, 1873-03-14

Withdrawn from store yesterday for city con-
sumption: 3,527 bu wheat; 1888 bu corn; 595
bu oats; 1915 bu barley.
The following gEaln has been inspected into
store this morning, up to 10 o'clock 83 cara
wheat; 176 cars corn 25 cars oats !; 2 cara rye
Is cara barley. Total, 299 cars, or III, 900 bu-
We referred this morning to proposed change
in the rules Of the Board OF Trade, which will
tend to purify it to some extent, by making fail
ure to meet au obligation the direct cause OF
suspension till the obligation be met or ramitted.
Something Of the Kind is really necessary to
preservs, or rather to restore, the integrity Of
our trade in produce. At present there are many
difficulties in tho way Of securing the suspen-
sion Or expulsion OF persons who have no
right to be members OF the Board Of Trade. be-
cause they do no business, and can transact none
on equal terms with other -membors- In the first
place, mau who cannot collect hia dues is sure
to hear the c1y Of "parsecution" raised il hs
calls the attention Of the Board OF Directors to
submit quietly to the loss, by the hope the debt
or will pay up some time or other II allowed to
BtRy. Hence, so long az complaint can be insti-
tuted only by the party who is directly injured
and the Directors can take no notice Of the mat
ter unless such complaint be made, we must e1-
pect to see the Board OF Trade retain on its rolls
the names Of men who have no business on
Change, and whose presence is an injury to the
trade. Take the wheat market OF two OF three
days past as an example Of tho way
buy (saJ) 80 600 bu, and buys TO- 900 at the cur
rent market price. By the time he offers to take
another. !" fve," two or three Of the screamers
scent out the fact that he is buying, md bid so
1lc advance, just for tho sake of putting tho
market up on him, they know very well that it
is safe to mike the offer, because no one will
sell to them unless they catoh greeny," and
then they ara Obliged to back out Of the tradoif
for the fn]dllnent Of the contract. They inter-
feIe in the same way if a man wants to sell 20,-
600 to st, 900 bu. The moment thoy ffud out that
ho is trying to sell, they offer to sell under him
{options,, not CASH, and thus spoil his trade
these gentlemen stick and stand around
during the whole session, month in
and month out, never buying or
selling, because none OF the knowing ones will
trade With them but still in good standing,
though they have no more business there than
so many loafars on q street corner, who take q
hand in the conversation Of the passera-by.. To
make the matter Worse, they sometimes pretend
to deal with one another, and thus make ficti-
kind Of trading from now until tho day Of judg-
ment, un1ess the defaultcrs' rule bo adopted. In
that case there arc not & few Of the legiti-
mate operators who would gladly loso little
money in trading with them, so that they might
get rid OF them.
II the Board ahould decide that it hns not the |
tight to expel, perhaps the next beat thing would
be to serve up refrcahments in an ante-room for !
the benefit of the loafers alone, and thus tempt
Them to keep of the main floor. There is no I
doubt that the temptation would be irresistible |
in most cases. The Board used to get out crack !
ers and cheose and ale to attract members; |
,ould it not now afford the Same induccment to |
he undesirable ones to keep *way7
TIE MARKETS.
The leading produce markets were again
:ather quiet to-day, though not uniformly dull, |
here being moro strength in some departments
han yesterday. The receipts Of produce were
ather more liberal, but tho reported shipments |
we're also rather large for the winter season, md
he markets in other cities were steedier. Hence
hero Was little more confidence, except in ]
wheat, -four, and lard,
Groceries we're in good demand to supply the
santa OF interior dealers, az well local retail
goods was large in the aggregate. Prices were
aot subjected to any decided change; ruling firm
md steady for most articles, and only weak for
;onees. The movement in domestic and foreign |
Try goods vas satisfactorily active, and the mar
xet maintains all the elements Of strength that
it earlier in the season While
here IS An almost entire absence Of any apecu-
alive demand, the volume OF business il report
ID considerably larger than at this time year,
nd among our jobbera good feeling prevails.
9rices Of butter are still working doTnDards.
quotations being lowered l@2o to=day, Receipts
re not large, but with the demand restricted to !
IMPLYING the most urgent necessities dealers
ind stock accumu1atiog on their hands. Baggiup
7ere moving freely at former quotations, Where
lost articles in the List were firmly held The
heese market WAS fairly active and strong at a
urthez 20 advance, New York factory now be-
Il, held at 17@1sc, and Western DO at 15@17c.
,g.: The tendency in lake cured is to advance,
8 stocks are rapidly dWindling. Hay remains
nll. Hides aud leather we're quiet In the oil
larket there IVES fair activity, both The local
I'd interior demands being liberal Tuspentine
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