Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1869-02-15

RTNARKH.-In0 mATket OPOoSA 49,
F,our is very dull, and the demand Is limited
entirely to the retail and bakers demand ou-
mar So and Extra 50; Family-no demand
wheel was little irmer, with saies at ltO,ioJ,
,o) 1s5 1913 and 1876 for ordinary to good. Corn
u fair demand and prices steady; sales OF yell
1,o, 81 83 and white and mixed at 81 IS and ol-
pountry-ground Corn Meal 7S. Ryein moder-
ats reouost; sales reported at l4l for ordinary
0ots firm. with sales at IS and u, the latter
o,;co for seed Butter dull, with fair stocks on
5and EGGS unsettled. Dressed Poultry IN
active enquiry
Nsw YosK DxY GooDs MERCHANTs.--T inc
last Years sales of our large jobbing wholesale
houses show thai Il very heaVy BUSINESS 10
heen done The leading dry goooS nouses "a
Nav York-snd of the continent IN l"c', IL hu1
af Tho world-continues u be that OF H. b.
Tla6n ~ Co. whose sales for lo0S amounted 10
Something over $43 10000; while the sales oil
A r.. Stewart s. Co, at their do~h-tow1 store.
amounted to but S31,OCOOOl ITO no neNT i"rseSs
firm amounted TO but SO, OUO,COo, whlie some SON
hale dozen houses sold to the amount OF st, OOO,-
GO0 The present year there will be sharp
Struggle between Claim and Stewart; but Ciai-
in il likely to keep at the head OF MS Grass
~ y Independent.
10 learn that tho coal lands and other property
ofthe Midlothian Coal Company have Just been
sold, on favorable terms, by Messrs. humOird,
of this city, to parties in New YORK, ana the
company, under its old title, re0rganlzed Dy
The election of Msior Alexander Shaw as pres
idept and general agent This property IS To-
Gated in the valley of Georges creek, ABOUT
twenty miles from Cumberland, ana Is connect
ed with the Cumberland and Pennsylvania
railroad by q branch road one ana quarler
a. n,,,oIe,,In11 fJGj|lnn
Dry GooDs.-.While cotton romans at 1he
ligh figure now ruling and we see no reason
Tor anticipating a lower scale during the next
three months-it will be useless TO expect Io"er
nr,ces for our domestic fabrics Brown sheet
inps and shirtings have been in much better de-
.nand during the past week, and particularly
so towards the close, than WIS the case the week
previous Prices are firmly sustained, and no
disposition is manifested to press sales; but, on
Tho contrary, q feeling prevails among the
holders of large stocks that an advance VIII
soon be realized.-N. Y. Independent.
GRoRGETowN MAKKET-Th following prices
Coz Flour have ruled during the week ut George
sown: Welch's family, ID 75aSl4 %; George
own family, IL 50a$l3; extra, 9a$l1 superfne,
lass canal family, LASH 30; extra. 3 5OaS9;
superhne, Case 80
RECEIPTS OF PRODUCE BY RAILROAD.-The
following are the receipts of produce, &c., by
the Orange, Alexandria Il Manassas Railroad,
for the week ending February 18th Corn IA, 452
bushels wheat 24SS, rye 676, oats 2276, buck
wheat 25, corn meal 834, ear corn IS potatoes
100, beans 69l, onions rs, seed 10, chestnuts 3.
dried fruit $50 sumac II sacks. apples bbls,
aour 2S5 bbls, clothing boxes, boots cases,
leather 70 rolls, poultry % bbls, butter 46 irk-
ms, lard l9 frkins, eggs 159 bbls, dressed hogs
Al, bacon 1850 lbs, tallow 100 lbs, fowls coop,
whiskey 20 bbls. tobacco 10 cases, fresh beef
1870 lbs. fish Dbl, castings so lbs, cutting boxes
!, wood II cords. rags Also lbs, plows 2, sum
dries "a boxes and packages vegetables box,
hides bags, bbls and bundles, empty casks
81, hogs, sheep, cows, calves, &c, 49, socks |
bale, old copper and lead $40 lbs, old iron 3N0
lbs, pine lumber IL SOP feet, oak lumber 4C0l
feet, pig iron ct tons, bones 5000 lbs, cattle 3
ears, sheep cars. cross ties ears Freight
cent forward 500 tons