The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-04
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.


WEEK ENDING Jan. 3 1872.
Holiday week has not been a very prolific one for
the wholesale business, however good it may have
been for the retail trade. Our merchants take
advantage of this dull to settle accounts and
take account of stock, winding up the business Of
the past year as fast possible. As consequence,
the markets very quiet, and hardly show any
changes in prices, This dullness in business will
probably continue for time, and the spring
trade will not really open until some time in Feb
ruary.
The money market still remains tight. The semi
annual dividends of the Banks, and the interest on
State and other bonds payable in January, have cir
culated large amounts, which in some measure
leve the market U. S. Bonds are buoyant and
eagerly sought for by those who wish to make safe
and profitable investments. Gold is higher. Our
last weeks quotation left it at 1OsI@1Oss. 1t adj
vanced on Tuesday to 1909, but subsequently fell to
1o9a. On Wednesday, Sd, it sold at 1O991Osi
The changes in the values of commodities are so
slight that we omit extended review this week.
Apples are higher and prime fruit will bring SIS so p
Dbl. Butter is dull and the market is largely sup
piled. 1t is difficult to get more than SOC for the
choicest tubs of Vermont. Dry goods very firm
both for cotton and wooden manufactures. Fish are
dull and there has been nothing doing during the
week. Flour is dull and unchanged, there being no
Fayal oranges at 50 so per box, and Valencias i'm
ported here in the steamer at IS so to SO per case.
Corn is little irmer than it last week. Hay is
unchanged Iron continues firm with an upward
tendency. Lumber is in fair demand. Molasses Is
quiet without change in prices. Naval stores are
steady. Oils are in fair demand linseed being
shade higher. Provisions are frmer both for pork
and beef Produce is quiet without much activity or
the least change. Salt remains it last week.
Sugars are unchanged with fair demand for granu-
lated and coffee crushed. The wool market shows
some falling off from the business that has been
transacted for weeks past but in prices as
they continue firm for all grades, the recent ad-
vances being fully sustained:
FREIGHTS-There has been some demand for
vessels for Cuba and there some cargOes vet to
go thither. The following are the engagements for
the past week: Brig Deborah Soule hence to Carie-
mas, at the round sum of $126S out; sch b. T. Io-
we'll hence to Havana at 15c for sugar boxes: brio
Eudora, hence to Cardenas, at 14c for sugar boxes
bark H. D. Slower, hence to Matanzas at {c for sugar
sugar boxes; sch Hattie L. Sampson hence to N
side Cuba, at 15c for sugar boxes sch Mary G. Col
Inns, from st. JOHN n. b. to N. side Cuba and back
n. of Hatteras, at So for moasses and soc per 100
lbs sugar.
Coastwise, We note the charter of sch Arthur Bur-
tom from Rockport to Jacksonville Florida and back
n. OF Hatteras, at SIG for lumber; sch Mary from
Bucksvlle s. c., to to this port S12 for hard pine
lumber There are some cargoes of lumber to 60 to
NC" AoAA' hui "nicH Shippers oHer % oU.
Foreign Exports.
MATANZAS. Sehr Abbie-1O!G box shook, 1871
shocks and heads 900 hoops, 1045 bbls potatoes.
ST JOHN. NIB. Sch Gold Hunter-9O0 bbls -four
800 bush barley
Foreign Imports.
WINDSOR, Ms. Schr P Grant-230 tons plaster
to order.
Brig NJ Nickers on-300 tons plaster to order.
HILLSBORO, Ms. Schr S De Forest-2S tons
hay pkgs butter, cords wood to Talbot & john
son.
Receipts by Railroads and Steamboats,.
GRAND TRUNK KALAMAZOO cans milk. 200 bbls
-four 10 cars bark do hay, z do corn, do straw
board do live stock, AZ do lumber, 50 pkgs paper,
car starch do oats do bran,3 do barley, do meat,
8 do potatoes 3 do laths, do shocks do wheat, 1
do hogs, 8 do sunlries for Lower Provinces-1200
bbls -four cars sundries for Allan Steamers cars
grain, do -four do provisions.
STEAMER MONTREAL FROM BosToN-15 bdls of