Commercial.
Richmond Markets, Feb. 25, 1861.
Apples.--Northern $2.50@3.50; Virginia Pippins $2.50 to $4.
Bacon.--Demand moderate.
We quote Sides 11½ cents; Shoulders 9½ cts.; plain Hams 12½ cts; Sugar-cured 13@13½ cents. Stock light.
Corn.--We quote 60@62½ cts. per bushel.
Flour.--There are no sales for shipment.
The stock of country is very limited, and sales confined to home consumption.
We quote $6.25@6.50 for Superfine; Extra $8.75@7; Family $7.50@7.75.
Hay.--$1.10@1.15 per cwt.
Molasses.--New Orleans 45 cts.; Cuba Muscovado, in bbls., 33@37½ cts.; in hhds., 25@30 cts.; English Island 37½ cts.; Ochenhousen's 28 cts.
Sugars.--New Orleans Sugar we quote 7½@8 cents;
Cuba 7½@8½ cents;
Porto Rico 8@9½ cents; Loaf 11@11¼ cents; Crushed and Powdered 10¼ cents; Coffee Sugar; A 10 cents; B 9½ cents; Extra C 9¼c.
Tobacco.--Sales still limited, at former quotations.
We notice the sales of some
Luge and common
Leaf Luge, $1.75@2.59;
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 21½@22½ cents;
Stearns' Old Malted Rye $1.50; other qualities 75 cts. @$1.50 per gallon.
Fertilizers.--Demand light.
We quote Peruvian Guano $62½ per ton;
Ruffin's Tobacco Manure $45 per ton; Aa Mexican $25; Elide Island $18; Patagonian $25; Sombrero $30; Nevassa or Brown Columbian $30;
Reese's Manipulated Guano $50;
Rhodes' Super Phosphate of Lime $48;
Robinson's Manipulated Guano $50;
Hartman's (
Richmond) Amoniated Super Phosphate Lime $40; do. Manipulated Guano $50; do. Bone Dust $38 per ton.
Money Matters.
We give below the best quotations we can obtain:
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Exchange on the
North is scarce and rates higher.
We quote on New York 6 per cent.;
Philadelphia 6 per cent., and
Baltimore 5 per cent.
premium.
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South Carolina Bank notes par; North Carolina Bank note 2 per cent. discount.
Planters' and Miners' Bank of
Murphy (N. C.) 20 per cent. discount.
Speciate 5 per cent. premium.
List of Virginia Bank Notes Bankable in
Richmond.
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 Rockbridge, Lexington.
- Bank of Rockingham, Harrisonburg.
- Bank of Scottsville, Scottsville.
- Central Bank of Virginia, Staunton.
- Danville 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 Unbankable 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.
- Northwestern Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and branches.
- Merchants' and Mechanics' band of Wheeling and branches.
- Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha.
- Bank of Berkeley, Martinsburg.
- Branch Bank of the old Dominion, at Pearisburg.
- Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county.
- Bank of Winchester, Winchester.
- Fairmont Bank, Fairmont.
- the Notes of the foregoing Banks are bought by the brokers of this city at 1 per cent. Discount.
Virginia Bank Notes that are at twenty-five per cent. Discount.
the Notes of the following
Banks are at 25 per cent. Discount:
There are probably few, if any, of the notes of the last named Bank afloat, as it has been discredited for some years.
