The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-02-07


The trade Of the past week was generally &C.
tive, and speculation in the leading staples, both
foreign and domestic, greatly excited The
Cotton now coming forward, and which recently
arrived from the Southwest, is paying enormous
gains to the receivers, the rice within the week
being IL to 16c per lb-the price reaching COG
csc. Similar speculations are going on in
Tobacco, Whisky, and nearly al the domestic
staples consumed at home and ia Breadstuffs and
Provisions for export, the latter following up the
rapid advance in Gold and Foreign Exchange.
The fortunes made on Cotton, at present prices,
may be estimated from the weekly receipts, re-
ported 1t from $500 to 1000 bales per week,
(but believed to be greater when the amount
brought in Express cars from Chicago and Gin
cnnatt is added, boughtin Tennessee, Northern
Mississippi and Arkansas at from 10 to Csc, and
resold here At IS to 9Oc. The import entries of
foreign merchandise are moderate. The export
clearances of domestic produce quite large for
the season - Oil 500
The speculation on the Stock Exchange, both
in Gold Ooinjand Custom Notes, and in all de-
scriptions Of Shares and Bonds, except the Public
Stocks Of the United States, shows but little
abatement. The changes, upward and downs
ward, however, have become more frequent,
especially in the Railway Shares, and amounted
on several occasions through the weekito SOS
and evenlO per cent, on certain descriptions.
The speculationA in Gold and the Railway
Shares started off Saturday morning at q further
advance in prices, but before the 6rst call was
through at the early regular Board, the demand
was less vigorous, and at the l o'clock Public
Boarda general decline ensued Of II 70 2i per
cent from the best sales Of the morning
Some time-sales of Gold Coin we're made at,
and fraction above 160 at the early Bded, a.
~ Al II.
House Notes moved in about the came proper,
ton. Taking Erie Common Stock as the index
to the fancy dealings, the difference from the
first to the very closing sales of the day on the
Railway list was but per cent. And as com.
pared with Friday night, the quotations at four
O'Clock, we're 1@l1 per cent. down, with less
excitement among buyers; New York Central
quoted in the afternoon, dividend of.
The market was influenced by runors from
Washington, by telegraph aud otherwise of the
action of the Finance Committee Of the Senate
on the third section of the House Treasury Bill,
to the effect that u further authority to issue
United States Notes OF legal tender is to be
stricken out, together with orders, at l o'clock,
to sell Gold and Stocks, supposed from the same
quarter. 49,
The import entries Of the past week, includ-
ing the Dry Goods return fin our last paper,
amountito 81, 81, 4b6, against S. SsS,76S same
week last season. The export clesrsncss of
Domestic Produce amount to 81, 1856, sol, against
q, O09, 7e7, same week 1862. The export of
Specie is 1881 900, against $sOS.OOO same
week last year. l4a ham1G s7Ar sfI
1.-THE Commercial Tables for the calendar year
1862 being now complete, We return, as usual in
J January, in our weekly ss well az monthly com.
Hparisons Of the Foreign Trade At New York, to
the movement of the current fiscal or Treasury
year. beginning Let Of July 1862, and close on
the 30;h Of June, 1858: