The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1871-12-12
Havana Market.

HAVANA. December 2.-SCGARs-Clayed.-
demand for lots OF the present stock mas oeen
Moderate during the whole week, oWiug w t tse .
exlguity Of available and desirable lots anu tne
advance OF prices eXacted by sellers. Tne lew
sales reported add about 1000 boxes for which tne
following prices were paid: 9Ha9x rs Nos. 6h
anu o; 10aioH r, Nos. 10 and l0h; l0haloI rs.,
no. ii, and 1ix rs.. No. IA. The market closes
led last wees, for which reason 1 abstain from
reproducing the figures then given. Many holders
are asking 1OH Is but no sales have been re.
ported above lok rs. No. IL.
tracts for partial and full crops for future deliv-
ery and prices rule high. For clayed sugars tnere
Il little doing, only one sale oeing reported Ior
whole crop Of Derosne's process, Nos 10 to IA, AZ
ioZ rs. for No. IL as bssls with an advance OF
$4,000 The following is the business done this
week In Other SORTS: NM ,..
Centrifugal-lo0o hhds at lohrs; l9ovo % oo9es s1es
Nos. lils aud another crop at 1oHrs; 5000 to 5000
do, same numbers. and 1000 o do DO, at lohrs;
1000 do do do at eHrs; q full crop at ioIrs, WIN
$4,000 advance: 5000 boxes Nos 1l-l2 at loHrS;
he he at IoXrs for No IL; 1000 hhds No Is, large
grain, at uHrs. and several parcels On serms
Muscoyadoes-220 hhds inferior to common re-
nniniug at srs 500 hnds good no. S 500 40 70 oo oo SU
do at skrs; 1000 do do at s1frs, and 400 a. Coz
centrated, at 5Hrs.
Nothing has been donet IN molasses sugar oi the
stock available or for future delivery.
The receipts o. sugar In the warehouses OF tne
port since January to date amount TO sS3, 'So
boxes and 81. 002 'htds against l.a92 OIL BOXES
and 1885 hhds In 1870. The deliveries same
period were S99,634 boxes and 31,oll hhds,
against 1895 967 boxes and 49,772 hhds IN 1870
Stock this morning, T2,445 boxes and OH nnds,
against IS, 745 boxes and 200 hhds IN 1870. STOCK
10 Matanzas, 1855 boxes and II hhds, against
1904 boxes and 80, hhds In 1870.
There were no hhds cleared this week, ag9lnst
3S1 last week, andl3i same week IN 1870, su lrom
Several more estates have commenced g'tnd-
ing, with favorable weather, but no reW sugar on
the market as yet.
MoLAssKs.-No sales OF actual STOCK nor puI-
tracts between dealers and planters continue on
large scale at high. though Irregular prices, &C.
cording to time aud place OF delivery.
CoFFEE-Becoming scarce, and q ssc3 STEADY az
sl7Mal7X per qtl Tor first qualify.
ToBACCo.-Lqrge sales for New York md Eu
rope at very high prices, ranging from $4o TO sos
Ter utl for WI lta Absjo, according 10 quality.
dealers are very busy, baling as fast as they can.
The sal this and last week exceed Il, ,0C0 bales
FRsIoHTs.-The demand is dull, with very little
dong Tor he Uni;ed States, and nolhlng LOT Eu.
rome Quotations close as follows: United states
75a90c per box for sugar, and nominal Tor hhdsdo
and molssses, Falmouth 35s perfon.
ExCHANaR.-Rates have continued to advance
unrer lively demand, prvdacsd by the local dls,
turbances at the commencement OF the week q q
scarcity or all foreign bills. Rates close rs lo-
rnium; Paris do 5ha8 per cent premium; HAM
burg SO sh per dollar; Spain, sixty days, :kal3
per cent premium; United States, sixty days. cur.
renoy, Zai per cent premium; DO gold 0Hall per
cent premium; short sight, currency, 2Ha3 per
cent premium; do gold 12xa1aper cent 'emium.