Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-03-29
TRADE.

since the last report to 26th, 10000.
TRADE.
Spring has set in in earnest. We
said so last week and we repeat it.
No more snow or rude blasts of old
Boreas will put a stop to work in the
fields or chill the life sap which is in
migrating the grown leaves and bios
SONS to be seen almost everywhere
within the past few days. Yet a little
while. and the grass will be high,
flowers will pop their pretty heads up
from old mother earth, and all nature
will be smiling in her mantle OF green.
The pillow is turning over the sod even
now, as we write, upon thousands
and thousands of acres, and the plant
ing season will be here before we are
fully ready for it. Since VA last
weekly review our citizens have
passed through the excitement Of a
county election, and business has, to
some extent, been retarded by the in
terest manifested in the respective
tickets. This agony is over now,
however, and trade will receive the
individual attention of its vOtarie5.
Prices during the week have changed
materially in some things, while
others have been remarkably steady.
Mess Pork is some firmer but not
higher. Dry salt meats are lower; a
lot Of 10000 pounds Clear Sides was
offered to-day at l4Rc; Bulk Hams
were offered at I24c and Shoulders
IObc. Corn has been in fair demand
during the week and sales have been
large. The stock market is rather
quiet; mules are only in light demand
With few on the market; hOrses-that
is. common ones-are dull, but fine
! saddle or carriage stock are in de-
mand at good prices; cattle are scarce
and in demand, but hogs and sheep
are dull.
The river rates to New Orleans will
be tomorrow 4Oc on pound freight,
81 80 on whisky and 81 on pork.
a memorial to Congress, adopted
by the TObOccO Association yesterday,
contains the following: eve fully
recognized that many advantages would
be derived from the uniform rate on
beth smoking and chewing tobacco in
simplifying the collection Of revenue
and cutting OF some considerable /
sources of fraud. Yet that rate to be 4
Il5L dElA CuulAduAC AA09N " NV anu
therefore most earnestly urge the
adoption Of the recommendation of
the National Tobacco Association at
their late meeting OF placing a tax on
all grades Of smoking, chewing and
snuff tobacco at q uniform rate Of six
teen cents, and if this rats cannot be
granted We most earnestly protest
against any change Whateyer from
the present law. By doing this we
not only believe that you would be
doing an act OF simple justice to the
produce and commerce OF smoking to-
bacco, but thatin the end you will re-
ceiye as much revenue a by a higher
rate. 1t can be clearly demonstrated
that at g uniform rate of sixteen cents
the year 1871 viii yield at least twen-
ty-ive million dollars to the revenue
from tobacco, which in view of the
fact that it is proposed to reduce the
taxation sufficient to cut down the
last years receipts some thirty mill
lions, seems to Us TO be all that to-
baccO ought TO bear"
A Chicago dispatch Of the 18th to the
APPEAL, says: the number Of hogs
packed in Chicago this season were
500, 600; Cincinnati, 49,, $50; st. Louis,
64i, 3l6; Milwaukee, 1885. Mess
pork manufactured here, $4,000 bbls;
other kinds, 10000 bbls. Cattle
packed, II, 1853, about half as many as
last year, and these only Texas cattle.
The total number of live hogs and
dressed received and shipped from
October IS TO March IS, was l,l39,-
900. One packing house packed $780,
427 hogs.
DRY GOODS.
The demand for spring goods has
set 4n quite actively, and our dry
goods houses, for the first time ia some
weeks, are beginning to look as though
they were satisfied. Our quotations
gill be found below. OF the New
York market the Reporter says:
"The revival of trade, which prom
sed so well at the close of last week,
vas only a temporary affair, and buy 5
only took such goods as they could 1
pick up here and there at a reduction, '
lot purchasing with a view of supply I
.ng themselves with full stocks. After I
he little furry vas over, business be- g
very dull, and holders were T
to give way again with a de Y
weak feeling at the reduction, :
Is buyers are seemingly confident of l
favorable terms if they hold off 5
little longer. In brown sheetingS 1
nd shirtings the standard makes are L
educed from l to Il cents per yard; 1
till the trade only buy to supply inn ?
Mediate wants, anticipating a further
In bleached goods business 2
) languid, the most popular makes
re firm, but those less fayOrably a
are offered at lower figures. l
FOR printing cloths, manufacturers 2
ave obtained a slight advance. i
'rints have been huctuating more q
han any other class of goods, caused 4
the lively competition among a l;
wv of the leading iObberS to secure a
lrge share of the trade. Styles of v
hOice patterns, and of standard >
maintain their full prices. In
there are no new features. .,
assimeres and satinets of tasteful Q.
-yles are more active, while medium
rades are lower. IN foreign goods 4
here has been a somewhat better n
u%sineSS, though much less than dur D
the corresponding period of many P
seasons" a.
PRINTS.