The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-11
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

The New York Commercial Adce,tise,-
The presents movements Of foreign COM
merce show a balance Of exchanges in our
favor, and account for the almost total ces-
sations Of the shipments OF specie. Al
though the exports are confined to an
unusual extent to cotton, there being at
the ports no important surplus Of Northern
produce for expectation, yet the shipments
OF that staple are more than sufficient to
make up the deficiency of other commodi-
ties: BY collection of the latest details
OF the exports of cotton at Southern ports,
we are enabled to present the following
comparison of exports and imports for four
weeks of March:
Total exports from New York for
:, four weeks ending March q. s2l, ,G1I, ,737
Exports or cotton from New Or
leans for first four weeks OF
March, estimated at $l75 per
bale, ...;.. ........ -. 11,ooO, 900
Exports of cotton from other
Southern ports, for same pc
riod and at same value. .... 5000, 900
:. Total ....... ....... s37, ,6s1, 1877
aiue OF same IN gold at Sl3O. %, ,994, ,491
Imports at New York for four
four weeks ending March 81 2s, 1888, 100
Excess OF imports . s3,76O, ,s31
Supposlng the movements at other ports
10 about balance, we have thus an excess
OF exports over imports, for the last four
weeks, of nearly three millions in gold
value. This movement takes no account
OF the expectation of 5-20's during the
month, which have been made to a limited
extent, nor Of remittances from London on
account of railroad loans, both of which
increase the balances in our favor
Of the Louisville market, the Courier,
saws:
There was apparently but lit.e move
meni IN any department, excepting the
steady inquiry for corn and hay, to fill
southern orders, with sale of 4 round lot
OF 3o tons prime timothy hay baled at SI4
per ton; also, sales of $40 bales in two lots
at 80, delivered at the Nashville Rail.
road Depot. A round lot of 800 bushels
prime wnate in corn was made at 7Sc., and
sales OF 600 bags mixed, in new gunnies, at
'Zc per bushel, delivered. Bacon sides
were slightly lower, with sales on Change
at Ice. A sale of a lot of extra mess pork.
80 barrels, was made at S2G
CINcINNATI, April g. A fair demand for
grades are dull and prices unchanged.
Wheat is in better demand; for No. red.
1.S0; old, $2.206ts2.3 30: no white Offering
Corn dull, at 350t SEC. for No. 2, and 4Oc. for
No: !: Whiskey dull, at s222 Gold 126,
and dull
New YonK, April Cotton heavy, at SO
G39 for middling. Flour dull and in favor
Of tuvers, at s7.10NeS7. so for extra: SO. GOA
81 ior trade brands. Whiskey steady, at
1926. Wheat quiet, at 81. .650S$1 &c. Gold,
to-day, has been l27t@l27k, and closing at
latter
New YORK, April .. Cotton, to-day, de-
clned cent. Sales GOO bales at 3S0l39c.
Gold 1876.
The CoTToN CRor.-A correspondent OF
the Memphis appeal, writing from 5Iissis-
sipPi, says:
III shall not, at this time, obtrude an
opinion in regard to the extent Of the pros
pective cotton crop. 1t may be. if the ne
groes prove faithful laborers to the end OF
their contracts, two-thirds of a crop. If
they do not so prove, there may not be sent
to market more than one-third or one
fourth of crop, as compared with 1860. l
have converscd with no man who expects
his laborers to do more than two-thirds the
amount of the work the same number did
before the late war, and many planters will
be agreeably disappointed if they receive
the benefit of one-half that amount. There
is no data upon which TO base calculation
OF this years crop: and if any one under
takes to tell you Of its probable extent in
round numbers, do YOU just set him down
as either speculator in the staple, or a
consummatc 'Sasser' one who likes to
talk"