The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-04-11
COMMERCIAL AND FIHAHCIAL.
New York Dry Goods Market.
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Notwithstanding the tightness of the
money market during the past week,
which has acted on all departments OF
trade like an curly frost on ripeninR
vegetables, there has been an active
business done in dry goods; considera-
BILE liveliness has been developed
| among buyers, and prices OF most de-
scriptions of domestics have been ad-
vancsd. Jobbers have been doing
reasonably well; and, now that the
much.dreaded bank statement has been
made up, they will doubtless do con-
siderably better.
Prices of the raw material have ad-
vanced, and in brown sheetings and
shirtings there Is more activity and a
greater disposition to purchase largely,
even at the reduced rates Standard
sheetings are about cent yard
higher than our quotations of last
week, and a further rise will probably
take place-the stock in first hands be-
ing small-unleSs there should be a
decline in the raw material, a contin-
gency which is hardly likely to occur.
In blcached shirtings and sheetings
of the better grades the business has
corresponded with operations in brown
goods. For medium qualities there has
not been so good q demand, and the
stock in first hands has been consider
ably increased.
A fair business Is doing in drills,
mostly for the home trade, in small
lots, the export demand being light.
In Canton aannels we understand
there has been some speculative pur-
chases, but the demand for immediate
trade is limited.
Corset jeans continue in fair request,
and prices are a shade Better than last
week. Stripes and ticks are In more ac-
tive demand, and the better qualities
command increased prices. The same
may be reported of denims and cotton
ades.
The market for gray printing-cloths
has fallen OF trifle; but we do not
look for any decline of prices while the
price of the raw material keeps up.
In prints business has been very ac-
tive again, and prices have advanced
about half a cent a yard. The new
print works are very attractive, and
the manufacturers find it difficult to
keep the market supplied. Ginghams
of desirable styles are in good demand,
but the inferior qualities are not so
freely taken. Printed lawns, madder
colors, adapted to the season, sell free
ly, and in some cases command an in
crease Of prices. Rolled jaconets CAM
brtcs, and sIlesiaS are in fair demand,
but without any material change of
rates.
In muslin de laines there Is not so
lively trade as manufacturers expect
ed. The market Is very abundantly
supplied and the range Of prices Is very
wide. The spring styles are remarka-
bly, elegant. This description of do
nestle manufacture Is the cheapest of
the whole line of textile fabrics.
Italian cloths are in fair request. In
Woolen cloths there Is no Improvement
to notice. The demand for the home
trade Is dull, and but little for the Cali
foEnia market.
In CaaSimeres and BAtinets there Is
fair dcmand at dfIu prices, at least for
styles adapted to the season. The stock
OF desirable goods in first hands is
small, and not likely to be suddenly
increased.
Kentucky jeans of the better grades
sell freely, bnt inferior qualities are not
in demand.
In foreign goods trade has been linn
tied almost entirely to fabrics of q novel
pattern adapted to the season and home
trade, for which there is an active de-
mand. The auction sales Of the week
have been large but mostly of medi-
dunn grades. Dress goods of the better
kinds, colofed silks, and milliners1 arr
ticles sell atgood prices, and remune-
rate the importer. Fine cloths are in
somewhat better demand. Linens sell
more readily, and the comparatively
light tmpoHtations tend to RtVe firmness
OF tone to the mREEaE.