The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-02-28
FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
DAILY UNION OFFICE,

N4HuFll4tg EcDAuALg 81 AoVo.
Cotton is steady, at from "a to 35c accord
ing to quality.
The pleasant weather has made business
quite brisk, in both the produce and pro.
vision markets the demand extending
Throughout this and the adjoining States
south, and is mostly for plantation use.
The Cincinnati Gazette of yesterday says:
Business to-day was rather slack in pref
ty much all departments, and the cotton
market was exceedingly dull. Breadstuifs
are also quiet and rather inanimate, though
the sales during the week and month past
have been steady and heavy. The trans
actions in corn nave been unusually large,
both for consumption end shipments, with
a constant demand, and prices are fully
sustained. The sales of oats and hay have
been proportionately large, with a heavy
demand, chiefly for Government bids and
contracts.
In groceries there has been only the usual
city and iobbing demand, and prices rule
relatively lower than we have yet noted
this season, with fair stocks on hand. Among
the samples on Change to-day was a let Of
choice Louisiana sugar, new crop, direct
from New Orleans by the Baltic, which was
offered at 1870. 1t was a sample of sixty
hogsheads OF good bright color, good grain
and strong, wsll-dayored sugar. CommOner
grades range from IA to 15Zc.
The meeting at the Merchants Exchange
was full and animated, with much irmness
expressed for provisions, but cotton and
-four were dull. Corn fully sustained, with
a sale Of 1000 bushels in ear TO a miller,
prime White, at Coo, while yellow and mix
ed from wagon in ear sells at 55c. Barley
was in some demand, with a sale Of 500
bushels spring at 81, and a sale from sam
pies Of 40 bushels barley malt, fall, at
81 40. Raw whisky was firm, with sales at
81 p for high and 81 20 for low proof, free,
while in bond it rules firm at 26G27c a
lot of 10 bbls two year old copper whisky
was sold atS3, and 5 bbls one year old apple
brandy q - 80 per gallon.
Lard is firmer, with, however, q sale of
$50 t]ierces, head and gut, steam-rendered,
at I74c, while holders Of prime kettle
rendered are firm at l8%c. A sale of 400
tierccs grease was made at I3c. Bacon Is
steady at l4Lc for shoulders and Isle for
clear sides. Mess pork ranges from SIS 80
TO 500, with orders filled 1t the latter rate.
The dispatches from New York to the
Board Of Trade quote cotton dull and nomi-
nal at 44@45c; dry goods frmer, though at
lower rates; sugars duh and nominal, hard
lie; coffee in moderate demand, and firm;
-four dull and unchanged mess pork at
s2S 25@28 374; lard declined a quarter,
quoted at 1870.
The Cincinnati dispatch quotes the hog
season over among packers. Bacon hrmer;
whisky frmer, at 50 % for high proof, and
81 . for low proof, free, and in bond 25c;
flour unchanged; white corn in bulk, in ele-
vatOr, 5Sc.
The Chicago dispatch to the Exchange
gave no quotations for live hogs, with re
ceipts of 1000 head; dressed were firm at
II@Ilhc; mess pork firm at g 25@26 so;
bulk shoulders firm at 10%@l0Ac; sides
l3%c, all loose. Wheat unsettled at 81 2lL2;
rejected corn firm at 3O@361Ec; oats frmer
at 233{c; whisky firm at 81 l6k2 II.