, 1859-02-07

..s.ad,4~I " eJ Wy.
The n. +. Shipping Lat OF The I'd inst, says
Of the Flour market:
The demand for State and Western Flour has
greater part Of last week has been lost, wi1h
decline in prices Of about 10Il5 cents, chiefly
for the lower grader. The receipts continue
Light, but the offerings are fully adequate to the
wants of the local trade. to which the demand ia
almost exclusively confined. Some Of the spec.
u!ators are withholding their stock, in antcipa-
tlon Of an advance, but for the most part they
are anxious TO dispose of their offerings ut cur
rent rates, which are still above the views of
buyers ind sales in consequence are only to
fair extent, 10 meet the immediate requirements
Of the trade. The sales for tho three dsys are
$4,000 bris, including S 400 brls yesterday. tie
market closing dull. but holdera refusing to
make further concession have
been at prices quoted below.
ofths New York Grain markets it comments
III follows:
The market for Wheat during tue past three
days has been very qu!et, and transactions only
IN small Wa7. Is current rates ore altogether
above the views OF purchasers: prices ore too
high for speculation also, and purchasers buv
apaslngly 10 supply immediate wants. Sales
which $500 White Michigan brought tl4s@
1:bo; 1900 BED Winter Western. II 10; 500
Caneda Club. $1.o8; $50 verr choice Uu,cbess
County, $1.85; anu 5000 mixed Illinois, $l.35
Corn has ruled very quiet since our last. and
prices have declined one cent, ut which the
market Is firm; sales locude IS, 900 bushels, Of
which 9, 600 bushels were sold yesterday ut SIS
cents for mixed Western, and e0@s4 for White
Southern; other descriptions are without
change. Oats are in fair demand, and held firm.
er. Barley il more active, und We note sales
California Ct so cents; 5000 State at II; and
1000 pale Canada West. 81; sales previously,
1000 CaYuga Lake, so !, the market closi1c
firmly. and prices tending upward. Barley
Malt u without change. Beuna are Ia eood do.
mand. with eales Of {, 900 bushels q. <l.i5Gtl2Q.
a few days sincs. l,5oo bhls Flour were pur-
chased in boston for the Albany market. So
says the Albany Sta&<sman.
CATTLE IN NEW TORE.
The Now York Tribune. Of Thursday, says of
cattle:
This morning opened with good deal Of
briaknees for hrst-class cattle The butchers
were willing to pay lie for hrst-clast. but they
were not to be had. After taking ut about aoo
head, the balance vas made mp Of Western
Steers, good and bad-some that Look rs though
they never cams nearer corn.crib than across
. ten acre field, and kEew little of the value ot
corn except what they had derived from shuctH
To these add old ssags. poor work oxen, and
miserable old COVE, altogether as hard lot as
We ever eaW IN taeae Tardt, and thai made up
the supply Of the day. There were lew extra
OF premium fat oxen that sold at 1l]f91o: 4
lb, while some Of the poorest brought hardly
7c. 10 that the variation between extremes Of
prices wss about 5e; and while owners Of
the best were we'll satisded, the owners Of
the worst we're rery suro that the market
va no better than last veek-in fsct, ibut
it was "awful dull" And 30 it vas for the
rough ones, particularly as the day advanced.
and. from the humber on hand at two o'clock
10 should say that the owners would hsye to
dsop tul! hall cant be!ow asking prices yester-
the market on the whole, and parkicuiarlv H.
good stock IL better it il not 30 much betttr M
owners anticipated, md that some folks are con.
vlnoed that it will not bear crowding With such
stock ~ it was filled with Yesterday and to-
day.
Tho following table shows the source Of sup.
ply of the New York Cattle Market Iaat II ednrs.