The Daily Dispatch: November 2, 1860., [Electronic resource]

Commercial.

Richmond markets,November 1.

• Apples.-- Northern $2.50@3.50; Virginia $1 to $2 per bbl.
• Bacon.--Sides 12¾ @ 12¼c.; Shoulders 10¼c.; plain Hams 12; Sugar-cured 13@13; Todd's Sugar cured Hams 15
• Butter.--We quote good Butter at 20 to 25; inferior 8 to 10
• Buckets, &c.--Painted Buckets $1.87½ @ $2 per dozen; three hoop Painted Parts $2.25 @ 2.50 per dozen; heavy Cedar Tubs, neat, $3.50 @ 5 per nest; heavy Cedar Feed Buckets $6.50 per dozen.
• Bags — Seamless Bags, 25; Manchester do., 19 @ 23; Gunny do., 12 @ 14
• Beans.--White $1.37½ @ 1.50 per bushel.
• Beeswax.--32 to 33--active.
• brooms.--$2@3, according to quality.
• Coffee.--We quote Rio 14½ @ 15½c.; Laguayra, none in market; Java 16½ @ 17cts.; Mocha 18 cents. Market firm.
• Corn.--We quote 65 @ 70 cts. per bushel. Market quiet.
• Corn Meal--Country 85; city ground 85 @ 90
• Candles.--Tallow 15 per lb.; Jackson's 15; Hull's 16 cts.; Adamantine 20 @ 23; Sperm 45; Patent Sperm 54 @ 56
• Cement.--James River $1.70 @ 1.80 per bbl.; Northern Rosendale at $1.70 @ 1.80.
• Coke.--For city consumption $5 per cart load of 25 bushels, for soft lump; soft hail $4.50. Hard lump and hail $4.50.
• Cotton Yarns, &c.--Cotton Yarns 21 @ 22 cts; Cotton Cordage 24 cts; Seine Twine 27 cts; Carpet Warp 22 cts; Wrapping Twine 22 cts.
• Cotton.--8½ to 12 cents.
• Coal.--White and Red Ash Anthracite Coal, for grates, $6.50 per cart load of 25 bushels, per ton of 2,240 lbs. $7; Foundry do. $7 per ton of 2,240 lbs.; Bituminous Lump $5 per load of 25 bushels; Hail $4.50; Smiths' Coal 12 @ 14 per bushel.
• Dried Fruit.--No arrivals. We quote nominally $1 @ 1.25 per bushel.
• Flour.--The stock of country is still very light, and sales are confined altogether to the home consumption, at prices above the views of shippers, and the market very dull. We quote these sales at $6.75 @ $7 for Superfine, $7.25 @ $7.50 for Extra; Family $8
• Feathers — In demand at 46 cts. Stock small; better supply.
• Fertilizers.--We quote Peruvian $58; Ruffin's Phosphor Peruvian $50 per ton; Aa Mexican $25; Elide Island $48; Patagonian $25; Sombrero $30; Navassa, or Brown Columbian $30; Reese's Manipulated Guano, $50; Rhodes' Super Phosphate of Lime $46.50 per ton; Robinson's Manipulated Guano $50 per ton; Hartman's (Richmond) Amoniated Super Phosphate Lime $40 per ton; do. Manipulated Guano $50 per ton; do. Bone Dust $38 per ton.
• Fish.--New Nova Scotia Herrings, gross, $2.75 @ $3; No, 1 Halifax Cut Herrings $3.25 @ $3.50 from store, No North Carolina in market.--Mackerel, large No. 3. new, $8.50; small do., $5.
• Flaxseed--$1.20 @ 1.40 per Bushel.
• Flour barrels--50 cts.
• Fruits.--Oranges--Havana, $9 per barrel. Sicily, $8 per box. Lemons--Malaga $5.50; French $8 per box. Raisins--(New crop)--Bunch, in bxs., $3; Layer $3.25. Figs--New 18; Old 8@10 per lb. Prunes--8 to 40 cts. per lb. according to quality and style.
• Ginseng.--35 @ 40 cents, and in demand.
• grass Seeds--We quote prime Clover Seed 6.25 $6.50; nominal. Timothy 4 @ $4.25 per bushel.--Orchard Grass $2.
• Gunpowder — Dupont's and Hazard's Sporting $5.75; Blasting $3.75; Eagle Canister $14.25; Fff Canister $8.25. In quantities of twenty kegs and upwards, 50 cents a keg less.
• Hay.--We quote $1 @ 1.10 per cwt.
• Hides — Salted 8½ @ 9 cts.; Dry 11 @ 13 cts; Calf skins, green, $1 @ 1.12. South American, none.
• Hoop Poles — Flour bbl. $7.50 @ 9 per 1,000; hhd. poles, no sales.
• Iron and nails.--Pig Iron $28 @ 34, as in quality and quantity; Swedes $400 per ton; English Refined $70; Tredegar $85; Common English $60; American country $95. Cut Nails 3¼ @ 3½c. per lb.
• Lard.--Western Lard 13 cents in bbls.; kegs 13 @ 13½c.
• Lead.--We quote 6¼ @ 6½ cts. per lb. for pig; bar 6½ @ 7.
• Leather.--We quote good stamp, middle weights 22 @ 23 per lb; over weights 20 @ 21; light 21 @ 21½c.; good damaged 18½ @ 20; poor 14 @ 17; upper leather $1.50 @ $4, as to size, weight and quality; Harness 35 @ 36; Skirting, in the rough, 25 @ 28; finished 31 @ 35 cts.
