Empue, captain Wheelwright, sailed from
here ard wrecked on Ortiz bank, IN the
river La Plata, and the crew, seventeen IN
number, took 10 the long boat and landed
in Monte Vieio safe cargo lost. They
saw a French ship bound up and made
signs 10 them but the captain susPect'ng
they were pirates fired into them. but done
no damage"
OcroBER 1.-THE ship Potomac, last
from Rio, arrived at Buenos Ayres tins
day. with 800 bbls. -four on board"
Vessels left at Rio. 4th Oct.
"Brig Rosert, for Baltimore, ship Penn
sylvanla; Dish ship Ellen. Douglass for
lndia, and ship Mercury, from Lima, tor
Gibraltar; ships Conestoga and Pa Inc
Flour on hand at Rio, about $500 bbls.
"rhe brig Planter, of New York. has
been sold and the captain will return home
in the brig Clara, via Baltimore. to sail IN
a lew days. Oct. slsh summer IS
Just commencing"