The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-05
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
mAKKECs BY TELEGRAPH.
New YORK, February 4

NEW YORK, February 4.
CoTToN-About &c better, with fair
business doing; sales q, 500 bales at 3014c
for middling uplands.
FLoUR-Receipts 3,S74 bbls.; closed
steady for common, and dull and heavy
for medium and good grades.
IN-Wheat-Quiet and without
decided change. Rye-Quiet at 81 so
for western. Oats-Quiet and firm at
Toe for western in store. Corn-DuN at
S6aS9Ic for new mixed western; 81 OOa
OF for old mixed in store and alloGt.
PRoVISIoNs-POrk-N firm, with
sales of $50 bbls. new mess, seller, April,
at 1872 rs. Beef-Quiet and unchanged.
Cut Meats-Firm and in moderate de-
mand. BacOn-Quiet and firm. Lard
Dull at 2O2a2O7Sc for good to prime
steam.
EGGs-Dull at 24a26c.
DRY GOODS.
The cotton market continues active
and excited. This movement tends to
impart strength to the goods market,
which, however, is still quiet enough,
but nevertheless there has been Il little
more doing in package sales to out OF
town buyers. All heavy brown sheet
ings are steady ut 1614al7c for best
makes, latter for Pequot A and Indian
Head, and firmer for Stark a and APP
pleton a; Wachusetts sell at 16c; Broad
way bring lac, and Lyman c 15c.
Prints are selling at from l2Hc up to
l5c, as to style and quality. Lancaster
Ginphams l7c; Amoskeag do l7c;
Marlboro do l6c; Delafnes zoe.
MONEY AND STOCKS.
The action of the Pennsylvania Leg
islature in relation to the Fort Wayne
road was the great topic of COnversa-
ton in f1uancinl circles, and caused
wide fluctuations in stock exchange.
MoNEY-Fairly active at per cent.
on call in the morning and much ca
the ruling rate.
STERLING-Dul and heavy nt l09Hsa
1O9ss.
CoID-Opened at 1855, closing at
1351sa135A.
'67s sold high at 100, but fell Off in the
afternoon. Coupons '8l, 1l23Sal12$z;
'G2, II3Ha1131a; '6l, 1O91aalO9A; '65, llO7s
lllN; new lOS5SalOS7s; '67, lOS4a10S3s;
'6S, lO9; 10 4Os, lOSHAlO85s.
SToCKs-Railways opened weak and
unsettled under the action of the Penn
sylvania Legislature. Fort Wayne fell
Island, "a; Ohio and Mississippi 2. N.
Y. Central, AZ; Reading, L; Northwest
ern, IN and Old Southern, 2, with large
sales of all stock in which Esie was
supposed to have large interest. In
the evening there was partial recov-
cry of 15 to per cent. throughout the
list, but the market again became
heavy and closed unsettled, with a
downward tendency; Northwestern
alone being held with any degree OF
tirmness. Express shares were higher:
United States touched GGI2. Miscella-
neOus shares heavy.
$50 Prices: Pacific Mail 1l6Aa1l7;
MI -
New York Central 162a162I; Erie 35Ma
351I; Hudson 135Hal36; Harlem 1869;
Reading 9595; Terre Haute 4O11a40A;
Wabash 64a641s; do. preferred 76a7S;
Fort Wayne ll6Xa1l619; st. Paul 6515a
esq; Ohio and Mississippi 361Sa36T;
Michigan Central ll0al2O; Michigan
Southern 9315; Illinois Central 1881;
Pittsburgh 9la9lN; Toledo lO4LalO4z;
Rock Island l27al27}!; Northwestern
S25Ga82N; Columbus, Cincinnati and
Indianapolis 73M.
EXPRESS SHARES-Wells, Fargo ~
Co., 294a30; American 501s5l; Adams
69I aG934; United States 6ItG4I; Mer-
chants' Union 2Oa2I.
Cincinnati.
FEBRUARY i.-FLoUR and GRAIN
Unchanged and Quiet.
Co1TON-Held at 29c but demand
light, still holders are strong Mt 29c.
SEEDs-Clover Seed-In good de-
mand; sales at 1Gc; in Il small way it
brings l6Xc. Timothy-In good de-
mand at 81 25a3 90.
PRoVIsIoNs-Therei is a speculative
demand for Mess Pork; sales 800 bbls.
$33 90 for country. and S32 80 for city, on
the spot, and $32 50a33 co for country
and city, buyer all this month, includ-
ed in the sales were 500 bbIs at s32 90,
delivered at Chillicothe, Ohio. Bulk
Meats-Quiet but firm at 13Lal5Ac for
shoulders and sides. Bacon-Firm but
quiet; shoulders at l42Ic: clear rib sides
at 1715c, and clear at lSaISLc, latter
rate mostly asked; sugar cured hams
active, prices tending upwards; sales Of
85 tierces at l9Al9Hc, including 200
tierces to a Chicago dealer at inside
rate. Lard-Firm but quiet at 2Oc for
country, and 2O14c for city.
BUTTER-Unchanged and quiet ut 2Sa
33c.
GoLD-l3J.
FEBRUARY 4.-FLoUR-Duu al 60 lOa
6 IS for extra.
GRA1N-Wheat-Dul sales of No. l
at 81 2Oal p and No. 2 81 ljLa1 1873;
sales this afternoon at 81 l514 for No. 2.
Corn-Quiet and easier 14aAc lower,
sales of No. l at Tic seller, last hall
April; new at 5SA seller, March; sales
OIL ne" SluC6 CudHRo ut OoI4Cs SdtS-
Quiet and firmer 4a2<c higher, sales OF
No. at 5OA5lc cash; 5lc5Reller, March;
5lM buyer, February. Barley-Steady
and 4a5c higher, sales No. 2 at 81 S0al 50,
closing inside for regular and outside
for fresh receipts.
HoGs-Dressed, $l4al4 80 for light and
Sl5al5 25 for choice heavy lots; live
active and a shade tirmer, sales at
$40 75a12 for fair to extra choice ship
ping and packing lots.
Toledo.
FEBRUARY A. FLoUR-Quiet and
steady.
AIN-Wheat-Elrm and unchang-
ed; sales of amber on the spot at 81 81.
Corn-Quiet and unchanged; new gen
orally held at Csc; rejected at 63%c'
Oats-Firm; lc better al 5924c for Mich
igan. Rye-Firm at 81 284l 80. Barley
Quiet and steady; state at 81 50; Can
ada at 81 10.
Hoos-Dressed Hogs-Ha1zc better
and moderately active at l4c.
st. louis.
FRBRUARY 4.-FLoUR-DuI anu un-
GRA1N-Wheat-U for fall,
but spring little better. Corn-tlrm at
72a75c, Oats-Weak at 62s6oc. Barley
Nothing doing. Rye-Dull and easier
90 WH4TsKY-DuIl y us at 92Hc.
PRoyIsIoss-Active and better. Pork
goo IN E,,,k