The Portland daily press., 1869-04-29

WEEK ENDING April 2s. 1859.

WEEK ENDING April 2o 1869.
There has been some little improvement in trade,
especially IN the latter part of the week. But the
state of the roads leading from the railroad depots
to the off towns is 80 bad that transportation of
heavy goods has been impossible. The snow is now
about all off and the roads getting in better Or
der SO that by the first of May may expect better
travelling and easier transportation. Country mer
chants will then make their appearanceto replenish
their reduced stocks.
The changes iu the merchandise market have been
very slight the past week. The money market has
been easier and gold has been quite regular at 133t
1889. The notice from the Treasury Department,
that half million OF gold would be sold every week.
checked the advance which the New York specula-
tors and gold gamblers were attempting to give it
aud reduced tho price to quotations. The effect
of this order of the Secretary of the Treasury was
most salutary in checking the operations of gold
spectators. The quotations in New York on We'd
nesday, 2Sth were 133t@1335, closing at the latter
rate.
The changes in prices OF merchandise and produce
are so slight that we omit our exteuded review. APP
pies are unchanged, and so are beans. Box shocks
are frmer with more enquiries. Butter is coming
IN more plentiful and is selling at 35c945c tor fair to
prime quality of table. Cheese is very firm at our
quotations Coal is unchanged. Cooperage is as
dull as it can be with no enquiries. Portland duck
continues to be in good demand. There is better
demand for drugs and dyes, with slight varia-
ions in prices, will be noticed in prices current
The dry goods market has been more animated and
our jObbers have transacted good business. 1t will
be noticed by our quotations that reduction has
been made in the prices of heavy, fine and medium
sheetiDgs and on best prints.
The fish market is almost bare. Stocks are light
few OF the new catch are coming along which are
taken up & at full prices In n lew wee weeks we may
go 10 New York, which has about sweps the market
Flour is irregular and unsettled in the low grades
There has been better demand and the stocks have
been reduced. Quotations unatereQ. though
prices favor purchasers. Grain is lower, with tair
supply and limited demand. Our quotations in the
prices current give the prices Wednesday. Corn
is now coming along on the Grand Trunk railway.
Hay is not bI ought in in large quantities. Dealers
mand for shipping hay. Iron is unchanged and so
is lard. Leather is lower tor light and middling
weights. Lumber is unchanged wife good demand
for shipment South. Molasses is firm and prices are
unchanged, with moderate demand The stock OF
is exceedingly light for the season Of the
year. Oils unchanged and the same may be said
OF naval stores plaster provisions, paints, and pro-
duce.
The demand for salt continues 10 be very large and
the stock is much reduced, but cargo Of Liverpool
is hourly expected.
Sugars are not quite so firm Tor raw and prices
have shaded trife. The Portland sugars are in
fair demand both for the home and the Western mar
kets Cur quotations in the prices current those
for Wednesday.
In teas tin and tobacco the prices cf last week are
maintained.
In the wool market there is no improvement.
Buyers operate cautiously and will not purchase
large Quantities without q concession on Western
feeces. The superior grades OF Maine feeces are in
better demand, but purchasers do seem disposed
to meet the views OF the woolgrowers who prefer to
carry their stocks over to the next season
FREIGHTS There has been an improvement in
treights, and vessels have been in demand with but
little tonnage disengaged. Since our last report we
note the following engagements: Schooner Wind
ward hence to Cardenas at 13c for box shocks; Br.
bark Vesta out and back to port North side Cuba
at 62t for molasses; schooner Mary E. Long hence
to Matanzas Cardenas at 13c for box shooks bark
Sarah A. Staples, from Bangor to Buenos Ayres, at
$l7 gold and five per cent. prmage for lumber; brig
Helen o.. Phinney hence to BuenOs Ayres at $17
gold for lumber; brig Maria Wheeler to load at
Wi. casset for port North side Cuba and thence to
Portland out and back at 81 70 for molasses; brig
Mary E. Thompson helce to N. side Cuba and back
to Portland at 81 80 for molasses; bark Fresh
Breeze, from Machias to Buenos Ayres, at SIT so
gold for lumber.