The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-03-28

NEW YORK: March 2l.-Cotton irmer and decid-
eddy more active; sales 1900 bales; Nliddling up
lands 253 az 26c. Flour 10 q 15e better Tor low grades
with more doing in port for EXPORT sales r. 4O1 bbs
superfne to choice State 8 20 a 10 20; round hoop
Western 20 10 IS; choice do 10 IS a II 25 good 10
cholce White Wheat extra II 90 a HOO Southern
iirmer; sales 600 bbls common choice $50 "a 14T5;
California firmer; sales 1900 sacks at ~ rs "a IA
bush; Chicago Spring No. at 2 50 a IS; No. at
~ "a 70 store and delivered; choice White Gen
essee 81; White California 10; Red Southern com
mon 10. Corn lc better; sales 10000 bush. Oats
decidedly firmer; sales 81 900 bush. Western S63 40
sc in store Beet firm; sales 400 bbls.; new plain
frmer bur quiet: sales 1850 bbls.; new mess p 70
q so sold % 81 a % 70; prime 20 % q 20 81 Lard
heavy and lower; sales $50 bbls. at Is q 1G2c. But
at O3 III tor Carolina. Sugar less active; sales 7GO
hhds; Muscovado 10l a 12c. Coffee firm for Rio
hhds; Muscovado 45c: Naval Stores firm; Spirits
Turpentine So q 6Jc Rosn 15 a 90. Oils steady;
h LIN IL g 20 Petroleum steady crude 121 q
$1,000 TBS. at IA q 129c. Freights TO Liverpool
shade irmer; Cotton PER sail 3-16 a ID, and per
steamer q Sd;' Corn per steamer Sd.
CHICAGO, March 7.-flOur more active and un-
changed Wheat more active and advanced a. 2Ic;
NO. lresh at Oh; No. at 924 a / 925, closing
firm Corn firmer; new steady; buyers sisc sell
ers at 81; fresh receipts S24 a S3@c; No. Nominal
ular and 5Sa O. 594c for fresh. Rive quiet and IN
changed: Barley-noihing doing Pork unchanged.
,oOoO Ai3OJ oShicS SGtduy DIT lZEc sacked.
Lard nominal.
CISoiNGATI. March 27.-Provisons ouiet with
little doing. Mess Pork nomnally unchanged Bulk
Meats in moderate demand at 1OI "a 124e ior sbonid
and sides. Bacon unchanged with a fair iobbino
business in clear rib and clear sides at l44 m lie
Sugar cuoed Hams quoted at IS CS Isle Lard mi
at IL e l64c for country and city.
ST. LOUIS, NO., March 25-Tobacco inactive and
buy ers and sellers are apart. Flour-low and uedi-
qm grades declined 25c; choice and fancy firm; the
demand was small; superfine at 25 al 90: extra
S!5 30; treble TO fancy II rs a 14O0. Wheat de-
chned 9 DC; prime and strictly choice Winter Red
and Winter White 2 % @275; Spring 2 Os q 10.
firm small sales choice FAN at &C. Rye steady! nj
20 g, .: Pork unchanged at 25 90; for April de-
vePy 70 81 Bacon aeon dn weak and nnchaneed
shout ers and rib sides loose 10 a 12c. La d held at
al63c; Ice was bid. Cattle-common to choice 90 a
W gross. Sheep 90 q 5 so per head.
,. LorIsvILLE March 2o.-Tobacco-sales 25s hhds.;
Owen county cutting "a 70. Cotton 22f 40 Fam
asuperflne p g 80. Wheat 40 9255. Corn soc
Tor shelled III bulk ear s5c. Oats o. "a zoe in buk
Mess Pork rs 90. Lard--lierces 16 Cd 16lc. Bul1.
Seats unchanged. Bacon-shoulders ilsc; clear rib
6ea DIES i44c clear sides 15tc; fancy hams 17sc-
Whskey, Tree, 90
MEMPHIS. March 25-Cotton nominal; receipts
5S8 bales; exports $40 bales. Flour dull suparfne
500 q co. Mess Pork at &c 90. Bacon-sloulders
re; clear sides l4c; bulk shoulders 1c clear sizes
soc. w. oA'' 30 =
MOBILE. March 27.-Cotton closed firm at 24sc;
Sdles tlle week 9b5U bales;
ceipts 2927 baes exports, foreign, 1878 bale; coast
Wise Sl52 bales; stock ON hand 81, 597 bales.
New ORLEANS. March 27.-Cotton active; sales
today 5000 bales Middling 25c; receipts 1860 bales
exports $40 baes sales of the week 1900 bales re-
ceipis of the week IA, bales; exports TOR the week
foreign 25,z26 bales; coastwise Sass bales; stock
port 1888 bales. Superintendent confined 10 ioeaI
trade; fully fair 145c Molasses at 60 a SOC for com
mon to choice refined.
AUGUSTA, Ca, March 27.-Cot.on market stiff.
holders too high for buy sales 200 bales receipts
$50 bales; Middllng 24Il a 2ec.
CHARLESTON, 5. c., March 21 Cotton active and
advanced q 3e; sales 1000 tales; Mi idng 251 a
2oze; receipts 6S3 bales; ex, ,orts, 1922 bales.
=, SAVANNAH, March 2y-Cotton opened steady but
Zoe; sales 800 bales; receipts 6S5 bales.
DAN FRANCISCO, March 27.-Legal Tenders 72t.