Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-11-06

RrsARKs Tho market CLOSES with u better
ealing Flour continues dull and prices weak;
vsrv few transactions reported and sales con-
anad to the city trade. Wheat has improved
IN price, and strictly prime may be quoted at
40. the offerings to-day were very light, being
only $50 bushels of white aud so red sales of
white at 2l5 for fair, and red at $50 to l75 for
very poor, and 2c0 2l5 and 225 for fair to good.
Corn continues to improve, and we note an adj
vance of Sa4c; sales of old at 100 and new at 70
AS according to dryness Corn in the ear 7Os
Is per bushel of y lbs. Rye is steady, with
sales at lS5sl4O; offerings limited Sales of 400
bushels Oats at 66a67. Butter very firm, and
prime in demand Eggs are scarce and prices
have advanced. Bacon is quiet. Lard I'M
changed. Dressed Hogs SSaS9 per leo pounds,
with increasing receipts. Green Apples in fair
REQUEST Chestnuts Case 50 per bushel. For
Sumac there is good demand.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, November 5.
Beef Cattle-Prices to- day ranged as follows -
Old Cows and Scalawags at 50a$l; ordinary
thin Steers, Oxen and Cows 4HSl GU far 20
good Stock Cattle bass co. fair quality Beeves
5ss6 80 and the very best Beeves 8 6OaS8 per
100 lbs, the average price being about 30 5O
gross. The market closed dull at decline
from the rates of last week Of 25c per loo lbs,
but chiefly on the lower grades of Cattle.
Sheep.-The supply during the past week has
been greatly in excess Of the demand, snd the
msrket is very dull, but quotations unchanged
Prices to day ranged as follows: Falc to good
fat Sheep at 2Ia4lc per ID gross. Stock sheep
l50at2 so per head, Lambs, do.
Hogs-1he supply this week was small and
the market more firm. bus no change from the
rates of last week Prices to- day ranged SIS fol
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THE MONEY PREssURE.-A letter from New
York on the continued stringency In the mon
ey market mentions that the New York Asso-
cisted Banks had resolved, at their meeting on
Wednesday, that the per cent certlacates,
held as portion of their legal reserves should
hereafter be employed to liquidate Clearing
house balances. This, it was thought, would be
ss!ight measure of relief, but the favorable ef-
feet is yet imperceptible. The merchants are
suffering severely from the pressure, and sew
srsl failures were reported, though none OF
them are large.
WESTERN Pork TRADE.-The Cincinnati
Price Current of Wednesday says; The pork
season has commenced, and many packers nave
been cutting hogs, contracted for sometime
back, but the receipts have not been large
enough to furnish al the houses to sufficient
extent to cut. For the pas week the total re
ceipts 90 not exceed seven thousand head
ThsweSther during the first three days of the
week was too warm to cure with safety, but
since Saturday the temperature has been low
enough, and thedemand for hogs has been sharp
a:abOut at 50 so to So IS net.
PANIC ON THE NEW YORK Stock Board
Accounts from New York represent quite
panic in Wall street. Governments declined 2
per cent, and 4a4 per cent. day was offered
for the use of money. Gold is dOwnto l32salSz5.
The Baltimore money market was more strin-
gent yesterday than ever Tho rates were la
l5per cent on good securities, with few or no
Transactions The stock market felt the inhu-
ence of the panic in New York, but afterwards
recovered
The New York Dry Goods market IS quiet
and nnnn-n1lrr ,,pnhnrnnd in bottoms and wool.