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Apples.--Northern $2.50@3.50; Virginia Pippins $2.50 to $4.

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

Bacon.--Sides 11 ½ cts.; Shoulders 9@9 ½c.; plain Hams 12; Sugar-cured 13@13 ½c.; Todd's Sugar-cured Hams 15 Market dull.

Coffee.--We quote Rio 14 ½@15 ½c.; Laguayra, none in market; Java 16 ½@17 cts.; Mocha 18 cents. Market firm.

Corn Meal--City Bolted Meal 75 cts.; country 65 to 70 cts.

Candles.--Tallow 15 per lb.; Jackson's 15; Hull's 16 cts.; Adamantine 20@23; 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, $6.50 per cart load of 25 bushels, per ton of 2,240 lbs. $7; 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.

Coke.--For city consumption $5 per cart load of 25 bushels, for soft lump; soft hail $4.50. Hard lump and hail $4.50.

Corn.--Old corn may be quoted at 60 to 65 cts., the latter in small lots. New 50@55 cts.

Cotton.--8 ½ to 12 cents.

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 to 45 cts.

Fertilizers.--We quote Peruvian $58; Ruffin's Phosphor Peruvian $50 per ton; Aa Mexican $25; Elide Island $48; Patagonian $25; Sombrero $30; Navassa, or Brown Columbian $30; Reese's Manipulated Guano, $50; Rhodes' Super Phosphate of Lime $45.50 per ton; Robinson's Manipulated Guano $50 per ton; Hartman's (Richmond) Amoniated 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 $3.25@$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.--We repeat last quotations to the trade. Superfine $6.25@6.50; Extra $7@7.25; Family $7.50@7.75.

Flour barrels--45 to 50 cts. for city made; Country have sold recently at from 20 to 30 cts.

Fruit.--Oranges: Havana $9 per bbl. Lemons: $4.50@5.05 per box. Raisins: Bunch $2.75@$3; layers $3@3.25. Prunes 10 to 40 cts. per box, according to quality. Figs 2 ½@20 cts. per lb.

Ginseng.--35@40 cents, and in demand.

Grass Seeds--We quote prime Clover Seed 6.25 $6.50; nominal. 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.--$1.15 per cwt.

Hides — Salted 8 ½@9 cts.; 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 ½c. per lb.

Lard.--Western Lard 13 cents in bbls.; kegs 13@13 ½c.

Lead.--We quote 6 ¼@6 ½ cts. per lb for pig; bar 6 ½@7.

Leather.--We quote good stamp, middle weights 23@24 per lb.; over weights 22@23; 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 cts.

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 ¼@4 ½; Sazerac $3 ¼@7; Hennessey, $3 ½@7 ½; Peach, scarce at $1 ¾@2 ¼; Virginia Apple, 60@85 cts.; do. old, 75@$1.50; Northern do., 55@85 cts.; imitation, 45@47 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 ¼ do. $14@16; 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 each; all heart 18@25 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 $2.37 per M for sawed. on the wharf.

Molasses.--New Orleans 45 cents; Cuba Muscovado, in bbls., 32@37 ½ cts., in hhds., 25@30; English Island. 37 ½ cts.; Ochenhousen's. 28.

Oats.--30@35 cts. per bushel.

Offal.--Bran 15 cts.; Shorts 20; Brown Stuff 30, and Ship Stuff 60 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 cents per bushel.

Rice--5@5 ½c.

Rosin.--$1.70@1.75 per bbl.

Rye.--We quote 60@65 cents per bushel.

Salt.--Last sales from wharf $1.65; from store $1.75 per sack.

Saltpetre--9@10 per lb.

Seneca Root--35@37 ½c.

Shot--7@7 ¼ cash, and time as to quantity, for drop and buck.

Starch — Corn 6@6 ½; Pearl 7@8 ½c.

Staves — Good oak, for flour barrels, we quote at $5 per thousand; Machine cut $7@$8.

Sugars.--New Orleans Sugar, none in market. Cuba 7 ½@8 ½c; Porto Rico 8@9 ¼c.; Loaf 11@11 ¼c.;

Crushed and Powdered 10 ¾c.; Coffee Sugar: A 10; B 9 ¼c.; Extra C 9 ¾c.

