The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-13
COMMERCIAL.
Corn and Flour Exchange.
RICHMOND, January l., 1859.
OFFERINGS.

OPPBRlNbs.
Wheat.-White, l42 bushels. Red, 90 bushels.
CoTn-White, ,46O bushels new Yellow, ZZo
bushels new. Mixed, TAG bushels new.
Odts.-19i bushels.
Rys.-44 bu shells.
4 Medl.-30 bushels.
F1drseed.-2 bushels. ......
Ginseng. 100 pounds.
Wheat-White, 10 bushels prime at 81 80; IS
bushels common ct 80 70 bushels INFERIOR ;ht
Sl.50-total lis bushels.
Corr.-White, ICE bushels prime new At SIC,
24S bushels ut S2hc. $50 bushels very gooo
new at SIc. us bushels good new ut Soc
total 742 bushels. Yellow, 200 bushels prime
new ut slc Mixed, l56 bushels prime new at
Sic 81; 240 bushels very good new at Soc. rs
bushels very good on private terms-total, GA
bushels.
Oats-94 bushels prime on private terms.
Rye.-44 bushels good at 81 40
Fzdrssed.-2 bushels good at $3.50.
Rs-ExHIBITgD.
C5rn.-White, 95S bushels. Mixed, $50 bush
els.
Rye.-36 bushels.
REMARKS.
Offerings Of corn on Change to-day, 1928
bushels or about half the amount of the pre-
ceding day; of the quantity offered, OLA BUSH
els were re-exhibited sales, 1865 bushels; re-
naming over unsold, $50 bushels. The sales
to-day were larger in proportion to the offer
ings than on the day before It was not until
after 10 o'clock that q buyer or seller showed
himself Us If all were afraid to venture on
either buying or selling; but when they did
begin to appear, it looked as If they wanted to
make up for lost time and the Exchange soon
became crowded. Buyers seemed disposed to
take hold more freely, but there was no change
in prices of corn from those of the preceding
day except &c. advance on one lot of prime
corn. Oats in small offering and more sought
for, with tendency upward. Rye unchanged.
After Change yesterday q lot Of about 500
bags of corn in bulk was sold at price CORE
spending with rates on Change.
In Alexandria on the 18th instant sales of
red wheat at 81 80 to So. 10; offerings light but
demand better Corn quiet; sales Of mixed
Mt so to SIC. no sales of white or yellow re-
ported. Rye in light receipts; sales at Sl.35.
Oats, &c.
Some remarks made on Change about the
quotations in Philadelphia induce us 10 give
the state Of that market on the 18th instant.
Flour there on that day was exceedingly fiat,
with a tendency to lower prices, home con-
sumers being the only purchasers. Wheat
dull inquiry only from local millcrs, which
is principally for prime lots; sales OF red at
81 SIS, amber at s2.03 to $500, and white At
So. % to $245. Sales of western and Pennsyl-
yauia rye ut 81 so to Sl62. Corn-In new
yellow considerable activity, and 1000 bushels
sold q. SSc for damp up 10 92c for dry.-a de-
cline of SC. sales of 1000 bushels new white
at SIS to SIC.
San Francisco California; advices of the
sth instant represent -four rs quie, n "A. IS TO
1915; wheat, 1915 TO S1.s4h, with large
sale of good shipping ut Sl.77h. On the 9th
instant in that market wheat was quoted al
81. 10 to 81. so for good shipping.
In Boston southern yellow corn is quoted ut
s.. 04 to Sl.O7, with IN easier market; and
southern oats at IS 20 Soc.
In Baltimore on the 18th instant receipts OF
wheat were but 5000 busheis-ill sold at u Il
for white Pennsylvania; $3.50 for choice
Virginia Valley and Maryland red; 1925 for
prime red medium do, $2.l5; and good do
at 81. 90 to 50. Offerings of corn, 10000 bushels
white and $500 yellow; market well main
tanned Notwithstanding the bad weather
sales Of 1900 bushels strictly prime white Al
o0c 5000 bushels good white at Sc TO SIC.
5000 bushels 4 little out Of condition and
suitable for coastwise shipment, al SO to SIC.
$50 bushels mixed at S3c. $50 bushels choice
hominy at $l.o5. or yellow, 5000 bushels al
80 to CSC. Oats-Offerings small 200 bush
els sold at IS TO &C., and 800 bushels delivered
al nc.