Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-08-17

RHMARKs.-The market this morning opened
very dull. Flour quiet with a very light de-
mand. Wheat dull and prices 5aSc lower; Of
Ssrings of roo bushels white Of inferior quality,
snd 1850 bushels red, ranging in quality from
moor to good sales at 1876. 2l5, $40, $50 and 254
For good grades there is q fair demand, but
badly cleaned and tough are very difficult OF
sale, and the large quantity of this description
tends to depress the market. Corn dull and
lower sales of good white and mixed at ll6all7
and damaged at l00al05 offerings did not ex-
coed 1000 bushels. Rye wanted, but the supply
very limited; fair to good 149a145, There was
some activity in Oats, at q further decline IN
prices. at the opening of Change sales were
made at 62a55 but towards the close there was
an and the bulk sold at 5sa6o; offer
ines of 1908 bushels. Provisions quiet and
unchanged. - - -. .-...
Coal TRADE.-The Phiadelphia North Am
erican says 1.-THE demand for coal in the East
ern n arket is increasing, while the wants OF the
line trade are better supplied, owing to few
more collieries having started during me past
vanced twenty-five cents; and it is stated that
the tolls from Mauch Chunck to Elizabethport
will be advanced twenty-eight cents per ton.
Official information has been received from the
Lehigh Valley Railroad Company, that, on ana
S Though coal' for shipmen: will be 81 cents
from Msuch Chunk to Philpsburg-an increase
of II cents; and no doubt the former statement
is correct. Cutie number of collieries started
ut ten hours during this week, but the strikers
soon stopped the majority of them. The opera
tors are now confident that the men Will go to
work next week at ten hours. /"
The week at New York closed with firm
money market on Saturday ct 4a5 per cent TOR
call loans, and per cent for prime business
notes. The movement OF currency 10 me ~ est
last week was much larger than at first suppos-
ed, and the various Express companies report
in the aggregate eleven millions, chiefly IN Ma
tional Bank notes. At this rate it will not take
long to put the rates OF interest up to 6a7 per ct
and make money quite active. There is gen
eral disposition among the banks and capital
lists to prepare tor the fall demand for money
for legitimate trade, and to move the crops
to the seahoard. al -
Ny. FALL TaADE.--The N. Y. Journal Of
Commerce says: Opinions are very divided
in relation to the fall trade The reports in re-
country has been highly favored, and will have
Il liberal surplus to spare for export This WILL
be of little use either to ourselves or others, II It
is held in the hands Of producers, awaiting the
extremity of the highest tide to float It to mar
ket."
GKoRaE TowN CATTLE MARKET.-The sales
st Drovers' Rest. on Friday, were brisk: 215
head Of Cattle at S4s7 pei. 100 lbs gross; soy
Sheep and Lambs at 81 50a4 Is per head; 80
Cows and Calves at $25a70. is -&
RECEIPTS OF BYiRAILROAD.
The following are tho receipts of produce
&c., by railroad for the past week: w
o., A. & M.-Corn 1924 bushels, wheat II 53l,
rye 542, oats Is, GIT, corn meal IS, potatoes 80
bushels, mill ofal 40 bushels, onions 30 bushels,
clover seed s. sumac 27ll sacks, cows hair "a
sacks, -four 374 bbls. butter As frkins, eggs 50
bbls and boxes, apples bbls, wine ! keg, to-
bscco 81 boxes, smoking tobacco bbls, tan
bark SO cords, fish bbls, fowls 10 coops, wood
y cords, lumber 1l,150 feet barytes 49 tons,
spokes 1900, hides 8 bundles, old iron 10000
lbs, cows, calves &C., "a. sand tons, rags 100
lbs, bones 1850, other freight 25 tons. Freight
sent forward 576 tons. ~.
A, L. s. H.-Corn $3.50 bushels, wheat ITO,
bbls, butter 81 bbls, eggs d bbls, plows 1e cast
ings 1900 lbs, wood and lumber 70 car loads,
stock 2 car loads, calves 2 head, chickens l6