The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-08
Dry Goods.

Notwithstanding the continued abundance
OF money. the rise in the price Of gold, and
the lively speculations that have been going
on down In Bond street the past week. it is
very remarkable that there has been a falling
market In domestic dry goods, though the
transactions have been on considerable scale.
There has been lack of stimulus, which has
operated alike on both seller and buyer. The
disposition to press gales causes disin-
elination to purchase, and so the market
troops. Let retreating enemy turn about
and face his pursuer, and the pursuing party
Will At once turn about and commence re-
treat. Such a reversal is constantly witnessed
In business affairs. Merchants who hesita te
to purchase when the market is low and fall
Ing are eager to buy when prices are high
and advancing. II the manufacturers would
instruct their agents to raise their prices, they
would at once increase their sales, and bust.
ness would be better.
In uubleached sheetings and shrtings there
Is feeling OF timidity among buyers, and
prices are yielding, while the transactions are
on very limited scale just equal to the i'm
mediate demands of tTude. Our quotations
on standard makes are about half 4 cent Z
yard lower than those of last week. and the
lighter weights have fallen in about the same
proportion.
The business in bleached shirtlngs and sheet.
ings has been on q very moderate scale, and Is
confined to few popular makes. There Is q
general feeling of dullness, which may at any
moment, however, be changed for one OF live
Illness, for we cannot but regard the existing
state of trade rs the result of accident rather
than the natural effect Of any permanent
causes.
There has been n rather better demand for
printing clothe, and considerable sales have
been effected, preparatory to the fall business,
but without any increase of prices.
Prints have been in increased demand, and
the activity in medium colors has been quite
marked; but for light patterns there is less
inquiry, and the manufacturers show some
anxiety TO press sales. The market Is very
we'll supplied with new and attractive tyles
from the MeIrimac Mills. Sprague's fancieS
sell at l2Ec., less the regular discount.
There is moderate demand for ginehams
of the better qualities, and sales are effected
at full prices without difficulty. Stocks are
light, and there is but little danger of an &C.
emulation in first hands.
Corset jeans are in fair demand and prices
are steady.
Printed lawns and percales are in better des
mand. The season, though backward, is now
favorable to these light fabrics and good styles
command good prices.
Rolled jaconets and cambrics are in very
fair demand. Prices steady.
Muslin de lanes are not so much inquired
for as might be expected 1T this season. The
manufacturers are very well supplied with u
good variety OF attractive styles.
Woollens of all descriptions are dull, and
prices are consequently unsettled. Cloths
are In small demand, and prices are very IN
satisfactory to manufacturers.
CaSSimeres and satinets are without any no.
tceable changes. The trade is limited almost
ntirely 10 the higher grades of fancy cass-
mnres and light docskins.
Kentucky jeans are dull and prices weak.
In European dry goods the trade has been
confined almost exclusively TO the few choice
goods adapted TO the season which are required
for the city retail trade. The auction rooms
have been very largely supplied, but prices
have been low and anything but satisfactory
to the importers.
1mportations have very materially fallen of
during the past fortnight, and most Of the
goods arriving go into bond.-!Ntn York Inde-
Deuisnt,