Richmond Markets, Jan. 3, 1861.
The market is without animation, and with very little change in any branch of business.
The holidays still suspend operations at the mills and the tobacco warehouses.
No new event has occurred to encourage hope for the preservation of the Union, and commerce is subjected to increasing difficulties.
Apples.--Northern $3.50@3.50; Virginia Pippins $3.50 to $4. Bacon.--Sides 10½@11 cts.; Shoulders 8½@9; plain Hams 12; Sugar-cured 13@13½c.; Todd's Sugar-cured Hams 15 Quotations nominal, market dail. Bags — Seamless Bags, 25; Manchester do., 19@23; Genny do., 12@14 Beans.--White $1.37½@1.50 per bushel. Beeswax.--27 cts. Brooms.--$2@3. according to quality, Buckets, &c.--Painted Buckets $1.87½@$2 per dozen; three koop Painted Pails $3.25@3.50 per dozen; heavy Cedar Tubs, neat, $3.50@5 per neat; heavy Cedar Feed Buckets $6.50 per dozen. Butter.--We quote good Butter at 20 to 25; inferior 8 to 10 Candles.--Tallow 15 per do.; Jackson's 15; Hull's 1 cts.; Adamantine 20@23; Sperm 45, Patent Sperm 54@56 Cement.--James River $1.70@1.80 per bbl.; Northern Mosendale 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. $5 Foundry do. $7 per ton of 2,240 lbs.; Bituminous Lump $5 per load of 25 bushels; Hall $4.50, Smiths' Coal 13@14 per bushel. Coffee.--We quote Rio 14½@15½c.; Laguayra, none in market; Java 16½@17 cts.; Mocha 18 cents. On Wednesday, Messrs. Crenshaw & Co. offered at auction 5,000 bags Rio Coffee. the cargo of the bark Fannie Crenshaw. The owners were not satisfied with the prices, and stopped the sale after 1.700 and been knocked off. The prices ranged from 12½ to 13.80; average of 13¼ to 13½. Corn.--For city consumption $5 per cart load of $5 bushels, for soft lump; soft hall $4.50. Hard lump and hall $4.50. Corn.--We quote 55 to 60 cts. per bushel for old and new. dull. Corn Meal--City Bolted Meal 75 cts.; country 65 to 70 cts. Cotton.--8½ 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 $44.50 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 $3.25@$3.50 from store. No. North Carolina in market.--Mackerel, large No. 5. new, $8.50; small do., $5. Flaxseed--$1.20@1.40 per bushel. Flour.--Market dull, and no wholesale operations. We quote Superfine $6@6.25; Extra $6.75@$7; 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@5.00 per box. Raisins; Bunch $2.75@$3; layers $3@3.25. Prunes 10 to 40 cts. per box, according to quality. Figs 2½@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; F F F Canister $8.20. In quantities of twenty kegs and upwards, 50 cents a keg less. Hay.--$1.15 per cwt. Hides — Salted 8½@9 cts.; Dry 11@13 cts.; Call 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 3½@3½c. per lb. Lard.--Western Lard 12 cents in bbls.; kegs 12½@13 for new. Lead.--We quote 6½@6½ cts. per lb for pig; bar 6½@7. Leather.--We quote good stamp, middle weights 23@24 per lb; over weights 22 @23; light 23@23½c.; good damaged 21; poor 16@18; upper leather $2.00@$3.50, as to size, weight and quality; Harness 36@36; Skirting, in the rough, 25@26; finished 31@35 cts. Lime.--c. to $1 from wharf. From store, we quote Northern $1.12½; Virginia 90@$1. Liquors--Brandy; Otard, Dunuy & Co., $3.25@7 per gallon; A. Seignette, $2½@4½; Sazerac $3½@7; Hennessey, $3½@7½; Peach, scarce at $1½@2¼; Virginia Apple, 80@85 cts.; do. old, 75@$1.50; Northern do., 56@86 cts.; imitation, 45@47½ cts.--Rum. New England, 40@45 for mixed; 50@55 for sure. Gin; Holland, $1.20@1.75. Lumber.--Clear White Pine, $45; refused do. @20; merchantable, $20@25 per M. One inch yellow Pine Plank 10@12; three-quarter do. 9@11; 1¼ do. $14@16; 1½ 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, 12½@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 $36; ½ Poplar $20@25 per M. Dressed Flooring, Virginia, $25@26. 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., 22@37½ cts., in hhds., 25@30; English Island, 37½ cts.; Ochenhousen's, 28. Oats.--30@36 cts. per bushel. Offal.--Bran 15 cts.; Shorts 20; Brown Stuff 30, and Ship Stuff per bus. Onions.--Red $2 per bbl. of near three bushels; Silver-skin $2½. 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@6½c. Rosin.--$1.70@1.75 per bbl. Rye.--We quote 60@65 cents per bushel. Salt.--Last price from wharf $1.65; from store $1.75 per sack. Saltpetre--9@10 per lb. Seneca Root--35@37½c. Shot--7@7¼ cash. and time as to quantity, for drop and buck. Starch — Corn 6@6½; Pearl 7@8½c. Staves — Good-oak, for flour barrels, we quote at $5 per thousand; Machine cut $7@$8. Sugars.--New Orleans Sugar, none in market. Cuba 7½@½c; Porto Rico 8@¼c., Loaf 11@11¼c.; Crushed and Powdered 19¼c.; Coffee Sugar; A 10; B 9¼c.; Extra C 9¼c. 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 $8.25@8.50, good and fine $3@3.50; inferior Leaf $5@7, good $@; fine manufacturing scares, price $12.50@20; good and fine English $6.50@10.50, fancy cases $20@ . Wheat.--Nothing doing. Last quotations: Good to prime Red $1.10@1.15; do. White $1.20@$1.25. Whiskey.--Richmond Rectified 21½@22½ cts.; Secarns' Old Maited Rye $1.50; other qualities 75@$1.50 per gallon. Wines.--Port, Burgundy $1@2.50 per gallon: Port Juice $2.50@4. Madera, Sicily 45@$1.75; Old Madera $2.50@4. Sherry, Permartin, Dun and Gordon, Amontillado $2@4. 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.
