The Portland daily press., 1868-10-24

NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Flour-sales 5000 bbls.
$50 q 80; extra do 6 90 a 20; round hoop Ohio
$50 q 70; extra Western IS q g. 90; White Wheat
obbs.; extra rs "a Is 90; California quiet and de.
cinng sales $50 sacks att IS a 10 80. Wheat heavy;
demand chiefly speculative: sales $4,000 BUSH;
&c better with an active speculative demand; sales
134. 900 BUSH; Mixed Western IA q 15l for I'M
o. aod searesy So rm saes
busb.; Western 75e. Beef quiet. Pork heavy and
lower; sales s75 bbls; mess ~ 20 q 81, closing at
27 rs cash. Lard lower and dull sales 600 erces at
16 a $780, Butter firm; Ohio 80 a. 36c: State 40 q 49,
Whissey tavors BUYERS; sales $50 bills Western at
Middling uplands 25 q 254c. Rice dull. Sugar
steady sales $50 hhds.; Muscovado II q 1sc. Coffee
firm. Molasses steady. Naval Stores quiet. oils
bonded 30c Freights to Liverpool firm; Flour per
steamer Sd.
BUFFALO, N. Y. Oct. 22.-Freights unchanged,
boatmen asking &c advance. Flour dull and un-
changed. Wheat lower; demand trifing; sales 1900
bush. No. 2 Chicago at AZ and 1900 bush. Mwau-
kee club No at = q 45 Corn dull and In nominal;
Oats inactive; sales of small lots at 62ac Rye-sales
10000 bush: at 50. Barley quiet; no sales Seeds
nominal. Highwines-sales 10 bbls at 20
CINCINNAII, Oct. 23.-Whskey dull at 10. Mess
Pork Inomnally unchanged; market bare. Bulk
Meats dull. Bacon active; sales 200 hhds clear sides
at 16a q 17c Lard offered at 1Sc.
MILWAUKEE, Oct. 23.-Flour declining; city dou-
BILE extra 80 q Is. Wheat declining; sales No.
at IS q 354 Oats steady at Sic for No. Corn
steady at 99c,
CHICAGO, Oct. 2s-Eastern Exchange frmer at
Flour dull and declined 15 a &c. Wheat declined
1c. Corn quiet at s94 q e94c for MOL Oats de-
elined 1c Highwines nominal Provisions dull
Hogs normally declined Is a 25c.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Oct. 22.-Tobacco dull. Cotton
heavy. Flour quiet; superine 80 q 6 05; extra
30 a 90: double extra 20 a co. treble extra to
fancy 90 a zoo. Wheat-choice and fancy Fail
90 q 50; No. Spring p "a 80; No. do 80
Barley-choice and fancy 90 q 20. Rye frmer at
20 a 20. Pork 81 so. Bacon firm; shoulders 13c
clear sides II @ 17ac; rib sides 6c; clear rib 1885,
Lard held at 49, tor terce and 204c for key Whiskey
declined to 20 q a. Cattle steady TT so q OF.
| LOUISVILLE, Oct. 22.-Tobacco-sales 81 hhds
lugs to fair leaf 25 @ Is co. Cotton 22S 23c. SH
| 95 a 9Sc new So "a 6uc. Oats 30 q 55c. Rive 49,
Mess Pork 81 co.. Lard nominal at 1911 a 2ac. Bacon
shoulders 139 1S8c; clear rib sides l68 1G3c;
| clear sides III q 17tc. Raw Whiskey-fee l 20.
| MEMPHIS, Oct. 22.-Cotton quiet and nominally
unchanged; receipts 1773 bales; exports 1865 bales =
| Flour dull Corn-no old in market; new 70 @ soc
Oats &c. Mess Pork 80 90 "a 80 so. Lard 20k a 81 5c
Bacon dull; shoulders 14sc; clear sides 1910.
WILMINGTON, N. c., Oct. 2?.-Spirits Turpentine
weak; sales at 4Oc. Resin in good demand tor low
grades; strained and No q at l 70; pale so. Crude
2s5. '' . w. -A' '>'''N''N w 9"''' GU -'' =
MOBILE, Oct 23.-Cotton firm with a good de.
zaand; sales 1900 bales; Middlings 224 q 23c
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22.-Cotton in fair demand
and Deemed Middngs ?23; sales 400 bales: re
ceipts 81 bales. Sterling Bank Exchange 1lst; New
York Sight Exchange par. Gold 1861. Sugar-Th'
stock is very light; new Louisiana grade of centri
fngal lac; White clarified 15sc. Molasses-Lousian
prime to choice 80 a 95c; small lots are being re
ceived. Cubr SUGAR and Molasses steady and un
changed Flour dull; low grades are most in de
| mand; superfne Gs7!.. Corn quiet but firm; new
White 9Oc; old OH Oats quiet but firm at 81 q
&C. Bran 20. Hay scarce prime and choice Yves
tern 2i a 27c Mess Pork very firm at 80 So Bacol
| dan and weaker; shoulders 1870; clear sides 172c
| Lard dull and unchanged.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct 23.-Cotton in good deman
anil frmer; Mddlines 22sc sales $500 bales; receipt
494 bales sales tor the week % 200 bales; receipt
24533 bales; exports to Liverpool 210O bales, to tn
continent lbs bales and coastwise 1882 bales.
Foreign Markets.