, 1872-11-21

nauu: Doth from shippers and speculators. The
e5c tor No. and 5lo for No. 5, Afmour ez Dole LEX {
COS receipts commanding preference. Seller
the month was dull ut 66@67c, closing
| at the inside; and seller December was weak at
va Gs4@6ae ,co5ing at e3c Cash aaes were re-
4oo bu No. at 53c; ] 200 BIZ do at 521ac; i, 200
| bu do at 52c; 1890 bu do ut sic 2, 900 bu re-
jceted at 4oc; 1000 bu by sample at 85c On
track, Ito arriye); 400 bu do at SIC, delivered +;
at 6ac; 400 bu do at 55c. Total, Sc, 400 bu.
Gi!ead A. Smith j. Co., Of London, furnish
the following quotations Of metals Oh Nov. in
English shillings: Ordinary Erie rails. 2l0s@
2@2os; @ DO double beaded, 2i5@225a; Welsh bars
@ 229@24oa; stafordshire do, 255@272}7s; nail
pioek tln l49s; tin plate. per box. 42@55s; lead
per ton, 405@410s: quicksilver per IS lbs, 2G0s,
I. Berger Spence, of Manchester Eng, thus
speak Of the chemical market, under date OF
During tho past week there has been moderate vet
upon the whole satisfactory trade transacted in chem
fcas and Quotations all round remain unchanged, Un-
certainty regarding the future of tho market
stu restricts contract business but from the evident
indifference Of manufacturers to undertake engage
nents for delivery next year buyers tcrns it
likely to recede to the extent anticipated In the mean
1ie their resources are in many cnses, insufficient
the conditions Of production viii change SO as to ena.
BILE them materially to yield the advantages Of lower
prices There has been considerable inquiry for caus-
tic soda for forward delivery, but the Of business
passing is not large Soda ash has been ceiling moro
freely, st Slightly frner rates. In soda cryatas an
improved tone is again noticeable, but advance
be quoted. The demand for nitrate Of soda has not
been quite SO animated as during the previous week,
but such salesas were effected realised in great
can yet be noted in muriate Of potash B!cachinu
powder has been quiet throughout but sales have not
been been pressed, and quotations remain stationary. =
good trade continues to he done in slplate OF
MIA at full prices. In oxac acid there has been fair
businesa done at our quotations. Tartaric firm.
HOW IS TITS Z?
An exchange says: "1t is claimed by the St.
Paul Press that wheat as we'll as wood mon
opoly exists on some Of the railroads leading in
to that city, BY which tho price Of grain there ia
arbitrarily kept under the standard in other
places. On the main line of tho ST. Paul and
Pacific Railroad, says the Press, ara wheat-buy-
era for two distinct interests. One is the COM
bination of Minneapolis millers, who require
large amount Of grain for manufacture at the
Falls, and the other represents Milwaukee spcc-
ulatora, whose purchases help to swell the baai-
Each of these parties is bound to confne itself
to its own territory, which has been set off by
mutual agreement and not to trespasB in any way
upon the operations Of its rival Each has
agreed upon maximum price to be paid for
wheat, and neither will receive, at any price,
grain that has been purchased from tho farmer
at higher figure than they have set: So that
when local buyer, in Wow of the great dis
parity between the Va1ue Of wheat in MilUau-
kee, deductlng the cost of gottins it there,
petition with the ring for the produce Of
his region, and pays five or ten cents per bushel
more than the fixed price, he at once finds him
self in the position Of the wood buyer who has
contravenod the rules of tho rai1road in regard
to the price OF wood He cnn do nothing With
his wheat. Neither party Of buyers will take it
off his hands. and be finds it impracticableto OBJ
tain transportation facilities for m independent
shipment. by this means, the buying price Of
wheat, on the st. Paul and Pacific Road is kept
from Gyo to ten cents below its actual value. aud
the farmers are robbed OF this amount, in this
year of low prices, for the benefit Of the mem
bers OF the corporation"
LATEST.
In the afternoon wheat was moderately active
and stronger: No. 2 epring sold at 81 0S1<
cash, II .05@1.08N seller tho month and seller
December, the option. closing at 51.03. Corn
was quiet at 81 Ic seller the month, and 3l15@
3lSc seller December, closing at 81 &c, Fre;glta
and provisions #ero inactive.