Commercial.
Richmond Markets,
Feb. 21, 1861.
Apples.--Northern $2.50@3.50; Virginia Pippins $2.50 to $4.
Bacon.--Demand moderate.
We quote Sides 11 ½ cents; Shoulders 9 ½ cts.; plain Hams 12 ½ cts; Sugar-cured 13@13 ½ cents. Stock light.
Bags.--Seamless Bags, 25; Manchester do., 19@23; Gunny do., 12@14
Beans:--White $1.37 ½@1.50, per bushel.
Beeswax.--27 cts.
Brooms.--$2@3, according to quality.
Buckets, &c.--Painted Buckets $1.87 ½@$2 per dozen; three-hoop Painted Pails $2.25@2.50 per dozen; heavy Cedar Tubs, neat, $3.50@$5 per nest; heavy Cedar Feed Buckets $6.50 per dozen.
Butter.--We quote good Butter at 20 to 25; inferior 8 to 10
Candles.--Tallow 12 ½@14 per lb.; Jackson's 14; Hull's 16; Adamantine 18@20; Sperm 45; Patent Sperm 54@56
Cement.--James River $1.70@1.80 per bbl.; Northern Rosendale at $1.70@1.80.
Coal.--White and Red Ash Anthracite Coal, for grates, $7.50 per cart load of 25 bushels, per ton of 2,240 lbs. $8; 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.
Coffee.--We quote Rio 14@15 cents; Laguayra, 15 ½@16 cts.; Java 18 ½@19 cents; Mocha 18 cts.
Coke.--For city consumption $5 per cart load of 25 bushels, for soft lump; salt hall $4.50. Hard lump and hall $4.50.
Corn.--We quote 60@62 ½ cts. per bushel.
Corn Meal.--City Bolted Meal 75@80 cents; country 70@75 cts.
Cotton.--8 ½ to 12 cts.
Cotton Yarns, &c.--Cotton Yarns 21@22 cts.; Cotton Cordage 24 cts.; Seine Twine 27 cts.; Carpet Warp 22 cts.; Wrapping Twine 22 cts.
Dried Fruit.--No arrivals.
We quote nominally $1@1.25 per bushel.
Feathers.--Dull at 44@45 cts.
Fertilizers.--We quote Peruvian $58; Ruffin's Phosphor Peruvian $50 per ton; Aa Mexican $25; Elide Island $48; Patagonian $25; Sombrero $30; Nevassa 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) Ammoniated 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 $3.26 @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.--There are no sales for shipment.
The stock of country is very limited, and sales con-fined to home consumption.
We quote $6.25@6.50 for Superfine; Extra $6.75@7; Family $7.50@7.75.
Flour Barrels.--45 to 50 cts. for city made by Country have sold recently at from 20 to 30 cts.
Fruit.--Oranges: Havana $9 per bbl. Lemons: $3.50@4.00 per box. Raisins: Bunch $2.75@$3; layers $3@3.25.
Prunes 10 to 40 cents per box, according to quality.
Figs 10@20 cents per lb.
Ginseng.--25@40 cents, and in demand.
Grass Seeds.--We quote prime Clover Seed $6.50 for new; $6@6.25 for old. 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.--$1.10@1.15 per cwt.
Hides.--Salted 8 ½@9 cents; 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, $15.
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 3 ¼@3 ½ cts. per lb.
Lard.--Prime Western Leaf, in bbls., 12 cents; Baltimore 12 ½ cents; kegs 12 ½@13 cents, all for new.
Lead.--We quote 6 ¼@6 ½ cents per lb. for pig; bar 6 ½ @7 cts.
Leather.--We quote good stamp, middle weights, 23@24 cts. per lb.; over weights 22 @23 cts.; light 23@23 ½c.; good damaged 21; poor 16@18; upper leather $2.00@3.50, as to size, weight and quality; Harness 35@36; Skirting, in the rough, 25@28; finished 31@35
Lime.--85 to $1 from wharf.
From store, we quote Northern $1.12 ½: Virginia 90 @$1.
