Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-03-17
OmmERCIAL.


There good demand for the better grades and quote the
! market firm as follows
Ordinary to Coed Ordinary, 9ie a5s
Low Mddling, - a. q
Good Midding, u
ToBACCo-A Hamilton sold y hhds Of Tobacco dag at
$40 3:5 as, $50, $50 $50. 10, 4eO, 400. 4a, 405.
4s5 b s. 5s5 sos 5i0 5G5, IS 10, So 645 60,
7.oo, 49, rs, and 50
There is good for Tobacco, which finds ready sale
within the ranged the following quotations.
Lugs 90 ~
Medium 9s59
PRovIsIoNS.-The receipts OF Bacon day we're rather
better and there little activity the market
hear of no change prices We quo shoulders TO-
$685. Clear Sides Zoe, and hos round 81 he prices which
buyers paying from wagons From store, \ eayanee
these prices is demanded
The market continues Inactive and dealers paying
only lGa Io1<c for old and new packages.
Tie feeling markets Of the has improved
considerably within Is Cincinnati, the lsh,
Shoulders and 9c for Sides and the close the
latter held 9c and barrel Lard he'd firmly Ila
IIe, Commercial In the provision
there evidently more cheerful feeling, buyers exhibit
willingness the figures Of holders which
necessary anything in the MARKET especially
bulk meats bacon and lard shoulders were held
&c, Sides 9c, Lard and dispatc. says good
business could be done &c below these rates, there fair
the chiefly from Paepha and
ai7ancs asked by ders, gbt The Louisville journal
18th reports decidedly better feeling has tten
hbed in the Provision market there within few days. and
quotes orders, Shoulders at 1a7e Ribbed Sides 9s9e,
Clear Sides lalkc and Rams 10 al2c, for plain and sugar
The Journal reports Lard II and II &c
barrel and BE for beg.
Baltimore PdfiOt Saturday afternoon the 18th nst
reports little activity the market Provisions, and
quotes Bacon Shoulders at aoc, Ribbed Sides 9lOe and
Hams I0al2c and Lard l2ai2t4c.
BREADSTUFFsThe Flour market continues inactive from
prices whct in this
aforls shipping margin We quote Extra and Family at
sG.5097, and superdnea s5.Je9G per barrel
There good demand Wheat add prime article
Of Ked and White would readily command sll5 per bushe
The receii tsar very light.
The receipts Of Corn quite liberal and notice consider
able activity the Market which is at Coo per bushs
IRISH POTATOES We notice considerable sales Of Irish
planting Planters will md ample stock in the
We quote White Meshannocks 50 per barrel We
very fine article Armstrong Cos, and Seymour
Strattou's.
Monetary and Commercial.
The Louisville 18th says city
still checking New York prem bat the Brokers
charging ss prem. An advance Of by the hanks
tepaei There strong feeling Cincinnati compel the
Valley Bank which purpors the regulator the
rates of Eastern Exchange from to but thus far it
has proved unsuccessful Tie bank however, checking
very sparngy, and then only to its customers.
At the leading commercial pcats in the West money repre-
all legitimate purposes, are
ons country which appear such good
condition The indianapolis (Tn journal Of the 4th says:
Merchants represent in the country.
Collections emey difficult to make Nearly ali
IN the opinion however, ha the bottom Of bard times has
ben reached, and that after the mouth Of May, should
BILE confidence will TeSore hopes
prospects OF the producing and mere nte classes viii brighten
Th Southern Bank Of Alabama has declare surplus diyid
Of sl0OO0 which I3s per the present capital Of
s75oOO Books of subscription Tor the stock, sajOO
making the entire capital siLOoOcO to be ned.
The following important copy from New York
Commercial Adre57iser of the lith
saw lie Wall street this mon ing another proof Of the in
venye faculties and mechanical ingenuity operators gold
sixty dollars lesn taken by the b4nSs,
which have been taiaperel with in way thai nex' to impOss
bic detect except by the careful examination The
coins appear 10 have esn deprived III their milling b rotary
process peace metal sustutsd remle gllvan
They calculated deceive the experienced eye
sixty five dollars, Icing submitted the test Of the scale,
ony about three aud half Peuny~eshts lighter than the
uIadulteTaed eYn.
The Memphis Appeal Of The 18Th says Messrs Ferser Bo
rum, factors, ales staple Thursday al,
the extraordinary high price eighteen per pound.
raised upon tie plantation Of r, John Cleayes, Of Fayee
coany the premium the Fayet;e County Ag
fair and Western Division fair at Jackson The price
paii the Highest obtained il this during tie season.
The New Orleans True De7fs of sugar
cropsof 326 2 bids, Of which IsIGsl already
received, leaving l4456I yet go OF mum
Der received s556 hhJs shipped from Franklin and
New Orleans, % Assuming tie nal
the crop will he shipped in the proportion the True
D calculates that the amount C the crop yet to th
Mississippi 74OOO hhds sugar, and $50 COO IBIS melassc
The New York E1prss novelty in the grain trade will
be exhbted-th receipt of cargo Of wheat from France
which orders 1hePurehaseT grain for
mers up ave- large Of late. and there in
that beaGsuss any cheaper until after harvest
meeting Of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting
Agriculture Elwyn called the attention Of the members
crops of this country fast dirin-a
ing, the number bushels raie the
eerne lie stated that Ohio, State but little fy
old, crop fallen from bushels the
sixteen while in the best portions II New York; where thirty
bushels be considered fair CROP only twelve ushe
raised. The falling OF il other had equally
marked; while this the fact with the wheat crops
glad know th4t the Of produced the
had largely inceasd and still increasing enormously there
the people of this country danger of starving
after year this country for their supply wheat
He considered the subject important ard he hoped
would he adopted obtain correct information 1t
suggested by that committee should be appointed
rather Statistics but this proposition did met with
much favor the only possible way get ing information would
the last OF the United s and these pro-
nounced utterly worthless the facts obtained by these
paid but little attention the subject Mr. Gowen thought
only way get would by agi:ating the
matter in each State and corresponding with each county society