The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-10-18
COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK MARKET.
New YoRK. Oct. Is, IS

l NEW DIX, Oct. 10, lofs.
The indication of more easy condition OF
financial matters, made week ago. have not
been without happy results. The rate for call
loans has dropped to 4@5 per cent. vet money
is still scarce and only the most unexception-
able mercantile paper is taken at 10 per cent.
Gold Is dull at 1925. Sterling exchange is on
Suits, shozt being 101s@10l4, and long 1885
| @l0sE prem. Flour has been active most OF
| the week, chiefly however. on local account.
with low or export grades in hight request
Wheat is IN good demand at 2@3c lower. White
Mich. 1.SGd1.90 amber, western. 1.6S@l.75 ;
red western, 1.5S@1.67. Corn is dull at 64c.-
Mich oats quiet at 466t47c. Mess pork Is firm
and active at S14.5O@1455. Steam lard, $40
! SIC. Butter receipts are very large, with only
small proportion choice. Probably one-haH
OF the western takes rank as grease" which
is 9W12c per ID. Fine western, however, Mich.
and Ohio particularly, is saleable at 25@2Tc.-
Eggs are lower western, in abbls., 26@27c.
Coffee is firm at slight advance Rio ID 4@1S
gold. Sugar is very firm soft refined, 114-
012c Hards, l294@1314c Wool is again dull,
but prices are nomlnally unchanged. There Is
a better demand for wooden goods and prices
are firmer Cotton goods are quiet
DETROIT MARKET.
DETROIT, Oct. 16, 1872.
Activity and level prces in all departments
of trade, have been the characteristics of the
weeks business. Hardware is without change
except in nall rods, which are &c higher $500
99c). Dealers say important changes are on
the tapis, but refuse at the moment to indicate
their nature. Dry goods show slight falling
of on few of the leading makes OF prints
which had held up relatively well but prices
are steady as whole and interior buyers are
here in force. rhe idea seems to be that la
creased business after election Will bring higher
prices. Alcohol is shade lower Il $50 and
lard oil higher (75 and S0l for Nos & 1. Tur
peutlns is firm at 7Sc by the Dbl. Opium is
firm at IS %. and sulph morphine at STD
Quinine is steady at 260@2.7j. Groceries are
very active. Dried foreign fruits are a shade
lower and further reductions are looked for. -
New ralsIns etc, are about to arrive and val
ues will be affected thereby. Sugar keeps
scarce and firm; straight a, 1215c. Apples
are in the same dull and unsatisfactory cond-
ton as last noted. Good fruit has gone to
waste for want of BUYERS at $16g1.25 per Dbl.
Dried apples are more active but 1501c lower
sellers now being free at lob. IL is supposed
that the offerings will be very large during the
winter owing IT, the dullness OF green. Butter
is coming In very plentfully and prices are
weaker 22c however. is still realized for gilt
edge; second grade is dull at 10000. Cheese
is firm at 15016c. Eggs keep scarce and 23c is
readily paid. Chestnuts have declined to 81
per bu. HIDES are firm at S15 for green coun-
try. Honey 10 steady at 22@25. Onions are
doing better Coo is paid on street. and bbl
lots are held at s2@2.10. Potatoes are steady
at 7O(d75c for early varieties and S0@S5c for
peachbows Flour is active but not so strong
az a week ago, the bulk OF the sales are at So
as 70 for best country and city make. Wheat
which has been &c higher is now 20g3c lower
thana week ago. and the tendency is downward.
Closing prices were white extra, LII; No. l
white. 1929; No . do, i49; No. amber,
49,. Corn which has been very flat and
has touched Acc, is now more steady at 4514@-
Acc. Oats are stll weak, and trade is anything
bu. satisfactory: old State sold to-day at 3619
new do are offered at 3ic. and western at sc.
Barley Is quick at / 65al.75 for State and
1.759l.80 for western. Rye nominal at zoe.