The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-17
Treasury Department, Registers Office,
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD.
Prices and sales of Stocks in Nsw FORK.
BY TELEGRAPH
trough WIN. FISHER 4 Son, Stock and Bill Brokers'
BALTIMORE MARKETS.

THURSDAY December 16
EXCHANGE.-Rates for Exchange remain yerv firm
and sterling bills shade better Only small business
has been done in Exchange for todays steamer in conse
quence of the scarcity bills We quote TODAY az fol-
lows, viz: Bankers bills on London at 1O9k GlO9&;
Commercial do at l09GlO94 Paris 60 days sight ST. l3
do. short sight 81 TO- Antwerp ST l5 amsterdam Al !.
bremen f9& Hamburg 364 Cologne 72T; and Frank
fort AN. '
CoFFEE.-CoGee continues in good demand and We
note sale to-day of 600 bags good Rio 'Banshee"
to go West at II Sales also at auction of loo bags
Maracabo Coffee at sll 9OG121O and bags common
Laguayra do at Sl1 100 lbs The Banshee which ar
rived yesterday, brings cargo of 5000 bags of coffee
Holders of Coffee still firm in their views but there is
We continue to quote Rio at l11 for fair IL cts
for good, gl2 cts for prime Laguayra 12dl3 cts
and Java at kd154 cts The stock here to day excl
sive of the 1000 bags sold, is about 5000 bags
FLOuR.-There is a better inquiry for Flour to-day
an improvement in the general tone of the market.
Prices are however unchanged We have reported TODAY
sales of 900 bbls Howard Street Super at So 12b 500
bbls do on private terms but understood tobe lit
tie lower rate 100 bbls City Mills do at S5 900 bbls
Ohio Extra at s537h $50 bbs choice Howard Street do
at Sc; and 1000 bbls. City Mills do. at sc 25 per Dbl
There nothing done in Ohio Super but for both this
description and Howard Street holders were firm at the
close s5l2A for good brands We quote standard Citv
Mills do steady at $5 per bb For Extra Flour there Is
good demand and we quote it firm SIS 81 for Ohio;
$3.50 for regular brands Howard Street and s6I2%
Gg625 per bb for City ills Rye Flour is steady at "a
and quote Corn Meal 81 for Baltimore and s412I
per bbl for Brandywine.
FAMILY FLOUR.-We have no change to note in the
rates for Family Flour 1t is still selling in lots to the
trade at 81 90 for Baltimore ground 81 for Old Dominion
GRAIN.-Grain in fair supply this morning the
receipts of the various descriptions adding up about
10000 bushels. They include 5000 bushels Wheat
900 bushels Corn, 800 bushels Oats 45O bushels
Rye For Wheat there brisk demand, and prices
for it some3 to cts per bushe higher on yes
terday Whites sold at 123(d 100 ordinary TO fair
l33G145 cts for good to prime, 147 150d155 cts for
choice the latter figure being paid fJr 900 bush
very superior we quote reds as ranging from lis
to l25 cts for fair to prime parcels Corn also in
good demand, and white sold at an advance Most of
the Corn offered changed hands at 63 cts for mixed 639
Nts dam 1yaIIauy and EE,-n
Tor good to prime dry do There nothing done in
Rye and the only sale of Oats reported of 1000
bushels at 45 We quote Rye at ~ cts
Tor Maryland "a cts. for Pennsylvania and Oats at 42G
a cts for Maryland, and 43d45 for Pennsylvania
MoLASSES-There has been considerable done to-day
i Inc sales by the brokers include 300 hhds
tart Cuba to go to New York on private terms and rs
new oroP new orleans at 81 cts and we note also
and of 122 bbls crop New Orleans Moasses At from
81 to 80 cts New Orleans may be quoted ranging
from 81 to 80 cts We quote Cuba Molasses nominal at
22(923 cts for cayed 24G26 cts for Muscovad Eniish
Island do. at 2)G26 cts, and Porto Rico do at o630
PRovISIoNS.-Provsions are quiet and the market; "a
certainly heavy, with decided tendency lower rates
The East has yet the indications are that -
will not respond to the feeling in the West in relation t
Provisions and the movements there have failed create
any decided speculative dem and for Provisions in the A.
anc cities We have reported day sales 900 lbs
Bulk Shoulders and Sides a6 and So 60 days which
IS decline of and also of 80 hhds do private terms
put understood to be at decline Bacon is
There are, however few sales making X
Shoulders and OK for Sides We note a sale OF 100
ess FORK at SLID and we quote prime do at Sl4
per Dbl Beef steady at S2 for No. l. and SIS per bill
or Mess Lard duh at 10k cts for Butchers and 103
Gus lo prime City and Western Leaf Slaughtered Hogs
are seng at S625 1850 per 100 lbs Butter and Cheese
are oui' put we have change to note in the quota
tions.
RlCE-fhere comparatively little doing in Rice but
e hahet loI unchanged, and continue to quote
IL as ranging from to 3S cts common to prime
here were aes tody at auction for account of the
derwrters of so erces damaged Rice at 22% cts per
lb. " s9-|S ~ P
SUGARS Sugars in fair demand and the market
for them is generally unchanged. Messrs Lennon 4
Brogden sold today at auction IO3 hhda nau cron New
Orleans at from 81 so to As 25 hbds nba ~ 25
and note also sales by private contract of 2 hbds new
crop New Orleans at SS7 4dS25 Sugars NAV be ouoted
steady at the following rates viz: s6G6 20 for refining
styles Cuba 81 25s25 for fair to prime Porto Rico and
81 SOFAS so for fair to prime new crop New Orleans
SALT-LverpoO Salt is selling at 90 cts for
Ground Alum 1876 for Marshas and Jeffrey Darcy,s
hne and 145 per sack for Ashton do. 1t good de
mand at these figures Turks Island Salt may be quoted
teady at Is cts per bushel aoat, but from store it
IS bringing higher price.
sEEDS.-We have no transactions to note to day in
oeeas The market is however unchanged and quote
AZ before Coverseed at So 5O55 for fair to prime Tim
bushel. anu N " %-''Si'' pei
:. WHISKY Y-Whskey is in fair demand and we quote
AZ ~ 200 Tor both City and Ohio We note sales to-
6 ~ % CO.. ps OF the latter description at the above
do. is also light ' " ie '"PP'' " INV
Bdlt BAtTlMoRE CATTLE MARKET. Dec. 1e-CArrLE.
. Calie were IN good supply again today but the
market Tor them and beavy alhouab ba soIes
were made at about last weeks ratss NJ eg; @ t
the scales reached 1900 head 100 of which sent 70
w were LETT over unsold $50 were sold to
ranging from So to $475 gross the att AT prices
lot OF fine heavy Cattle for the Pb;Iadaih; Icing loI
The average of the sales to-day was a. w or srhe'
H's"-lhs receipts OF Live Hogs have for some days