The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-07-23
PETERSBURG, July %, 1868.

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Burqlar--Sale Of the old Virginia Ba"dc.
pETrnsBrRo, July %, 1868.
In the tobacco market there has been but
little change to note since our last report.
Prices are rather better than they were
soyne weeks ago, more observable in the
lover than In the better grades. Of tho
latter, some crops, after being offered, have
bean Withdrawn to await the market IN
August. Receipts continue light, afording
further confirmation, if any were needed,
that the crop is running out. The aggre-
gase inspections up to this time are about
$500 hopsheads, which include about 900
bocshcais sent from Richmond and Lynch
burg. Last year the inspections to the lst
of October amounted to little the rise of
10000 hogsheads, which there is no pros
pect of reaching this year.
Wheat is not coming in as fast as we had
been led to expect, owing probably to the
farmers being occupied in laying by their
growing crops. A considerable number of
small parcels arrive daily, more Of them
being under than over hundred bushels.
In the southern counties, however, and IN
North Carolina, the yield is believed to be
rather short. Merchants who lend or hire
bags to their customers have q portion fire.
quently returned empty. The grain is
lighter than usual, most Of it not weighing
over fifty-six CT ffty-seven to the bushel,
though the appearance is very fair, and it
makes beautiful article of flour.
Corn continues firm, and will not be
lower unless the price in New York should
decline. If, on the other hand, 1t should
advance in that market, there will be cor
responding advance here. The price there
is $1.20 at this time, and the charges at
tending purchase ard shipment, &c., are
1917 cents. AS every thing here is regula-
ted by that market, and our home sources
of supply are nearly exhausted, it will
readily be perceived that corn will CONT
nue. high in this market till the new crop
comes III.
The stock of cotton on hand is not at all
sufficient for supplying the factories. What
little there is, therefore, commands New
York prices, and, indeed, rather more. A
lot was sold yesterday at 329c. Under
these circumstances, spinners are not do
ing more than barely to clear expenses j;
but rs long as they can do that they will
continue operations.
The following quotations are believed
very nearly to represent the state Of the
market to-day:
Iobacco.-Lugs-Low $3.50 to $3.50 !:
good, So to SO; yellow, fine, $50 to $50.
Leaf-Short, common, $40 to Sl2; good,
sl2 to SIS; working, bright, s25 to $50 !;
fancy, a45 to SIS wrappers. common, $40
to SIS; good, sl2 to slS; fine, SIS to $40.
Shipping-Lugs, common, $3.50 to $3.50 !;
medium, $3.50 to $3.50; good, So to SO !;
leaf, medium, SO to Sill; good, Sl2 to SIS.
Cotton. = Ordinary, 20 to 30c.; mid
ding, 80 to 3lc.; choice selections, 81 to
32L5c.
Wheat.-Prime white, 81. prime red !,
1886 ordinary, sl.75 to 81.
Corn.-White, 81 40; mixed, Sl.3S; yell
low, 31.3S.
F1ow.-Fine, $1,000 to sll; superfne,
$l2 to $3.50; extra, $l3 to $780, fam
lily, $l4 to $l4.5O.
Bacon.-Virginia hog-round, 10 to zoe. !;
shoulders, IS to l9c.; sides, 10 to zoe. !;
hams, 22 to 24c. Western shoulders, 15n
to Ice. sides, l712 to lSc. sugar-cured
hams, &c.
Lord.-Virginia, % to 23c. western, in
barrels, zoe. refined. i'll tubs, Ice.
Ffsh.-North Carolina clipped herrings,
SO to Sill; roe, in half barrels, $3.50
to ST..
Butter.-Good country, IS to 4Oc. COM
mon, Is to SOC. Goshen, IS to 4Oc.
Meal-$l.50.
OatS.-S5 to 90c.
Rye.-$1.50.
Many BeanS.-$3.
PeaS.-Stock, $225: black-eye. $3.50.
Ground PeaS.-S3.
Flarseed.-$2.40.
BeeS,oar.-3Sc.
HideS.-Dry, Is to lSc. green, 10 to l2c.
A decided'sensation among a certain class
and their sympathizers has been caused by
the arrest last night, and trial before the
Mayor this morning, Of the inmates and
visitors of one or two disreputable houses
on the outskirts of the city. Six Yankee
soldiers, seven white women, and four ne
gro women, were brought up before his
Honor, and were severally tined-the SOL
diers two dollars and fifty cents each, and
the women five dollars each, except the
keeper of the house, who was fined twenty
dollars. Another exception should be made
of woman who was discharged on ac-
count of having small children. At the
request of the commandment of the post,
the soldiers are to BIZ kept in the city Jail
for several days and fed on bread and
water. The Mayor announced his in
tention of breaking up all these dens,
for which we greatly commend him, though
it is feared he will find it to be Herculean
labor, ms their name is legion. Never in
the history of the city has there been so
much depravity of every kind as exists at
this time. All restraints-among the lower
classes, at least-seem to be entirely thrown
off. And furthermore, to show the ap-
petite of the people for excitement of this
kind, the courtroom during the trial was
damned and crammed with spectators, eager
to catch every word. If Mayor Burgess
would purge his room whenever il is filed
with idlers he would be rendering good
service.
Another sensation, but affecting higher
class of persons, was produced to-day by Il
personal conflict between two gentlemen of
the legal profession. 1t happened in the
clerks Office of the Hastings Court during
the taking of dispositions ina case in which
the parties were respectively engaged as
counsel. They were taken ut once before
the Mayor, who fined them ten dollars
each, and bound them severally in the sum
of $3.50 to keep the peace for twelve
months.
The case of W. B. Miller, Of Nelson
county, who was arrested at his home on
) the charge of obtaining goods of Thomas
> Smith, dry goods merchant on Sycamore
street, to the amount of 500 on false pre-
fences, was also tried by the Mayor this
morning. Miller had represented himself
to Smith as hslding large possessions in
Georgia and Mississippi. In the warrant
which was sued out by Smith, Miller was
charged with having bought the goods on
tho 18th of March lSR6 whereas they ware