The Portland daily press., 1875-04-06
Domestic Markets,

NEW YORK. April 5-Evemng--Cotton market
is quiet and steady; sales 22o5 bales; Middling up
lands at 16sc; forward deliveries opened at 1 l-16c
advance but afterwards lost. Flour-receipts of
1855 bbls the market is quiet and generally without
decided change; sales IL 800 bbls; Superine Western
and State at 40 q 70; extra Western and State at
IS q 10; choice Western and State at Is Is a As
White Wheat Western extra at at 50 q 90; extra
Ohio at So q 65; st Louis at 90 q 90; including
$500 bbls of shipping grades at Is q 25; market
closing quiet Southern flour at 95 q 90; Rye flour
firm at 90 a 10. Cornmeal quiet and steady at
90 a 80. Wheat-receipts 70 400 bush the market
is q lc better with moderate inquiry, chiefly for
home use also some little speculative inquiry; sales
116, 900 bush; No Spring at ii q Is; Is a 20
for No Chicago and Northwestern; 20 "a q for
No 2 Milwaukee; "a q % for No Spring; IA q
1 % Tor ungraded Iowa and Minnesota Spring: %
a 1 90 for Winter Red Western; 20 q 3l3 for Am
Der Western; 80 a Al for White Western. Rye is
quiet at 90c "a 90. Barley is dull and unchanged;
Canada East to arrive 30. Barley Malt unchanged.
better with rather more inquiry both for export and
home use also some speculative demand; sales 14S,-
for high Mixed and Yellow Western; S7A a SSc for
Western Mixed in stoTe soc do for White in store.
Oats-recepts $500 bush; the market is quiet and
firm; sales 200 bush at 70 g 73c for Mixed Wes-
tern; 10 a. 75c for White do; stock of grain in store
April 3d-Wheat ,07l2O9 bush; Corn 2394 .967 bash;
Oats 1920 bush; rye q 53l bush; Barley dOl96l
bush; do Malt III bush Coffee firm; 1000 bags
Rio at 17ac in gold for fair to good Sugar quiet and
steady at Il a Sac for fair to good refining; SIC for
prime; 40 hhds Muscovado at Sc; refined firm and
dull at l0s q 104 q lOac for hard grades. Moasses
is firm. ce steady. Petroleum about steady crude
at &c; refined at 14l a 145c 5000 bbs for prompt de-
livery 14c. Tsllow is steady at 116 "a Ssc Ma
val Stores-Rosin firm at 2 10 CO. Is for strained.
Turpentine is firm at IS a 36tc for Spirits. Pork is
excited sales 300 bbs new lots at Y 5O $50
bbs seller June % 90; seller May and June NOM
inaly at % So Beef is quiet. Lard is very much
unsettled at 1853 a 5I for prime steam; $50 tics seller
April at 1885, $500 ties seller May 1853 a 5; 1850 do
seller tor June at 15a a 155. Butter is heavy at II "a
1c for Western; 16 "a 26c for State; new Western at
% "a 25c; do State 20 q 32c. Whiskey is steady at
113.
Freights to Liverpool-the market is heavy; Cotton
per steam at 732d Corn per steam at 6d Wheat per
steam at I'd.
CHICAGO, April 5-Flour is firm and in fair de-
mand extra Spring at 60 "a IS; White Winter at
IS. Wheat is excited and higher;, No Spring at
02t; No Spring fresh at 99c regular at sac bid on
spot or seller April OLE for seller May; G23 tor
seller June; No Spring 93ac; rejected at So q sec.
Corn excited and higher; No 2 Mixed regular AZ io4c
fresh; 74 q 72c spot 775c bid seller May; 7Is BID
seller June rs "a 6S!c seller July; rejected 40 @ &c
Oats active and higher; Noe regular at Esq on the
spot; 62sc bid bd seller May 625c seller for june
5Sc. Rye in light demand and holders firm; no az
08 on SPOT; 05t seller April. Seeds are quiet anu
weak; Timothy, fair to prime at 2 20 q 70; prime