Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1863-10-30
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DEMOCRATIC GOOD TINES

From the Richmond Examiner. Oct. S.
SPEcIE.--Our readers have already been
apprised of the recent extensive sales of gold,
paid for in drafts as valueless as the paper on
which they were written. The premium paid
for this gold was $12. Since the withdrawal
of this heavy customer, the demand for the
precious metals has measurably subsidized,
and, as the Jews are now keeping one of their
protracted annual holidays, the transactions
for several days past have been very light
The Commi sion brokers are asking $3.50
for gold. No silver in the market
FLOUR is now quotable at $40045. 90 for
superfine and extra, and the market nearly
bare. The demand is active, and prices nee
essarily tend upward
Corn MEAL-$lO q bushel--scarce.
The market is represented to be bare of
corn, hay, fodder, &c. We omit quotations.
OATS are quotable at $5.50@S6
RyE-$6S6.50.
In the minor articles of country produce
business is active. Apples are higher, and
are now quoted at $35@40 e bbl. Irlsh po-
tatocs, S5@s6 d bushel. Sweet potatoes,
$s@10-market better supplied. Onions
S5O@$6O . Dbl. Beeswax, $2.5O@$3 per
pound. Tallow, $2@2.25.
BACON is not SO firm as it has been, and
sales at low figures are reported. We quote
hog round at $2.40@S2.5O % tb.
BUTTER $3,25@3,5O p tb.
CHEESE $2,Oo@2.25 &c"
LARD $500 '"
| FLAX SEED $6,00@7,O0 b bushcl.
ToBAcCo-Th. re has been more animation
in the market for the last few days and prices
are shade higher. We quote inferior lugs
at $16, ,oO@1s,OO; good, $2O,OO@25, 90; fine
bright, $3o. o.Oo@35,OO inferior leaf, $50, 900
81, 90; good, $40 oo@5o, 90; fine manufactur-
ing, $75 O0@lO0; bright wrappers, $2,25@
The market for manufactured tobacco contin-
ues quiet without noticeable change in quota
tiOns.
SUGAR-Brown is unchanged. We quote
fair to good at $2,50@2,60; prime to choice,
S2,65@2,s5. At the auction sale to day the
competition was by no means active. Pres
ent prices are bringing out the reserved
stocks.
GLASSES New Orleans, S14,OO@l5,oO,
| dull; Sorghum, Slo,00@l2,00.
CANDLES, $3,25@3,6O for tallow.
SALT, 60c u tb; market well supplied.
COFFEE, $7,OO@9,O0 % tb.
Liquors firm and advancing. Corn whisky,
$30.O0@35, 90; rye, $3S,00@50,00; apple
brandy, $35, ,0O@S7,OO.
LEATHER i; unchanged. Sole, 5,eo@6 so;
harness, $5.00@6,GO; upper, Sc, ,00@7 80
Green salted hides, 81, 40.
CRY MARKETS The market is we'll sup
piled with potatoes, which are now sold al
SOC u quart; $500 y half peck for sweet
and 81, ,25@1,5O y half peck for Irish. To
matoes are SOC y quart; peas, 75c. We no
tce some Hanover cranberries, very nice, II
market, held at 81, so 9 quart. Butter, s., OF
@5,50 e ib. Eggs, $2,0o@2,25-abundant
Bacon, s2,50@2,75 u tb. Mackerel, 81, ,o(
apiece Fresh meats unchanged. Sausage
$1,6O y tb.
] "Abolition prices" are pretty high, w
must confess, but they do not begin to reacl
Democratic prices at the South The Courier
Democratic "brethren'' in Dixie got up thi
war and caused prices to advance enormously
yet it can see nothing wrong in that. Flou
at $40 aud $45 per barrel at Richmond is ex
ceedingy Democratic, but at s. or $6 pc
barrel in Chicago is Abolition ruin.