Tar.--$2@2.25 per bbl.

Teas.--Imperial and Gunpowder 55$@1.20.

Tobacco.--Nothing doing. The holiday has suspended breaks. Last quotations: Inferior Lugs at $2.25@2.50, good and fine $3@3.50; inferior Leaf $5@7, good $8@9; fine manufacturing scarce, price $12.50@20; good and fine English $6.50@10.50, fancy cases $20@90.

Wheat.--Nothing doing. Last quotations: Good to prime Red $1.10@1.15; do. White $1.20@$1.25.

Wines.--Port, Burgundy $1@2.50 per gallon: Port Juice $2.50@4. Madeira, Sicily 45@$1.75; Old Madeira $2.50@4. Sherry, Permartin, Dufi and Gordon, Amentilado $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.

Whiskey.--Richmond Rectified 21 ½@22 ½ cts.; Stearns' Old Maited Rye $1.50; other qualities 75@$1.50 per gallon.


Cattle. Hogs, Sheep, &c.

Beef.--Supply continues large. Extreme sales at $2.50 to $4.50 gross, the latter only for a few choice cattle. The bulk of sales were at medium prices.

Sheep.--Supply not very good. We quote sales, good to prime, at $4.50 to $5.50 per cwt. gross; fair to good, per head, sell at $2.50 to $5.

Hogs.--Sales of corn-fed at $8@$8.25 per cwt.; distillery-fed $7.25@$7.75.


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.202520
Tobacco, per hhd.2.503.002.50
Tobacco, per box202525

Coal to Baltimore, 3 cts. per bushel; Flour 12 ½ cts. per bbl.


Money matters.

We give below the best quotations we can obtain:

Exchange on the North is scarce and rates lower. We quote on New York 5 ½; Philadelphia 4 ½@5, and Baltimore 3 ¼@3 ½ per cent. premium.

North Carolina Bank notes are 2 ½. South Carolina Bank notes are 5 per cent. discount, save the Planters' and Miners' Bank of Murphy, N. C., which is bought at 20 per cent discount.

Specie 4@5 per cent. premium

    List of Virginia notes Bankable in Richmond.

  1. All the Banks located in Richmond, and the branches of such as have branches.
  2. Bank of Commerce, Fredericksburg.
  3. Bank of Howardsville, Howardsville, Albemarle.
  4. Bank of the Old Dominion, Alexandria.
  5. Bank of Rockbridge, Lexington.
  6. Bank of Rockingham, Harrisonburg.
  7. Bank of Scottsville, Scottsville.
  8. Central Bank of Virginia. Staunton.
  9. Danville Bank, Danville, Va.
  10. Farmers' Bank of Fincastle, Fincastle.
  11. Merchants' Bank Lynchburg.
  12. Monticello Bank, Charlottesville.
  13. Southwestern Bank, Wytheville.
  14. Branch of the Bank of the Valley, Staunton.
  15. Branch of the Bank of the Valley., Christiansburg.

    List of Virginia Bank notes Unbankable in Richmond.

  1. Bank of the Valley and branches, save at Staunton and Christiansburg.
  2. Bank of Wheeling, Wheeling.
  3. Manufacturers' and Farmers' Bank of Wheeling and branches.
  4. Northwestern Bank of Virginia, Wheeling, and branches.
  5. Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Wheeling and branches.
  6. Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha.
  7. Bank of Berkeley, Martinsburg.
  8. Branch of Bank of the Old Dominion at Pearisburg.
  9. Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county.
  10. Bank of Winchester, Winchester.
  11. Fairmont Bank, Fairmont.
  12. The notes of the foregoing Banks are bought by the brokers of this city at 1 per ct. discount.


Virginia Bank notes that are at twenty-five per cent, discount.

The notes of the following Banks are at 25 per cent, discount:

Bank of Manassas, Front Royal.

Bank of Weston, Lewis county.

Trans-Alleghany Bank of Jeffersonville, Tazewell.

There are probably few, if any, of the notes of the last named Bank afloat, as it has been discredited for some years.

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