The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1855-07-20
DEPARTMENT. NEWS.


Wooaen Sta6s- Baoksksns.-The Far Trode.-Trade "a
Hides. Dressed her-Cioh Tra6ie.-FasAioaate and
Fancy Arces Half Sir Goods. Caiicoes Cotton Goods.
Eagh.A Goods.-Sik, and Sak Rbaads--Sa1oa Lace, De-
deExtraet Of letter from correspondent at Lepsic;
The critical political affairs the stagnaon of the
American business still continuing and the high price of all
dseourang influence both trade and industry, that
everybody looked forward to the Lepsc Easter Fair with
but very limited hopes.
sI therefore, the Of mercantile transactions up
this time bids fair 10 realize expectations which bat few
tured to entertain this lucky turn IN affairs viii be owing
the of buyers having forborne making
purchases whatever either wholesale retail thus
sonng sudden demand which must be satisfied at least IN
way other.
Buyers from Greece arrived in great numbers towards
" The avishly expended by the armies in the
tries bordering the Danube well in the Leyant,
brought about pretty brisk traffic there in spite of the
proximity of those countries to the seat of Buyers
from those countries made pretty large purchases especially
Of silk goods
The dealings the leather may considered
ended although the stocks of the extensive manuae
quite exhausted at least in the article OF
leather Prime kinds leather been
re disposed Of and it TO be hoped that the rest hand
will find purchasers.
The prices compared with those of the former fair
general have been pretty much the and H. here and
there less paid it because of the hides having been
tanned less perfectly 1t be regretted that this will not
suffice for the keeping of this important branch of indus
try the feathers of all kinds being high in price, and
the prices Of the material not duly proportional to those
of dressed hides.
of woolen stuis, buckskns, and the like goods in
fashion, there lack at the present fair though the guam
y of goods exposed for sale does quite that of
former fairs This likewise owing the high prices OF the
petty manufacturers because OF the low
price of their manufactures, having been able to manuac
ture either nothing ALL only what Indispensable
necessary the SALE the demands pretty brisk and
much has been sold throughout several weeks The most
important buyers at this time have from Italy Swzer
land Bavaria Hamburg, and the Maine, and
it, towards the middle Of the fair they began hold back
somewhat doubtless only because they wished to abate
the prices In this, however, they likely to be dsap
pointed.
Among the places that have sold largely till Fin
sterwade Forste Guben Cottbus, Spremberg, Grossen
hahn Bschoswerda and other small towns in saxony and
Prussia be menoned whereas the inferior woolen
STUFF Of sommerfeId do sell ALL there being pur
io TO two thaers paid for woolen tuis sold BY
es ga om for the ss oa y as
At the former fair for buckskns and fashionable
patterns This rise Of the prices howsvernataral and
the prices of woods, which have remained high.
1.-The fur trade at the present fair commenced rather
brsky owing to the purchasers from the Levant having
bought of all the goods suited to their climate and respective
countries Dressed urs however have not passed of with
the readiness most of the articles bringing high price,
and the stores being but scantily provided with them.
The dealings in inland urs the other hand were car
martens, martens Virginia foxes, and cats of all
kinds sold pretty brisky whereas otter and hare skins
The sale of Russian urs rather dull the supplies
having come in rather late and tardily
No great business done in buffalo hides this ar
ticle being much in demand all seapors high in price
and the supply but scanty.
Ayre hides and from twenty twenty thalers
per cw for hides from Porto Cabeo. Other kinds had not
n
India chaked hides in the market and the prime and mid
ding kinds 50 eagerly sought after that nearly the whole
stock sold for two haers than last fair Inferior
kinds not much in demand
hides were rather scarce the weather. pre-
enough for drying them. Saxon OK hides brought from
twenty-three to twenty five haers Prussan and Hanove
n sd 10 ws a ps Of from ~
pounds from 70 nswgrcshen per piece, weigh
Dressed although rather low by Wholesale
sold at about two thaers less than did last Michael
fair But this accidental reduction of prices found
to originate in the feathers having been tanned mperfecy
fallen bad habit Of bringing but conditioned and
second leather to the market hrst-rae well tanned
the second week Of this fair although from haers
paid for from "a to SO for the middling kind from
33 81 thaers for German leather and from 80 to 81
thalers for wild leather, (per cwt.)
The Wholesale supply of upper leather sold at the fol-
at from lo8 to III newgroshen leather made Of chalked
hides according to its better condition, at from ia
to II newgrohen brown calls leather AZ from l7 TO
sheep leather brought the old prices brown
horse leather was rather scarce and brought from 81 to 40
sole leather kept steady.
s'The traffic in cothwas carried to the end of April,
and the result is to be considered favorable Purchasers
had from the Levant and Switzerand the latter Of
whom had not equented the Lepc fairs for several
Even Americans made their appearance having previously
taken notice of the state of the market unobserved The
wool trade however, holding out any hopes Of speedy
abatement Of the prices Of the material
obliged buy and to high prices for goods in much de-
mand. Many orders, be realized in the OF next
summer, gven and only manufacturers OF qualities
pointed with this fair, although the American purchasers
displayed great activity Of the supply of cloths buckskin
and similar sns estimated at about zoe pieces about
three-fourths said to have been sold
Other wooen goods, too, for instance, merinos and
hibes gera and grez sold pretty large quantities. with
out however, enhancing the former prices Among the
goods manufactured in Saxony the socnlled poll de chrre
drew special attention. much that nearly all the stock
OF the superior qualities went off at pretty good prices
Other kinds of fashionable and fancy articles cash
meres tane, 6c not in great demand and The
prices especially of the former exceedingly low, partially
owing the circumstance that the commodity in question Is
frequently in part wholly nothing but cotton in reality and
cashmere only in name.
"Of halsk fancy goods in the manufacture of which
Chemnitz in Saxony especially exces patterns sold
and Of inferior quality brought only very low prices The
traffic in Chemnz cotton, half woolen entirely woollen
damasks but tng although the latter bid fair to
be exported to considerable amount.
Calicoes usual at the Easter Fair went of brkly,
steady prices and the sellers of the socaled
Saxon white goods from the Vogand have
be satisfied with the present fair The trade in cotton
stockings and socks, however, is still at standstl nor
dealers in them the end OF the fair succeeded in dis
posing of quantities whatever the American commercial
crisis still exerting its influence this article.
The dealers English manufactures had pretty good
fair. They entirely the late arrival Of many Mol
dsvians and Wallachians, as also of Poles.
"Sks, silk ribands, and the like, had, comparavel
speaking, pretty good sale.
the latter Of the fair the number of pur-
Poles increased BY the arrival of customers from other
quarters Of the globe making large purchases in silks woods
and fancy articles.
Saxon lace babe fair sell well in the beginning did
linen and linen suIs for gentemens clothing
However, there being exports their sale was but slight