Baltimore commercial journal, and Lyford's price-current. [volume] (Baltimore, Md) 1840-1849, 1847-11-27
WEEKLY OMMERCIAL JOURNAL.

previous prices, and the demand is without any i'm
provement.
PLASTER PARIS.-There have been further
sales at $3.50 S3.374 per ton.
POTAIOES.-There is small cargo OF Eastern
Merces a1oat which sell at S | per bushel.
PR0VISIONS.-There is no material variation in
the general market since our last weeks report AS
respects Meatsthe old stock, although not gong oil
| rapidly, is moving, both barrclcd and smoked, TO
make room for new, which by the way has hardly
yet shown itself market, not even city cured-ior
uniavorabe, owing to its mlldncss and humidity,
has been the temperature OF the weather that but few
purchasers have commenced operations and those who
have, if to any considerable extent, may probably
have occasion hereafter to regret their prcmaurty.
Beef.-Thc market is still without animation,
and there is hardly sale making worthy of particu
lar mention except small lots packed to order in quar-
ter brl for export the est Indies In the absence
of other transactions chiefly for ship stores, &c,
quote Mess SIP, No. $40, and prime SIS per bril-,
occasionally something under according to
quality terms Of payment
Pork.-1hcre have been sales of 200a300 brls
during the week, taken for export, including Mess
at s l4.50 and Prime at s III per bril-, the latter
slight advance.
Bacon-The stock is fast rcccdng, and little or no
new-(none from the West)-arrivng to take its
place. Shoulders and Sides, which the more
plenty, nominally without change in price unless
where heavy order is to be filled the terms are
then secret otherwise the range is TAI cts. and good
TO prime Hams, which relatively scarce, sell at
105all l. cts. per H..
I.ard-Is in limited supply, and may be quoted 10
dl0! cts. in brls., and Hall ! in kegs.
Butter-Rcmans steady, but not in active request,
and may be quoted llai25 cts for Western, and liza
10 for Gladcs taken in diaries.
Cheese.-With good supply of Western there is
fair moderate demand at iGS, and Eastern SaO cts
per lb, for shipping qualities.
RICE Is in moderate request only, and cannot be
quoted over 3.75a "a per 100 lbs.
SALT.-Thcre is more firmncss in the market.
cargo of 1000 bushels Turks Island has sold at y
CIT, mos.
Sales.--future have been free sales of last
years Clover at 4,25a 1877 per bushe, and small
lots at $3.50. Nothing done in Timothy. Receipts
of Flax light and held above quotations.
SPIRIIS.-Ihc market for Foreign is inactive,
as Brandics sell only in small parcels. n. f. Rum
is shade lower, and taken at 3la35 cts. Whiskey
is less firm than it last week, and cannot be
quoted over 27l cts in brls., and 81 IN hhds
SCGARS.-The markht is very dull and prices
considerably lower, as indicated at foot. We have
no private transactions to report. By auction yes
tcrday, 121 hhds Porto Rico sold at t. lOa and
IL do Cuba Muscoyado, 4.9Oa s per 100 lbs, mo
TOBACCO.-ln our Prices Current of the 18th
inst we stated that the great demand and high pri
ccs during the last winter and spring for Breadsufs,
had induced many OF the Tobacco planters III the
state of Maryland, either entirely to abandon or so
to reduce the cultivation of the plant, that the crop
Of the present year would not reach 10000 hhds,
and might fall considerably short of that amount
and in the same paper we also promised at an early
period to furnish the data upon which based our
lnfOrmatIOn that period has now arflNed before
the cosa of this article which includes the of
sir hudred and eighty planters hereto attached" we
will redeem our promise. Those names and the
particulars in reference to former and the present
crops, were procured for prOmiscu0uSiy by rea-
BILE agents in various Tobacco growing sections of
the state and for their kindness and known accuracy
in thus contributing to the dissemination of such I'M
portant facts, beneficial alike to producers and
sumers, much indebted, and trust that our
motive will be properly appreciated; for, while we
are endeavoring to reduce the Tobacco business to
something like certainty, we place all parties in
fair relationship to each other In striking aver
age crop the present year, we have taken fourth OF
the last four years, and find it amounts to 1912
hdds.
OF the $50 names of planters which follow, whose
average crops of late previous years amounted in the
aggregate TO Is ,72O hhds, they will not the present
year reach only about $50 hhds, showing consider
ably less than onehaf of their hitherto usual yield
and $50 of those planters did not grow single
hhd the last season!-and it is well known that the
result will obtain with the remaining planters
of the state at large. 1t will be found by consulting
Inspection table, another page, that the guam
tty of Maryland and Ohio Tobacco is upwards Of
20 900 hhds less than inspected at the cores
ponding of last year, and at the end OF this
year the difference will still be greater.
In regard to the Ohio crop OF the present year, it
is admitted on all hands that it cannot exceed 5000
hhds. and the better informed do not estimate it
over 1000 and some not much. In fact there will
be falling off in all the Tobacco growing portions
of the country, reduced by similar reasons those
which influenced the Maryland planters, out 10 what
extent will be the deficiency, not so well
prepared TO opinion; it is conceded, how
ever, that the Western will be heavy deficiency,
but the quality will be good, while that of Virginia
will not reach than three ourths or four ths
at farthcst of the crop of the preceding year.
As regards the ruling prices at this time, we are
not exactly prepared to say much upon the subject;
as the season for exporting is about over and conse
qucnty there is not much business doing in the art
Gle except in the better descriptions and those ap
pear to be sought after either for spring shipments
on speculation by capitalists. Inspected this week,
49 hhds. Maryland and SOB do. Ohio-tota, 922
hhds The Exports within the same time have been
27S hhds. Tobacco and do. Scraps to Bremen
making the quantity of Maryland and Ohio export
cd since JAN l, to date, as follow:
/ To Bremen, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Mds. q, sos
| - Rotterdam, .-............. ..o,too
- HaVre, .................- .'....'.'... f,oio
! - Antwerp. i,ooo
! - AmStcfuaH,. '''''ll 'foI
- Narsellles,. 20
| Fintcn, '-oo
| I" Eng land, ......... 90
Stock on hand, and on shipboard not cleared 24th
inst, 90 1872 hhds.
| WOOL.-Thc receipts are light, with only mo-
derate demand, and the few small lots sold are no
criterion of the market.
! FREIGHTS.-Vcry little business doing now in
! European and we have change to note in Tobacco
!