Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-08-13
FINANCIAL ARD G0aMEaClAL.
orFICH o. rHE DAILY ARPEAL. !

/ to &c premium, selling st Ia &c premium.
Gold opened in New York at 1888
and closed st 1859. In this market
there was very little coin offering.
Brokers buy at l4S@l44c. Selling at
I45@I454e.
The New York stock exchange que
tations st noon to-day were as fol-
lows: Fiye-twenties, coupons Of Isl.
15i; do 1872, l42 do '64, 10Y do '65, I2s
do new issue, ct do '67, ct; 1O-40s,
coupons, %. Old Tennesses bonds,
63s new do, 684.
Stocks and bonds were very quiet to-
day. We could learn Of no sales, except
few small ones Of city bonds at SOC.
In our report Of sale yesterday OF
so, 600 in second mortgage bonds at SOC,
it should have read Mississippi and Ten
nessee, instead Of Mississippi Central.
rhe latter are nominally worth 40e.
City Scrip is rather Gull. There is no
speculative demand, and brokers decline
all offered at over 70,. TIE selling rate
ranges from 72@75c, as to amount.
County Bonds are moderately active
at 533 buying. Selling at 55c.
| Police Scrip is very scarce. Dealers
would pay 75c readily. Selling At7S@
SOC.
There'sre now outstanding 81 sos, $50
of seven-thirty bonds, the time for con-
version of which into fVe-twen.ies has
expired. They are now redeomsble 10
currency.
MEMPHIS, August u, 1858.
! Editors Memphis Appeal:
4 7 -. l.
| our city credit 50 well. Certain parties
are at WORK to depreciste it for the good !
/ of their own pocket, Is wss the case last |
| fSli-a certain few worked the price |
! down and then went Ia to buy all they |
| could, leaving not very large amount |
! on the market. Now, for the benefit of |
scrip-hOlders, would say, other parties |
| East are trying the same dodge, and II |
/ they succeed they will clean the market |
/ cut, and, when business is good, elose out |
at a high figure. However, IL it will |
| help the city credit, L say go in, take it |
! all cut OF the market, and our bonds will |
materially advance in New York, as
| soon as the election excitement is over. !
MEMPHIAE. |
| A st. Petersburg paper of July I2sb |
I says the harvest will be very bad /
/ throughout Russia. In the Baltic prov |
] A1SEG A-AGAO - NCA9 AAtNAC 6AnABg 1uu the I
reserves in the storehouses have been |
! exhausted, and cannot be filed this |
| year. In the Southern provinces there !
/ has been 10 rain since the lst of Nav, |
! sad most of the crops are destroyed. A |
severe famine is in prospect. The prices |
of food are enormous, and in some local |
( tiles the peasants have revolted.
1 The Printing Bureau of the Treasury |
/ Department is now actively engaged in /
] printing the tax-psid stamps for distilled |
| spirits, in accordance with the new rev
/ enue law. The stamps are about five |
! inches square, with a handsome vignette,
| representing the resping of grain, and |
are made Of ten different denominations, /
| from twenty to one hundred and thirty. |
| Each denomination OF stamps has nine
coupons attached, so that these STAMPS |
will answer for any number of gaugsd /
galioGs between these figures. They are
bound in books, with stnmps attached to
each stamp, like bankers checks, and
being charged for their full value to the
Collector, he gets credit for ali unused
coupons Temsining in the book on its
return, and tkus the system operates As
a check upon the Collector, preventing
fraud either By collision or other wise
| The method By which reuse, or the use
| a sscOni time Of the stamp, is prevented
| Is new Snd Ingenious. The stamp is
pierced with q large hole in the center,
which is covered by thinner paper be.
fore printing. After it is printed and
attsCned to the barrel it cannot be
soaked off and re- used, as the beer
stamps have been, because the stamp
will come of in two pieces, whicb, from
their peculiar construction, cannot sgain
be united on another barrel. The stamp
is permanently detsced by any attempt
to remove it. OGe popularity OF the
stamp is that it cannot be printed except
by what is known as the cry process by
hydrostStic power, so that the stamps
cannot, in the present stage Of the art, 6e
printed anywhere but In the Treasury
Department. This efsctualIy prevents
eounterfeiting.
Cotton in Liverpool to-day was firm
Uplsnds, sgd; Orleans, 10si. At noon
it was fsmer and closed with sales OF
1900 bales; Uplands, sB9lOd; Orleans,
lO5@l04i.
The New York market ct the opening
wss quiet bat steady, and closed dull
with quotations entirely nomlnsl-Up-
lands, 29929l; sales 800 bales.
COTTON STATEMENT,
CaAEBKR OF COMMERCE.
49, -AlsOSb L. 100 l
STOCK on hand Sept l. lS67..... I,0S6
Received toes y--..,..-.-.-.. ....... -.-..
Received previously III 2oS.lis
Si0s
Exported to-day. ....--................. %
Exported previously "a g isis
stock ON bane..............-......-....... %
There Yves 30 great degree Of activity
in the general markets to-day, though
there was q fair inquiry for meats.
Flour remains very quiet, and large sales
are no more heard of. The largest buy
ers rarely exceed 6irayload in their Lur-
chssss. We neglected yesterday to no
tice the receipt of some very superior
fioGr from Coldwster, Mas, which is,
we think, equal to any yet received il
this market, and will compare favorably
with the choicest brands from St. Louis
or other poiats North. This flour was
consigned to Messrs. Newton Ford & Co
Of UDion street, who disposed OF il
readily, to bakers and others, at S1l as
per barrel. The GAINESVILLE mills are
also sending in the very best of family
-four, at prices which defy competition
from Northern mills, while our City
mills, on Beal and Poplar streets, are
doing good business, and hnd it din
cult to supply the local demand.
APPLES-Only light d;mand at
Sld92 per barrel.
BRAE-Dull st SD per ton.
BUTTERFLIES inquiry to-day. Sell
ing at 35(940e.
BAC0N-Firm at 1S9ls3c for Clear
Sides. Shoulders, l49l43c.
BAGGING-Oalyl light demand Ken
lucky hans, ls@l63c; machine, 245(9a61c;
India, 26@253c.
CATTLE : Small supply. Choice
bseves, 65@73c; inferior, 395c
CHEESE-Prices nominaily 14GI7o
for W. R.. factory and E D., =.
COFFEE-Fnm at 23927c for Rio
Java, 4la43c.
C0RN-Stock large. Choice on levee,
7S08De. In store, SOC.
CORNMEAL-aIs Market weak. Fresh
"a S5(S4 40 Kindried, "a GOA 65 in
lots on levee. From store, 10S25c
higher.
CHICKENS Stock fair aud market
duh. Young, S3@3 so. Old, "a ESQ
( so.
FLOUR-Choics grades steady. Super
fns, s7as7 SO x, $919 80; Xxx, Sl09Il;
Xxx, and fancy family. S12@l4.
HAT-Stock very light. Held at 1