The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-06-25
PETERSBURG, June "a, 1868.


PETERSBURG, June "a, 1868.
We,have no increase Of activity to report
In the general course Of our business trans
actions. Even in the tobacco market less
animation is perceptible than prevailed
few weeks ago. There has been somo de-
cline in leaf, while the prices Of Tugs, both
for manufacturing and shipping, are well
sustained. The receipts for the past week
show considerable increase over those of
the preceding week, being 800 hogsheads
against 2l9. The whole number of hogs
heads inspected at the severals warehouses
since the lst of October last is e,942.
While the cotton market is somewhat
frmer, the stock on hand in this city has
been SO much reduced that opr quotations
are little more than nominal. Beyond
doubt the cotton crop,of last year is very
nearly exhausted. The estimated stock on
hand at all the ports at latest mail dates,
was $1,000 bales, and at SAFE time last
year 100000.
The factories are still running on short
time, some of them making FIVE days in the
week, and others less. Each one is govern
ed by its own peculiar circumstances. The
market for cotton goods, without having ad
vanced any in price, is yet frmer; and it
is the policy of the factories to manufacture
to the full extent of their ability to sell
without actual loss. With this in view they
would prefer to work full time, which it is
thought they will be able to do ct On early
day. Our stock of the raw material, how
ever, being so nearly drained, n supply will
have to be obtained in other markets for
most Of the spinning done between now
and the first or middle of October. Such q
thing has not happened before in many
years, if at all.
AS far as we have been able to obtain
reliable intelligence from the surrounding
country in regard to the crops, it appears
that the wheat is being generally harvested
this week, and that it has not been serious
ly damaged by the rust or rains. 1t is be-
lieved that the yield will be very good :;
that it will, in fact, be the best crop that
has been garnered for years. The oat crop
promises to be most abundant one. In
North Carolina and the adjoining counties
in Virginia, the stand of cotton is good, and
the cultivation well abreast with the pro-
grcss of the plant. Corn, OH which less
pains have been bestowed, is represented to
be good deal in the grass. Tobacco is
growing off finely. With few exceptions the
supply Of plants was abundant, and the
weather for transplanting has been emf
nently favorable. On the whole, the pro-
spect for the year is highly encouraging,
and both planters and merchants appear to
be in better spirits than at any correspond
ing season since the war. The former are
looking forward to better fall trade than
they have been blessed with for years.
We submit the following quotations as
being as nearly accurate as possible:
C0tton.-Ordinary, 81 to 2Sc.; mid
ding, % to 29c.; choice selections, 20 to
SOC. Stock very low, and receipts light.
ToJacco.-Lugs--Low, $3.50 to $3.50:
good, SIS to So; yellow, fine, $50 to $50.
Leaf-Shert common, $40 to SIP; good, sl2
to SIS; working, bright, s25 to $50 fancy,
SIS to SIS. Wrappers-Common, SO to
SIS; good, sl2 to SIS; fine, SIS to $40.
Shipping-Lugs, common, $3.50 to So me-
dunn, $3.50 to 81; good, SIS to So; leaf,
medium, $40 to $ll; good, $3.50 to $3.50.
Flow.-Fine, 5000 to Sill superfne,
Sl3 to $3.50; extra, Sl4 to sl4.5O; FAM
lily, SIS to $3.50.
Whcat.-None in the market.
Corn.-White, $l.20 to sl.22; mixed,
Sl.lS to $l.20; yellow, Sl.lS to $l.20.
DuCOH.-F1 tSIhla AoS -iouilu' io0'' eHoui-
ders, lG1ac.; sides, lSc.; hams, zoe.
Western shoulders, l5115 to &C.,; sides; l7ls
to lSc. sugar-cured hams, zoe.
Lard.-Virginia, 22c.; western, in bar
rels, Is to l9c.; refined, in tubs, II to lSc.
Fish.-North Carolina clipped herrings,
$1,000; gross, SIS to $3.50; roe, in half
barrels, $3.50 to 81.
Butter.-Good country, % to Csc; COM
mon, Is to 2Oc. Goshen, IS to 40c-
Meal, $3.50; Oats, 75c.; Rye, $3.50;
Many Beans, 81; Peas-Stock, s2.25;
black-eye, IS; Ground Peas, $3.50; Flar-
seed, $40; Beesauar, 35c.
Potatoes.-Irish, $l.50; sweet, 80.
Dried Fuit.-Apples, to &c.; peaches,
10 to l5c. berries, lOc.
HideS.-Dry, l5c. green, l0c.
beg to return my Acknowledgements to
your correspondent "W. j." for his valua-
bic paper on the strawberry, published in
the Dispatch of this morning. In this, as
in other contributions to your columns, he
has laid the lovers of fruit culture under
many obligations to him. S.