Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-09-02
TRADE.

The commercial year opened with
bright prospects and a better feeling per
/ vading the whole community than has
/ been noticeable since the war. The crop
news is somewhat conflicting. Many
| planters declare that they will not make
more than half the corn or cotton they ex-
I pected; but we think that without further
disaster occurs, the cotton crop will tax
! the picking capacity of our people to the
utmost to gather. The signs are that we
shah have a larger wheat crop ans q small
er corn and oat crop than last year.. In
respect to other important cereals it is diff
hcuit at this juncture 10 Gull the truth
from the many speculative reports that
find their way over the telegraph wires
and into print. So far as we can judge,
! the out look is good. Peace and plenty
smile upon the land.
Business to-day was very good indeed,
and a harbinger only of what is TO come.
Front street was crowded with supplies
intended for the interior, and the dry
goods and boot and shoe houses were more
busily engaged than usual.
The DAYS receipts were made up mostly
OF the freight Of the Minneols from Gin
cinnsti, and were as follows: Ale, 100
pkgs; Bagging, 267 rolls; Boots and Shoes,
: cases, Bacon, IS csks, Is tics, 10 pkgs;
Corn, p SKIS; C~0TnEneal, 60 bbls; Cotton
Seed. % SKIS; Crockery, S orts Coffee, rs
sks; Chickens, 5 coopsi Dry Goods, l67
pkgs; Drugs, IS pkgs; Fish, 81 pkgs;
Furniture, 800 pkgsj Glass, PIG bxs; Glass
ware, SO pkgs; Groceries, 2l9 pkgs; Horses,
D head; Iron, 5 tons; Iron Ties, $50 bdis;
Leather, le rolls; Lime, 100 bbls; Liquors,
10 pkgs; Lumber, 40, coo feet; Oils, 4Obbls;
Pork, 25 bbls; Paper, 276 bdls; Rope, 3
coils: Sugar, 6 hhds, IS bbls; Salt, 10
bbls: Stoves, 498; Soap, IS bxs; Tobacco,
1856 pkgs; Tin, IS bxs; Wheat, l13 SKIS;
Whisky. - bbIs; Starch, 90 bIs; Trunks,
255; Mdse, l2Is pkgs; Cider Mills, A;
Cotton Gins, 1.
Prices are much the same as yesterday.
The leyee was bars of Feed, and our quo
tations are from storei C9rn, 90@92c;
Oats. G5a7Oc; Bran, $50 per ton; Hay, s25
ais. Cornmeal on levee, 81 25g4 IS for
ftesh, and 81 50G4 IS for Kindred in lots.
Meats are doll and inclined to weakness;
Mess Pork, SIS 2s@85 80 in store. Clear
Sides are steady at 2e@4kc in a small
iobbing way, but round lots are offered at
IqI@l924c; Shoulders, l6E@l7c. Flour
is quiet Egd unchanged in price; Supers
n from 50 ts z. az to quality, and fam
iIv brands Sc 80 TO 50. BaggiIg is firm
and looks upward; We quote heavy at y
@26c ter Jb; the demand is active. Iron
Ties are firm "a 7I.@se. There is little or
no demand for Rope, AMI stock is light.
Eggs aye rather scarce at 23@.25c pea dog.
Chickens are very scarce and sell at s. to
s. 50 for young and old. Other things are
unchanged.
The rice crop Of Louisiana this year Is
estimated At not less than 10000 barrels.
Before tie war the average was not above
10000 barrels. The swaps on both sides
the river are well adapted to its grqYth,
irrigation is easy, and the sea breezes rem
der the rice plantations comparatively
free from the sickness which characterizes
the plantations Of South Carolina and
Georgia. So rapid is The Increase Of pro-
that steam mills are being crested
Ia New Orleans, and every modern i'm
proyement il the way Of gathering the
crop and preparing Il TOR commerce is be-
ing introduced. II is conEnsntly ex-
pected thai this region in a few years viii
be capable Of supplying the United states
with this important article Of food.