Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-04-12
COM MERCIA RECORD.
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT
CAREFULLY CORRECTED, FROM RELIABLE SOURCES
FOR THE RICHMOND TIMES,

CAREFULLY CORRECTED, FROM RELIABLE SOURCES,
FOR THE RICHMOND TIMES,
For the neck ending Thursday Erening, april l1M
GENERAL REMARKS-A sensible Improvement
in the market has taken place during the past week.
The auction sales have been well attended by the trade
and the bidding, in the main, spirited BreadstuHs, it
will be seen, have improved whilst Groceries and Pro-
visions have suffered slight decline in price Country
merchants purchasing more freely and we vet look
forward to fair Spring business.
TOBACCO-Receipts and inspections continue
light for the market rather weaker for Lugs and
common Leaf We quote Lugs 81 so &c. as in qua
lily; Leaf Sc so SIG IS.
FLOUR-Richmond superfine Flour is held firmly at
49, with some few sales at this Scottsve Flour is
held at S. l2a per barrel Receipts from all sources
co Mt qIs l ig6
to quote white 81 O5 to 81 or, and red 81 02l
CORN-A good demand exists for distilling. We
quote 80 cents as the price, though we have heard
oil offers at 81 cts per bushel for very fair lots
OAIS.-We quote 40 cents per bushel as the selling
RYE-Some demand for distilling exists at 65 cents
WHEAT OFFAL.-Bran ID cents; Shorts l6 cts.
BrownStus Is cts; Ship Stufs 40 cents per bus,eI
Demand fair and stocks light.
CORN MEAL.-60 to Is cents per bushe
GUANO-Peruvian $4s for five tons or more small
Ter quantities, $50 per ton.
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Seignete 81 IS Imitation 34a35 cents Sazerac S3a3!;
Peach dull at $1a$l 25. Va Apple Brandy new 55a6O:
old 62aa75 CENTS Northern 40 All high priced Brandies
are very dull OF SALE the prices give being merely no.
mina
RUM-New England, 90 cts--limted demand
WHlSKEY-Richmond rectfied 23a cts. in barrels
with an upward tendency; Cincinnati reetfied in bbs,
none in market.
GIN-American Soc; Holland SlaS1 Is per gallon.
dull
PROVISIONS--We quote new city cured BACON at
hoe .oII
81 g. old Western shoulders II cents, new Al 5;
new hams al0cts LARD, in bbls., Chat cts; in kegs
7a7acts. per h.
BUT1ER-Mounain, firkin, 14al7A cts. per h. for a
superior article; an ordinary article may be quoted at
to lie.
COFFEE-The same languor noticed in our last
weekly report prevails, with farther decline in prices
We notice small sales of La Guayra at 10 lOa; Rio 81
l0a; Marcaibo St, and Java at IA cents per lb.
MOLASSES-We note sales of New Orleans at
auction during the week. 25s 26 cts; Cuba 20 2Is
cts. per gallon.
FtAXSEED-s1 10-none arriving.
SUGARS-lhe quantity offering at auction has had
tendency TO depress the market We notice this week
adecllne OF to &c. on common grades. We now quote
New Orleans Al St cents, and Porto Rico At 81 cts
TEAs-lmperia and Gunpowder 35 cts 81 per h.
in fair demand.
CLOVERsEED-S4s a $4a per bushel, and dull
BEESWAX-22 to % cents per pound
HAY-N orthen-sales from landing at 10 to IS cts
.OlL-Winler SPERM bleached 100 cents; unbleached
10 CENTS whale % cents solar 60 Is cts; Lnseed
10 to 75c.; Tanners Oil l3i to II. Lard Oil 65c
COALl0 to Is cents per buslel; best Clover Hill IS
cents.
COTTON-Dull; last sales at u cents.
COTTON YARNS-1s a 20 cents
CANDLES-We quote tallow Candles llal2 cts.
Hus patent Ne; Paapsco adamantine IS cents nts;
sPemaceti 4s to a . cts Cincinnati adamanne 27a2s
FEATHER -32a33 cts. per lb. for geese
FlSfi-No. cut Herrings-none in first hands; retail
price S6aa6*; No gross 81 25a4 SO. MAckEREr--
No. l, $l3 3, $9-3, S. so. SnAD-S5aa6 dull
RlCE-3aa4 cents for prime
MERCER POTATOES-40 10 60 cents per bushel
and very dull.
HIDEs-Green sailed cts per h.; Calf sailed SIZE
to 81 each; Spanish 12aal4a cts.
lRON-Pig Iron $24 to $50, according to quality;
Swedes $95 per tom English $685. Tredegar Richmond
manuactory) 800 Up Country Bar $S5 to $751; accord
LUMBER-Clear white Pine, $33; refuse clear s27;
merchantable $6a20; refuse $12al5 per NJ; one inch
pine Plank from $l2 to Sl4 per NJ; three quarter inch
P go flank 80 to ss h0o5ng rough from SIS
al4-none in market weather boarding $l1 to Ia Dull
LIME-sales OF Thomaston at ST from the wharf.
p PLA y So 81 from the wharf; on the
SALl-None arriving; from store the price is ST. CO.
SOLE LEATHER-Good II to 1870 cts; damaged
SOAP-For brown cts; yellow 44a5 cents per H..
white and varegated Ia cts.
STEEL--Amerlcan blistered $40 per ton.
FREIGHTS.
Nothing doing in foreign freghts
New York-Flour, per Dbl, Is cts; coal, S cents
per bushel; tobacco ST. so per hid, boxes Is cts.
Boston-Flour rs cents; coal, none shipping; tobacco
per hid 81 so; boxes 90 cents.
Baltmore-Coal cents
Philade pha-Flour 20 cents tobacco So. per hhd.
10 cents tor boxes; coal 81 cents per bshe Philadelphia
measure
On THE CANAL-To Lynehburg and intermediate
places 10 cents per 100 lbs.
EXCHANGE.
FoREIGN-On London Sass per cent prem