Richmond Markets, March 6, 1862.
there is nothing new of interest in commercial matters, have a little better feeling with a shade advance in the Tobacco market.
Stocks of all descriptions are very tight and prices continue high, especially in cigars, owing to the difficulty of getting transportation.
The improvement in Tobacco though slight, is an indication that in the opinions of some persons, the last European news is not so unfavorable to the idea of the exportation of our staples at some day not very remote, as the first report of it through the prejudiced and unfair channels of the Northern press represented it to be.
there continues to be maintained a strong confidence in both Confederate and State stocks, as a means of investment.
The public faith in the public credit is like the public devotion to the cause, earnest and unchanged.
The recent events were well calculated to have some influence on the public credit; but there is no indication of any such effect.
The rallying of the people to strengthen the bulwark against the tyrannical invasion is greater than at the beginning of the war, and the confidence of the nation in their ability to repel it is strengthened every day.
- Apples — We quote Pippins $12a15 per bbl; other kinds, $10a12.
- bread — Navy, 4 cents; Pilot, 5 cents, Butter and Soda, 8 cents per lb.
- Bacon — Stock light and firm at 24 to 26 for hog round; Hams, 26a28 cents per lb.
- Butter — Common, 30a33; fair to good, 33 to 37; choice, 40a42½ cents.
- corn — We quote 80 cents per bushel.
- corn Meal--$1a1.05 per bushel.
- Coffee — Rio, 75 cents per lb.; supply nearly exhausted.
- Candles — Adamantine, 75a80 cents; Tallow, 23a25 cents. $7.50; Family $8a$8.50; all by the dray load.
- Cement — James River, $2.50a8.00 per bbl.
- cotton--9¾a10 cents per lb.
- cotton Yarns--None, Candiwick, 50 cents per lb.
- Cheese — The limited lots of Country Dairy 35 cents per lb.
- Dried Fruit--Peaches, unpealed, $8.00 to 8.50; Pealed, $6.00a6.50; Apples, $1.75a$2 per bushel.
- Forage — Timothy, $1.70a$1.80; Cloves, $1.60a$1.70; Sheaf Cats, $1.50a$1.60; Shucks, 87½c.a$1 per cwt.
- Fertilizers — James River Manipulation guano, $60 per ton; stock small and rapidly reducing. Mexican guano, $25, Sombero, $35; Bone Ash, $40. Stocks exceedingly light.
- feathers — Quiet, at 37½ a 40 cents per lb.
- Flaxseed — Nominal; $1.50.
- Flour — We quote Superfine at $7, Extra $7.50; Family $8 $8.50.
- Hides — Green, 6 cents; salted, 9 ½ cents, dry, 13a 15 cents.
- iron--English refined and American, but a small supply, which is sold in limited quantities at 8 cents per lb; Swedee, none in market.
- Leather — Sole, 70a75 cts. per lb; Upper $1 per lb; Harness 75a80 cents; Rough Starting 55 cts; Calf Skins $48a55 per dozen — Stock or all kinds very light.
- liquors — Common (20 per cent) whiskey $1.50 per gallon; W. Wallace's Mountain Dew $3.50, New Proof Whiskey $2; old maited (Stearns & Co.) $3.50; Apple Brandy (new) $2.50.
- Lard — 21a23 cents.
- Lime — Mountain unslacked, $2.00 to $2.50 per bbl; according to quantity.
- Molasses — New Orleans, $1.30 to 1.40 cts.
- Nails — Old Dominion, 10a11 cents.
- Offal (mill)--Bran, 20 cents; shorts, 25 cents. Brownstuffs, 30 cents; shipstuffs, 70 cents.
- Oil — Tanners' , $1.12a1.50; machine, $1.50a$2 per gallon.
- Oats — We quote 85 cents per bushel, and scarce.
- Rye — 90a$1.10 per bushel.
- Seed — Clover Seed, $17a$18--latter by retail; Timothy, $5 ½a$6 ½
- Soda — Best English, 40 cents per lb.
- Sugars — Brown, 34a26 cents per lb; coffee, 27a28 cents. All qualities advancing.
- Salt — Sales by the sack at $25 for ground alum; fine, $37.50a$40 per sack. 12 00.
- Tobacco.--The breaks of tobacco are small, and most of the tobacco offered at this time is re-opened. We notice rather more disposition in the last two days, on the part of a few buyers, to invest, and prices a shade higher. We quote inferior lugs at $2.75 good $3 25, 3 75a4; inferior leaf $5a5.50 good $5.50a$7.50; fine $8,50a 10.50.
- Tallow — 15a16 cents per lb.
- whiskey.--Common $2 per gallon; better and superior qualities $2.50 to $4; old malted (Stearns &Co.) $4
- Wheat — We quote red $1.15 a $1.20, while $1.25 a 1.30.
- Wool.--Market firm, and arrivals light 90 a 95 cents per pound.
- Beef — We quote at $5.00a7.00 gross, which is 14 to 15 net.
- Sheep — Supply light. Extra quality, to $9 gross.
- Hogs — In demand at $13.50 to $14 net.
Cattle market.
- specie — We quote gold and silver at 44 to 50 per cent premium.
- 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; Mechanical 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 per cent. discount.
