Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-11-01
Weekly Review of the ST. Louis
Grocery and Produce Market.
SATURDAY EVENING. October 81. 1860.

SATURDAY EVENING, October 81, 1860.
Groceries have been inactive this week: a. Least
shles have been mostly confined 10 small parcels,
and owing 10 the continued low waters, the ship
inents from second hands are small On this
account The Sugar stocks are working off slowly
and some holders have sold at a lrifiling conces-
sion, although they could not replace stocks at
present prices from New Orleans. That market
Is also in but small receipt of Molasses. and sales
there Yesterday (26th), were made at Il! 10 4ic.
ST. Louis rates for common TO prime Sugars
u to &c. Coffees are beirg received from the
East and the full range Is IA TO l6c, though
there Is comparatively little IN the market OUT
side of l5@l5ic q ID. What Rice was received
this week, sold readily at &c for fresh. To
days Cincinnati papers quote groceries thus:
"Cofee was in good demand at 15@l5sc. SUI
gars dull at 899sc, aud Molasses at 42p43c. -
This mornings Louisville Democrat says: "Gro-
ceries are quiet, and somewhat weaker, and
disposition on the part of holders 10 sell. The
news from the South inclines us 10 believe that
The Sugar crop, is not so badly injured as was
supposed" The present depressed state in our
grocery trade, will enable dealers 10 make settle
| ments and beg in even with their customers, and
| probably all of our merchants have sold as much
as the country has the ability to pay for.
! The PRODUCE market has continued 10 rule
dull this week, with low water in the rivers,
| though grain receipts have increased, SO much
that Wheat and Flour have declined, the latter
25c per Dbl, and Wheat from 10 10 15c per BUSH,
/ NJ II, oT,+,
some $4,000 bushels this week, and prices are
Steady, butdull at the close. WHEAT receipts.
were $4,000 bushels this week, being some
10000 bushels to-day, causing decline in spring
of 2G3c to-day. FLOUR has tended downwards
all the week, closing duh at 81 10 for city su-
perine, 1000 bbIs selling for less than this to-day
Provisions show sma i decline in some articles
this week, bacon sides 10 &c and mess pork to
SIS. A small shipment of new mess has already
arrived from Quincy, and l0,0 600 hams have been
sold green from the block, at Quincy, at lie
The sales Of hemp are few, and the market is dull
but holders ask about $3.50 per ion for prime
Some demand was had to-day. ToBAceo receipts
have been large, and the market was buoyant
until the last day or two il has been less so.
Hoes AND CArTLE.-The Democrat Of Satur-
urday, 9th, sSys:
Some %, goo to $4,000 head have been purchas-
ed in this city, for packing here, for November
and December delivery, but at the close there i
little disposition to buy or sell. Rates are about
So 70 to Sc "a per 100 lbs. net.
The Cincinnati Commercial of Saturday, 9th
says:
/
There appears 10 be little done in hogs to-day
and not sale is reported, nor are there said to b.
many offerings made.
1OOitierces Of lard were reported for delivery
November, at l0ac,
The Chicago Times and Herald, of same date
says of Hogs and Cattle. 4.....
The unfovorable turn which the weather ha.
taken has prevented the cutting OF hogs and cat
lie, and the market this morning was dropping
and prices shade lower than on yesterday. TIL,
cattle market was also lower, with less dispose
lion on the part of buyers 10 buy. Some of III.
houses have their pens full and with other drover
in the country waiting for the weather to be-
come more favorable for packing before they ar,
brought in. Packers complain that The present
season has beena very uafavorable one for cut.
ting both cattle and hogs.
There have been large contacts at New Yorl;
lately far English meats, and dispatches of Fri.
day evening reports sales of over 1900 boxes al
very full prices. The news from Europe is ia.
vorable for this description of meats, both as re.
cards the present and the future.