Idaho semi-weekly world. (Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho Territory) 1867-1868, 1868-02-15
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TRADE m NEW York CITY.

TTRADE IN NEW YoRK CITY,. 70
We give below an extract from the
letter of Dec 10th of the New York
correspondent Of the Oregonios, in ref
erence to the condition Of trade gener-
ally in that city, and to the material
reduction in prices Of dry goods. The
correspondent says: ,A
Since my last letter, there has been
terrible trembling among the dry
bonesp of trade-as there have been
earthquakes, volcanoes and tornadoes
among the rock-boundr ribs of earth. AL
most a commercial panic seems impend-
ing. throughout the country, For the
past six months there has been mani
fest a steady increase of feeling OF IN
security in business circles. And among
the many failures or suspensions which
have occurred, it is marked fact that
in no other six months of the CONNER
cial history Of America, has the per-
eentage of heavy and prominent houses
been SO large. Many suspensions and
some failures are reported during the
past month, at half million to two
millions each, while small houses have
seemed to enjoy comparative immunity.
Goods, both domestic and imported, are
selling at less in currency than the cost
of manufacture in gold, and in a major
ity of cases in this city, manufacturers
and jobbers are doing business at a loss.
There is no Disgusting the fact that
business stands trembling on the
threshold of 1868, and if some relief
does not come in the financial policy Of
the country, the year will prove memo
rable in commercial history as an era
of panic and bankruptcy, to which 1887
will be counted a trihe. +,
In breadstuffs and edibles, no symp-
toms of reduction in prices are manifest,
and the prospect of market for all the
surplus wheat and flour raised in Cali
fornia and Oregon, is fully equal to that
of last spring. Wages cannot be ma
terially reduced therefore, without pro-
ducing great distress and suffering
among the laboring classes.
The prices which just now prevail in
the dry goods market may interest
your readers. The following are rates
within the last week, at the large auc-
ton sales, from which prices are regu-
lated in this city:
Browa Sheetings-2! yds. wide. 40 to so
cents; 2 yds. wide, 80 cents; Ii yds wide, %
cents; 40 inches wide, IL to IL cents.
BIeached Maslins-Best New York mills,
81 cents; Wamsuttas, 20 cents large quanti-
ties from other mills, l8 down to cents per
yard.
Prints-Merrimacs Id to l2I cts; Sprague,
Pacific, Amoskeag, Hamilton and others, ia
to IL cents; Lowell, l0l cents; some cheap
prints at 9 to cents. -u. HEE
Broom Driils-l6! to 12A cents per yard.
Glazed Cdmbrics-9l to cents.
Demins-Amoskrag and Columbia, 271 cts;
Otis and Lewiston, IS to 20 cents; Brown, 16
to 121 cents. ,1 f-..
Canton Flannels-whte Chicopee, 424 cts;
Pemberton, Hamilton, etc, 80 to 81 cents
Globe and Suffolk, Is to 16 cts.
Wnol Flannels-Belknap, all wool, as cents;
OOGnfcO dnu CkufE Hills, AZ oU"u W 80 Souts
per yard.
In other goods, we notice delaines at 80 to
Is cents merinos, IA to GO cents; empress
cloth, 66 cents; all wool poplins, SO to SIS cts;
80 inch yelveteen. 81 25 to 81 60; 80 inch silk
velvet, So Sc tn 81; linens, yard wide, 62a
to rs cents birdseye diaper, % cents; black
1nerino square shawls, S3 ditto long, 81 rs to
"a so; rich broche shawls from SIC to $3.50,
and less than cost gloves OF all kinds are in
abundance, and sold at o sacrifice. .~g
1, From the foregoing. schedule the la
dies may see that the day Of cheaper
prices is coming around again. Think
ofsplendid Merrimac prints selling at
l2I cents per yard in the month Of De-
cember, A. d. 1861. zsed. a.ase
GETTING UNEAsr-In a late speech
on the cotton bin, Senator Sprague Of
Rhode Island, who is one Of the largest
cotton manufacturers in New England,