The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-03-31
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.

COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
New ORLEANS, March A.-The cotton
market exhibited better feeling at the
opening, this morning, despite the further
decline in prices at New York, as announced
greater steadiness towards the close of
business this evening, we are enabled to
furnish spproSimating quotations. which
BALTIMORE, March 27.-Flour steady.
Wheat steady. Corn dull; white 70c.; yel-
low 69@70c. Oats firm. Provisions dull
and nominal. Groceries heavy. Whiskey
s2.26.
New ORLEANS, March 2G.-Cotton de-
pressed, with sales of 1000 bales Re-
ceipts to-day, 1000 bales; yesterday, 1920.
Low midding, 96@S7e: Sugar, 13@24c.
New York bank checks discount. Freights
unchanged.
CHARLESTON, March 3O.--Cotton through
out the past week has felt the fluctuations
in gold in foreign exchange, but on the
whole the price has been maintained with
remarkable steadiness, and the decline
which occurred in the middle of the week
was entirely restored yesterday. We quote:
Low ordinary to good ordinary, 3O033 per
lb.; low middling, 35@36 per lb; middling,
S7@- per lb.; strict middling, $50 per
h.; good middling, 39@- per lib. There
has been more inquiry in the last few days
for Sea Island cotton, but we have not
heard of any transactions.
COTTON STATEMENT.
s. I'd. Up'd
Stock on hand Sept. /, 1865. 3G2 1910
Receipts from Sept l, 1865, to
March 81, 1885,. ........ 4,l93 5000
Receipts from March 90 to
March %. ............. 70 2,5o2
Total receipts ............. 1925 TO- ,os1
Exports. S. I'd. LTp'd
Exports from Sept.
l, 1865, to March
%, 1866. 49,. 1887 CT SOS
March 20, 1866. 259 4,475
Total exports 4, ,096 &C, ,OS3-4. .O9G C.OS3
On hand and shipboard. 49,. 500 a,99S
The receipts or naval stores amount to
about 1,200 bbls. of crude turpentine and
rosiE, most of which passed through. We
quote 81 per $50 pounds.
The supplies of rice coming in az. limit
ed. and prices remain unchanged-say II
@12c. per pound.
About 800 bales of North River and 800
Of Eastern hay have been received during
/ the week. Sales tGok place ut s1.50MS1. rs
per 100.
Some 80 900 bushels of corn have arrived
since our last, part ofwhich passed through
to the interior. The demand is good, and
we quote S1.02@lS1. .05, weight.
The supply OF oats is sufficient for the
demand, and the article is bringing, in n
jobbing way, about 70c. per busheI We
learn OF a sale Of $40 bushels from New
York, to arrive, at 60c. per bushel measure.
The supplies of flour for some days past
have been large, but there is a verv fair
demand and stocks DO not accumulate,
Notwithstanding the large arrivals. Sales
OF super have taken place at SSM$9 per
bbl.; fine S5@SS.25; middling, S7S7; extra,
$40.
Several parcels of Muscovado sugars
have reached here from Mantanzas, and
we learn of sales of so hhds. at 12tGD13c
per pound.
The market is amply supplied with mo-
lasses by direct arrivals from Cuba, and
we hear of sales of clayed, on the wharf,
at 430l46c.; Muscovadoes, 49@5Sc., accord
ing to package; Porto Rico, in hhds.. 7O@
IS per gallon.
Large supplies of bacon have arrived
here during the week, but the demand,
which is almost entirely in small quanti-
ties for plantation purposes, continues
good. Prime shoulders are held at 15@
16c. per pound; prime ribbed sides at 18c.
per pound: hams, 22@26c.
| Two cargoes of salt have arrived from
Liverpool during the week, amounting to
about 5000 sacks. AS the market is ex-
tremely dull and the article cannot be sold
bnt at low figure, it NAV be placed in
bond.
Gold was in active demand yesterday
---hich the brokers were buying freely at
81, ant;aelling at %.