New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-10-09

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rates, but holders would not make those reduc-
tons, and sales have consequently been confined
to 15O bbls. at $35 f2 Dbl. In a retail way there
has been quite a brisk trade doing at $50 25'0
$35 30 u Dbl.
BACoN-Nothing worthy of remark mas Trans
pired in anything comprised under this heading
| Prices are somewhat frmer, but the only sale re-
ported is a lot of 10 casks country packed clear
sides at 2O3c. 10 Ii. In jobbing way there is a
moderate trade doing at l8@l82c. for shoulders,
20c. for ribbed Sides 2lc. for clear sides, and
263c for sugar-cured hams.
LARp-The market to-day has exhibited dec
ded Improvement. both in the demand and prices
Sales comprise 200 terces at 1916, $50 at 1896,
and 25 at 1oc. 42 tb-the market closing much
steadier ID f-mer. Kegs are retailing at 223@
23c. % 1b.
WHIsKY-The market has been very quiet, and
the only business doing is in retail way at 81 rs
@sI 50 for Louisiana, and 81 25@$2 IS for West
ern rectifed.
INDIA BAGG1XG-1s in fair supply but moderate
demand and there is more disposition to sell than
to buy. We, however, have no change to note in
prices, which are as follows, viz 36c. % yard for
rolls and 38c. q yard for bales in retail parcels.
Round lots are quoted at 353c. % yard.
q moderate demand, at 173@l8c for round lots
and 18!@l9c. for iobbing lots.
GUNNY BAGs-Are in good supply but dull.
We however quote at 3Oc. a piece.
Iron TIEs-The supply of this article is very
light with an active inquiry, and prices firm at IL
@12tc. apiece.
SALT-Is in fair demand, and prices show
further improvement. We now quote Liverpool
fine from store at 50 1902 60, and coarse 81 25@
az 40 % bushel; 50 65 for fine by the cargo, and
81 10 for coarse.
SUNDR1Es-Potatoes are selling at 50 1894 90
per bbl Onions at 81 1902 so. Apples at
SC soar. Eggs at $35940 per Dbl. Chickens at
s6Ca7 for small, 50 for large. Turkeys $340
, $35 u dozen.
STAR CAyDLEs-Are in fair supply and demand
and prices are firm at zoe. for u o.; 2lc. for
IA d.. 22c. for IL or, and 25c. for full weight
BUTTER AND CHEEsE-Western and Northern
butter is in good supply but quiet at 22823c for
common Western 25026c. for fair do; 27(029e.
for prime do, and 30@35c. for choice 40945c.
for goshen, and 46048c. for strictly choice do.
Cheese is in good supply but dull at l5c. for
8 SKINNED; 2l122c. for factory 24c. for English
dairy 28a30c for Stilton, and 33@35c. for pine
apple.
8 NAVAL sroREs-Rosin is scarce, with only a
, moderate demand. Prices, however, are firm at
r s7Gl7 % for No. /, 81 5005 for No. 2, and
+ 80 50ta3 for common Tar is scarce at 81 5008
Pitch at $50l6 per bbl. Spirits of Turpentine al
6O0162c. per gallon. There were sales to-day Of
e l42 bbls. No Rosn at So IS, 100 at 81 25 anG
r 50 at 81 so per bbl. 81, 20 and Is bbls Of Tur
pentine at 60c. per gallon.
Ous-Coal oil is dull at 80@824c. per gallon
Il Lard oil is in large supply, but prices weak a
81 coal Csc. per gallon. There were sales toda!
Of Is bbls. of Lard oil at 81 6Oc. per gallon.
HoPs-Are only in moderate supply, but still
1t amply sufficient for the demand, which is quit
4 limited at zoe. for new American and SOC. per 1
!; for Belgian
i M41T-Ts in fair supply, but quietat 81 900
r, for Canada, and 81 20@l rs per bushel 70
G Western.
@ wooL-Is in fair supply but quiet at l6@l8t
for natural, 18@22c. for Texas, 3@4 for Merinc
38 22@25c. for Texas, 29B for Merino, 28@30c. fc
c. washed, and l3@l5c. % tb. for berry.
r. CoFFEE-Is in light supply and fair demand
while prices are fair with an upward tendenc.
Private dispatches received to-day from Ne
York report an advance of &c. q b. gold, but "
have as yet no quotable change to notice in ol
'S rates. Sales comprise 100 sacks prime at l9}c.
to b. gold, duty paid. Dealers are supplying ii
le demand for the country at 273@29c. u 1b. Fl
IN. ordinary to prime Rio, in currency.
of FREIGHrs-There is considerable Cotton al
he Produce offering to go forward coastwise, al
at rates are firm, with an upward tendency. The
he is no disengaged tonnage for New Yo
be and Boston, and rates by sail are as follow
nt &c. % b. for Cotton, and S5c. 3 bbl for Flour
of steam to the former, le T9 1b. for Cotton, $40
IN hid for Tobacco, and 60c % bbl for Flou
led Foreign freights are dull and rates are
ely sail to Liverpool, 9-16@Sd. y fb for Cotton,
of AS % hid for Tobacco to Havre 13c. u ID. f
trk Cotton.
35 THE CoTToN CRoP.-The present favorab
my y Is oI fu9 oe VI m
aai and fifty thousand bales of cotton brought to Il
market, which would fully equal in price the cr'
- of any year previous to the war. Such a result
'hl face of unprecedented wet, of worms, of the u
80 set of old systems of labor and the introduction
$40 new and of the natural unsettlement after gre
1899 war, ought to encourage our planters and indu
-71 them to turn to with new energy to cultivate
f85 and to seek to adjust themselves to the new ab
Whoever does not,will fail.
1ao LGalveston Bulletin 9Th ins
OK The same paper has the following on the &C
- crop:
'V't OUR CoRN CRoP.-The corn crop of the Unit
r5n States for the present year is estimated at
ga enormous amount of l,039 900 bushels It
49, stated that in the last twenty-five years the ann
increase of the corn crop has averaged four
re- cent and in the three censuslast taken is stat
the thus: In 1910, ST. 37l ,875 bushels; 1850, So
of GIL ,104 bushels; and 1860, S3O45l ,707 bushe
10 Half the crop is grown in the Mississippi vail
Ate' north of Tennessee. What limit can there be
g is the greatness and power of country whose
2@ nual crop of one single cereal amounts to MT
for than thousand millions of bushels?
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