Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-03-29
COMM MERCIAI,

Yorkyille, March 2S.-- Cohon.-Phe demand fol
this article continues dull, depressed prices The trans
actions for the past week larger than usual
changed prices We continue former quotations of Is
20 cents per pound in gold, rs extremes
Flour-For good country, we quote Sc per hundred
pounds
Corn.-Sl.25 per bushel. Corn Meal.-Sl.aj.
Seed Oats.-Sl TO sllO per bushel. Irish Potatoe-sl
Groceries, 8e-Sugar, per pound, l2H TO e0c; Coffee
per pound 26 10 3Oc Baggng per yard % to 3oc Manila
Rope per pound % 30; Hemp Rope pound, 20 t'
25c Cheese, per pound, 25 TO 3Oc; Peas, 81 Bacon
hog round, Is cents Lard II Dried Fruit 81 PEI
hushel
All Of the above quotations are In gold.
Charlotte, March 27.-- -Coaon.-A few bale,
changed hands to-day n, Is to 2lSc god and ai to DC
in currency.
Flour Si4 to SIS per barreI Bacon 6 to lsc per pound
Corn, 81 40 to Sl.45 per bushel.
Now York, March 24.--Cohon-Th market l:
less active, but prices very firm Sales OF 100 bales
Charieston. March a4.--Coton .slncc our las
weekly report the prices of the staple have been very vel
mainained but the constant downward course of Gold
and Exchange has in the last few days produced decline
Of llh per lb The receipts pts Of the week amounted te
and the sales foot up about 200 bales The decline In
price is felt mos, decidedly in the lower qualities and we
offer the following quotations rs an indication of the value
Of the article yesterday:
Low Ordinary to Good Ordinary. .2sGa
Low Middling. .N(d3s
Middllng. .36ta3
Strict 10 Good Middling. .4OCa4l
Corn-s in good demand, and the stock IL light. We
learn of sales of 1000 bushels White 81 cents per bshe
measure, and 1000 bushels White at Sl0I per bushe
weight The jobbng price is about SO5to SO6per bush
el weight.
Oats-The supply is sufficient for the demand which Ii
quite limited. The article In large quantities, may be
quoted at 60d65 cents per bushcl.
Flour-There Is good stock on hand at present, and
fair demand We hear of sales of MiddlingS at e25
Fine N st, S,3TQ $50 {; SuDer SYa9,5O.
Bacon-The market Is abundany supplied, and the ar
ticle rather dull Shoulders selling in limited way nj
l5l6 per ID. Ribbed Sides al lS1 cents per b.
Common Hams; 22IG23 cents per 10. and Sugar Cured
25a27 cents pcrlb
Molqses.-A cargo of the crop of Cuba offered
here on Wednesday, but the most of it was withdrawn
Clayed, In hhds brought i6 TO 4S cents per gallon Mus
covado, in hhds brought AZ to 40 cents per gallon Mus
covado, in tierces, So to 53h cents per gallon.
SaH-There has been receipts for some tme and the
article is sold in limited quantities at l6O 10 ls0 per sack
Richmond, March 24.--The downward tendency
in all descriptions Of merchandise and the continued srn
gency of the money market form the standing topics of the
day. Efforts made by leading merchants resist the
rapid encroachments of the declining contagion but
asutc rival appears here and there announcing himself
rapport with the Northern trade and ready submit to any
decline Unfortunately, all Of merchants not SC
situated and means being already limited by
circumstances, heavy concession will be runous many
The dry goods ira de 10 be the depressed In
dress goods the concession has been very age extending
TO prints aud all fine fabrics, being lightest woOens and
standards. In New York, the fall in month"; some
descriptions of goods, amounted To 100 per cent The
ucCllnr. however, VIII nor NF"So 'wShty
Our leading merchants down their prices consid
erably in many fabrics.
The grocery business Is also very dull and AIDE
cline IN sugar and coecs OF several cents per pound and
also in bacon. is however, noticeable fact that while
Northern bacon hams have been selling Al from 20 TO p
cents wholesale, quantities OF country cured have been
sold In small quantities in the markets from thirteen
fifteen Whether the venders have been influenced
by apprchesons Of trichnoss impending panic docs
not appear.
Liverpool, March IO.-- Conon-Salcs to-day
90 600 bales; market buoyant and prices trhe higher
Middling upland l9Gl9&d.
FINANCIAL.
Charlotte, March 27.--Gold, sl.a7 TO Sl.aa. Sill
New York, March 24.--Gold has been rather close
to day and has been loaned a the rate OF per cent
day The tendency, however, has been downward. The
rate opened at l289 and fell to average Of about 2s
Charleston, March 24.--God Is purchased By
brokers al 26 and sold at 2S.
Richmond, March 24.--Financal matters are
quiet There pressing demands for money atfrOm five
10 six per cent? street rates The banks are doing about
the usual business The gold in New York yesterday
opened al l2s reached an eighth advance and closed al
l2iT. Nothing doing here.
South and North Carolina Bank Notes quoted as fol-
lows:
Sourn CARoLlNA.-Bank vi Camden 35 cents Charles
ton ID Chester II; Georgetown Is; Hamburg Is ; New
berry 49, South Carolina Is State Of South Carolina
old, Is; Commercial Bank Columbia l6; Exchange
chants, c6eraw, i; Peoples Bank 81 Planters Bank
IL; Planters and Mechanics Bank lS; Southwestern
Railroad Bank IS; State Bank 5; Union Bank SIS.
North CARoLsA.-Bank of Cape Fear 25 ; Charlotte,
l6; Clarendon 81 Commerce IL Fayetteville 8; Lexing
ton Is; Branch Graham D.; North Carolina 30 RoI-
borO % Thomasvle %; Wadcsborough II; Bank OF
Washington g; Wilmington TO- Yanccyvic 8; Com
mcrcia Bank, Wilmington, ID; Farmers Bank of North
Carolina 3 GrrcnShorougl Mutual Insurance Company
s. Merchants Bank, Ncwbcrn %; Miners and Planters
Bank %.
VALUE OF CosrepERArrf CuRREScy-Annexed is a ta-
BILE showing the value OF "Coniedeate curcncy In Uni
ted States currency for the last four yearsdcpucd from
the average monthly of the respective eucnccs In
gold, at New York. Richmond and Augusta.
AS the of stamp duty upon documents executed du
ring the late war based upon the value Of the condera
ton in United States currency, this table will be found very
convenient in fixing that value.
TABLE SHOWING THE RELATIVE VALUE or "coSFEDERATE'
ASp UNITED STATES CURRENCY FOR FOUR YEARS.