The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-05-17
BALTIMORE MARKETS.

C0FFEE.-Therc has been very little done today in
Coffee the sales 50 far have heard embracing only
steady at the quotations which follows viz: lO4
(dIl9 cts for common to medium Rio, 1f%GllA cts
for fair to good do, y cts for prime do 12d12H cts
for agnayra and l5dl6 cts for Java The stock in first
hands is only about $500 bags
FLOUR-The news received this morning of the actual
commencement of hosttes in Europe, created quite an
excitement in the market for breadstus nothing
done on Change in Flour of the operators being
disposed to wait for the effect the news on the New
York market to transpire Howard Street and 0bio
Super were both held at S775, this figure being an ad
cts per bb on the price asked for II on Satur
day but so far as we could learn there buyers at
over 81 so per bb City Mills Super may quoted TODAY
at 9OGa !? per Dbl but there is little of this des
crpton Offering We quote Extra Flour to-day at for
Ohio, $S % for Howard Street and SSS 25 for regular
shipping brands City Mills
FAMILY FLoUR.-The Patapsco, Reservoir and Silver
Spring brands of Family Flour selling at 80 So and
Extra of the same brands at SO per Dbl. We quote
Welchs Family at $3.50, Old Dominion do at So So and
Ohio and Howard Street do. at $s.50G9 per Dbl.
RYE FLouR-We again quote Rye Flour at s.. 5.25d5 So
anu Soth Aeai at Sf.ZoGfo0 Tor Baltimore, and S4.75
per Dbl for Brandywine. There is however nothing
doing in either of these articles:
GRAINThe receipts of Grain to-day were larger than
hey nave been for several days past the offerings the
Corn Exchange amounting to little rising 900 bushels
Corn of which there about 32 900 bushels at
was dull and hardly as firm as on Saturday White sold
at s5s6 cts. for inferior 92ds3 for prime and for
yellow prices ranged at from 80 e5 There was how
ever but little of the latter variety sold OF Wheat there
about 5000 bushels offered The demand for it was
fair and the market very firm Red sold 17OG176 cts
for common to fair lS0dl85 cts for good to prime and
white at from lS5 to 200 cts for fair prime and one or
two choice lots brought 205G2l0 cts, the last named
figures being an advance of to 10 cts any previous
sales There was no Rye at market, and
give proper quotation sr it. Oats continue firm There
were about 1000 bushels at market to-day of which
were sold at 5356 cts for Virginia MARYLAND and 60
CTS or fennsylvania lot of 400 bushels inferior Vir-
ginia sold at 40 \ cts. -
MoLAsSEs.-The market for Molasses is excited and
quite unsettled lot of 362 hhds 81 erces clayed
Cuba the cargo of the Castilian sold this morning
at - cs ana subsequently, sale of 80 hhds was made
at 80 cts but at the close holders asking 5 cts for
this description There no Cuba Muscovado here Eng
sh Island is held at 35 cts Porto Rico at 3S14O cts
and New Orleans at As cts.
PROF1SlONS.-Provisons continue very buoyant and
the operations in them today have been heavy Mess
Pork has again advanced We note sales today of 800
bos Western Mess at SS564 and of 500 bbls do unn-
spected at $le per bb We quote Prime Pork sl4
Rump do. at $3.50 per Dbl We learn by telegraph from
Cincinnati to-day that Pork is now held there at
sl9 per Dbl For both Bacon and Bulk Meat prices have
advanced to-day to of cent per b The sales Of Rs
con include % hhds Shoulders at cts 25 hhds Sides
at 10 cts so hhds Sides OS cts 100 hhds Shoulders
and Sides in lots at d10A IA hhd Shoulders at
81 cts and we note sales of 80 erces Bulk Shoulders
cts, 50 hhds. do. Sides private terms and of 100
hhds do. at 81 cts. Bulk Shoulders closed firm at *
cts and DO Sides at 94td9% cts. Lard is held firmly
to-day at l21 cts for Western Leaf bbs and tierces
but we hear of nothing doing in it. Beef is quiet but
steady at ll2 for No l. and sl3Gl5 per bbl for Mess
htCh-hce continues in active demand and the mar
ket for it is still buoyant We note sales TODAY of some
goo erces at 81 564, S462h 46s4 per 100 lbs Prime
Is hed hrmy at ~ cts and quote fair do
at4a ag4k cts per lb.
SUGARs.-Sugars continue quiet, and the market is
Porto Rico at So 62k and of Is hhds prime New
Orleans at S162H Wequote Sugars to-day as follows
viz at S7(7621 for fair to prime New Orleans SO 5O9
s662H for common Porto Rco s77 so for to prime
do 62k % for grocers styles Cuba and &c 256 so
for refining grades Cuba and English Island
SALT.-The rates for Liverpool Salt still as follows
viz: S5 cts. for Gound Alum, 130 cts for Marshas and
Jeffrey Darcy's fine, and l45G150 cts per sack for
Ashtons do, and quote Turks Island do at Is cts
afioat, and 20 cts. per bushel from store
WHISKEY.-The market for Whiskey is unsettled
and prices for it quite irregular. We hear some
900 to bbls having been sold today at 332
City, and 81 cts for Ohio but some of the holders
asking considerably higher rates for both descriptions