Richmond Markets, Feb. 17, 1862.
The market continues with little change in any respect.
Sugar has an upward tendency, though our quotations are as yet not altered.
The apprehension that there may be some interruption of communication with the
Southwest has caused some stiffness in the market.
Tobacco continues firm and active.
In the matter of seeds it will be seen that the quotations are very high.
Our farmers will learn a lesson from this that will be of service to them.
The seeds were chiefly brought from the
North before the war, and now it is found that the supply is utterly inadequate to the demand.
The money market remains quiet and there is a plenty nay a superabundance.
Stocks are firm.
Specie has advanced.
- Apples — very high and scarce; we quote Pippins $10a12 per bbl.; other kinds, $8a10.
- Bacon — Stock light and firm at 23 to 25 for hog round; Hams, 23a25 cents per lb.
- Butter — common, 30a33; fair to good, 33 to 37; choice, 42 cents.
- Bread — Navy, 4 cents; Pilot, 5 cents; Butter and Soda, 8 cents per lb.
- Cement — James river, $2.50a3.00 per bbl.
- Coffee — Rio, 75 cents per lb.; supply nearly exhausted.
- Candles — Adamantine, 75a80 cents; Tallow, 22a25 cents.
- Cotton--9¼a10 cents per lb.
- Cotton Yarns--none.
Candlewick, 50 cents per lb.
- corn — we continue to quote 85 cents per bushel.
- corn Meal--$1a1.05 per bushel.
- Cheese — the limited lots of country Dairy 35 cents per lb.
- Dried Fruit--Peaches, unpeeled, $3.00 to 3.50; Pealed, $6.00a6.50; Apples, $2.00 per bushel.
- forage — Timothy, $1.75a$2; Clover, $1.60a$1.75; Sheaf Oats, $1.50a$1.75; Shucks, $1a$1.25 per cwt.
- Fertilizers — James river Manipulation guano, $60 per ton; Stock small and rapidly reducing.
Mexican guano, $25; Sombrero, $35; bone Ash, $40. Stocks exceedingly light.
- Feathers — quiet, at 37½ cents per lb.
- Flaxseed — Nominal; $1.50.
- Flour — we quote Superfine at $6.75a$7; extra $7.25a$7.50; family $8a$8.50; all by the dray load.
- Hides — Green, 6 cents; salted, 9½ cents; dry, 12a15 cents.
- iron--English refined and American, but a small supply, which is sold in limited quantities at 8 cents per lb.; Swedes, none in market.
- Liquors — common (20 per cent) whiskey $1.50 per gallon; W. Wallace's Mountain Dew $3.50; New proof whiskey $2; Old malted (Stearns & Co.) $3.50; Apple Brandy (New) $2.50.
- Lard — 21a23 cents.
- Leather — Sole, 65a75 cts. Per lb.; upper 85 cents to $1 per lb.; Harness 70a75 cents; Rough Skirting 55a65 cts; Calf Skins $48a55 per dozen.
Stock of all kinds very light.
- Lime — Mountain unslacked, $1.75 to $2.25 per bbl.; according to quantity.
- molasses — New Orleans, 90a95 cents; golden syrups (Richmond) 85 cents.
- Nails — Old Dominion, 10all cents.
- Offal (mill)--Bran, 20 cents; shorts, 25 cents. Brownstuffs, 30 cents; shipstuffs, 70 cents.
- Oil — Tanners', $1.12a1.50; machine, $1.50a$2 per gallon.
- Oats — we quote 85 cents per bushel, and scarce.
- Rye — 90a$1.10 per bushel.
- sugars — Brown, 14a15 cents per lb.; Coffee, 15½a19 cents; crushed, 23 to 25 cts. All qualities advancing.
- Salt — sales by the sack at $25 for ground alum; fine, $37 50a$40 per sack.
- Seed — Clover Seed, $18a$20--latter by retail; Timothy, $5½a$6½.
- tobacco — we quote Old tobacco as follows: common and medium Leaf, from $6 to $8½ good to fine, from $9 to $12; Lugs, from $3½ to $5 market active.
- Soda#x2014;Best English, 35a40 cents per lb.
- Tallow — 15a16 cents per lb.
- Wheat — we quote red $1.25a$1.30; white $1.30a1.35.
- Wool.--market firm, and arrival light 90a95 cents per pound.
Cattle market.
- Cattle — The sales at the scales the past week amount to 332 head — prices ranging from $4.25 to $6.50 gross.
Good quality in demand at better price.
Supply rather light.
- Sheep — Supply light.
Extra quality, $8 to $9 gross.
- Hogs — In demand at $13.50 to $14 net.
