Commercial.
Richmond Markets. March 21, 1861.
Apples.--Northern $2.50@3.50; Virginia Pipplus $2.50 to $4.
Bacon.--Demand moderate.
We quote Sides 10 ½@11 cts.; Shoulders 8 ½@ cts.; plain Hams 11 ½ @12 cts.;; Sugar-cured 13@13 ½ cents. Stock light.
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 25c,; inferior 8 to 10
Candles.--Tallow 13 ½@14 per; Jackson's 14; Hull's 16; Adamantine 18 @20; 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, $7.50 per cart load of 25 bushels, per ton of 2.240 lbs. $8; 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 bushels.
Coffee.--We quote Rio 14@15 cents; Laguayra, 15½@18 cts.; Java 18@19 cents; Mocha 18 cts.
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.--We quote 60@62 ½ cts. per bushel.
Corn Meal.--City Bolted Meal 75@30 cents; country 70@75 cts.
Cotton.--8 ½ to 12 cts.
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.
Dried Apples from 40 to 50 per bushel.
Feathers.--Dull at 44@45 cts.
Fertilizers.--Demand light.
We quote Peruvian Guano $62 ½ per ton; Ruffin's Tobacco Manure $45 per ton; Aa Mexican $25; Elide Island $48; 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.
Fish.--New Nova Scotla Herrings, gross, $2.75@$3; a cargo of new No. 1 Halifax Cut Herrings arrived and sold at $4, on 4 mo.'s time.
No North Carolina in market.
Mackerel, large No. 3, new, $8.50; small do. $5.
Flaxseed.--$1.20@1.40 per bushel.
Flour.--There are no sales for shipment.
The stock of country is very limited, and sales confined to home consumption.
We quote Superfine at $6.50@$6.75; Extra $7@7.25; Family $7.75@$8.
Flour Barrels.--45 to 50 cts. for city made; Country have sold recently at from 20 to 30 cts.
Fruit.--Oranges: Messina $2.50 per box. Lemons; $4 per box. Raisins: Bunch $2.50@ $3; layers $3@3.25.
Prunes 10 to 40 cents per box, according to quality.
Figs 10 @20 cents per lb.
Ginseng.--35@40 cents, and in demand.
Grass, Seeds.--We quote prime Clover Seed $6.50 for new; $6@6.25 for old. 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.--$1.10@1.15 per cwt.
Hides.--Salted 8 ½@9 cents; 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 $25. Cut Nails 3 ½ @3 ½ cts, per lb.
Lard.--Prime Western Leaf, in bbls., 11 ½@12 cents; kegs 12@ 12 ½ cents--all for new.
Lead.--We quote 6 ½@6 ½ cents per lb. for pig; bar 6 ½ @7 cts.
Leather. We quote good stamp, middle weights, 23@24 cts. per lb.; over weights 22@23 cts.; 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
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 ½@4 ½ Sazerac $3 ¼ @7; Hennessey $3½@7 ½; Peach scarce at $1 ½@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 $19@12; three-quarter do. $9@11; 1 ½ 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 cts. each; all heart 18@25 cts. Shingles $5@6 per M. Weather Boarding $13@16.
Inch Oak Plank $30@35.
Buttonwood ½ inch $25@30.
Inch Cherry $35; 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 cts.; Cuba Muscovado, in bbls., 33@37 ½ cts.; in hhds., 25@30 cts.; English Island 37 ½ cts.; Ochenhousen's 28 cts.
Oats.--30 to 35 cts. per bushel and dull.
Offal.--Bran 20 cts.; Shorts 25 cts.; Brown Stuff 35 cts.; and Ship Stuff 65 cts.; per bus.
Onions.--Red $2 per bbl. of near three bushels: Silver-skin $2 ½.
Peas.--None in market.
Plaster.--Lump — We quote sales by the cargo at $4; small lots, $4.50 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 cts. per bushel.
Rice.--5@5 ½ cts.
Rosin.--$1.70@1.75 per bbl.
Rye.--We quote 60@65 cts. per bus.
Salt.--Last sales from wharf $1.65; from store $1.75 per sack.
Saltpeter.--9@10 cts. per lb.
Seneca Root.--35@37 ½ cts.
Shot.--7@7 ½ cts. cash, and time as to quantity, for drop and buck.
Starch.--Corn 6@6 ½ cts.; Pearl 7@8 ½ cts
Staves.--Good oak, for flour barrels, we quote at $5 per thousand; Machine cut $7@8.
Sugars.--New Orleans Sugar we quote 7@8 cents; Cuba 7@8 cents; Porto Rico 7@8 cents; Loaf 10 ½@11 cents; Crushed and Powdered 10 cents; Coffee Sugar; A 9 cents; B and Extra C 9
Tobacco.--Sales still limited, at former quotations.
Lugs $2 to $4; Leaf $4.50 to $11. 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 20 ½@21 ½ cents; Stearns' Old Malted Rye $1.50; other qualities 75 cts. @$1.50 per gallon.
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, Duff and Gordon, Amontilado, $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. 