Liquors.--Brandy: Otard, Dupuy & Co., $3.25@7 per gallon; A. Seignette, $2 ½@4 ½; Sazerac $3 ¼@7; Hennessey $6 ½@7 ½; Peach scarce at $1 ¼@2 ¼; Virginia Apple 60@85 cts.; do., old, 75@$1.50; Northern do. 55 @85 cts.; Imitation 45@17 ½ cts. Rum: New England 40@45 for mixed; 50@55 for pure.Gin: Holland $1.20 @1.75.
Lumber.--Clear White Pine $45; refused do. $29; merchantable $20@25 per M. One inch Yellow Pine Plank $10@12; three-quarter do. $9@11; 1 ½ do. $14@18; 1 ½ 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, 12 ½@13 cts. each; all heart 18@25 cts. Shingles $5@6 per M. Weather Boarding $13@16.
Inch Oak Plank $30@35.
Buttonwood ½ inch $25@30.
Inch Cherry $35; ½ Poplar$20@25 per M. Dressed Flooring, Virginia, $25@28.
Dressed Flooring, Southern, $28@30.
Laths $2.25 to $2.87 per M for sawed.
on the wharf.
Molasses.--New Orleans 45 cts.; Cuba Muscovado, in bbls., 33@37 ½ cts.; in hhds., 25@30 cts.; English Island 37 ½ cts.; Ochenhousen's 28 cts.
Oats.--38@40 cts. per bushel.
Offal.--Bran 20 cts.; Shorts 25 cts.; Brown Stuff 35 cts.; and Ship Stuff 65 cts. per bus.
Onions.--Red $2 per bbl. of near three bushels; Silver-skin $2 ½.
Peas.--None in market.
Plaster.--Lump — We quote at $5 per ton. Claiborne's Richmond Ground $8.50 per ton packed; Sharpe's do. packed $8.50; loose $7.50.
Potatoes.--We quote Northern 60@65 cts. per bushel
Rice.--5@5 ½ cts.
Rosin.--$1.70@1.75 per bbl.
Rye.--We quote 60@65 cts. per bus.
Sugars.--New Orleans Sugar we quote 7 ½@8 cents; Cuba 7 ½@8 ½ cents; Porto Rico 8@9 ¼ cents; Loaf 11@11 ¼ cents; Crushed and Powdered 19 ¼ cents; Coffee Sugar: A 10 cents; B 9 ½ cents; Extra C 9 ¼c.
Salt.--Last sales from wharf $1.65; from store $1.75 per sack.
Saltpetre.--9@10 cts. per lb.
Seneca Root.--35@37 ½ cts.
Shot.--7@7 ¼ cts. cash, and time as to quantity, for drop and buck.
Starch.--Corn 6@6 ½ cts.; Pearl 7@8 ½ cts.
Staves.--Good oak, for flour barrels, we quote at $5 per thousand; Machine cut $7 @8.
Tobacco.--Sales still limited, at former quotations.
We notice the sales of some Lugs and common Leaf Lugs, $1.75@2.50; Leaf $3@4.50; some stemming Leaf $6 @9.50; no fine manufacturing in market.
Stock on hand of the old crop very light, and mostly of inferior quality.
Wheat.--Receipts light and market firm at $1.50@$1.55 for White; $1.30@ $1.35 for Red.
Whiskey.--Richmond Rectified 21 ½@22 ½ cents; Stearns' Old Malted Rye $1.50; other qualities 75 cts. @$1.50 per gallon.
Wines.--Port, Burgundy $1@$2.50 per gallon; Port Juice $2.50@$4. Madeira, Sicily 45@$1.75; Old Maderia $2.50 @$4. Shenry, 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.
Freights.
Foreign.--Nothing to add relative to foreign freights. Domestic.--The following are the present rates as coastwise freights:| New York. | Boston. | Philad'a. | |
| Coal, per ton | $1.50 | $1.75 | $1.25 |
| Flour, per bbl | 20 | 25 | 20 |
| Tobacco, per hhd | 2.50 | 3.00 | 2.50 |
| Tobacco, per box | 20 | 25 | 25 |
Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, &c.
Beef.--Sales this week at $3@4.25 for good to prime cattle. A very few bought at the latter price. Market well supplied. Sheep.--We quote sales at $2.50 to $3 per head for ordinary sheep, and $4.50 to $5 per cwt. gross for the best quality. Hogs.--Sales of corn-fed at $8@8.50 per cwt.; distillery-fed $7.50@8.Money matters.
