Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-09-11

REMARKS-The market closes With more ac-
tiyity, and an improvement in prices tor gram.
Superfne Flour in limited supply, and prices
steady; extras and family in lair supply and
dull The market for Wheat has improved
sales Of Sc bushels poor white at 2l5 AND l422
bushels red at 100, 2lG, 225, 232, 24O. and 256,
according to quality, from trashy to PRIME.
Corn quiet; offerings of 1000 bushels mixed,
which sold at 100, 1872, 1913, 124, and l25:
Sales of SIG bushels Oats at 81, 81, 63. Rye
quiet, With sales at l2Sal30. Eastern fish IN
fair supply, and good demaud-prices firm
Plaster in good supply and market unsettled:
Salt unchanged Wool quiet. Butter 10 fair
demand for prime Bacon unchanged. Sumac
in fair supply. Eggs in good demand. Lard
steady.
Business was more active at the Baltimore
Stock Board yesterday than for a week past
Gold advanced to LAS at the first board. Gov
eminent bonds were active and fraction high
err. There was large business in Railroad Sc
curities. Border State bonds were in demand
and higher. Tennessee IS advanced to 70.
BALTIMORE CATTLE MARKET, Sept TO-
Beef Cattle-Prices to-day ranged as follows:
Old Cows and Scalawags at 4.75 IS, ordinary
thin steers, Oxen aud Cows 54S5.75; fair to
good Stock Cattle 5.50a$6.25; fair quality
Beeves .25s$7; and the very best Beeves lass
per 100 ms the average price being aboutS5 10
gross. The market closed moderately active
today at about the rates of last week for all
grades OF cattle except the very best beeves,
which were shade lower.
SHEEp-The receipts during the past week
have been large, but chiefly of a very inferior
quality, for which the market is dull at last
weeks prices, whilst good fat sheep are scarce
and firm at former rates. Prices to-day ranged
as follows: Good to extra fat sheep at 33a44
cts. per ID gross, Stock sheep 2as2.50 per
head Lambs 2aS3. so per head.
HoGs.-The supply of hogs during the past
week has been large, but with an increased de-
mand rates have been fully sustained. Prices
today ranged as follows: Fair to good live
hogs at 49, 50a$15 per 100 lbs net
The New York Independent says" There
has been fairly active business done in dry
goods during the week; and the Western mer-
chants, who are here in full force, have COM
menced making their purchases in earnest
though, as general rule, they do not buy
largely. In domestic goods, particu larry shirt
ings and sheetings, both brown, and bleached,
there had been slight yielding of prices. and
the commission houses and manufactures
agents show greater disposition to effect sales
than for some time past. In prints there has been
considerable activity, and prices have, for Ger
tain new styles, advanced. Wooens are doing
better Foreign goods are in good supply;
though the importations have fallen off consid.
erabiy but prices are we'll maintained for dress
goods adapted to tine season.
In Baltimore, yesterday, the receipts of Wool
we're less, but the demand is better; prices rule
at the same figures of the previous week, to
wit: BURY unwashed at % to Is cents; un-
washed 80 to 80 cents; tub-washed 43a46 cts.
fleece AZ to As cents, and pulled 30 to 80 cents