The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-28
REVIEW OF THE
BALTIMORE MARK ETS
FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 27.


Alcohol but is lower in price, and qeoe it to day
nominal at 5s cts gallon for Western 95 per cent In
retail lots it is selling at 5s60 cts for So and 6062 cts
per gallon for 95 per cent
ALE AND PORTER-We continue to quote Scotch
Ale in pints at 81 62H Gl.75 and London Porter and
Brown Stout in pints at 81 .62h d1.75 per dozen.
BREAD Bread is steady at the advance noted a
week or two since, and quote Navy at cts Pilot at
5h cs and Water Crackers at 6H cts per H., less the
Usual discount.
BEESWAX.-We hear of no transactions worth noting
in this article quote it firm at SO 39 cts per lb
BRIMSToNE-We heard yesterday of a sale of 25 tons
crude Sicily Birthstone on private terms 1t is generally
held at s47 per ton
S23dA per ton for No. o. b. There has been some
inquiry for it and note sales of some so within
this range We note also sale of 20 tons No. Bark at
SIS per ton +. o. b.
C0TTON.-The demand this week from spinners has
been fair the sales amounting about $50 bales midding
to mdding fair Upland and Gufat from l24 to l3E cs
six months Prices improved about cent in the early
part of the week and the market having become more
settled are enabled to give something like reliable
quotations There have however been no transactions
that advised of since the receipt of the Asias
Thursday The stock hand is about $500 bales
We quote follows:
GRADES. UPLAND. GULF. - WESTERN
Middlins Fair is 9l33 is19is1 l8 ai34
COFFEE-The Coffee market this week has been quiet
and rather heavy, especially for the low grades of Rio
of which the stock here is msnly composed The sales
this week add about 1900 bags and they include 500
bags Laguayra the cargo of the Peerless, II 2
round $50 bags damaged and Rio at 1OA cts,
300 bags rejected do at II cts 600 bags medium grade
sound do at l@4 cts, and 900 bags fair to good do
at llkG1l4 cts. We quote Coffee to day at 1Oh6l14
cts for common and medium Rio; IL cts for fair do
11AG12 for good to prime do; II %G124 cts for La
import this week of 1850 bags Rio per brig 'Helen'
25S5 bags Laguayra sc Peerless and of 1S9 bags
Coffee from Boston. The stock of Coffee in first and
cond hands to day is about 10000 bags.
CANDLES.-Candes still duh, but continue to
gs%s een e o @ soa or for er
Sperm; 50 cts for patent Wax, l245 for Western and
Mould in fancy boxes for West India shipment
COPPER.-Copper is quiet, but unchanged in price,
and we again quote it at "a cts for refined In,
Sheathing selling q cts for both English and Amer
lean, Yellow Metal Bolts at "A cts, and do, Nails at %
cts per h.
C0AL--Cumberland Coal continues very dull but the
rates unchanged and for the prices still
mine and 81 1904 25 per lump cash delivered
board at Point We the export this week of
4e4 tons to the West Indies Anthracite Coal is selling by
retail at from $3.50 to s5 per ton of 2240 lbs.
FEATHERS.-Feathers are in fair demand and we
tinue to quote them firm at 52ld55 cts per lb.
FISH.-Mackerel are still quiet, although the market
for them is frmer in tone, but Eastern Herrings
tnue in very active demand. Mackerel may be quoted
large No. 2 and sl6GlS per bbl for medium and large
No. l. Eastern Herrings selling very freely at
s35O@425 for Halifax. si5oG5 for Labrador, and we
quote Alewves Branch Herrngs So 5O4 for old and
S550d6 per Dbl for new We note sale this week from
the wharf of $50 bbls Labrador split Herrngs at $3.50
per bbl We quote Smoked Herrings at 30G40 cts per
box dry Goldfish at SO 25G375 and do Hake at 81 per
100 lbs Hake are quite dull The market is entirely
bare of North Carolina and Potomac FISH and there
few more to come forward
FLOUR-The Flour market has through the week
been inactive but prices for Flour have ucuated
1925 but fell off again to ST. at which figure sales
made yesterday The arrival of the Asia yesterday with
advces of improved feeling in breadstu at Liverpool
occasoned little improvement in the tone of the mar
ket and to-day Super Flour generally held at S12K
G725. although We believe there are no buyers at
81 per bb The transactions this week have been
exports have also been light They follows viz:
Bbls. Bbls.
g Demerara. S31 . Trinidad ........ us
Total. 5s7
HOWARD STREET FLoUR.-The sales of Howard Street
Flour this week previous to to-day embrace 200 bbl Su
81 25 per bbl The sales 725 made on Monday
and Tuesday but yesterday and the day previous it
sold at S712& per bb To-day there 100 bbs Super
sold at 81, but it was generally held at S712H 725 per
bb. There have been no sales of Extra reported this
week, but we quote it nominal at s775a8 per bbl.
OHIO FLoUR.-There was nothing done in Ohio Super
until Tuesday, which day $50 bbs sold 81
per bbl On Wednesday 600 bbls. sold at 81 124
and yesterday 400 bbs were sold at 81 per bb Today
have heard of sales of Super There lots
the market that could have been had 81 but choice
brands were generally held at S712k al 25 per bb A
hut we heard subsequently of sale of 100 bhlS do
S37k. Extra may be quoted to-day at $7.37&(d7.50
per bb
CITY MILLS FLoUR-The only transaction in City Mills
Flour that have heard Of this week is sale of 500
bbs Super, made Yesterday at 81 bbl 1t is, how
ever, generally held above this figure to-day. We have
heard of transactions in Extra but
shipping brands at sstGS.25 per Dbl.
FAMILY FLOUR.-The Patapsco, Reservoir and Silver
Spring brands of Family Flour still selling So and
Extra of the same brands at 50 per Dbl We quote
Wechs Family as before at $780, Old Dominion do. at
50, and Ohio and Howard Street do SS50d9 per Dbl.
RYE FLOURThere have been sales this week OF about
$50 bbs. Rve Flour at $5 255.37H but quote
day at s525 Fer bbl, although parties asking
higher rate for it.
Corn MEAL-Corn Meal has been quoted through the
week 81 90 for Baltimore, and S475 per bb for Bran
dywine, but there have been sales reported We
the export this week of 400 hblS all the West Indies
The following the inspections OF Flour and Meal
the week ending Nav Goth. 1859: