Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-08-30

The cotton market is in much the same
condition as yesterday with fewer buy
ers, however, and prices weaker. Sales
for the dsy were very small and were
made o n a basis OF "a to 25c for middling.
Receipts for the day, SO bales. No ship
ments.
The general markets were quiet to-day.
Rain is needed to lay the dust and
moisten the earth, which we learn is in
many places throughout the interior
very much psTched. Stocks Of goods in
this city are suffering from the dry
weather, and breaking down of the only
poor excuse for waterwOrks which we
enjoy. The sprinkliug carts have not
been at work for some days in cOnse-
quence of this arrangement, and with
out an early rain our streets will oon be
in a dreadful condition. There is moth
ing doing in corn which is in light sup
ply and held at 81 10 to 81 IS from store.
Oats are declining with a fair supply
considering the demand. so to 65c are
the selling figures. Meal is scarce and
higher. Selling at SIS so from lgvee and
So from store. Bran is dull at $l6
to SIS. Hay is in large supply and is
very slow of sale at so for timothy.
Potatoes are not plentiful selling at
S 70 to 81 50. Onions, scarce "a to S..
Apples are in light supply and held
at 81 to 81, as to condition. Choice
butter, % to 2Sc; common, Is to zoe.
Chickens, are scarce young, s. to
SIS 80; old, So IS to 81. Coffee, rio, 25 to
27!c. Eggs scarce at "a to 26c. Flour,
dull. fine, S. so to 81 Y, 50 to so; Xxx,
SO 50 to 81 xxx, So so to SIS; fancy
brands, s13 50 to Sl4 Lardin t~ierces, Is
TO l3!c; kegs, l45 to l5c. Mess pork, S25 IS
to S26 %; mess beef, SIC so clear sides, LIT
to I73c shoulders, l3@ to l4c canvassed
hams, IS to zoe sugar cured, p to 23c.
Salt, 50 25 per bbl. Sugar, Il to zoe for
crushed and clarified IA to 10 for
brown. Western Reserve cheese, IA %
Ice; factory, Is TO Ice. Whisky, COM
mon, 81 IS to 81.
The value Of the cotton exported dur
ing the year ending June 30th was S203,-
s07, $40.
Forty-three bales of new cotton were
received in Mobile Monday.
A New York exchange says
A very fair business is doing in dry
goods, and it is likely to be greatly in
creased. Shipments TO the south are
much larger than those of last year, and
greatly exceeds the anticipstiODs in
dulged in during the ummer. The spring
trade with the southern states was very
light, for the reason that money could
not then be raised on the coming cotton
crop. The yield in this respect bids fair
to be so abundant, however, that less
difficulty is experienced in procuring ad-
vances, and southern dry goods mer-
chants are arriving here in greater num-
bers than during any season since the
close of the. war. The statesmen, OF
" drummers," as they are usually called,
VINO secure the southern trade for the
large houses in this city, have fully can
vassed the cotton and southwestern
states, and have, to a very great extent,
succeeded in rebuilding the trade de-
strOyed by the war. Prices of goods are
generally firm but the anticipated in
creased demand will probably result in a
slight advance. A general assortment
is being shipped southwark but the
larger call is for a commoner class of
goods. Serviceable wearing stuffs are
being readily disposed of. CalioOes and
heavy cOttOns are especially in demand.
The shipments to the west are generally
of higher priced materials, and the de-
mRnd for these is gradually increasing.
Silks, satiDs and other imported goods
are selling ia fair quantities, though the
call for them is by no means so great as
il was during the war. Woolens very
generally command fair prices, and an
increased demand for them is ~pereeptible.
The change in the prices Of these is less
than that which occurred between the
ruling rates of the fall of 1865 and the
spring Of this year. Sales of all kinds
Of dry goods are now effected, however,
less promptly than they were last year.
Buyers take more time, apparently, in
selecting stocks, and in many instances
ssk for more time in which to make pay
mests. In many linesof goods there has
been a decline in values thatofers induce
ments to country buyers. This decline
particularly distinguishes cottons, which
within the past few week have declined
fifteen to twenty per cent. In many
portions Of the eastern and middle states
the stocks on hand from last year are
heavier than usual, so that a full revival
of trade cannot be counted on before Oc-
tOber shall have fairly set in. Taken al
together, though, the leading merchants
expect that by the middle of September
they will be doing 3 driving trade.