Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1865-04-14
PETROLEUM STOCKS.


PETROLEUM STOCKS.
Stocks hrmer with better demand. Sale
Buchanan Farm, ll3; Cherry Run, &c
Empire City, 275; Excelsior, 450; High.
gate, 70; Knicksrbocksr, 80; Rynd Farm
$50; Tack, 2I5; United States, s25; Allen
Wright, 475.
PETROLEUM.
The market for crude Is steady at s4c.,
refined in bond at 51@52c, refined free 81
71@72c.
DRY GOODS MARKET.
The dry goods trade is quite active this
week, domestic fabrics especially. Prints
are firmly held. Buyers at a distance
have been holding back for some time and
are now compelled to purchase to supply
themselves with goods, hence the demand
is very brisk for foreign goods of desira-
bic and seasonable styles. They were not
plenty and were bought quite freely by
jobbers and retailers at full price. There
is now every prospect of an active trade
for the balance of the season. Many mer-
chants from the interior are here for a
second time, and represent business very
good in their various localities.
GOOD FRIDAY.
Good Friday will be more generally kept
tomorrow in business circles than ever be-
.ore. The Stock Exchange, Petroleum
Boards and Gold Room have decided to
have no session.
MEETING OF TOBACCO MERCHANTS.
There was meeting tobacco merchants
yesterday, at which a memorial to the Sec
retary of the Treasury, setting forth the
views of the assemblage, was adopted and
transmitted to Washington.
REDUCTION OF THE ExPENsEs OF TIE NAVY.
The Tri5Ane's Washington special says
that the Secretary of the Navy has COM
menced the reduction of expenses. Many
transports are to be sold, and the naval
vessels not needed are to be put out of COM
mission.
COTTON.
A gentleman from the South SAYS thero
are two million bales of cotton in Georgia
and Louisiana.
REVOKED.
The HeraId's Washington special says
The authority heretofore given to the COM
generals of the armies on depart
ments as to other officers to appoint the Off
GERS of colored troops has been revoked by
the Secretary of War, except for new regi-
ments to be raised or fo< regiments now in
process of organization. Hereafter all ap-
and promotions in such organi-
cations are to be made directly by the
President.
NEW York, April I3. =
sEc'Y STANTON TO RESIGN.
The Commercials Washington special
says it is currently reported that Secretary
Stanton will resign as soon as peace is de-
clared.
NEW coEFEDERLcY.
The Rerald's Richmond special, of the
11th, says, JEFF. Davis, Hunter, and Thomas
F. Semmes have long contemplated tho
formation of a Trans Mississippi Confed-
sracy, to be composed of Arkansas, Texas,
and Western Louisiana, with such discon-
tented Mexican States as might join them.
FROM RICHMOND.
The sanitary condition of Richmond is
good.
THE SICK AND WOUNDED.
Two days ago there were 1000 sick and
wounded men in Petersburg; some belong
ed to our army, and the rest to the rebels.
They are being transferred, as fsst as posi-
BILE, to City Point.
THE RICHMOND RAILROAD.
The Richmond, Fredericksburg and
railroad is not yet in working Or
der: The line is only in repair for twenty
miles out from Richmond.
The bridge over the South Anna was des-
troyed by Sheridan.
SICKNESS OF MRS. LEE.
Mrs. General Lee is seriously indisposed.
A negro guard was placed in front of the
house she is occupying, but on it being rep
resented that the color was an insult to her
they were Withdrawn and white ones sub
PROPERTY DESTROYED. ...-.
A correspondent says nearly all the prop
erty destroyed by the fire belonged 10
wealthy rebels; the poorer class do not ex-
press any sympathy for the sufferers by the
cOnaagration.
FROM MEXICO.
The Tri5une's city of Mexico letter of the
29th of March, says that bitter feeling
exists between the French and Austrian
troops now in Mexico. Numerous quarrels
have taken place between them on account
of tho recoIlections of the Frerch-Austriar
war.
Several editors were arrested for com.
menting on the cOnductof Marshal BasOme
The discords in the Imperial family ar'
said to be increasing.
STOCKS.
NEW YoRE, April 13.
Gallagher's evening Exchange.
Gold l46.
New York Central 1917; Erie 6s15; Hud
son IO71<; Reading IO6; Michigan Southern
81; Illinois Central y65z; P1ttsDurgl
-; Rock Island -; North Western
317l; do preferred 6214; Fort Wayne 941<
Ohio ( Mississippi Certificates 261z; Cantor
322I; Cumberland 4s1z; Quicksilver 6434
Mariposa I52l.
Gold active and firm on call. It stood a
the close of report I461s.
Stocks not very active.
PHILADELPHIA, April 13.
sBYEE-THIRTY LOAN.
Jay Cooke report subscriptions to tn
7-sO loan, o-day, at 1924 800, including
800, 900 from the First National Bank @
New York, SIS, 900 from Pittsburgh, $50, 90
from Nashville, and 81, ,291 individual sub
seriptions.
FROM WASHINGTON.