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this table it will be that prices have ucuated
considerably, and that they ruled higher in May than
any other period during the In the early part of
1857 there quite active demand for Provisions for
export England and large sales of Boxed Mildes and
Singed Bacon made for this purpose but during the
past year there has been little English demand and
shipments have been made from this port and very few
other There has however been the usual West
India demand and the export thence from this port last
year embraced about ll00O bbs Pork 1900 bbs Beef;
100000 lbs Hams l,5000 lbs Lard 350O0 lbs Butter;
and 100000 lbs Cheese Few not directly con
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ANNUAL. COFFEE CIRCULAR.
1858. 1857 1856
bags. bags. bags.
Imports of Coffee from Ro...l9i,06l l9372s 1881
Do. do other ports l6,li1 5,7ll 16,iSI
Do. do c0aStwiSe... 1894 2026 54lS
Total. al....................2l74n2 2OI,i65 2l7,736
Increase of imports compared with bags
Stock hand this day of Rio 1890
Do. do. do. other descriptions $40 '
Total. 4,JO "
Stock on hand same period dlS57................6,5N
Do. do. do. 1856. .25ttU -
Decrease of stock as compared with 1900
DO. 1886. ..Nl-bO
MONTHLY SALES, AVERAGE CARGO PRICES STOCK OF
Rio COFFEE MONTH IN 1855
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ANNUAL REVIEW
TRADE AND COM MERGE
OF i BALTIM O f,
FOR THE YEAR 1858.

The following statement has been prepared with great
and submit it readers with the confidence that they
will find it to contain complete and review of the
business of Baltimore for the year just closed. The satis
cal tables and the remarks accompanying them present.
clearly, all the information which the intelligent merchant
can desire in reference any given branch Of trade that any
further explanation is unnecessary We cannn
however, omit the expression of qualification at the
general deluction-whc must be drawn by all-that, in
spite of the and mslorunes which have followed
the great crisis of 1851, Baltimore S we'll maintained her
high commercial reputation, and that her present condition.
well her future prospects, compare very favOrby with
those of oil large cities
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r. IS5j--lI-- IS5G- r. IS51--Ilr-Is5SN
FROM hhdsI bbS IhhdS. hhS .hhdS bhlS. hds. bbs.
Louisiana % g29 I39ig 40 1916 1862
Cuba 3S4 ......N 2.Gj6l S5 527G 653I 56S l,s60
Porto Rico 392 I'll l.j2S 76 LOIS .... l3l
F.. Islands 42iI 15I 2.I3i I9S 32O2 ..... SlGl
Coastwisc lOO2I l,GSl l7H 9STI 27S9l 1896
Total. 1900 2OO6 1899 Il6,79I I5Sli5S 7OeI lS52S
Most of the Molsses received has gone into consmpon
but the market has at time been active and prices
will be by reference to the table which publish be
low. have ruled at much lower rates than i'll 1881 New
Orleans MolasseS has sold for months consider
ably higher than the opening of the year, but in
other varieties there has been very material change The
for all varieties closed ul The stock of MOlasseS
the 3ls December embraced CO.. hds, $50 puncheons
lI6 ticrCeS, and l622 bbls.
A TAGLE TUE AVERAGE PRICES OF MOLhssEs EACH
MONTH DURING YEARS 1857 AND 1858:
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We have prepared table, which will be found below, of
the foreign exports of Flour from Baltimore for five years
past The European exports it will he fell off consider
ably last but note considerable increase in the
ports Brazil and the West Indies The aggregate amount
of the is 25226 hbl than i'm 1857. The coast
wise shipments doubtless equal they do exceed those Of
former years, but have data in relation to this branch
of the trade.
EXPORTS OF FLOUR FROM BALTIMORE FOR THE LAST FIVE
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Included in the above total the following: In 1915,
ESQ hhds shipped to St Petersburg; 1916, 7 hhds do 1919,
53 hhds do, 1880 l6 hhds to St Petersburg, and 2l2J
SPAIN 1851, G02 hhds St Petersburg l5l hhds
Spain and lI5 hhds Hamburg 1852, 23 hhds Pc
tShurg, and 61S hhdS. to Hamburg; in 1853 99i hids
HAMBURG 1851 $50 hhds Virginia Genoa and $50 binds to
West Indian and other ports 1856 $3.50 hhdS West In
dian and other ports 1857 2iS hhds West Indian and
other ports, and in 1855, 359 hhds the West Indies and
Africa
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IS55@ll--I IS5G-Il--- IS57--I--- 1855
FROM hhds bbls hhdS. bills Uhhds. bhls "hhds. BIB
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1t is stated that DILL will be introduced in the
Pennsylvania Legislature, lat the coming session,
thorizng the extension of the Sunbury and Erie
Railroad from Sunbury to Harrisburg, on the west
side Of the Susquehanna river.
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COTTON TRADE.

IOtal.. ."o-"""
fillmore, Dec. 3lst 1858. WHITE n ELDER
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THE IMPORTS OF HIDES FOR THE PAST Ten YEARS ARE AS

lEATHERRather light demand existed for Leather dur
ing the first six months of the year. and little profit
ced the tanners of whom had purchased hides
high the previous During the past months,
however quite active demand has been eXpeencc and
i'll the month of November the large purchases made by
Eastern manufacturers, who within the month bought to the
extent of coon Sides OF the qualities caused
quite improved condition of the market and in
compensated tanners for the dunes of the
trade The late heavy demand has nearly swept the
bare and the stocks in hands of dealers exceedingly
meagre The Leather manufactured in Baltimore and its
vicinity enjoys high reputation with Eastern Buyers
its quality, and the probabilities strong thai those
gagged in it will enjoy profitable the present
than the past We quote the following the closing
prices Of the year City slaughtered 2@@32 cts country do
2kG3 cts rough Skirting 2gdS3 cts Spanish sole 2Sd3l
cts city harness leather, black S3t cts country do
80 cts. upper in rough hide $3GS cfskns $l3GSO per
dozen, and finished do $2UG3O.
No. of Sides of Leather inspected in Baltimore during
Do in Frederick City. 5000
Total. 90 OW
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O5 per bb sales being made at these rates in June but
appearance Of Fish in July, prices dropped of
So t. 80 per biol In August however, prices advanced
again and for the last three months they have been
steadily improving, and No iiack.re closed firm at 81 15te
IL per bh! We below table O the prices OF MacGcrcl
for two years past
Prices OF MACEEREL FOR 1851 AND lS5S:
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1853. 1856. !. 1857. ls5s:

There has been considerable ucuation in prices during
the past The spring prices were very low, but
August last the market may he quoted as above
INSPECTIONS OF MARYLAND ONO TOBACCO FOR THE
EIGHTEEN YEARS:
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INSPECTIONS OF CORN MEAL AND RYE FLOUR FOR LAST
EIGHTEEN YEARS:

The commercial revuon OF checked almost entirely
the tendency speculation in this, well other articles
of merchandise, and but few transactions of this character
took place There however throughout the year fair
export and good consumptivc demand for Flour the latter
being doubtless stimulated by the low price which ruled
but the market time exhibited any very special activity
The market will be hy the table of prices below has
been by unusual degree Of steadness and
uniformity in the Prices have varied very little the
difference between and highest point year
being only 81 per Dbl.
TABLE OF THE PRICES OF FLOUR AT THE CLOSE OF EACH
lS5S:
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A TABLE THE PRICES WHEAT, Corn AND RYE
CLOSE 1883

Wheat q bushel. 4 Corn y bushcll Rye.
,ATEs. ,---JC----IE---
White. | Red. White. yellow II q bus.
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bags bags. bags. bags
from Ro..............24SS9 1881 l9S,72S lqi06l
'rom other ports. 1851 2l,g05 7,T37 234il