We give below the best quotations we can obtain: Exchange on the North is scarce and rates higher. We quote on New York per cent.; Philadelphia 6 per cent., and Baltimore 5½ per cent, premium. South Carolina Bank notes par; North Carolina Bank nots 2 per cent. discount. Planters' and Miners' Bank of Murphy (N. C.) 20 per cent. discount. Specie 5 per cent, premium.- All the Banks located in Richmond, and the branches of such as have branches.
- Bank of Commerce, Fredericksburg.
- Bank of Howardsville, Howardsville, Albemarle.
- Bank of the Old Dominion, Alexandria.
- Bank of Richbridge, Lexington.
- Bank of Rockingham, Harrisonburg.
- Bank of Scottsville, Scottsville.
- Central Bank of Virginia, Staunton.
- Dunaville Bank, Danville, Va.
- Farmers' Bank of Fincastle, Fincastle.
- Merchants' Bank, Lynchburg.
- Monticello Bank, Charlottesville.
- Southwestern Bank, Wytheville.
- Branch of the Bank of the Valley, Staunton.
- Branch of the Bank of the Valley, Christiansburg
List of Virginia Bank notes Bankable in Richmond.
- Bank of the Valley and branches, save at Staunton and Christiansburg.
- Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling.
- Manufacturers' and Farmers' Bank of Wheeling and branches.
- North western Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and branches.
- Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling and Branches.
- Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha.
- Branch Bank of the Old Dominion, at Pearisburg.
- Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county.
- Bank of Winchester, Winchester.
- Fairmont Bank, Fairmont.
List of Virginia Bank notes Unbankable in Richmond.
- The notes of the following Banks are at 25 per cent. discount:
- Bank of Manassas, Front Royal.
- Bank of Weston, Lewis county.
Virginia Bank notes that are at twenty-five per cent. Discount.
Sales of Stocks in Richmond.
Reported by John A. Lancaster &Son, for week Ending February 21ST, 1861.- Virginia 6 per cent. Registered Bonds, sales $81.
- Richmond City Bonds, sales $90.
- Petersburg City Bonds, no recent sales.
- Lynchburg City Bonds, no recent sales.
- Norfolk City Bonds, no recent sales.
- Exchange Bank Stock, sales $100.
- Farmers' Bank Stock, last sales $98.
- Bank of Virginia Stock, last sales $68.
- Bank of the Commonwealth Stock, held at $94.
- Richmond and Danville E. R. Sounds, guaranteed by State of Va., no recent sales.
- Virginia Central R. R. Bonds, guaranteed by State of Va., no recent sales.
- City of Petersburg Bonds, guaranteed by State of Va.,no recent sales.
- Old Dominion insurance Co. Stock, sales $26,
- Richmond Fire Association Stock, last sales $
- Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Stock, sales $36,
- Insurance Company State of Va., last sales $110.
- Merchants' Insurance Stock, last sales $72
- Va. Life Insurance Co. Stock. no recent sales.
- Virginia Central Railroad 1st Mortgage Bonds, last sales $85.
- Virginia Central Railroad 2d Mortgage Bonds, last sales $78.
- Virginia and Tennessee Railroad 1st Mortgage Bonds, no recent sales.
- Virginia and Tennessee Railroad 2d Mortgage Bonds, no recent sales.
- Virginia and Tennessee Railroad 3d Mortgage Bonds, no recent sales.
- Orange and Alexandria Railroad 6 per cent. Bonds, last sales $75.
- Orange and Alexandria Railroad 8 per cent. Bonds, last sales $87 ½.
- Manassas Gap Railroad 6 per cent. Bonds, no recent sales.
- South-Side Railroad Bonds, no recent sales.
- South-Side Railroad Bonds, guaranteed by Petersburg, no recent sales.
- Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad Stock, last sales $77.
- Virginia Central Railroad Stock, last sales $47 ½.
- Richmond & Petersburg Railroad Stock, last sales $60.
- Richmond & Danville Railroad Stock, last sales $57.
- James River & Kanawha Stock, no recent sales.