Cattle, Hogs, Sheep, &c.
Beef.--There is a little better feeling in the market, though the sales for the period show a rating off near hall, compared with last year. during the week at $2.75 to $3.75 per cwt. gross. Very superior would bring probably $4. Sheep.--supply not very good, demand limited. We quote sales, good to prime, at $4.50 to $5.50 per cwt. gross; fair to good, per , sell at $2.50 to $6. Hogs.--Sales of corn-fed at $3@$3.25 per cwt.; distillery-fed $7@$7.25.Freights.
Foreign.--Nothing to add relative to foreign freights. Domestic.--The following are the present sales on coastwise freights:| New York. | Boston. | Philad's. | |
| Coal, per ton | $1.50 | $1.75 | $1.25 |
| Flour, per bbl. | 20 | 25 | 20 |
| Tobacco, per hhd. | 2.50 | 2.50 | 2.50 |
| Tobacco, per box | 20 | 25 | 25 |
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 Philadelphia 4, and Baltimore ½ per cent. . South Carolina Bank notes (scarcely any in ) per cent. discount. North CarolinaList of Virginia notes Bankable in Richmond.
All the a located in Richmond, and the branches of such as- Bank of Commerce, Fredericksburg,
- Bank of Howardsville, Howardsville, Albemarle,
- Bank of the Old Dominion, Alexandria,
- Bank of Rockbridge, Lexington,
- Bank of Rockingham,
- Bank Scottsville, Scottsville,
- Central Bank of Virginia Staunton,
- Danville Bank, Danville, Va.
- Farmers' Bank of Fincastle, Fincastle.
- Merchants' Bank, Lynchburg.
- Monticette 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' Bank of Wheeling and branches.
- Bank of Charleston, Malden, Kanawha.
- Bank of Berkeley, Martinsburg.
- Branch of Bank of the Old Dominion at Pearisburg.
- Bank of Phillippi, Phillippi, Barbour county.
- Bank of Winchester, Winchester.
- Fairmont Bank, Fairmont.
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.
Sales of Stocks in Richmond,
by John A. Lancaster & Son, no. 197 Main st. Two doors above Farmers' Bank, for the week ending January 2, 1861.
- Virginia 6 per cent. Registered Bonds, sales $80.
- Richmond City Bonds, sales $87½.
- Petersburg City Bonds — no recent sales.
- Lynchburg City Bonds — no recent sales.
- Norfolk City Bonds — no recent sales.
- Exchange Bank Stock, $100 offered.
- Farmers' Bank Stock, last sales $100.
- Bank of Virginia Stock, last sales $70.
- Bank of the Commonwealth Stock, last sales $94.
- Richmond and Danville R. R. Bonds, 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 Company Stock, last sales $29.
- Richmond Fire Association Stock, last sales $38.
- Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance Stock. No recent sales.
- Merchants' Insurance Stock, sales $75 on time.
- Virginia Life Insurance Company Stock, last sales $115.
- Insurance Company of State of Virginia, last sales $115
- Virginia Central R. R. 1st Mortgage Bonds, last sales $84.
- Virginia Central R. R. 2d Mortgage Bonds — no recent sales.
- Virginia and Tennessee R. R. 1st Mortgage Bonds,--no recent sales.
- Virginia and Tennessee R. R. 2nd Mortgage Bonds,--no recent sales.
- Virginia and Tennessee R. R. 3rd Mortgage Bonds,--no recent sales.
- Orange and Alexandria R. R. 6 per cent. Bonds — no recent sales.
- Orange and Alexandria R. R. 8 per cent. Bonds — last sales $90.
- Manassas Gap R. R. 6 per cent. Bonds — no recent sales.
- South-Side R. R. Bonds — no recent sales.
- South-Side R. R. Bonds, guaranteed by Petersburg, last sales $88.
- Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad Stock, last sales $76½
- Virginia Central Railroad Stock, last sales $50.
- Richmond and Petersburg Railroad Stock, last sales $64.
- Richmond and Danville Railroad Stock — no recent sales.
- James River and Kanawha Stock — no recent sales.