Total. 266,76O 2l7,736 2o465 2l75O2
the main increase being in other descriptions, principally
laguayra and Java Cote,. The financial difficulties in the
fall of 1857 caused very heavy decline in Coffee and Rio
opened last at low rates, good carg0e being sold
during January and the early part of February at 9Q9k
cts lb but during February prices advanced i ofa
cent lb and in March sales of made l0
M05i cts, and some prime invoices brought lIGll9 cts
In April and for several months subsequently, the market
ruled quite steadily at from 1919 to IL for fair prime
lots of Rio Within the last month Coffee has been
active and sales have been made at higher than
at any time previously during the year number Of
crgoes of Rio have been sold at III II Gll cts round
and prime invoices have brought 5ed1li and
sales have been made high l. per b. these figures
being of about 20 per cent the opening prices
The stock at the opening of the about $4,000 bags
hut by the middle of March ii reduced less than
bags and since that time the stock has rarely exceeded 10000
bags, and il has generally been under that The
the market the close of the year only about
5000 bags For Iaguayra Coffee prices have ranged mt from
IL to l3A and for Java do. from Az l7
but the former description closed at l2G2G cts and the
latter at l4l@CGl5& cts. per lb.
large proportion of the Coffee received here is sold
to to the West and may state in this connection that
Coffee can he shipped from Baltimore Cincinnati at Is
per 100 lbs less than from New York Some action has
Gently been taken by the importers Coffee here, well
in New York and Philadelphia, in relation dscontinun
the allowance, formerly made of two and it
has resulted in the importers entering into agreement
which has been acqugSced in by the tradeto allow, from
and after the lS Of January 1882 per cent Bra
Z Coffee, but make allowance formerly sceage
We have been kindly furnished by MeSSrS White X Elder,
Coffee Brokers, with copy of their annual circular which
publish below:
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At the beginning the past year middng Upland was
selling lOl cts and months but prices soon after
advanced and continued improve until the month of May
when they reached l3@l4 cts decline Of about cent
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SALT TRADE.

There was considerable increase in the receipts at this
port year of Liverpool salt, but slight falling of
in the receipt of other descriptions will be by the fol
lowing statement the imports here for four years past
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sill


The last named cargo arrived here only days since
The price early III the for lots of 800 tons and upwards
$50 and for lots of loo $40 but suse
quenty advanced 10 $40 far of 500 and for lots Of
100 tons, ut which prices is now held
MEXICAN HUATO.-Thcre was II material falling off last
year in the imports of this description The deposits known
Brown Mexican have been nearly exhausted but dis
covere being made which will doubtless enable the trade
to meet the demand This Guano has ruled steadily at from
$ll to SI per for caEoes b;k, and S2 & per
in bh for the quality known IA Inferior qualities have
sold ut from So t" 81 per below AA The imports of Me
Guano for 1888 2 tons, and the stock hand
is about 1920 tons.
NEyASSA OR COLOMBIAN GUANo.The importation of this
phosphate Guano has greatly increased within past year,
and it meets with active demand The price of this
Guano established by the Philadelphia Gun0 Company
for quantities of to 10 tons 50 and for 80 tons and upwards
50 per ton The imports amount to 1885, tons.
SOHBRERO GUAN0This Ghano, like the Nevassa, is in
ceasng in favor and both extensively used by the
ufacrcrS of Manipulated Guauo of the large
centage of phosphate of lime which they possess The price
of this descriptions established by the agent here, is $S
50 for cargocs in a crude $dS0 per ground
and in bags. The imports last year 9I9 tons
PATAGoSIAN GUANoThe price for this description so
ton There 6S tons imported here last year, but there
is now in market.
How
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it has been applied wheat time during
past season Farmers who have used it their
speak very highly Of it. The imports Of it into New York
last exceeded 010 TONS but there have been only
clrEoes received here, viz:
Cargo per Empress of the Seas tons
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PRICE TWO CENTS

years Throughout great part Of the year Whkey ruled
at below the cost OF production, and dSmg
necessarily losing business The regular trade was Orhi
nary prosperous, but the general business was y no means
successful as it year two ago We give below
table of the receipts and production Whskey and also
table Of the prices for two years past:
Production AND RECEIPTS RAW WmsEEY INTO BALTI-
MORE PAST -Four lEARs:
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The warehouse system prevailing i'm this State strong
inducements to planters to send their product to this Market
as the diminished expenses attending its receipt will proba
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WOOL TRADE.

There very large falling off in the receipts here last
year of Wool of foreign growth, and considerable decrease
in the receipts of domestic Wool the aggregate decrease
of both descriptions amounting lbs, which
7000 lbs. than the entire receipts of the year
We give below statement of the receipts Wool for
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Wool opened at low figures. but for several
has been gradually but steadily mproying and the closing
prices were some % cent higher than those which pre-
vailed at the opening Of the year The opening
follows, viz: For unwashed Wool lSG2O cts pulled 21 y
cts; common TO quartcrbood fleece 2S30 quarter
alfbood do SI@S cts; threeq fun blood
40 cts extra i2 cts and the closing quotations
unwashed 25d 26 cts No pulled S cts pulled mcrino
SSa6 cts ubwashed 3cd37 cts; to quarter-b
fleece SsG6 cts quarter TO halfbOod do a4O cts half
m blood do 4Na 10 Cts three to fan blood
of Wool last considerably less in all Wool
countries than for several years previously and the advance
III has been occsone partly by its general scarcity and
partly by the increased demand for it for manufacturing
purposes. The WOolen manufacturers have through the
greater part of the been doing pretty good
Most of the goods produced have been sold at fair and e
ally remuneativc prices and the manufacturers are ec1
aged by the continued demand for Nonllen ialrcS ne
high rates for Wool have however Somew checked le
production goods and should Wool continue to
without corresponding Improvement in the rates Tor the
manufactured article which there is think, little pro
babty, may result in TIE soppage Of large proportion
%. WnlIa nunla
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Total.............2lSOS5 Is6.3n 1880 ls5,51;
hus. bus bus bus.

