The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-04-20

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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
Business is getting somewhat dull.
Spring is advancing, and the greater num-
Der OF country merchants have laid in their
STOCKS by this time. Our wholesale grocers
are still busy; but their trade is not subject
to the caprices OF fashion or the changes
Of season.
Charleston has had fair share OF the
spring trade; not as much, perhaps, as
some OF our merchants had hoped for; but.
on the whole, quite as much as they could
have expected, when the circumstances of
tho country and tho times are taken into
Intelligent consideration. OF course, some
have dono better than others; but let mono
despair. Our city enjoys q fine situation
1or commercial metropolis; and when the
country shall have properly recovered from
the paralysis inflicted upon it by the war
and It's consequences, we havc no doubt
Charleston will be one Of the first cities on
tho Atlantic coast; and well for those who
shall then bo here as old merchants: who
shall have grown with her growth, and
shall be thoroughly identified with her in
tercsts. Watch and wait! The good time
Is coming.-Ch07'ieston Ne,cs, 1871
AUGUSTA, April 16.- Cotton market OK
tremely dull Too little doing to give quo
tations; Brokers bnying gold at l26@i27,
and selling at 12S. Silver buying at 100,
and selling At 125.
AudUsTA, April 49, Cotton quiet. There
ls fair demand for the better grades. at
3Ot4.3lc. for middling to strict middliny
brokers are buying gold at 1T, and selling
at 1273; no demand for silver-buviny at
12O; selling at 121.
NASHVILLE, April IA. There was no ma
tcrlAl lmDrOvtllSnf b,, A !.,,, bat
Yesterday. Only about thirty bales changed
hands, at 20H24 cents. At 4 o'clock D. m. ,
dispatches were received from New York
quoting mddling firm at 36A@37t, which is
an advance of cent on the figures of tho
day previous. TIL business in groceries is
rather active, especially so with many of
the leading articles. The demand for cor-
fee and sugar has been brisk, and supplies
ample The trade III produce is moderate
~ fair, and prospects for an increase. A
great deal Of flour selling at fair figures to
supply the local and Southern trade, at
for supertino, ssGls5o; extra fine, 5000 So;
FAMILY, slOM1l; fancy brands, sll. .500ll2 SO
NASHVILLE, April IL Cotton market dull
yesterday. But little Offering, and only 4
few bales soll at 25Gl25! cents.
CIScISSA1I, April IL Flour Grmor and
III good demand. Supcrnc, s7Gl7.25; extra,
sparingly and fully cents higher; No. /
red, S2.051t2. 10; No. ., $40; old, 81 .3r5t
1:4o. Whiskey dull. Small sales at 81 70
Mess pork in active demand at s25G25 50,
but Is held at $3.50, and not freely offered
and $500 ticrccs sold at this rate Bacon
flrm and unchanged at 1GGl1S cents.
CINCINNATI, April IL. Flour iii good de
mand. Superiinc, $7Ni7.25; extra, sS0tS5 80.
extra family, SS.5O0t 10; fancy, Sln5O0 12
Wheat unsettled and higher: No. 2, new
in good demand, at 52055 cents Oats
held cent higher; No. at II cents; No.
at 3G cents. Whiskcy firm, ut S222
Lard held at Is lMlsi cents; but no buyers
! at over ~ cents.
tobacco offered, Fl rejected. Market
steady. Prices ranged for lngs and best,
2412o cents Mess pork, s25; bacon sides
LOT cents; shoulders, l24 cents; sugar
cured ham, - cents; Whiskey, s222.
Superhne Hour, S6.50Q17.5O. Mixed corn,
shel!cd, G3 ccnts. Oats, in bulk, II cents
Apalarhicola has received 1OO, 900 bales
of cotton since May last, and exported G5.
3i5 bales 600 to New York, III 600 to
Liverpool, and the remainder to New Or
leans. Value Of cotton exported, sl3,
OCO, 900.
A Macon (Ga.j journal, Of last week,
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city, yesterday, was 9,155 bales, as follows
In Macon, 9,229; in East Macon, 1855; total,
9,755 bales.
| Ihe above figures may be relied ON as
being as nearly correct as can be obtained
as we visited every warehouse or other
BUILDING where cotton is stored in the city,
and got, III some instances, the exact
amount in store. The total exceeds most
OF the previous estimates of those with
whom we have talked, but we feel sure
that onr figures do not vary much, either
way, from .he stock actually on hand
An auction sale OF cargo of sugar and
molasses took place at Norfolk, on Thurs
day. Tho former brought 12.M12t cents
per pound; and the latter, 56GEG3 cents pei
gallon.
The New York bank statement last week
shows that profits, with small regard tc
risk, is the motto of the majority Of bank
managers. The loans are mp to 81, SOC, 900
tho deposits show q gain of 81, COZ, 900, and
the circulation s493, coo gain Tho specie
shows loss Of 81, 600, 900, which has found
Its way into the custom house. The banks
have every sail spread to the breeze anc
are making dividends such as were never
earned when the currency Of the country
was on specie basis and which cannot be
continued when they return to spcci,
again.
RIcHMoNp, April lG.-Bacon sides, 16i@
II cents; hams, new, 220l23; old, 2O0o2l
shoulders, old, l4AMl5: new, 1GNll7; Vir
ginia hog round, l7@lS Butter has riser
very much selling readily at from G0Msl
cents. Flour market active, and prices fo
Virginia flour trmer. Virginia family
(nominal,) $l3GI14; Virginia extra, STA
LOO; superfine, so; Northern family