Sale of imported Goods
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Blockade Prices.--A large sale of imported goods took place in
Charleston, G. C., last Wednesday, and it will be seen from the following quotations, furnished by the papers of that city, that many of the articles brought fabulous prices:
Sulpur, 31 cents per pound;
sheet zinc, 60 cents per pound;
olive oil, in cases, 85 per galion; indigo, $2.75 per pound; blue mass, $4.50 per pound; calomel, $6.12 ½ per pound; copaiva, $6.50 per pound; copperas, 50 ½ cents per pound;
cream tartar, $2.70 per pound; sup. car.
soda, 87 ½ cents per lb; carb.
of ammonia, $8.50 per lb; nitric acid, $1.75 per pound; sulphuric acid, 76.80 cents per pound; tartario acid, $1.55 per pound; Spanish files, $4 per pound;
castor oil, $10.25 per gallon; opsom salts, 55 per pound; hops, $2.75 per pound; alum, 730.
per pound; camphor, $6 per pound;
Havana honey, $1.75 per gallon;
kerosine oil, $8.05 per gallon;
sperm oil, $4. 50a$5 per gallon; shovels, $30a$31 per dozen;
corn brooms, $13 per dozen; blue cloth, $6.50 per yard;
Brooks'
spool cotton, (white) 200 yards to the spool, $1.70 per dozen; colored do., 100 yards to the spool, 75 cents per dozen; black flax thread No. 40, $7.70 per pound; whitey brown do., No. 44, $4.75; No. 50, $5; whitey brown flax thread, No. 80, $3.75; pins, assorted numbers, $2.30 per pack;
tooth brushes, $4.25a$4.75 per dozen; buffalo dressing combs, $5 per dozen; horn do. do., $2.20 per dozen; 1m. brown
Windsor soap, $13 $0 per gross; white agate pant buttons, $5.25a $6 per great gross; white agate shirt buttons, $2.45a $2.50 per great gross; colored agate shirt buttons, $3 per great gross; pearl shirt buttons, $1.60 per gross; white bone pant buttons, $5.30 per great gross;
English bleached long cloths, 24a33 per yard; printed must lins, 47 ½c. per yard; musquito netting, $1.75 per piece; Irish shirting linen, 80 per yard; huckaback towels, $5.75 per dozen; printed linen cambrics, 600.
per yard; white
cotton hose, $3.25a4.25 per dozen; cotton
half-hose, $2.90 per dozen;
Clark's
spool cotton, on ivory spools, 500 yards to the spool, $3.50 per dozen; do. do.
800 yards to the spool, $2.85 per dozen; table damask, 5 quarters wide, $1.02 ½ per yard;
shoe thread, $4 per pound; French calf skins, $125 per dozen; patent French leather, $76 per dozen; French prints, 62 ½ cents per yard; printed lawns, 37 ½ cents per yard; black sewing silk, (
French) $27.50 per pound; do. American, $20.50 per pound; matches, $9a10 per gross; French fancy soap, $2.25a4.60 per dozen;
Liverpool soap, 31 ½ cents per pound;
Brooklyn do., 84a41 cents per pound;
castile soap, 60 cents per pound;
Dutch cheese, $4.10 for each cheese; layer raisins, whole boxes, $8.25 per box; French mustard, 84.50 per dozen;
tallow candles, 28 cents per pound; 100 pounds gunpowder tea, $3.75 per pound; assorted needles, $3.28 per thousand; cedar pencils, $4.25a26.25 per gross; hooks and eyes, 60 cents for each dozen boxes; horse brushes, $11 per dozen; copper tacks, ½, ½, ½ in., $1.06 per pound; shoe-heel nails, 40 cts. per pound; 500 reams
letter paper, $11.25 per ream; 60 reams ruled cap paper, $15.25 per ream; 43 reams commercial note paper, ruled, $2.25 per ream; $1 reams commercial note paper, gilt edge, $10 per ream; buff envelopes, $10 per thousand; white envelopes, $5.75 per thousand; steel pens, 60a$1 per gross; sealing wax, $3 per pound; pen-holders, $3 per gross; Spanish cigars, $61a$100 per thousand; Perrean spool thread, 100 yards, assorted numbers, 72 cents per dozen; Ermen's diamond thread, for machines, 10 cts. per dozen;
Alston's diamond-point needles $3.40a$2.50 per thousand.