sacks. sacks. sacks. sacks.
Liverpool-drect. l9153I lSI6lO l23+H3 li266
% cOastwiSe... 2154 4G7I lin}2 l2.72g
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HIDE AND LEATHER TRADE

IDEsln the early part Of the year the sales of Buenos
Ayres Hides made 222 cts, but prices afterwards
ruled higher sales being made in October 25G The
active demand for Leather which experienced during
the past two three months, caused further advance and
note sales i'll December high % At the close of
the year the quotations for the various descriptions as
follows:
HutnoS ~ res. ..295.t2. Gus
Porto tabellO (none in maTket)......22 @22@ 3
ltN slaughtered. 9adlOt3 -
Wet Country Slaughtered. ska 9j4 g
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TOBACCO TRADE.

The past year exhibits marked difference from the high
prices obtained all descriptions Tobacco during pre-
cedng of 1885, when rates ruled higher an for many
previous years. the average being estimated about So
while the sales Of 1858 average Of about Sc per
100 lbs, prices showing but little uctuaon throughout the
entire year The market the beginning Of the year opened
IL closed the preceding ull but the spring
advanced and the Of communication, both by water
and by land, became unobsuced quite active demand
sprang up which continued with but little nermssion till
towards the middle Of November when shippers having
completed their purchases the European markets the
demand almost entirely subded and since then the trans
actions have been quite unimportant 1t is supposed that
the crop of 1858 will fall very of that Of the pre-
yious year which quite large and down
about hhds The following is considered TO he
fair estimate of the present years growth this staple
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Total.
The advantages of Baltimore boot and shoe market
have been fully realized, by her people
The city is favorably located for carrying
sve trade being the direct line OF travel from north to
SOUTH the very door of the manufacturing States and
possessing unusual facilities both by land and for the
receipt goods. The location is healthy,
moderate, provisions reasonable in price and
abundant quantity while the engaged extensively
business generally provided with ample means.
which she possessed, the deficiency is more than made
up by the increased southern CUSTOM In lS5 the sales TO
North Carolina few and small while present they
large numerous, and the may said of South
Carolina and Georgia The Tennessee trade also forms
important item and is steadily increasing.
As is the with the obher in all branches of trade at
this of the year. Boot and Shoe houses having
quiet time The business for November and the early
of December compares vorahy with that of last year i'll
amount, while the sales have been confined to dcSr
be class of customers The demand for goods at this Of
the chiefly from the southern and southwestern
country Orders from the west generally for small
amounts and few in number Upon reviewing the business
for 1858 in this city, especially when take into conSer
is gratifying find that the Boot and Shoe dealers
have experienced slight falling off in the demand for
goods in their line, and that their sales for the will
nearly equal the best of former years 1t should also be
Boot and Shoe merchants that
amidst the ercest of the financial troubles within the
past eighteen months, of them Succumbcd the
overwhelming disasters of the times The stock of work in
the hands of the Ober and commission merchants has been
red Our manufacturers have been busy the past
months getting ordered work, chiefly for home
sumption. The durability and adaptation to the of
the people has created steady demand from the interior
country, whose merchants drawing their supplies
from this Market and glad to learn that this demand
increasing Baltimore work to take the lead of all
other produced, and think that she is destined
to hold additionally important position III the Shoe trade
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..I.-FI.
WHEATFor the past two years the receipts of Wheat at
Baltimore have been decreasing. In 1857 they about
lU9 bushels less than in the previous year, and the
ceipts last fell 100000 bushels below those 1851
The two past have also been much inferior in quality
to that raised in 1856 The crop Of 1857 badly damaged
by the wet weather which prevailed during the
months and the crop last year considerably injured by
rust, and other The export demand for Wheat last
quite imed the total amount of the foreign ship
mens being only about l30O bushels In the exports
of heat from baltimore amounted to nearly l0DO bush
els There has however been the usual demand for milling
purposes and coaSwse shipment BY the table of prices
which publish below it will be that Wheat has
through the yr been steadily imprnvinp in price
since harvest it has ruled much higher than during
the former part Of the year The quotations given would
remark for fair to prime qualities, and they do not in
cude inferior Wleats Of which large amount received
We subom statement of the receipts Of Wheat and its dis
position:
Wheat. Bushels.
" Z,b
Which has been disposed of follows:
Shipped cOaStwse.. 5s6,TS4
Shipped to foreign I2i.S,5
Stock ON hand. 100000
2672,g09
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Total sales for consumption in 2t2 900 bags
lS5I...............l6l l6l.GW "
les,o.. .22o|Hp
Increase of sales compared with lS5i...... 5 222
lSJ5.......... l6,222 :"
EXPORTS OF COFFEE RIO UNITED STATES FEoa
NOVEMBER lsT, 1857, TO NOVEMBER lsT, 1855:
To Baltimore: :'..'.................. ii5yS52 bags
New ! 3rk:........'............. S2j,9iJ
fhllade iil;i. .e.3S
New Orleans. S35tD :"
Other ports. S9,lS5
Total al........................I,N23A3
Exports for period 56, 5I..l,l0 9S32
Total exports from Rio to [, s. in 1851. s5s272
DO. do. do 1856. .l,l6l,ll3
Bags.
Estimated stock Of Coffee at Rio Nov. 10, 1853 10000
Do this day in all the seaports of the L. = 60fN0
Do period in 1857. 2AisW
Decrease of stock this year. .Ziu'"Vo
Estimated receipts of Brazil Coffee into United
reshpments TO Europe. lIHOD
Sales for consumption in 1888. ,5t0WD
lS5i S5i.....................''. 9oON1 ot.SV9
Increase as comparad with 1s57.......... 10000
The immense increase in the consumption of Brazil Coee
in the United the last twelve months, and the
responding advance in the value of this staple-w,ch
about twenty-five per cert the lowest point Rio
well in all the consuming marketshaye exceeded the cal
culaons of the most sanrne votarie of the trade
the United States would hereafter require than m0iey
Of the entire Brazilian product exceeding the demand for
Europe and all the rest of the world combined.
The estimated stock Of Rio Coffee the seaboard is rs
follows:
AT baltimore e...................... 4WO bags
PHILADELPHIA. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4WD =,
New 1ork......................-.. BOO
New Orleans ................-...i :.
Other ports i'No
Total. 10000 "
Baltimore Dec 3Ist, 1855 WHITE ELDER.
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EIQIR AND MEAL, TRADE

