Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-04-21
coMmERcxAL.



OFFICE OF THE DAILY APPEAL. /
AzAfHIs, April %, 49, pm. J
0eneraz nusfnesas
Filling ont snaH ordsrs and shipping
them to the intsrior was about the ex-
tent of to-days business. Trade is very
dali even Ia the retail way, and many Of
oar Main street merchants are rspaint-
Ing and fixing up their stores for the
want Of more profitable way Of pass
lag time. Planters who were in town q
few days sgo exerting themselves 3
make some arrangement for being car
ried through this season, and finding i
futile, are in many cases again coming %
town, prepared to buy with essh that
whieh c0ald not be furnished on ulns.
This is right. They should remember
that the merchant must, Al this time Of
distrust and want Of canhdsnees pay the
cash for every article Ia hls stock and
that few OF them, If any, can afford 70
sell even on short time, much less until
be could get some return for his next
crop. We regret to see that 50 many Of
our planters are seeking credit when 1t Is
known that many Of them have money
but wish to bold il for some emergency
which We Aass think ls purely imagin
sry. III instead Of keeping their cash
locked up, they will supply their wants
and pay for thsm, our merchants viii be
well able % weather the financial storm
which has been going on for the past
few weeks. No doubt there are many
who have no means, who ara even worse
of than q year ago, bat We only aIiuds to
those who have the means but who stiii
prefer to by Oh credit
COTTON-The sotton market is quiet.
and 50 far as sales are concerned there
might as well be none Of the staple at
this point. buyers and sellers are doing
nothing. Those who are diaposed to
take even q few baIea are afraid to pur-
chase, owing TO the condition of the
money market. This week has closed
by far the dullest of the season. The
closing dispatch from New York quoted
that market dull and nominal at a4l to
25e, with sales for tAs dsy OF 1200 bales,
and receipts 500 bales. The sales for the
week were 1900 bales, and exports
"A, sos bales. The statement Of cotton
at this port up to this morning as re-
ported by the Merchants Exchange
Price Current, q "a follows:
MEMPHIS COTTON sTATEIEST.
stock on hand Sept. LIST, baes...-. IOS3i
Received this week k-.,....------.--.-.-.-- LIZ
Received previously -, ,,420 50
,sa5
Exported this wsaz.,..,.-.......-...-.-- 2,350
Exported previously isi, ,Oz0-l9d 40
stock on hand April b 77975
To this has to be added $50 bales re-
ceived to-day The shipments to-day
amounted to $50 bales-leaving the stock
on hand IA 955 bales at the Cloas.
The greet scarcity of wheat in Iowa has
so run up the price Of it throughout the
state that hundreds Of farmers found it
/ literally impossible to get seed for the
coming crop. With promptness and
| becoming generosity the Duhuque board
I of trade recently voted to appropriate
/ SIG, COG for the lelief Of such persons,
! lOaning them the means to buy seed for
/ their ground and wait until harvest for
their pay.
EXPORTS OF PROvIsIONS.-The total
exports of provisions from all ports in
| the United States, for the fortnight end
/ ing on date nearest to the 10th, since
! January l, and up TO the same date last
year, were as follows