The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-01-06
COMMERCIAL.
Corn and Flour Exchange.

s-2i@k ,.N RICHMOND, January s, 1859.
80 OFFERINGS. E
'Whet.-White, $50 bushels. Red, IA BUSH
els. .s.,1-,. rs. ...-....r. .a....
Cbrn.-White. sos bushels Straw.colored,
l92 bushels. Mixed, S4o bushels. H
Gnts.-394 bushels.
Rye.-20 bushels.
Wheat White, so bushels inferior ut 81 .s2h :
SO bushels common at So; 2 bushels fair at
$2.06-total, eS bushels.
oorn.-white,- 1913 bushels prime new at
S7hc. 8s bushels good new on private terms !;
474 bushels prime new on private terms-total,
8SS bushels. Straw-colored, 1872 bushels damp
new at Soc. Mixed. $50 bushels damp new at
&c.,; SO bushels good new at ssc.-total, 242
bushels.
O1ts.-l2s bushels good at &c.,: 26s bushels
fair on private terms-total, 1874 bushels.
RE-BIHIBITRD.
Wheat.-White, 81 bushels. Red, 100 bush.
els.
Corn.--Mixed, 1O4 bushels.
REMARKS.
Offerings of corn to day, 1896 bushels; re-
naming over unsold, ia bushels market
active and firm under demand from distil-
lers Prime white sold at s7hc., and large
lot of strictly prime white on private terms.
Wheat dull red entirely neglected. Oats In
better demand, without change in price. The
prices of grain at the Corn Exchange on JAM
uary 4, 1867, were: CThe 9th was Sunday.
Wheat-white. very good, s2.62h red, prime,
$2.i5 Corn-white, prime new, $l.2o; yellow,
prime new, sl.ls. Oats-prime, 67bc. Rye
prime, 81 52H.
The offerings Of wheat at the Corn Ex-
change from July Is, 1867, to January ], 1858,
were 1857, 4aS bushels and from July /, 1868, to
January l, 1859, ass, 79o bushels.
The -four m arket Is without any material
change; receipts are somewhat lighter, and
demand for local consumption good. Quota
tions are ss IS to SO for superne, $3.50 to 80. 10
for extra, and S1l to 81 80 and s11 rs for fai-
ly-prices varying according to quality, guam
tity, and terms-cash or credit-though there
is now but little of the latter. The inspec-
tions in the city from LIST July to 3lst Decem-
Der, 1858, show an increase of 1884 whole
and 937 half barrels over the corresponding
period of last year.
The tobacco market was rather more lively
to-day; breaks were hogsheads and boxes
offerings at auction at the Exchange, ! parcel
loose, boxes. and IS hogsheads; sales, hogs.
head at IS, / at $500, 4at sl2, l at 81, lat
s7.s7H, l box at so. box at 1925, and at
iReu U HOSeHcduS'
The inspections from the LIST October to the
lst instant were Richmond, 1,62s hogsheads
in Petersburg, same time, 63S hogsheads; and
in Lynchburg, 2s6 hogsheads.
The following is list of the foreign impor-
tations to this port for the quarter ending
Decem Der 81, 1858:
Subject to Dmy-Bark Bertha, from Liver
pool, arrived October 10TH, 1858, 72o pounds OF
salt bark Satellite, from Liverpool arrived
October 27th-9l6, l60 pounds of salt.
Free Of Duty.-Schooner Sophia r. Jameson,
from Windsor, Nova Scotia-ls0 tons Of plas-
ter; schooner Hardscrabble arrived same date
from same place-l4l tons plaster schooner
Pastime arrived on the I'd Of October, same
place-l4o tons plaster.
No imports in November or December.
In Baltimore on the 4th instant offerings on
Change very small; only sales of wheat re-
ported, l, 500 bushels low grade Maryland 81
$l.75 to $l.S5, and 400 bushels choice Virginia
Valley red at 1926. Offerings of corn, 4,6ot
bushels white and 400 yellow about l,oot
bushels white, mostly steamboat lots,' sold a.
So to $780,, and 400 bushels western mixed yel
low at $50. Sales of 1880 bushels oats at so tc
IS and zoe $500 bushels offered; none sold
held firm.
In New York, same date, wheat a shade
hrmer; sales % 900 bushels at $l.o5 for mixed
spring, $I59 for No.. spring in store, ano
81 81 for spring delivered. Corn to &c. bet
ter sales $1,000 bushels at 96c. to 81 for new
mixed western, $l.o6 TO $l.09 for old mixed
western in store, and 81. 10 to Sill afoat; s.
for yellow Jersey, 81 for yellow southern
s7hc for aw-colored southern, 81 to CSC. TO,
white western, and $l.o3 to $l.O5 for kiln
dried western. Rye dull. Oats: Sales 4, 6ot
bushels at rs TO nc. for western in store, ane
7SE to 10 for western afioat.