The New York herald., 1879-03-15
COMMERCIAL REPORT.

COTTON ON THE SPOT UNCHANGED; FUTURES
CLOSED FIRM-FLOUR DULL-wHEAT DULL
CORN EAsIER-OATs DULL-PoRK DULL
LARD EAsIER-wHIsKEY sTEADY-spIRIrs
TURPENTINE sTEADY-ROsIN sTEADY-COFFEE
srEADY-sUGAR sTEADY-rETRoLEUM FIRM.
FRIDAY, March 14-6 P. M.
Business has been fair during the present week,
but especially active in no department Of trade.
steady demand has prevailed for nearly all kinds
of domestic and imported goods. aud prices have
varied but little At the Produce Exchange there has
been only slow movement. There has been de-
cided break in wheat and holders have become
anxious sellers. Some who have been holding wheat
for long time have offered freely TO amount to
almost pressure to SELL The break in Chicago, which
said to have been occasioned bogus despatch
not been mcnded but, the contrary there been
further decline Tho decline here for
to about 4c &c per bushcl mainly winter bat spring
is being offered very freely and s uomnally lower Com
has been In limited inquiry and prices rather lower
The same is Of oats Barley has changed little
Rye remains steady Whskey about little
lower. Provisions about the same but thcre s no
vim the market. On Change to-day -four was dull
Wheat dull without important change Corn was
easier Oats dull Whskey steady. Pork dull aud easy
Lard easier Cotton the spot quiet Futures closed
r Groceries, stores. oils and petroleum remained
steady.
AsHxs wsre dull and quoted At Sc 5kc for pots and
&C. for pearls.
ASriSoSr easier and now quoted l1szc l2hc &C.
cording to brand
BEEswAx steady at 24c. a CSC.
CorvxKThere sales Of Brasils Hrst hands
the market remained firm the late revision In our
last reported sale per Kato Of I'll bags: u should
have been 27i bags Mild coffee armcr. A. Bnlti.
$40 bags Rio per CowRn sold yesterday az lie
We sales of 4Ul bags Maracnbo per Acra; 500 bags
Jane Adeline 400 bags jamaica Etna and tD
bags Angostura, Ned White, all private terms
13sc good do. lac prime do 14ac range for
lots 1Olsc 64c.; Santos, fair to good, 13lsc. i4c 20
days; Java, government bags. 23c 24sc.: do. grass
mats, 23sc Singapore. ltc. lie; Cey lon I5c
Jamaica, 1870 i6e; ST. Domingo. Zoe. s1ikc Porto
Rico l5lac 17c Costa Rica, 15c 1oc.; Mexican sc
Ice Angostura, i5c- l7c. Savsnilla l3c l7c Cura
CoorraAaK srocK--Market qniet but steady We
quote Molasses shocks 32nch with hcads 81 65 81
sugar Shocks with heads. 3snch, g :, 5O do do
inch, 81 ~ 81 40; box shocks 5Oc 6Oc do. 81;
pipe do, ~ 80 50 empty hogsheads s. SO; hoops IA
feet ordinary 20 prime $sS So; do, II feet do. SIS
$50 per NJ,
Corrxs Hrmer. aud lako quoted at iec 1o,.c
cash.
ConpAGr-Market steady, but unchanged. We quote -
Manita large and small 14c 17c; tarrcd Manila I2c
SisaI rope, vtec. u 10tsc. Russia, lie
viscd as follows rdinary, Ice up; strict ordinary
and good ordinary, &c up; strict good ordinary, low
mddling and strict low middling advanced i-16c mid
ding and good middling unchanged; strict good mid
ding. ~. OFT; mddng fair. 3Itc. OF; fair unchanged
Staneduood ordinary strict good ordinary and
ding, 10. up; middng lidc Tho market futures
opened points better The market was more active
aud we'll sustained during the day and closed rn with
advance for the day OF from to points The closing
prices today compared with those Of yesterday