• Liquors--Brandy: Otard, Dupuy & Co., $3.25 @ 7 per gallon; A. Seignette, $2¼ @ 4½; Sazerac $3¼ @ 7; Hennessey, $3½ @ 7½; Peach, scarce at $1¾ @ 2¼; Virginia Apple, 60 @ 85 cts.; do. old, 75 @ $1.50; Northern do., 55 @ 85 cts.; imitation, 45 @ 47½ cts,-- Rum: New England, 40 @ 45 for mixed; 50 @ 55 for pure. Gin: Holland. $1.20 @ 1.75.
• Dime.--85 to $1 from wharf. From sto we quote Northern $1.12½; Virginia 90 @ $1.
• Lumber.--Clear White Pine, $45; refused do. $29; merchantable, $20 @ 25 per M. One men yellow Pine Plank 10 @ 12; three-quarter do. 9 @ 11; 1¼ do. $14 @ 16; 1½ do. $13 @ 14; 2 do. $12.50 @ 15. Flooring $18 @ 20, face measure; Scantling $11 @ 13 for heart and sap; all heart $16 @ 20, according to size. Garden Rails, heart and sap, 12½ @ 13 each; all heart 18 @ 25 Shingles $5 @ 6 per M. Weather Boarding $13 @ 16. Inch Oak Plank $30 @ 35. Buttonwood ¾ inch $25 @ 30. Inch Cherry $35; ¾ Poplar $20 @ 25 per M. Dressed Flooring, Virginia, $25 @ 28. Dressed Flooring, Southern. 28 @ 30. Laths $2.25 to $2.37 per M for sawed, on the wharf.
• Molasses.--New Orleans 50 @ 55 cts.; Cuba Muscovado, in bbls., 32 @ 37½ cts., in hhds., 25 @ 30; English Island, 37½ cts.; Ochenhousen's, 28.
• Offal.--Bran 15 cts.; Shorts 20; Brown Stuff 30, and Ship Stud 65 per bus.
• Onions.--Red $2 per bbl. of near three bushels; Silver-skin $2½.
• Oats.--We quote 40 cents per bushel.
• Potatoes.--We quote Northern 60 @ 65 cents per bushel.
• Peas.--None in market.
• Plaster.--Lump — We quote $4 to 4¼ per ton. Claiborne's Richmond Ground $8.50 per ton packed; Sharpe's do. packed $8.50; loose 7.50.
• Rice--5 @ 5½c.
• Rosin.--$1.70 @ 1.75 per bbl.
• Rye.--We quote 75 @ 80 cents per bushel.
• Sugars.--New Orleans Sugar, none in market. Cuba 7½ @ 8½c.; Porto Rico 8 @ 9¼c.; Loaf 11¼ @ 11; Crushed and Powdered 10¾ @ 11; Coffee Sugar: A 10¼c.; B 10; Extra C 9 7/8
• Salt.--Last sales from wharf $1.65; from store $1.75 per sack.
• Saltpetre--9 @ 10 per lb.
• Seneca Root--35 @ 37½c.
• shot--7 @ 7¾ cash, and time as to quantity, for drop and buck.
• Starch — Corn 6 @ 6½c; Pearl 7 @ 8½c.
• Staves — Good oak, for flour barrels, we quote at $7 @ 7.50 per thousand for green; $7.50 @ $9 for seasoned; Machine cut $7 @ $8.
• Tobacco.--The receipts continue limited and the inspections light. There is a better feeling in the market within the week, though we continue quotations: we quote inferior Lugs at $2.25 @ 2.60, food and fine $3 @ 3.50; inferior Leaf $5 @ 7, good $8 @ 9; fine manufacturing scarce, nominal price $12.50 @ 20; good and fine English $6.50 @ 10.50, fancy cases $20 @ 90.
• Tar.--$2 @ 2.25 per bbl.
• Teas.--Imperial and Gunpowder 55 $ @ 1.20.
• Wheat.--Since our weekly report Wheat has dropped 5 per bushel. We quote good to prime Rea $1.30 to 1.40; do. White $1.50 to 1.60. The scarcity of money causes the market to be somewhat heavy.
• Wines.--Port, Burgundy $1 @ 2.50 per gallon: Port Juice $2.50 @ 4. Madeira, Sicily 45 @ 1.75; Old Madeira $2.50 @ 4. Sherry, Permartin, Duff and Gordon, Amontilado $2 @ 6.
• Wood — Wholesale: Oak $3.50 @ $3.75 per cord; Pine $2.75 @ $3. Retail: Oak $5; Pine $4.50.
• Wool.--Tub Washed sold at 35 @ 37; unwashed third less. Fleece as in quality.
• Whiskey.--Richmond Rectified 22 @ 23 cents; Stearns' Old Malted Rye $1.50; other qualities 75 @ $1.50 per gallon.

Cattle, &c.

• Beef.--We quote extremes $2.50 to $4.50.-- Supply good.
• hogs.--Distillery, $8 @ 8.25; corn fed, $8.50 to $8.75.
• Sheep--$4 to $6 per cwt., for extra quality; inferior $2.25 to $3 per head.

Money Matters — Exchange.

• Northern exchange--On New York and Philadelphia ¼ @ ½ prem.
• Such of the Stock Bank notes and of the Bank of the Valley, as are not taken by the Banks, are at a discount of ½ per cent.
• The notes of the Trans-Allegheny Bank are 25 per cent, discount, Bank of Kanawha, no sale.
• North and South Carolina Bank Notes ½ @ ¼ cent. discount.
• The notes of the Bank of Weston and the Bank of Manassa, 15 per ct. dis.
• Gold and Silver per cent. prem.

Freights.

• Foreign.--In foreign freights nothing doing for want of vessels.