Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-09-17

off with briskness, at rather higher p
ces, and there appears to be an exteI
sive speculative demand for foreia
Coffee; st. Domingo ht 62s: Brazil s il
cd. to 63s. cd. There were two col
siderable public sale this forenoon
mostly British Plantation Coffee, whicl
sold at very full prices; some fine ordi
nary Cuba 75s. The Coffee market 1
firm and improving; there is an extern
sive speculative demand for Cuba; ST
Domingo could scarcely be purchased
at he close of the market under6 COS. cd.
for parcels.
Rum. BRANDY & HoLLANDs.-Theye
are rather more RUNS offered for sale
this week, and the spectators, who are
reported to hold 5000 to 1000 punch
cons, have eyinced some disposition to
effect sales, bu: only at full market pri
ces; it is still difficult to purchase Lee
wards proofs at 2s.; the fine Jamaica
RUNS are not so much inquired after
for home consumption; 80 TO IS over
IS. TO IS. 3d.; favourite marks SIS. 4d to
IS. 6d.-brandy is firm, but there is lit
tie business doing; the new housed IS.
ld.-The prices of Geneva have adj
vanced in Holland, but there is little
variation here; off the quay, sales at Is.
lod.; the quotation Of pale Is lod, to
Is.
ToBAcco.-The sales Of Tobacco
this week are confined to small parcels
IF five and ten hhds. to the trade and
to manufacturers, at very full prices.
RIoE.-There is more demand for
Carolina Rice; 3Ss. for ordinary quality.
BY public sales on Tuesday, 100 bbls.
of Rice, ordinary So. good 4os.
american Stocks, London, Tug. 49,
Three per cents. 7ea; six per cent. Of
1918, 90; do. 1914, "a; do. 1915, 81
NOM; FIVE per cent. of 1887, lola; six
per cent. of 1887, no; Virginia FIVE
per cent lol; do. six per do. liz; bank
shares, L25 S.; with dividend from lst
July 1925; Louisiana 5 per cent. lol9.
JOHN GILL, Broker.
Extract 9a letter dated Liverpool, .Aug. l6
Notwithstanding several thousand
bags of cotton were forced upon the
market, under peculiar circu Instances,
prices have not only remained firm, but
about 10000 bags have been taken by
spectators: a London house in the
East India trade, alone purchased a.
bout hall the quantity so taken, and the
week opens with a very good demand.
Nearly the whole of II stock Of
States ashes have been cleared for ex-
%portation, and there is some difficulty
in purchasing ashes Of any descrip-
tons at present prices. Queri tron
bark Of good quality is becoming
scarce.-25 eroon Cochineal, gray,
silver and black, were sold at l8s. 10
eos. I'd. per lb-Ashes, pots, Us, SIS.
to SIS. cd; pearls SOS. to 33s.-New.
York quercitron bark IL a % 6d.-A-
merican cloyersecd, new, 81 a 70
Horns, us. Isl 25-Carolina rice, II
a 24-Tar, Carolina, 10 a IL; Virginia,
lS.-furpentine, 9 IL S-Tobacco,
low and inferior, 4; ordinary and mid
diings, Al a So; fair 10 fine s a 9; stem.
med "a 81; Kentucky and Georgia
leaf 4 a 81; Istemmedl S a 81; Mary.
land and Potomac, unc.-Staves US
hid. IA a 20; Dbl 8 l2-Sugar, Mus.
covado, "a to78; Hav ma, IS 54-Mo.
@lasses, 80 a 35-Hides, S. A. saited.
a j4-Indigo, purple and blue, in bond
| 6 al2 9; middlins, 8 9a9 ), ordina
ry and low, 7 8 7-Pimento, 81 a lC
Hops, Eng. l3l M.
Early in May, the Government oil
Mexico passed a resolution o to adj.
nit into the ports of the Republic, any
cargo which shall arrive from Cayc
Heuro, otherwise called Thompson.
Island, sixty DAYS after the receipt o.
tie circular OF t e Minister of Finance
(which bears date May llth;) by tnt
authorities of the Maratime States
Suspicious that Spanish goods were
sent from Havana to Thompson's Isl
aud, and thence conveyed to the Mexi
can out-ports, in contravention of es