The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-30
COMMERCIAL REPORT.

COTTON ON THE SPOT STEADY BUT QUIET-FU-
TUREs wEAK-FLoUR DULL-wHEAr DULL
BUT FIRM-CoRN sTRoNG-oATs FIRMER-
RYE DULL AND NoMINAL-BARLEY QUIET
AND NOMINAL-BARLRY MALT QUIET AND UN-
cHANGED-PoRK QUIEr-LARD QUIET AND
sTEADY-PETRoLEUM DULL AND EASIER
NAVAL STORES QUIET AND DULL-GRoCERIEs
sTEADY-HIDEs FAIRLY ACTIVE AND FIRM
LEATHER oUIEr-oILs QUIET wHIsKEY
oUIET-FREIGHTs sTEADY-HEMP AND JUTE
QUIET AND sTEADY-GUNNIEs STRONG.
THURSDAY, July 20, 1875.
The markets were generally duh and irregular.
Business small everywhere and In every de-
scription Of merchandise. On 'Change -four was
dull wheat nominal, very little demand either Tor
export or speculation, and scarcely any here to
work with. Corn was firm, with moderate de-
mand. Oats better. Whisgey quiet. Pork and
lard were 1rm. but not especially active. Freights
quiet aud steady. Cotton on the spot steady but
quiet. Futures weak. Petroleum duh and easier
Naval quiet but dull Hides fairly Leather
was quiet OILS quiet Hemp and jue quiet and steady
Gunnies strong Groceries steady.
CoFFEE.-The market for Rio quiet but strong
The ferings very light and holders asking
prices above the quotations The jobbng deman Dwas
fair Business in mid quiet, but market
was firm We have copy of Messrs. Wright Co.'s
telegram, dated Rio July 2S 1875 advising :Sales
I'D inst $4,000 bags shipments 1900 bags; loading,
550OO date $50 bags average daily receipts
100 bags; price, 9l7O0 (market very firms exchange.
267<d. The stock of mid coffees to date July 20
was as follows Java, grass mats 55,20l; Singapore
1855 grass Aats oeyon. 2,679 bags Maracaibo sO3
bags; Laguayra, 529 bags Augostura, 200 bags;
SavanilIa l0e bags. Total 5,420 bags. We quote -
Ordinary csrgoes. H1ac. l7Ac.; fair do, lSs4c.
a I9c good do. l9llc l91sc.; prime do 1870. 2oc
extreme range lots Ike Ole. gold, 60 30 DAYS;
Java government bags, 25c. &c do grass mats 26c
a Csc. Singapore, do DC. 2Ic.; Ceylon, 2c. &c.
Maracaibo 2lc. &c. Laguayra, 20sc. 81 jamaica
1sc. lsc ST. Domingo, l7c, a7l4c; Porto Rico, lsc.
q ajc Costa Riea lSc a 22e Mexican 2Uc. a Gle An
gosiura, Sc. 24c. Savanilla, 2Oc &c; Curacao,
1S1Sc. a 2Oc
CorroN on the spot was in demand for spinning pur.
per 10. This advance served to check business lhe
market closed steady. but quiet, al the improve
Futures, the strength of the Liverpool dispatches
which reported advance of Lied, opened with an
upward tendency and the carly sales showed an adj
vance of I-l6c with later Improvement due to some
extent appearances of manipulation, the best
OF &c ON August and &c. on September and more re-
mote tbs rhe hnal dispatches from Liverpool
ported strong market but the opinion obtained to an
extent that the rmness OF that market
of under 10 sell, the market closing weak
with the advance over last evenings prices limited
l6c. August and l32c on the later months The dna
figures were as follows July &C. l-32c August
Ia 32c a Lice; september IL 3l32c.; OCTOBER 35<c
November. 1910. December. lS9c Is % Sc January
Is sl.2c; February, IL 5S2c "a l6c March IA bloc
june I5c. is l6c. Quotations based on standard OF
classification in force September 1874, and upland
cotton store running in quality not more than halt
f2sc good ordinary l3sc. strict good ordinary 4c
low midding, Axe; middling, l7Sc good middling
l6c. Quotations based on American standard Of cassi