The Daily Dispatch: February 7, 1862., [Electronic resource]

Richmond Markets, Feb. 6, 1862.

Apples — Very high and scarce; we quotes Pippins $10a12 per bbl.; other kinds, $8a10,

Bacon — Stock light and firm at 23 to 24 for hog round; Hams, 23a25 cents per lb.

Butter — Common, 30a33; fair to good, 33 to 37; choice, 40 cents.

Bread — Navy, 4 cents; Pilot, 5 cents, Butter and Soda, 8 cents per lb.

Cement — James River, $2.50a3.00 per bbl.

Coffee — Rio, 75 cents per lb.; supply nearly exhausted.

Candles — Adamantine, 60 cents; Taller, 22a23 cents.

Cotton--9a10 cents per lb.

Cotton Yarns--None. Candlewick, 30 cents per lb.

Corn — We quote 85 cents per bushel.

Corn Meal--$1a1 05 per bushel.

Cheese — The limited lots of Country Dairy 35 cents per lb.

Dried Fruit--Peaches, unpeeled, $3. to 3.50; Pealed, $5.00; Apples, $4.50 per bushel.

Forage — Timothy, $1.75a$2; Clover, $1.60a$1.76; Sheaf Oats, $1.50a$1.76; Shucks, $1a$1.25 per cwt.

Fertilizers — James River Maculation guano, $60 per ton; stock small and rapidly reducing. Mexican guano, $25; Sombrero $35; Bone Ash, $40. Stocks exceedingly light.

Feathers — Quiet, at 37½ cents per lb.

Flaxseed — Nominal; $1.50.

Flour — We quote Superfine at $6.75a$7; Extra $7.25a$7.50; Family $8a$8.50; all by the dray load.

Hides — Green, 6 cents; salted, 8½ cents; dry, 12a16 cents.

Iron--English refined and American, but a small supply, which is sold in limited quantities at 8 cents. per lb.; Swedes, none in market.

Lard — 21a23 cents.

Leather--Upper we quote at $1 per lb., and dull; Harness 68a75 cents per lb; Sole, 60a70 cents, stocks light; calf skins waged, $48a55 per dozen.

Lime — Mountain unstacked, $1.75 to $2.25 per bbl.; according to quantity.

Molasses — New Orleans, 90a95 cents; golden syrups (Richmond) 85 cents.

Nails — Old Dominion, 9½ cents.

Offal (mill)--Bran, 20 cents; shorts, 25 cents. Brownsfuffs, 50 cents; shipstuffs, 70 cents.

Oil — Tanners', $1.12a1.50; machine, $1.50a$2 per gallon.

Oats — We quote 90a95 cents per bushels and scarce.

Rye — 90a$1.10 per bushel.

Sugars — Brown, 12½a14 cents per lb.; coffee, 15½a19 cents; crushed, 23 to 25 cts.

Salt — Sales by the sack at $25 for ground alum; fine, $37.50a$40 per sack.

Seeds — There are no stocks of clover or timothy.

Soda — Best English, 35a40 cents per lb.

Tobacco.--Sales of the week show that there it brisk demand in the market, and a decided improvement in prices. We quote Lugs at $3.75 to $4.50; Leaf $5.75 to $10. No prime offering. All now sold is old Tobacco.

Tallow — 15a15½ cents per lb.

Wheat — We quote red $1.25a$1.50; white $1.30 a 1.35.

Whiskey — Common $1.50 per gallon; better and superior qualities $2a3; old malted (Stearns & Co.) $3.50.

Wool — Market firm, and arrivals light 90 a 95 cents per pound.

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Money matters.

Bank notes — Nearly all Southern Bank notes are taken on deposit by our Banks.--We note the following as rejected for the want of arrangement to make them current at Bank:

Georgia--City Bank, Augusta; Mechanics' Bank, do; Bank of Augusta; Augusta Insurance and Banking Company; all 1 per cent. discount; and Bank of the Empire State, Rome, Ga., and Northwestern Bank, Ringgold, Ga., 2 per cent. discount.

North Carolina--Bank of Lexington; Bank of Clarendon; Bank of Commerce, Newbern; Bank of Fayetteville, and Bank of Washington, all 1 per cent. discount.

The notes of the Wheeling Banks, Bank of Berkeley, and Bank of Philippi, are taken by Brokers at par. Bank of Fairmont 10 per cent. discount.

Sales of Stocks in Richmond.

Confederate State Bonds--$5,000,000--$100 and interest.

Confederate States bonds--$100,000,000 issue--100 and interest.

Tennessee State bonds--(Interest suspended,) last sales, 60.

Virginia 6 per cent. Registered Bonds, sales at 56.

North Carolina State bonds — sales 87

Richmond City bonds — sales 98.

Petersburg City Bonds — sales 92½

Exchange Bank stock — No sale since dividend.

Farmers' Bank stock — sales, 100.

Bank of Virginia stock — sales 70.

Bank of the Commonwealth stock--sales

Old Dominion Insurance Stock — last sales, 29

Virginia Life Insurance Company Stock — last sales, $1.15.

Virginia Fire and Marine Insurance--30.

Richmond Fire Association Stock — last sales at auction, $30.

Insurance Company of the State of Virginia--no recent sales.

Merchants' Insurance stock — no recent sales.

Va. Central R. R., 1st mortgage beside — no recent sales.

Va. Central R. R. 2d mortgage bonds--80.

O. and A. R. R. 6 per cent. bonds — no recent sales.

O. and A. R. R. 8 per cent. bonds — last sales 85.

South Side R. R. bonds — no recent sales.

Richmond, Fredericksburg and P. Railroad stock — last sales, 77.

Va. Central Railroad stock — sales, 45.

Richmond and Petersburg Railroad stock — sales 75.

Richmond and Danville Railroad stock--60

James River and Kanawha stock — no recent sales.