The Portland daily press., 1868-09-29
Do,nesric MARKERS,


NEW BEDFORD. Sept. 2S-The whaling new
from the Arctic was received In private dispatch Il
house IN This city on Saturday morning. The re
result vas the purchase OF about 1900 bbs of North
ern and Coast Oil, reported % ~ gal The sam,
day there were sales OF Whalebone as follows III
New York 1000 fb'. rctc at 40 D H. and in tb.
city 5oOo do at 40 and 5000 do at 43t Mercury
NEW YORK. Sept % Flour 10 % zoe lower: sale.
1880 bb,s; superfne State so a 90: round hooI
Ohio S5 a 10 30; extra Western SO "a 30; SOUTH
ern 20 q IA 2, 09 100 California at g 1o75 Wheat
and2 Mixed 10; Amber tennessee 225 Corn fc
better; sales $4,000 BUSH; Mixed Western 1 10 a
II. oats quet sales AZ 001 BUSH; new Western at
74c afoat. Beer dull Pork tirmer sales 1850 bbls.
new mess Is 70 % % 55 Lard dull sales 525 tierces.
go.t' firm; sales 1850 bales Mddling upands 254c.
sugar steady sales 800 hhds; Porto Rico pc; Mus
hrm sales 800 bags bio on private terms. Molas
ses steady; sales 123 hhs Porto Rico Gee. Freighs
to Liverpool firni.
NEW YORK, Sept 28.-Cattle market. Beef east
"a l7c. Sheep and Lam active at lower prices; re-
ceps 80 1872 head; quotations ranged fi m Al a. &C.
ceps 1896 head; quotations "a q 1oS SO.
BUFFALO, n. Y. Sept. 26.-Freights dull and
unchanged. Flour depressed and nominal and buy-
and sellers wide apart; no quotations to be Civ
BUSH No. Mixed Western at 1 CO; car lots at OF
a &C. Oats dull and weak; sales 20 900 bush. at
G3c. Rye-sales 5000 bush. No. Western a. S5
Barley firm sales two cals Stare at 80; tour cars
Canada at 49,. Peas dull sound nominal at at GO
Pork duh at 30 30. Lard l91c, Highwines-sales 60
bbls. at 80.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2G.--Coal Market,-Tbe
market is very firm, but there is less disposition Is
buy except Tor immedate delivery, white the shin
pers are only wiling to sell at advanced prices The
lack OF desie to sell arises partly from the ptoximi
~ OF the Scranton sale, which takes place on next
Wednesday, and at which higher prices are expected
and partly to the suggestion that the miners will
dem ana an advance of wages about the first of De-
tober Prices OF Coal BY the cargo at Port Rich
mond :-Schuykl red ash. prepared, S. 80 90 8 rs;
do chestnut, So 10 a 49, white ash lump and steam
at "a ~ 9 60; do orcken and egg, 81 30 "a 10;
do stove So % q 40; do chestnut, SIS 90 a 00 Lo,
Gust Mountain lump and steamboat 81 40 20 TO; do
broken and egg So 90 az 20; do stove SIS 40 a so;
do CHESTNUT 81 o. q 10.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2s-Flour dull with small bust
ness; Spring extras Is az 8 80. Wheat in tar de-
mand and unsettled at decline OF i9 &c; sales No.
sales No. at 94t q 9isc; No. quiet and advanced
lie; 81 les at SO "a soc; sales No. in the alter
1T ss seller otesfS 9ass steady se
No. /. Barley advanced q &c; sales at IL for No.
2; rejected 81 g CO. Whiskev weak and declined
9 q; free IS; Provisions quiet and unchanged.
Mess Pork steady at % 20. Lard 1870. Dry sailed
SHOULD ers 114c,
CINoINNAi Sept. 2s.--Flonr and Wheat dull and
nomna,iy UNCHANGED. Corn advancil 6 and in good
ea IN n ear 70 e " Oats advancing; sales at
at "a. Barley excited and irregular; Fall scarce:
buyers at so q Co. but offered at that price,
Cotton nominally unchanged. Tobacco quiet WINS
Key dull at 40. Mess Fork held firmly; sales at
% 20. Lard-sales at 1850 and held later at 1890
Bulk Meats held firmly at lie for shoulders and I3a
% nc tor sides. Bacon firm with a tair jobbinC
business at l24 1oc for shoulders, 14Jc for rib 15c
for clear and ice for clear sides. Hams DULL sales
at 10 "a 195c. b, I'M ~.
Louisville, Sept. 26-Tobacco-sales 2s hhds.;
Jugs 80 "a sos fair IS so; cutting leaf IS 90 "a 20 t.
supertne Flour so a 700 Wheat / 90 a To-
Corn Corn 90 CO. a. Oats ats 81 e 5e aye 40 s. Mess
13ic clear ribbed sides 1871 a. l5ac; clear sides 16l
Gle Bulk Meats-shoulders IL q 12c; cl ar sides