The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-10-05

mess pork, AZ to SIC for 1900 hhds bacon |
shoulders and sides, chiefly the latter.
This caused more frmness on the part of |
holders, and the market subsequently became
quiet which is to be attributed in part to
the impossibility of making shipments to
the East, from whence the demand exists
chiefly.
There has been but limited demand for
bulk meats or clear bacon sides, which sold
at 6s@63c. The closing quotations, which
are the rates asked, are as follows: bulk
shoulders, 33c; sides, 43@5c; clear sides,
54c; bacon shoulders, 48@43c; sides, sic;
and clear sides, 6E@63c.
Mess pork, $l3@13.25; no sales above
the inside rate.
Lard, &c for prime, in bbls. or tierces,
with good demand. Small sales of keg
were made at s@84c.
The stock of all articles of the hog pro-
duct has been largely reduced since the 1st
of September, and there being very light
stocks at every other place in the West,
holders in many cases are not willing to ae-
cept the current rates, and are holding their
stocks out of the market, expecting to get
better prices. They feel satisfied that there
must be a large demand for army purposes,
and that new meat can not be cured so as
to meet this demand before the LIST of De-
cember.
The stock of barrel pork in the packing
yards of New York and Brooklyn yesterday
was AZ, 056 barrels, against 81, $40 barrels
this date last year, and 1902 barrels the
1st of October, 1859.
The grocers are holding their stock with
great frmness, and feel secure in their ex-
pectations of obtaining higher prices.
Sugar and molasses have not changed, but
coffee is irmer, and it is difficult to buy. a
good grade of Rio below Ice, the choice is
held firmly, and sells in small lots at l63(0
17c. There has been a good jobbing de-
mand, but the business done in the large
way has been limited the high prices in
ducing the retailers to buy with more eau
! ton. The menacing attitude of the rebel
army in Kentucky, it cannot be denied,
makes people pause in entering into new
| obligations.
There is good stock of coffee now here,
and also of refined sugars which have been
brought from the seaboard by railway, and
by railway and lake, at the unprecedented
low rates of 12z to zoe per 100 pounds
but the railways have now put up the rates
for Western bound freight to the old stand
ard 40@45c per cwt., though we cannot see
| why this should be so, as hundreds Of the
cars are coming West daily empty.
! Beef cattle have advanced 50075c per
GENITAL gross, owing to short supply, choice
selling at $3.50 and common at $2.25.
Sheep in light supply, and firm at $1,000
| ESQ, and lambs at S1@l.50. No corn-fatted
/ hogs in market, and they are wanted at So
gross. Stop selling at $2.75@3.0o.
In other seasons, about this time, con-
| tracing for hogs has been general, and last
/ year there was considerable excitement IN
this line, but this fall there is nothing doing
whatever, the leading spirited operators are
not in the market, and all are indisposed to
do anything; they fear the future, and re-
/ gard it so enveloped in uncertainties that
none can be induced to enter into any en-
/ gagements with reference to it even sixty
1 DAYS hence Not a word said about En-
| glish bacon this year, or q home demand for
anything in the hog line, and the Only sale
| of hogs we have heard of was a lot of 70
head now feeding in Butler county, to be
| delivered about the middle of this month to
one of our city butchers at So per eantel
gross. To be brief, there are no buyers of
hogs for November delivery, except at prices
no owner would think of accepting, and
hence nothing serious has been said about
the matter. None of our packers are sure
that they will do anything, because they
cannot make any reasonable estimate of
what will be the aspect of affairs in No
vember, and hence they prefer leaving all
till the time comes, and then act according
as circumstances may dictate. There is no
doubt that there is good supply Of hogs
in all the States, which usually feel them to
any extent, but from how many of them
they will or can be brought to market, 1t is
! In 70 " hiIet Miacn0Pi ia
run By the rebel army, of course no hogs
will be brought to market from that State,
and the same may be said of Kentucky, and
should Cincinnati be menaced a month
hence, there will be few hogs packed hsre /;
so then the whole market of supply and
prices turns upon the progress of war, and
whether the United States forces shall be
victorious or otherwise, the next sixty
DAYS.