The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1868-09-07


NEW YORK, Sent. 29.-Flour-receipts 10 III bbls /;
sales 1900 bbls; State and Western Spring Wheat
Flour irmer; Winter dull and 10 a zoe lower; SUI
do so a 90; fancy 10 a 90; round Hoop Ohio
$50 q 8 rs; choice do 0 80 q II so; Superfne Yves
tern 90 q 8 20; common to good extra Western 20
Wheat extra 10 90 q II rs; Southern dull; saes $50
bbls.; common to fair extra 875 a 9 50; good to
choice do go g a 60; California dqll and heavy
sales go sacks at rs a. IL 90 Wheat-Spring
shade tirmer; Winter lower; sales $4,000 bush;
Spring No choice Is and 10 Tor new 10; do No.
1 and Mixed 2 OF; new Amber State choice. %;
old do 80; Winter Red Western common ~;
White Michigan 2 so; White California Is a 2 76;
new Amber Indiana 80: Corn heavy ana &c lower;
sales 69, 900 BUSH; Mixed Western l6 az "a for
sound, and % a 22i for sound. Oats lower; sales
e4,O0 bush; new Western 6S a 72ac; ola and new
do Mixed 74c: cid Western Sic in store, and s3ic
afioat. Beef steady; sales IT'S bbls.; plain mess
IA 90 a 20 co. new extra mess 20 so a a "a IS. Pork
quiet and firm; sales 1900 bbls. mes 2S so a % 3d.
closing at 20 go regular old do ~ 70; prime % 30 q
2425 Lard tirmer and quite active; sales 1850
tierces also 225O tierces steam zoe, buyer Septem-
ber 19c seller to and incnding December, ana 15!c
seller January; tierces 10 a zoe for steam, chiefly at
19s % 19kc and zoe for kettle rendered. Butter quiet
sales Ohio at 81 q CSC; State 81 q 49,. Whiskey dull
dull and shade lower; sales 600 bales; Middling
Uplands 29ic. Rice duh. Sugar quiet; sales IS
hhds; Muscovado 1OI a 1lJc. Coffee in fair request
sales 1900 bags Rio on private e ms. Molasses quiet
Naval Stores quiet; sales Spirits Turpentine at A a
45e; Resin IS q 700. Oils quiet; Linseed o5 q
LOG; Lard, Sperm and Whale quiet. Petroleum
Talow steady; sales g. 900 TBS. at 12t a 13tc Wool
firm with fair demand; sales 960, 900 TBS. at 425 a
5Jc for domestic fleece. SO a 45c tor pulled, 81 a 55c
for tubbed 43 455c for Nos, SIC for Texas 25c Tor
Mexicn 81 a 35c for California Sic tor Mestiza and
Size tor cape. Freights to Liverpool dull; Cotton
per steamer 5-32d; Corn per steamer AID.
CHICAGO. Sept 5.-Flour UNCHANGED; there was a
limited demand; Spring extra so "a so; Spring
superfine 5 123 0675 Wheat in fair demand; No. 2
Spring so q 50t; No. at 68 "a Gs. Corn quiet
ar decline IT a 1jc ssles No. at 96Y 90 SIC; sales
after Change at 81 a 974c. Oats moderately active,
but rices unsettled; buyers at l 52i. Rye in fair
demand at decline of II % &c; sellers at 23I. Rar-
ley in large speculative inquiry at advance of "a
a. Sc; sales at 665 a CT for No. 2. Mess Pork is
frmer at 90 80. Lard firmer and held at 19c. Dry
sailed shoulders life. Tallow quiet at 12t q 12ac.
CINCINSATI. Sept. 5.-Whskey duh at Toe in
bond. Mess Pork quiet but firm at % co. Bulk sides
at 12i @ lac. Bacon firm but quiet at 1890 for shou-
ders and 174c for clear DIES. Hams dull; sugar
cured 20 a 2lc. Lard 1sl a 1sSc.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. 4-Four dull; choice Mime
sofa IS "a 10 90; choice Wisconsin and Iowa ~ "a
81; medium 7 20. Wheat active at So for No.
and SO for No. 2. Oats dull at 73c for No q Corn
firm at CSC for No. 2.
ST. LOUIS, Sept 5.-Mess Pork inactive at % IS.
Bacon unchanged; shoulders 134c; clear rib sides
16lc; clear sides TIC Sugar cured hams zoe. Lard
firm at 1871 Isa for erces and 1slc tor kegs. whis
AUGUSTA. Sept. 5.-Cotton market fiat; Middlings
nominay 27ac.
Mobile, Sept. 5.-Cotton quiet; Middlings 26c.