Monday, July 20th, 1863.
Specie and Bank Notes.--The market may be reported firm at last quotations, viz: $9 premium for gold, selling rate; $8 prem, buying price.
Silver is fifty cents below these figures.
The demand is small, and offerings "few and far between." Bank notes are again higher.
The brokers are paying $1.50 premium and asking $1.70a1.75.
Nothing doing in Sterling Exchange.
Bonds and Stocks--At Messrs. Davenport & Co.'s auction sale, last week, prices went up at an astonishing rate.
North Carolina bonds were sold at 300; Va. registered do 160; City of Richmond do 165; Richmond and Danville Railroad do 171; Central Railroad stock 116; Bank of Richmond 110; Richmond and Liverpool Packet Company 680.
We quote Confederate bonds, 100 in loan, at 103a109½ and int.; do do 15 m loan, held at 200--no recent sales; do do 7's, 100; Va. coupon bonds, four coupons on, 325; Bank of the Commonwealth 135; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal guaranteed bonds 150; Merchants' Ins. 25; Ins. Co.
State of Va. 42½.
Produce, Provisions, &c.--Bacon very scarce and advancing; we quote hoground at $1.50a1.60.
Butter has advanced; we quote at $2a2.50 per lb. Cheese $1.50a1.75 per lb.--Dried Fruit--Apples $10 per bushel; Peaches $16 per bushel.
Eggs $1.50a$1.75 per dozen.
Hay — Old $9a10 per 100 lbs--very little in market; new $9a10, as to quality.
Lard $1.55a1.60 per lb. Potatoes — New Irish $10a15 per bushel.
Corn $9.50a10 per bushel.
Corn Meal $10a10.50 per bushel.
Flour is in demand at the following quotations; Superfine $11a32; Extra $33a34; Family $36a37 per bbl. Oats $6 per bushel, and scarce.
Wheat — Very little doing; no new yet offered; we quote at $5.50a6.
Groceries.--We quote Brown Sugar at $1.70a1.80 per lb. Molasses $11.50a12 per gal. Coney $3.75a4 per lb. Rice 18a20 cts. Salt 49 cts. Candies $2.25a2.50.
Tobacco.--Very little doing, and sales show to change in price.
We still quote: Inferior Luge $12.50a15; good do $15a25; common Leaf $30a35; good do $35a40; fine Wrappers $65a70, fine bright Wrappers would bring a much higher price — say from $175 to 225. This text is part of:
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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. July 22, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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