The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-12-28
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

CINCINNATI, December 22.-Our mar
ket to-day for provisions is extremely
dull and prices lower, with an unsettled
feeling. Receipts hogs to-day 1890; for
the season to date, 263 400; mp to same
time last season. 280,859 Market for
hogs lower; packers holding off, and a
goodly number left in pens unsold the
sales were at 8 to 10 gross. for light to
extra heavy; and 11% to IL for dressed
as to average. Green meats-market
closes dull and dropping; sales shoulders
1O@10A; sides 13@13j9; hams 15@151l
as TO average; buyers now asking fur
ther concessions. Bulk Meats-in light
request; prices nominal-shoulders 12(Q
l2!4; clear rib sides 159l5A; clear 15ja
(9l54; loose ! 4 more, packed rs to age
twenty days salt to fully cured. Bacon
shoulders sold on spot 14as; 14ll to
come out; clear rib sides I7k; clear
1734 packed; sugar cured hams 2i(6211%.
Lard-city kettled leaf sold at 1S in
tierces; kegs 1S4; prime steam TIA
1714. Mess pork-city packed at 20 on
spot; demand light; rump pork at 25.
Corn-dry samples. new, 75c in bulk; no
new shelled would do to ship yet. Old,
shelled, IS. Oats-No. l. 55@5G; No. 2,
52(G53; rejected 81; where bags are re-
quired. add sc per bushel Flour-a
fair jobbing demand aud steady market;
family 5. .35C@6. 90; extra 4. 9Ua5 10; super
fine a. 5OG4 rs; low grades 400 to 4 35.
Whiskey-high wines sold at 81 cash.
If receipts of hogs continue large prices
will go lower; otherwise, will react; dro-
vers contend that the crop is nearly all
in.
New YORK, December 27--Noon.
Stocks dull. Money Z. Exchange S56;
long 914. Gold weak, at 1907. Lou
isiana 6's. old, 70; new IS; levee 6s 67;
8's 83; Alabama 8's "a; SIS g.; Georgia
6's 81; rs 81 asked; North Carolina's,
old, 4214; new 20; South Carolina's, 80.
Flour dropping. Wheat quiet and un-
changed. Corn dull and dropping. Pork
heavy-mess 29. 80. Lard dull. Cotton
quiet. 251s. Freights dull.
z 2. Motion quiet and unchanged,
with sales of 900 bales, at 251s. Flour
little moro doing in common grades.
Wheat unchanged-mixed Western l. 90
Oil; new Southern yellow 1861. 9S.
Pork heavy-new mess 20 00@3O.O 90; old
29.50@3O00. Lard heavy-kettle 1Y3l
@19. Whiskey dull, at 9S1S@1.OO.
Groceries dull. Freights firmer-cotton
steam n Money in increased demand,
ut Z. Gold firmer. at 203s.
1|ALi lnioHH-' DtCouoeT Af.-COLtOn
very qniet. at 242l@25c. Flour dull and
weak-Howard street superfine, 475@
500. Wheat steady-red, 1.25(91. 40
Corn-dry cargoes firm white, 85@SSc. !;
yellow, ss@93c. Pork quiet, ut 3lk@
32l4c. Bacon quiet-shoulders, 15L0
I54c. Lard, 1s24@19c. Whiskey,
$1.O0@1.Ol.
ST. Louis. December 27.-Corn dull
yellow. 85c.; white, 8S@89c. Whiskey,
goo. Provisions qniet-pork, $29. 90 !;
bacon and lard nominal.
LOUISVILLE, December 27.-Corn un-
changed. Mess pork. $4,000; shoulders,
I4ll.c; clear sides. 1870. Lard-tierces,
17a4c. Whiskey quiet, at 95c.
CINCINNATI, December 27.-Corn un-
changed-new ear 1904 Whiskey
unsettled, ut 94@95. Pork frmer, at
%. Lard active, at II. Bacon nomi-
naIly unchanged.
SAVANNAH. December 27.-Receipts OF
cotton to-day 3,l99 bales; sales $50
middling 2334; market firm.
CHARLESTON, December 27.-Cotton
qnlet, with sales of 100 -middlings
231sC024 /; receipts, 302.