Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-05-02
COMMERCIAL RECORD.
WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT,

WHOLESALE PRICES CURRENT,
CAREFULLY CORRECTED, FROM RELIABLE SOURCES,
FOR THE RICHMOND TIMES.
For the soeek ending Thursday Eueming, Nag LIST.
GENERAL REMARKS For the last week
business has been steady, without much activity
TOBACCO-There continues TO be good demand
for all descriptions Of new Tobacco and prices rathel
tending upwards. We quote Leaf common to
good 7A to $lla; fine manufacturing and stem-
ming $l2 to SIS; Iugs, inferior to good, 81 to ST.
READ Il BARKSDALES.
FLOUR-The market extremely dull and declining.
Last sales of Richmond at 81 "a; ScosvlIe 81 Co.,
a better demand for low grades, which bring more
than their propoftionae value.
WHEAT--Very little offering, and prices nominal
We quote Red and White at 81 81 O5 per bushel.
CORN-Supplies are coming in more freely We
quote sales at 63a65 cts. per bushel.
CORN MEALS TO so cents; boiled Meal 80
IS cts per bushel.
OATS.-We quote 40 a As cts per bushel Prince
Edward Island black seed Oats held at Use.
RYE-A good demand for distlling, at rs cents per
bushel Tor an extra prime article.
WHEAT OFFAL-Bran l2a cents; Shorts l6
cents Brown Stus Is cents; Ship Stutfs 40 cents per
GUANO-Peruvian s4s $50 per ton; Patagonian
BRANDY-Otard Dupuy & Co. So 50 SOFA
Peach dull at Sla$1 25 Va Apple Brandy, new 45a5o
old 62aa75 cents Northern IS. All high priced Brandes
very dull Of sale, the prices we give being merely
mnal.
WHISKEY-We quote Richmond rectihed at 24s
cts, in barrels; Cincinnati do. 25a25a cents-market
firm.
GIN-Amercan 2sa3o cts; Holland 81 81 25 per
PROVIsIONs-sm cured BACON 10 cents;
Baltimore cured sides held firmly al 9ac; shoulders
73c. City smoked sides selling at 9c shoulders TIA
7ac Joes 6a64c. LARD is scarce and in demand-n
bbls., 10! cts in kegs, l0aal03 cents per Id.
BUTTER-Mountain firkin, l7alS cts. per lb for a
superior article; ordinary article may be quoted at
COFFEE-The market dull, and declining We
quote Rio at .9aalO cts; Laguayra l0al04c Java Is
MOLASSEs-We note an advance in this article;
holders firm We quote safes of Cuba 2OAa2ls cents;
sweet now held at 22a23c, with small stock; New Or
leans firm at SO cents; Reboiled "a cts.
SUGARS-The market more active, with slight
advance. We quote N. O.5 a cents for common to
prime; strictly prime much wanted; Porto Rico 5a64c;
St. Croix 7ass cts.
FLAxsEED-.s,1 IS, and in demand.
TEAS-lmperial and Gunpowder 35c a 81 30 per ID.
CLOVERSEED-New s5a for prime. The sea-
son is over, and cur quotations are nominal.
EESWAX-Scarce, and would bring "a cents
per pound
HAY-Last sales from wharf at 75aso cts.
OIl-Winter sperm, bleached, ST. 3oa$l 35 UNI
bleached 81 25; whale 60 cents; solar 60 Is cts.
Lnseed 70 to 75c.; Tanners Oil IA to 81; Lard Oil
62a cts; Fall and winter IS cents.
COAL--10 to IS cents per bushel; best Clover Hill Is
cents.
COTTON-Sales at 1la1lt cents per lb.
COTTON YARNS-18 a 20 cents.
CANDLES-We quote tallow Candles l03al1 cts
HulPs patent lac. Jacksons do. l2c Patapsco ada
nantine 80 cts; spermaceti 43 10 A cts Cincinnati
FEATHERS-Sales at Sc cts. per lb. for geese
scarce, and wanted.
FIsH-No cut Herrings So rs, and dull; gibbed
do. $34a32; Herrings selling at Sc SO. Mac
KEREI-No. i, $ll; No. 2, $40; No 3, $4a4!; No. 4,
$54a6. SHAD--none in market.
RIGEm3a3a cents cent in, in good ;s! demand
NORTHERN lCE-We quote sales at 81 per ton
HIDES-Green sailed ST cts. per b.; alfsated 81
l2a each; Spanish 14al63 cts.
Swedes $95al0O per ton; English $5Oa55; Tredegar
Richmond mandatory $50; Country Bar -$s2AaS5.
Nails 81 81 cts. For fine Bar Iron and Nails, we
find the market depressed beyond all precedent.
LUMBER-Clear white Pine, $33a35; refuse clear
$29; merchantable $2Oa22; refuse $l2a15 per M one
inch pine Plank from $13 to SIC per M; three-quar-
ter inch pine Plank &c to sls ooreg rough from
Plank $l0al2; weather boarding $ll to ID.
L1ME-Sales from the wharf 81 12s; from store
81 25.
SOLE LEATIIER-Good II cents, damaged Ia
Is cents.
SALT-In good demand. Sales at 81 65 from
wharf, store 81 so.
SOAP--For brown cts; yellow Alas cents per h.
white and variegated 12al4 cts.
STEEL--American blistered $40 per ton.
SHOTS cents.
FREIGHTS.
Foreign Freights-But little doing; to Liverpool rs
shillings per HID; Is. Cd to IS per Dbl.
New York-Flour, per Dbl, 20 cts.; COAL ST cents
per bushel; tobacco, So per hid, boxes Is cts.
Boston-Flour IS cents; coal, none shippng tobacco
per hid SO; boxes 25 cents.
Batimore-Coal 3 cents.
Philadelphia rs cents; tobacco S2a per HID
90 cents for boxes coal 81 cents per bushe Philadelphia
measure.
On THE CANAL-To Lynchburg and intermediate
places, 10 cents per 100 lbs.
EXCHANGE.
FoREIGN--On London l0t per cent. prem.
DOMESTIC.
Savannah. do
Augusta ........... ...................l 40
tennessee -. $500
Alabama State Bank. .24do
Bank OF MODle. .....'.., ........'I 40
Silver .............. ...............@ PREM
New DIRK Checks. 4al do
fnadepnla :. ............ ........t al 40
N Carolina Bank N otes SUPERINTENDENT dis
LIVE STOCK MARKET
RICHMOND, May |, 1850.
BEEF CATTrE--Scale ,oeight-$2 IS to SO 25.
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