The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-01-22
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
MARKETS by TELEGxAPls.

NEW YORK, January u.
CoTToN-Firmer with n fair demand;
sales $500 bales at 2913c for middling
uplands; some sales reported as high
as 29Ac.
FLoUR-CIosed in buyers favor with
more doing in medium and common
grades for export.
IN-Wheat-Quiet and firm for
spring, with moderate export demand,
and dull and unchanged for winter.
Rye-Nominal at 81 so for western.
Oats-Dull and heavy at 74a7415c in
store, and 76a7613c atloat. COrn-ClOsed
quiet ut 94a96c for new mixed western,
and nominal at 81 O6a1 90 for old do
afiOat and in store.
PRoVIsIONs-POrk- and steady
nj $50 for new mess. Beef-MOderate
demand and unchanged. Bacon-Quiet
and firm. Lard-Quiet at l95sal924c
for fair to prime steam.
EGGs-Dull at 30a33c.
DRY GOODS.
The demand has improved somewhat
but is far from being active, and the
whole tone of the market partakes of
quietude; prices firm.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
MoNEY-Active in the morning at :
per cent. on call, but later in the day
capital was plenty and the market
| closed easy at 6a7 per cent. Prime bust
ness paper 7a9 per cent, but not much
| doing. The Express says the bears are
disappointed at their failure to break
| the great bull speculation on stock
exchange by bounding the legislatures
of several of the Western States after
| the railways, and inducing them TO
reduce the fares. The leading railway
shares were freely sold on this pro-
gramme. but the effect was very slight
and the decline comparatively unimpor-
| hn SnarfinO nn1pF this
new defeat and preparing to resort to
the old trick of locking up greenbacks.
There has heen considerable cOnsu!ta.
ton 10. day and a movement is on foot tC
lock up twenty. five millions of green
backs. The parties TO this new com
bination comprise many who were long
on stock on the great Erie lookup and
panic in October.
GoLD-Dull; opened at 1855; CLOSED
at 135$5a135M.
GovERNMENT SToC Ks----Dull bul
ll3all3H; do '64, 1O9NalO92s; do .65
llOallO9; do new, 1Os3salOS14; do 81
1885 sa1O8A; do '6S, l0S75alO9; 1O-4Os
1O75sa1OS.
SToCKs-The railway market opened
firm, but commenced to decline at hrs
open board, and with fractional re
actions so continued until one O'Clock
|
vanced; closing strong but unsettled
Express Shares, active, excited an6
higher in the morning, but closed will
a decline OF la2c from the highest point
Pacific Mail fell nearly per cent. ol
the pressure of sales, but recovered par
tally before the close.
$50 Prices:. Pacific Mail 1l8a11SH
Western Union Telegraph 3GNa363s
NewYork Central 163Lal631z; Erie 3S2
a3S5.; Reading 95Aa951z; Terre Hauu
39a4VA; Wabash 6l11a61A; st. Pau
74a7411; Fort Wayne l2S2sa1235s; Obi
and Mississippi 334s33A; Michigan
Central 116I4a1l714; Michigan Southern
92Ha92N; Illinois Central 13Sal4C
Pittsburgh 921sa9214; Toledo 10314al03L
Rock Island I3O24a13l; Northwestern
, SlAaS2; Cleveland, Cincinnati an
Indiana Central, Al.
EMPRESS SHARES-Wells, Fargo
Co. 29A29H; American IS; Adams 5S24
50; United States 49Iza59; Merchant
Union l6Iaa17.
The Assessor of Internal Revenue &c
, the Sd District, which includes Wa
J treet and immediate neighborhoo'