Total receipts in 1886. .H6.9Sl tons.
DO. IN lS5l.. .4l3.IS2 -
Do. in 1855. .3S,60T ''
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We also prepared statement of the monthly receipts
of Flour into Baltimore via the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
The receipts by this composed principally of
Howard Street and Ohio Flour and they show that consider
able quantities Of these descriptions are warded from here
to other points, without passing through the hands Of the
inspectors.
A STATEMENT OF MONTHLY RECEIPTS or FLOUR INTO
BALTIMORE VIA THE BALTIMORE ONO RAILROAD FOR
YEARS 1856, iS5, AND 1858:
75=.=7 i5== I7.55=T 755s : iS5==IISsS=
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FROM NEBRAsKA.-The Oadhd NebrdsEidn, VS.
that Tecumseh Fontenee, a chief of the Omanas,
has been murdered by Lewis Neil, quarter-bred.
Tecumseh had many friends and was probably the
most influential chief in the tribe. His death has
caused great mourning, and apprehensive that
the citizens of Decatur will scarcely be able to pro-
tect Neil from the fury of the tribe. To add to
their embarrassment, Col. Wilson, agent for the
Omahas is absent, and the Indians not having re-
ceived their payment are made more furious by
the fancied neglect, and will consequently be less
easily controlled.
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Innans OF sraAa Axn Mo.ns 1xro BAlr1MonE rnoa rnE

IMPORTS OF SUGAR AND MoLAssEs INTO BALTIMORE FROM
LOUISIANA FOR THE LAST NINETEEN YEARS, FROM JANU-
AIRY lsT IN TO 3lsT DECEMBER:
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MONTHS N - nj > IbI IN - III N . = III