The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-07-19

noticed in last still continues. The imporations
It'll continue large, and the stocks now held by
.obbers are large and very complete in the variety
of assortments. The hotels contain large number
of country merchants, but owing to the excessive
heas of the weather many Of them pass on to cooler
retreats to the North and Eastward, deferring to
make purchases until their return from the watering
places. The wholesale clothing houses have been
the most employed in getting in stocks and in MAX
ing more less sales TO dealers from the distant
trade of the West and South. Accounts from Wis
consin and other grain growing Western States
represent times to be hard and money scarce. In
many Of the towns discounts on loans ranged from
q a3 per cent month. The consequences are that
good many failures have been reported in that
direction. The country at large, however, is pros
porous, and the crops Of grain cotton, &C., with
some exceptions, are quite promising. The charac-
ter of the wheat, as general thing, will prove OF
superior quality. In Virginia and other Southern
States the crop has been gathered and is selling in
this market at 81 67 for red and 81 20 for fair white
The harvest is in rapid progress in the middle
States, and the berries are rpening fast in the
Genessee Valley, and promise this year to be saved
in good condition. 1t is probable that this season
shall have more good -four, and less inferior or
common. than we had last year, and less specula-
ton; and the dry goods trade with the West pro-
misses to be more healthy for the future, If not 80
large Reports from Manchester, by the Niagara,
represent an improved trade at frmer prices.
There is q prospect that staple goods may rule
higher during the fall trade. Be this as it may, no
one anticipates that they are to be any lower.
The jobbers chiefly engaged in the Southern trade
are in the expectation of heavy business from that
direction. The supply of cotton from the last crop
was the largest in the history of the country and
realized good prices. The effect has been to make
money plenter at the South, but it has also en-
HANGED the prices Of improved lands and labor to
such an extent Is to render the profits from newly
established plantations much less. The capacity or
ability of the people to consume goods, however,
has been greatly advanced. This trade is becoming
more divided in this direction. It is more the Gus
tom for New York jobbing houses to establish
branches in Charleston, Savannah and New Or
leans, "a was done by Parrish Halbrook & Co., who
succeeded in making fortunes. 1t generally re
qures much larger capital to do business with the
South because ii is customary to give six or twelve
mouths' credit and sometimes longer period, while
with the West and Northwest the business Is
more distributed and the paper Of shorter dates
given in payment for goods. Since the news has
reached here of the settlement Of difficulties be-
tween Spain and Mexico the demand for cotton
goods for export TO the latter has been revived,
and the chief shipments Of the past week have
been made TO Tampico and Vera Cruz. The next
largest shipments have been made to China. The
exports for the week ending the 18th July amounted
to SIG packages, valued at $4s,o2s. The total man,
Der of packages since the first Of January have
been "a 273 against Is, s57 for the same time last
year Boston, since the first of January has shipped
q, 4l3 packages against l4,s26 for the same time
the past year. Heavy brown shirtings and sheet
ngs rule at &c., and light standards at &c. 7ac.
Bleached were dull. Drills we're firmly held at Sc.
for brown. SIC. for bleached, and 9ic. for blue.
Other descriptions Of domestic goods were without
change Of moment In prices. Prints are in aban-
dant supply and in great variety Of styles orpatterns
being mostly Of large figures, to meet the prevailing
taste The Providence Journal OF this week says Of
printing cloths In that market The demand is
active and sales are limited by the short supply The
following are the sales for the week:ll 900 pieces,
s4x64, Sic; 5000 do. 60xSs Sc; $500 do, 6Ox6s,
private terms 1000 do, 60x6s, So. 900 do, COX
81, Sc; $500 do, 60x64 5tc 900 do, 80x64, pri
vate terms; 5000 do, 56x64, &C.. 1900 do, 56x56,
private TERMS 900 do, 62x66, 4}c. Total, ~ 300
pieces. Cotton duck was In good demand, and hold
ems firm, though prices were unchanged. Foreign
goods were steady with moderate sales 70 merchants
from Philadelphia, Baltimore, &c. The Independent
gives the jobbing house referred TO last week a.
havpg failed In the names OF Richards d McHarg,
Of this city.