The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-31
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
DAILY UNION OFFICE,
NRshYille. May 30, 1855.

DAILY UNION OFFICE
Nashville, May 30, 1855.
Cotton is not 50 steady as for few Gays
past. The ruling price is 29@Soc.
Corn is very firm, at s5c@Sl 90.
The provision market is firm, and holders
are not anxious to sell without an advance,
but as yet buyers are not willing to submit
to a rise
The Louisville Courier says:
There was far more general activity in
the market to-day than we had observe for
nearly q week, with an increased inquiry
and more firmness for flour, grain, produce
and provisions The cotton market is also
stimulated, though not active, with some
slight reaction observable in the Eastern
depots. Pork and lard were evidently
higher, and the market exhibited considera-
BILE buoysncy Of feeling with an increasing
demand. In other departments the trade
was chiefly local in character, the ransac-
tions confined b the usual city and JobbIng
trades.
The Tobacco Fair that commences Thurs
day, the 3Ist, will be a grand affair, the ex-
hibition and competition for prizes being
confined TO two days, Thursday and Friday
The receipts Of premium tobacco ere large
and varied, and the Liberty No. was due
this evening with one huodfeds hogsheads
from Paducah, the samples Of McCracken,
Ballard, and tho adjoining famous tobacco
growing regions. Tomorrow, Wednesday,
there will be no sale Of leaf at the ware
houses.
The attendance on Change to-day was
large and much animation prevailed, par
ticuIarly for provisions, -four and core, with
sales of mess pork at $Sl so, an advance,
and sales Of bacon at full ra g.; also a lot OF
800 tierces prime leaf lard pc, which Is an
advance a lot Of 1000 bushels corn
changed hands, mixed and white taken to-
gether at Sic in sacks; alec a sa Of 500
bushels Of mixed corn in bulk at zoe.
The auction sale Of cotton was well at
tended, aad the prices obtained indicated
an advance on previous quotations, low
middling ranging from ) 10 34l2c.
The dispatches TO the Board OF Trade from
New York noted rather a dull market 2
cotton. with more sellers than buyers; mid
ding ranging from 40 TO Ale. The dry goods
market was Irregular and quiet. Dunneu
prints selling at loc, Sp'ague's at 2Oa2lc,snd
Iopsdale sheeting at 32c; brown standards
were at about pc. Groceries were quiet and
rather inactive at unchanged rates Tor
coffee and sugar, hard standard quoted at
I6ISc. Provisions were better and IN far
demand Tor mess pork at $50 75s30 o1H.
Prime lard 22I{a221kc. Flour was steady
Tor 20 qualities, but low grades declined
5aI0e per barrel. Wheat was 2a5c lower,
and CO n had receded one cent.
In Cincinnati the market for provisions
was irmer for mess pork, which was held at
S3Z. while s3I 90 was offered. Lard held
at 22c, and bacon-1sc for shoulders, l'e for
ribbed sides, and l9e i,r clear sides packed.
Whisky 6rn, at 81 q az p. Superhne
flour So 25as IS. New red wheat 81 30a2
90. Corn, mixed aud white, 60a65, and oats
43a50c in bulk.
At Chicago the market was rather quiet
Mess pork quoted at S3l; bacon Unchanged
whisky 81 y; superiine -four 50 5oa1 81;
prime wheat 81 %; No. , 81 OS; corn asa
532<c; oats 301sa3214c, and inferior barley
nominal at 50ao5c.