The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-09-04

NEW BEDFORD, Sept 2-There is inquiry for
Sperm Oil, both for home use and export The cargo
of schooner B Sparks, recently ashore at Gay
Head, and brought to this port has been sold to
manufacturers follows: 143 bbs. Sperm OIL at rs
p GAL and $50 bills humpback and so bbls. black
fish, on private terms. r,r
NEwYoRK. Sept. 81 P. M.-Cotton is firm and
unchanged; sales 800 bales. Four-saes 49, 400 bbls.
State and Western opened 10 a l6c better and closed
500 q 30; superfne to choice Winter 90 q 45;
Southern opened shade frmer and closed dull !;
saeS 0T as to WSeat SsS s ha
ter, but on the receipt of private dispatches from
Liverpool, quoting lower prices. the market became
dull closing a &c lower; No. Spring at so q 81
White California ~. Corn quite firm with good
trade demand sales 66 600 BUSH; new Mixed West
ern OF "a Is for unsound, is a l. IS tor sound
Oats more active and q &c higher; sales 1000
BUSH; old Western 64c; new Southern and Western
Csc Pork dull and heavy sales 300 bbls.; new mess
at 81 81 200; old do at 81 80; prime do 27 so a
% co. Lard quiet and steady sales $40 tierces
rendered III q I9le; kettle 1871 g zoe. Whiskey is
at inside price. Sugar rmer; sales $50 hhds.; Porto
Rico IL a 13!c; Muscovado 113 a 12tc; AGO boxes of
Havana at i2s lsc. Molasses firm; sales 100 hhds
600 Tbs. at liz @ 12sc. Linseed quiet Freights to
Liverpool frmer; Flour per steamer Is Cd; Wheat
per steamer 81 q 1Od and per sail q Old.
CHICAGO, Sept 3.-Flour queit; sales Spring ex-
tras at so a IS. Wheat firm and higher; sales
No. at SO a SO: No. 2 at 81 a 80; in the at
ternoOn No. was easier and sales made at 49,
sclcE .oepU OOTn Qtllets NO z at oJ5cs NO. at
S8c cash; in the afternoon No. sold at S7tc seller
Sept Oats active and higher at 49, q 44c Tor No. q
Rye steady and active: No 9Sc; No. at 94c. Bar
"a II seller all the month"; High Wines dull, mac
tive and nominal. Provisions quiet. Mess Pork
nominal at 80 So Lard quiet and stronger at 162 a
19c. Bulk Meats frmer. Dry sailed shoulders 1870;
rough sides at 16sc. Cattle steady at 25 a % for
fair to good Cows and 90 a rs Tor tar to good
choice shipping. Live Hogs active and steady for
the upper grades; sales 20 q 30 for common and
10 q 8 80 for good to choice. 500 J. .l.
DETROIT, Sept. 3.-Wheat heavy; extra White
6s "a 20; No. do Al "a At; regular 80 q SO;
Amber 80. Corn at 98c q 90. Oats SOC.
CINCINNATI. Sept 3.-Whiskey unsettled and
dull at SO 90. Lard at 19t "a zoe. Bulk Meats were
in demand and could have been sold at 1874 "a 164c
but were held 4c higher. Bacon quiet at lis "a 16ac
for shoulders and clear rib sides.
MILWAUKEE, Sept 3.-Flour firm; city double
extra 80 q 90. Wheat steady at 81 for No. and
81 for No.2 Oats frmer at 44c for No. 2. Corn
nominal at SIC for No. Rye firm at CSC for No. l.
CHARLESTON, s.. c., Sept. Section in good de-
mand; Middlings 32i a S3c; Sea Islands nominal at
SOC q 100. 500. = - 'I.- n ! =
AUGUSTA, Sept. 3.-Cotton market finn with
good demand; Middlngs 32e.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 3-Cotton opened frmer at an
advance of 1c for good; inquiry confined to the bet
ter grades; Middlings 32lc. ~ -
MOBILE. Sept. 3.-Cotton closed firm; low Mid
dlings 29i q SOC. 500
NEW ORLEANS. Sept. -Cotton-Middng up
lands &C. Sugar and Molasses unchanged.