The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-12-03
Reported for the Dispatch.
Petersburg Markets.

Inc peHeTdl lTdue u the
to improve, and our wholesale merchants
are making more and larger bills with their
customers than at any previous time during
the season.
The receipts of cotton have been heavy
this week, and the price we'll sustained at
an average of twenty-three cents. To-day
the market is somewhat easier than it was
Yesterday and the day before, but not quota
bly, lower. Sales have been made at the
above price, but the transactions are light.
There are many reasons why planters should
hasten their cotton to market-aQ who have
the facilities for doing it. Owing to the I'M
usually dry fall, the southern rivers are not
yet navigable, and hundreds Of thousands
of bales are awaiting shipment as soon as
the waters rise. When they are thrown on
the market the price must give way to some
extent-it is impossible to tell how much.
Nor is the cotton at1oat at this time by any
means large. But towards the close of win
ter and early in the spring our cotton will
have to contend in foreign markets with the
Egyptian, Indian, and South American
crops, which may, and doubtless will, have
depressing influence. Planters, there
fore, cannot reasonably expectto get more
now; and, moreover, present prices ought
to he regarded as satisfactory for q staple
liable to so many fluctuations.
Loose tobacco is coming in very freely,
but nearly all of it shows a great want of
body. If it is to be considered as anything
like o fair indication of the crop, the pro-
portion of both fine and heavy tobacco will
be small. The leaf is not lacking in size,
but it is sadly wanting in the qualities most
desirable. We wish it were in our power
to convince planters how much more to
their interest it would be to 60 for weight of
leaf than for size. 1t would amount to all
the difference between Il paying and non
paying crop. Such chatiy stuff rs may be
seen any day at the Exchange deserves to
be classed among those things the produc-
ton of which costs more than they come to.
From the best information we have been
able to get, the tobacco crop in Cumberland,
Buckingham, and Prince Edward is very
good; while in the counties south of this
city, and in those of North Carolina Dor
dering on Virginia, the crop is not SO good !;
in fact, rather ordinary.
We Furthermore learn that the crop Of
wheat seeded this fall in all this section Of
the State is very small. Farmers were so
much discouraged at the failure of the last
crop that they have purchased very spar
ingly Of fertilizers for neutrality-suspicious.
from want of means.
We give the following quotations:
Coltoa.-It requires choice selections to-day to
bring &c; other descriptions are worth from y to
2!sc. No activity in Tie III trie..
TOb0ccO.-SatcS are almost entirely OF loose,
which Is coming in in large quantities. he ten
the last ten days the prices OF some GRADES haNlns
advanced from - to 80 In that tima. we quote
prmings at LEO to 81 new Tugs at $3.50 to rs 50
nc leaf, loose Sc To *l; Old Tugs, 81 To IS. so
dark. heavy leaf IS to $lo.5o.
Fhent.-rrime SAMPLES are worth 81 30 to ~ 80
for white, aud - TO i! 10 for red inferior grades
from 81 to 81. IS; receipts light.
t0rn.-Fu receipts, mostly Of new, at rs TO soc. !;
Flour-lGarket very dun, with large stock. We
hear III no large sales and prices are therefore but
little bett=r Than nominal We quote supev itue
30 TO $3.50; extra 81 TO Slt.59; family 81. 80
To 1880
Bqcon-virginia hog.rouad. 100; hams 81 to 20 :;
western sides lssc. !; shoulders, IA: s,o -
gross, 81 so; North Carolina roe, SO To $3.50 hall
barrels, rec So; eastern, gross, $3.50; trimmed,
$3.50.
Ln1.d-In barrels, l8c kegs and pals, 10 to ooc.
Peu7,,ttS a considerable business Is doing in
this article. Prime samples are worth 81. to !?
inferior, $3.50 TO $l.75..
Butter.-Mountain. 30 to s5c. roll, 80 to CSC.
prime Goshen IS to soc.
lppLeS.- untalu p1ppln5 20 ; other KINGS, ~
TO :45O !; northern, IS to 1850.
Pototoes-Irish lVlrginia) =? so to S?.7 per bar
rel; sweet, 75c. per bushe, III lots.
RE -$l.35to $l.4O.
Medi-Sl.
Dried Fruit.-Apples, 81 to &c. peaches, Is to
zoe.
CheStuut8.-s5 TO $3.50 per bushel.
Beans 81. IS 10 50.
PtuS.-r.lacke' e, 4l.25.
C20rer Seed.-S9.
UGH.-NUr. hcrn 100.
HtisS.-Green, SIC. dry, 10 to Sc. 8.