Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1862-11-03
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

The Intervention" unors Of the past few days have
unsettled the specie market, but the brokers are still
Asking about 81 so premium for gold, with but few buy
ers, and. strapg, to say, fewer sellers. This rate Of pre-
MUM win probably be the eliminating point Of the re-
cent rapid advance in gold. 1t may 90 higher, but the
ehAnces are, We think, that il viii recede. Any devel.
opnants tending to confirm or strengthen the proba
blty Of foreign mediation will ~assursdly dfpress the
market by diseOurAging the ventures OF BLOCKADE run
Ders." who are the principal buyers of gold. Persons
Who have gold boarded might also be tempted 10 SECURE
a good premium for 4 portion, q! least, OF their treasure,
While the opportunity of realizing is presented, I'D thus,
by increasing the supply on the market, contributsSs
the depression and decline which the supposed prospect
Of peace would occasion.
TIE value u the real estate In Richmond sold at auo.
ton hst month was $500. TAG. being SIS 900 more than
the aggregate Of similar sales during the entire year
total Of sslss already amounts to 81, 800. 900. The
highest total CT any previous year sircs 1851, when our
record vas commenced, is $40, sl6 In 1860.
The salt makers on the North Carolina coast are ma
king 5000 bushels per dAy-Tas Knoxville Register
says that since the evacuation Of Ksntu,ky BY our army
there Is no longer An opportunity for Obtaining salt from
lie Goose Creek Works in Kentucky.-A correspon-
dent Of the Jackson hississipplAn says that from 5000 10
4 900 bushels Of salt are being made every day at the
Springs of Lake Brs;snesu, La-h'jor Thomas
White, Of Augusta, will commence manufacturing salt
in large quantities, this week, on the South Carolina oOas,,
principally for the Augusta market. The quality Is said
to he excellent and Is guaranteed to cure meat. L. will
be sold at low rates -Hou. John W. L,wis, OF Ga,
- a. -. =. a
ecu a letter to The CommissAry General Of Georgia, 10
which he states that the difficulties between Governor
Leteher and The salt contractors have been adj listed, and
that there is nov no obstruction 10 the shipment of salt.
TIE production Of the shines 10 not far from 5000
bushels per day, aud he thinks il can be doubled. al
cSn sce no reason" be writes, "Hhy enough could not
be made at the place for the whole Southern Confede-
ncy, time being given to put up the necessary number
OF kettles"
Tue Atlanta Ooufeleracy gives the following summary
Of Wholesale prices in that market:
Las, week our grocery market Was less ActiVs than
usuAl, though sens large sales were made in tobacco in
The latter part OF tho week, mostly 10 merchants from
Mississippi and Alabama fhe demand for the article
Is better than il VAS Last week. Notwithstanding the
heavy stock on hand Is being daily increased by heavy
arrivals from Virginia and North Carolina Holders are
no; yet disposed to reduce the prices Of sugar, conse
QutnlJ the sales we're light, though some were made at
previous quotations. There is great demand for salt,
ani pr'ces are tending upward; stock on hand very hmi-
tel. Cotton yArns, OsnAbUrgs, shifting, sbeotings, a.,
have declined, And are dull sale at our quotations.
Cotton is selling 10 Petersburg at 2O.2l cents
Salt at Turks IlAnd sells At 1 cents per bushel-
Bacon advanced In RLeigh last week to oOa75 cent?
PEE pound, being pushed up" 10 q day or two by spec.
ulltors ON IS 40 cents, which, says the Standard,
had been tse settled prios for months-At the Guc.
ton sales Of factory goods 10 Augusta on Thursday the
prices Obtained we're 20 cents per yard lower than
the former highest prices, and fifteen cents per yard
lover than the prices Of last week.
The apple crop Of the mountain counties OF Tonnes
Hs ID unusually large this year; but the price Of brandy
uil prevent N NY Of them from fading their way 70
nrkst. 10 TACT, Glmos. the entire crop will be distilled.
Some farmers ell make more from their orchards this
year than they have heretofore realized from their en-.
tire farms in two years. The Athens Banner speaks Of
one farmer Who will make six hundred gallons OF brandy
from bic orchard, which he has engaged at seven dollars
per gallon 90 200 from an orchard 10 one year.
TIE fredericksburg Recorder sayj that wheat has
been sold this week in tbA, market as high a S.. so per
bashel; cora Is high AZ 81 81 per bArrL IGmsy be
fairly qqo'el at ST. 20. Flour, extra new, sns for
$40 per barrel, and family brings s2S. Corn meal is
. ling for 81 per bushsl.