Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1831-01-24
COMMERCIAL.
BALTIMORE MARKET-JASuARy 81.


nesday inclusive of the present week, the store
price was steady at So IS per br. and at this
rate fair business was done. On Thursday
morning advices were received from New York,
announcing small stock IN that market and an
advance in prices. The same mail also brought
orders for the purchase of the article, some OF
which were affected early in the morning at So
81, and at later hour at sc per brl. All the
Flour which could be obtained at those rates was
taken on Thursday, but as the day advanced
holders refused to sell for Sc, and there was con-
sequently pause. In making our accustomed
extended inquiries to-day, we find that those
holders who have any stocks OF consequence IN
store.-and they are but few,-refuse to sell at
sc. and demand higher prices. In one instance
Sc o.! was refused Yesterday by holder Tor a
parcel. Some sales by retail have been made to-
day at sc l24. Additional firmness has been
impaired to the market from the smallness OF the
supplies, the almost impossible state OF the roads,
and the prospect of their further obstruction from
anotherfall of snow, which commented this morn
ing. The wagon price. until ednesday lnc'u-
siye. was generally IS o. per brl. On Thurs
,lav g -5a5 81 were paid by the dealers, and
as The day advanced the latter rate was very ge-
ncrally paid. To-day the dealers are paying S.
s. a 6 per barrel. -,
City l!iLs Ei1,r-Thls description has like
wise improved in price since Thursday. On the
morning of that day. $50 bbs. were sold at So
IS per Dbl. cash, and later in the day 200 bbs. at
Is 81. Holders have refused to sell for So -.
and ask higher rates. We hear OF no sales to-
day. and in the absence of transactions we are
unable to make an absolute quotation. The stocks
in first hands are not large: and holders are now
less disposed to sell, as they are not able to re-
Mace them in wheat.
/ We omitted to state that in the early part Of
the week sale of 700 bbls. standard quality
was made at IS so.
Susquehdsna Hom.-A parcel of 500 barrels
was sold Yesterday morning at So Is per barrel,
cash. For the small stocks in first hands, ad-
vanced rates are now demanded.
GRAIN
UReaf.-The river being closed by ice, the
supplies BY water are, of course, entirely suspen-
ded. A few trians parcels are occasionally re-
ceived BY wagon, for which 5 90 per bushel are
paid. There have been no sales OF Wheat from
store this week, and we believe we are correct In
SAVING that there is none In store Tor sale:-the
market may, therefore, be said to be completely
at stand. In the present state OF things. 1t Is
impossible to quote an accurate price, but we
think that prime parcels would now command
s5 so cents per bushel, and perhaps more:
Com--There are some parcels IN store, out
we hear of no sales this week except in trifing
lots. The article is now held at an advance on
last weeks rates.
WuIsKEy.-Hhhds. have declined a shade
The last sales have been made at o79 cents per
gallon, and the article is now held at that price.
Sales of copper distilled barrels have been made
on the wharf at 90 29i cents-last sales at ~
cents In Howard Street the wagon price OF bar
rels appears to be PSI a 90 cents per gallon, en-
elusive of the barrel; and the store price 99 so
cents. --.4merican.
PHILADELPHIA MARKET-JANuARY 10.
The navigation having been impeded by ice,
and the late snow storm having stoPt all commit
u,cation with the interior, the market since our
last report has been inactive. Flour, Gram,
Flax Seed, Linseed Oil and Whiskey are scarce,
but we would not make any change IN quotations
Glover Seed has declined; sales shave been made
at Sc 50a6 25.
There are due. at this time, four Southern and
three Western Mails.
-eSe
Our Flour and Grain Market article ap-
peared in the Daily Advertiser yesterday. con-
tanning dates from the Mediterranean" up to
18th December, stating that an active demand
for Flour existed at Constantinople, Smyrna, &c.
that Malta had been swept to supply the lon'an
Isles, that island depending on the low rates in
the United States to be itself supplied.
This information partially known in the
market on Monday, which caused an advance on
the prices of Flour, that day of about l2i cents
per barrel. Having been published yesterday
morning. further advance Of IS cents per bar
rel took place, and about 5000 barrels were sold
Yesterday of Western at S6a. Richmond City
h.,l.t Lat Of
en descriptions and New-York at S64-and i'll
one or two instances, n. York commanded SCI.
Baltimore Howard street is held at 81.
The sales of Grain. since the publication OF
puces current on Saturday, have been, on Satur,
day 1900 bushels of Western at 1873 cents, on
Monday 1000 bushels Long Island at ls5 6e'
ing from the sloop, and about % cents below the
market value). Yesterday. towards the close OF
Exchange hours 5000 bushels of good Virginia
compounded l4O cents, and 1000 bushels of West
ern, las cent, per bushels.