Cargo sale in Charleston — the War prices.
A cargo of imported goods was sold in
Charleston, Friday.
Liverpool salt, in four bushel sacks sold at $46@47.50 per sack, and
Rio coffee at $1.05@1.35 per pound.
As a great many of the articles sold will most likely soon be in
Richmond for disposal again, an opportunity to compare the prices with those paid at the cargo sale is desirable.
We give a list of the chief articles:
Black pepper, 82 to 90 cents per pound; cloves 13 cents per pound; mace 42 cents per pound; Cognac brandy, in quart bottle cases, $22 to $30.50 per dozen; brandy, in quarter casks, dark $7 per gallon, pale $8.75 per gallon; superior
English sperm candles, No. 6, $2 per pound;
Hale's
sperm candles, No. 6, $1.70 per pound, No. 8, $1.75 per pound;
arrow root, 33 cents per pound; claret, $1.50 to $1.90 per gallon;
refined sugar, 70 cents per pound; tar oil, 43 cents per gallon; Champagne, $39 per dozen; absynthe, $17 per dozen; spirits of wine, $10.50 per dozen; hoop iron, assorted, 8 to 13¼ cents per pound; English calf skins, $100 to $115 per dozen; enameled goat skins, $31 to $39 per dozen; grained shoulders, $1 per pound, white sheep skins, $30 per dozen, patent calf skins, $48 per dozen; French calf skins, $162.50 to $165 per dozen; calf kid skins, $100 per dozen; satin calf.
French, $84 per dozen; men's Blucher's, $4.62½ to $7 per pair; men's bootees, $6 to $7.50 per pair; men's Balmoral shoes, $11 to $11.75 per pair; youth's Balmorals, $7 per pair; men's grained shooting boots, $20 per pair; men's grained
Napoleon boots, $25 per pair; men's Wellington boots, $10.37 to $11.50 per pair.
Men's Congress boots, $14 per pair; men's gaiters, $10.50 per pair; ladies' Congress boots, $9.25 to $10 per pair; ladies'
Balmoral boots, $7.50 per pair; misses' gaiters, $3.25 to $3.75 per pair; misses' pegged boots, $3.75 per pair; ladies' slippers, $2.25 per pair; carpet slippers, $1.62½ to $1.95 per pair; girls' lace boots, $2.25 per pair; girls' Balmorals, $3.35 to $4.50 per pair; girls' kid boots, $3.62½ per pair;
wrapping paper, imperial brown, single and double, $2.50 to $7.50 per ream; imperial writing paper, $10 to $11.75 per ream; copying paper, $5.50 per ream; cream laid folio post, $27 to $29 per ream; pink blotting paper, $2.75 to $5 per ream; book printing paper, $10 to $14 per ream.
Foolscap paper, various, $16 to $33 per ream;
letter paper, various, $18 to $25 per ream; envelopes, yellow, various sizes, $10.50 to $24 per thousand; white envelopes, $14 to 50 per thousand; blue laid note paper, $10.50 to $13.50 per ream; ladies' black silk gloves, $10 to $12 per dozen; ladies fine
Lisle gloves, $4.25 to $6 per dozen; men's white military gloves, $7.75 per dozen; gents' mixed silk gloves, $6.75 to $10 per dozen; ladies'
colored kid gloves, $12 to $16 per dozen; white
cotton hose, $4.50 to $9.50 per dozen.
Gents' shirts, $55 per dozen; west end collars, $4.50 per dozen;
hoop skirts, $6.25 each;
hoop skirts, colored, ten springs, $8 each; dressing combs,$3.75 to $5.75 per dozen; grass cloth sacks, $3 each; tweed sacks, $5.50 each; black alpaca coats, $2.80 to $3.62½ each; men's mixed drill trowsers, $3.95 to $5.25 each; tweed pants, $6.50 to $10 per pair; fancy doe trowsers, $10.50 to $12 per pair; children's fancy suits, $2.50 to $4.75 per suit; men's suits, tweed, $21 to $40 per suit; boys' suits, tweed, $9.50 to $16.50 per suit; pilot cloth, $3.25 to $4.25 per yard; black doeskin, $3.25 to $3.30 per yard; fancy tweeds, $3.90 per yard.
Black broadcloth $6.25 to $10.50 per yard; blue broadcloth $10 per yard; bleached huckaback toweling, 56 to 60 cents per yard; 78 bleached English shirting, 33 cents per yard; imperial bleached English shirting, 72½ cents per yard; fancy dress calicoes, 67½ cents per yard; 4-4 English prints, light ground, 60 to 60½ cents per yard; 7 8
black and
white prints, 66 to 70 cents per yard; 78 state prints, 60 cents per yard; 78 black and fancy prints, 65 cents per yard; 78 madder prints, 54 to 60 cents per yard; 4-4 madder prints, 68 cents per yard;
bone buttons, $1.50 per great gross; black lasting buttons, 60 cents per small gross; chickory 17 cents per pound; sulphur, 23 cents per pound.
Alum, 36 cents per pound; black lasting coat buttons, $1.55 to $1.75 per gross; hooks and eyes, $1 to $1.15 per great gross; military cloth caps and covers, $1.60 to $1.90 for each cap; oil skin caps, 87½ cents each; officers' caps, gilt bands and covers, $3 each; boys' glazed caps, 65 cents each; men's felt hats, $6.50 each.
