The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-10-31
COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK MARKET.
NEW YORK, Oct. 20, Is

New YORK, Oct. 20, 1873.
The situation, financially. was more cheerful
than since the panic commenced. Currency
was in good supply and the banks were more
liberal with reliable borrowers. Call loans firm
at z per cent commerca paper was quoted at
IS per cent but good many notes were re-
newed, which was a great relief to merchants
Gold, 1887. Silver payments, in small sums,
were making by the asst. Treasurer but only
$3.50 was called for during the day. Sterling
exchange was weak at 1903 for sight and 1861
g106sl for 60 days. Flour was dull trade al
most all in small lots: superfine Mich, 50 %
as rs good to choice white wheat extras, 81
al 65. Wheat slow but held firm ; shippers
holding off amber western, 5391 55 white
do, Tai 65. Corn firm at $1,000. Cats steady
at 46@47. Provisions were improving: mess
pork ga 60a14 IS lard, S@8 IL Lie. Choice
butter was in good inquiry: Mich. factory, 80
@32 fair to good, 22a27 common, 1SG2l.-
Western eggs, 25Gg26. Sugar was dull at a
fractional decline: soft white refined, 9s4a10.
Coffee firm: Rio, 1994a2213, gold Java, 23a25.
Tea ruled quiet. Carolina rice, 71laS14. Wool
calities, and full prices were being realized,
such as 4Sa50 for y and Xxx western, but from
Philadelphia came the report that many wooden
mills were going to shut down
DETROIT MARKET.
DETROIT, Oct. 30, 1873
Businesses has not been so brisk this week as
last except perhaps in the grocery line, in which
liberal orders are coming forward Collections
have been rather slow in all branches. and un-
Ill they improve jobbers are not anxious for
large volume Of trade. Sugar has declined
T@1(c: straight A, 10sl. Cofiees are held a.
full former figures-Rlo 25@26JE; Java, 25@-
81. Dry goods and hardware are quiet with
few value changes. Linseed oil has, declined
2c-raw 90: boiled, Il 03. Extra winter lard
oil Is held at S7-No. / at 20. Kerosene is on
the basis OF %, cash and %, 30 days. Opium
is said to keep down only because of dull times
and the low price of gold: quoted at 20 10
Quinine is firm at 2 65. Cattle are dull at last
weeks figures, on large receipts and poor av-
erage quality. Best steers, 81 poor to medi-
um cattle, S2@3 so. Mich cows, 525@45.-
Sheep are dreadfully slow at 30 50d4 for 30 to
100 ID. Hogs are more active at 100000 adj
vance on the best grade: choice State, 4Cd4 10;
western, 10a4 20 lean and rough down to
80. The fur season has opened. Mink are
quoted up TO so. coon to 50c muskrat to 20c,
marten to So, otter to Sc, beaver TO 50 and
fisher to Sc. Flour Is very dull: commission
merchants, although carrying light stock, offer
choice white wheat brands at s7Cd7 %. cash.
Wheat, which has been improving for a couple
of days, received little rebuff to-day through
an advance in lake freights, yet tine market
ruled firm. The bulls begin to show their horns
again, and with the financial prospect So good
at the East, not without reason. Eastern mill
ers cay they didn't buy because money was not
to be got: ergo. if money is to be got, they
will buy. When the lakes close, freights to
Oswego will be 2O@21c. instead OF SmsJs, as
now. That difference has to come out of some
body; the farmer of Michigan is not a free
seller as IL is. viii he be at 13c per bu. less (?
White extra closed at 1 sc 40. 1 white 1t
/ ~; No. 1 amber at / 80. Corn steady at
AZ. Oats quiet at 35. Barley duh at 2 1902 65
per GENITAL stock $4,000 bu. Apples quiet at
S2@2 65 per bbl. Beans unchanged. Butter
firm at 25@27 Cheese 13@14 FOR state and
15c for N. Y. Dried apples. 7@9, selling. Eggs
23@24. Hickory nuts, rs per bu. Chestnuts,
S6@6 so. Honey more active at 45@26 for
choice comb. Onions dull at 75@S0c on street.
Potatoes offered more freely since the frost
came peachblows on track, 7O@75; carly rose,
62@65. Poultry dull chickens, solo; turkeys,
1O@l2, dressed. Mess pork. S14@14 so. Lard,
S9sH. Tallow. 6. Hides lower green coun.
try, 51I@6: sailed 7@8; dry. Hole.