The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-01-11
COMMERCIAL REPORT.

COTTON FIRM FOR ''sPoT," HIGHEB FOR
FUTURE DULL-wHEAT DULL
CORN FIRMER-oATs FIRMER-PoRK DULL
LARD HIGHER-CUT MEATS QUIET-GRoCERIES
QUIET-FREIGHTs FIRM-PETRoLEUM UN-
cHANGED-NAvAL STORES DULL-wHIsKEY
STEADY.
SATURDAY, Jan. o7PP Pm.
The new year has brought with 1t some little in.
crease in business and good deal OF irregularity
and uncertainty with regard to mercantile values.
The possible benefit OF providing for specie pay.
meuts four or five years hence Is counteracted by
the increase OF paper money meanwhile provided
tey by the selfsame BILL that the Congressional
legislation on this important matter Is Of no ee-
psoial importance so far as regards itSImmediate
inhuenoe or effects upon the merchandise mar.
ketA These markets, 1t is therefore fair to
presume, will be governed BY "demand
and supply" for some time hence. AS
the supply" Is very generally SUFFICIENT
for oil contingencies, and as the demand Is and
has been very moderate, the markets. as CON-
pared with o week ago. show little II any change
the better The most hopeful feature these dull
limos 10 the absence Of any disposition to force sales and
thns precipitate decline In values Holders are will.
ing, and fpfnany cases anxious to sell, but not sufl-
centy anxious to induce them to force sales any sac
rihce. Tho markets may accordingly be regarded as
comparatively steady though dull. The volume of bus
during the week past small, business in many
commodities being extremely light Yet hope
ful feeling was manifest in nearly every de-
parment of trade, and confident expectations OF q
comparatively large business during the sprng season
freely expressed every hand providing that the
country be permitted to settle down peace and
quiet But the past week Is to be any criterion the
future such thing quiet and expected
until chief executive OF the nation be selected
from among the statesmen OF the country. Business
where express themselves as heartily tired OF
military rule in time of peace, long for the change
which It is universally conceded must take place
until which time Is generally feared that 1t will be
impossible to keep business and politics unmixed.
Daring the pas. week they have been more
mixed, as we'll as muddled. than at any time
since tn termnat OF the Petitions expressive
OF Indignation at the course pursued at New Orleans
in, IN o BY Others
been freely circulated In all the exchanges as well as
ar and n %a1y e As
under any circumstsnces Dry soods ruled dull ali
ON Change -four da nominal and in buyers favor
an and also Sq S
small business nn for the he week Corn was somewhat
Ss%snd for export. nt Oats WV; Mer. d iaiT
and G Du
business was gsy light prime being held
Visions ror1 ~as aas f bSs
hf n cut 's % easter
freely dealt in all through tbs and prices ad
EreSht, rn,ed STRONGER in shs h sns nanest point
vessels Tor charter brought high Cotton arm
for lots on the SPOT and higher and In good
"future." Groceries ruled quiet Petroleum was dull
and unchanged. Naval stores were Inactive and 70
extent nominal
CorTox-Tbe market for spot cotton was firm with tho
purchased offered q. prcss confirming The Appended
quota tons which show no changes US compared with
despits the advance in futarsa Holders In
many cases howsver refused 10 offer cotton sxcep t at
material advance me MARKET for forward deliveries
tendency In the main decidedly upward best sales
was evidently Sns TO speoSs',on NOSE than 70 other
being sufficiently changed TO any material in
huence with private Liverpool noting
slight improvement IN late shipmeuta While ol her
private and the public accounts were Of con-
radiotory nature Inc mari et closed firm at the follow
na quota tons January, l4>sc. IA 40 BE- Febrnary
Is Ice is 2S2c- March, l5sc. April, IS N-s3c l5Sc
May, ie,4c August Is ISlSc. nominsily. We quote
spot NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. based on American standard Of