REVIEW OF THE MARKET. 
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REVIEW OF THE MARKET. 
PRICES CURRENT IN NEW YORK, DECEMBER 23, 1846. 
ASHES, Pots, ... per 100 lbs. 
$4 62 
to 
$4 68 
Pearls, .... 
5 50 
it 
5 62 
BALE ROPE, ... 
5 
7 
BARK, Quercitron, ... 
26 00 
27 00 
BEANS, White, . 
1 12 
44 
1 25 
BEESWAX, Aril. Yellow,. 
. lb. 
26 
44 
30 
BOLT ROPE,. ... 
11 
44 
12 
BONES, ground, .. 
40 
u 
55 
BRISTLES, American, . 
. lb. 
25 
44 
65 
BUTTER, Table, ... 
16 
u 
25 
Shipping, . 
9 
44 
13 
CANDLES, Mould, Tallow, . 
9 
44 
11 
Sperm, ... 
25 
44 
38 
Stearic, . 
20 
44 
25 
CHEESE, ...i . 
5 
44 
10 
COAL, Anthracite, . 2000 lbs. 
6 00 
44 
7 00 
CORDAGE, American, . 
11 
c< 
12 
COTTON, . 
9 
44 
13 
COTTON BAGGING, Amer. hemp,.. 
.. yard, 
11 
“ 
14 
FEATHERS, .. 
.lb. 
25 
44 
34 
FLAX, American,.. 
7 
44 
8 
FLOUR, Northern and Western,.... 
....bbl. 
5 25 
44 
5 56 
Fancy,. 
6 00 
44 
6 50 
Southern, .. 
5 25 
44 
5 62 
Richmond City Mills,. 
6 25 
44 
7 00 
Buckwheat,. 
4 00 
44 
4 25 
Rye,. 
3 75 
44 
4 00 
GRAIN—Wheat,Western,. 
1 05 
44 
1 20 
Southern. 
1 00 
44 
1 10 
Rye,..... 
84 
44 
85 
Corn, Northern,. 
78 
u 
80 
Southern,. 
73 
44 
75 
Barley,. 
61 
41 
65 
Oats, Northern,. 
38 
44 
40 
Southern,. 
33 
44 
35 
GUANO,. 
2 00 
44 
3 00 
HAY, in bales,. 
56 
44 
62 
HEMP, Russia, clean,.. 
44 
225 00 
American, water-rotted,....... 
44 
185 00 
American, dew-rotted. 
-do. 
75 00 
44 
125 00 
HIDES, Dry Southern,. 
7 
“ 
8 i 
HOPS,. 
9 
44 
12 
HORNS, .. 
.100. 
1 00 
44 
7 00 
LEAD, pig,.. 
4 50 
u 
4 56 
Sheet and bar,. 
4 h 
44 
MEAL, Corn,. 
....bbl. 
3 75 
44 
4 00 
Corn,. 
17 75 
44 
18 00 
MOLASSES, New Orleans,.. 
30 
44 
34 
MUSTARD, American,. 
16 
44 
31 
NAVAL STORES—Tar,. 
2 00 
u 
2 25 
Pitch,. 
1 00 
44 
1 06 
Rosin,. 
55 
44 
65 
Turpentine,.. 
3 50 
“ 
3 56 
Spirits Turpentine, Southern, . 
38 
44 
41 
OIL, Linseed, American,. 
60 
44 
63 
Castor,. 
.. .do. 
55 
44 
70 
Lard,. 
65 
44 
70 
OILCAKE,. 
100 lbs. 
1 25 
44 
1 50 
PEAS, Field,. 
1 25 
44 
1 50 
PLASTER OF PARIS,. 
2 25 
44 
3 00 
Ground, in bbls.,.of 300 lbs. 
1 12 
44 
1 25 
PROVISIONS Beef, Mess,. 
....bbl. 
7 00 
44 
9 00 
Prime,. 
5 75 
44 
6 75 
Smoked.. 
.lb. 
6 
u 
9 
Rounds, in pickle,..do. 
4 
44 
6 
Pork, Mess,. 
....bbl. 
9 50 
44 
32 00 
Prime,. 
7 88 
44 
9 25 
Lard,. 
.lb. 
7 
44 
8 
Bacon sides, Smoked,. 
5 
44 
6 
In pickle,... 
4 
44 
5 
Hams, Smoked,. 
6 
44 
30 
Pickled, .. 
5 
44 
8 
Shoulders, Smoked,. 
5 
44 
6 
Pickled,. 
4e 
44 
5 
RICE,. 
100 lbs. 
3 37 
a 
4 12 
SALT,. 
1 25 
44 
1 32 
Common,. 
20 
44 
35 
SEEDS—Clover,. 
....lb. 
6 
44 
9 
Timothy,. 
7 bush. 
11 00 
44 
20 00 
Flax, clean..... 
10 25 
44 
31 25 
rough,. 
9 00 
44 
9 25 
SODA, Ash, cont’g 80 per cent, soda, 
... .lb. 
3 
44 
3 
Sulphate Soda, ground,. 
1 
44 
— 
SUGAR, New Orleans,. 
7 
44 
9 
SUMAC, American,... 
35 00 
44 
37 50 
TALLOW, . 
8 
u 
9 
TOBACCO,. 
2 
44 
7 
WHISKEY, American,. 
24 
44 
25 
WOOLS, Saxony,. 
.lb. 
35 
44 
60 
Merino.,. 
25 
44 
30 
Halfblood............ 
20 
u 
25 
Common do... 
18 
20 
Remarks. —Ashes have fallen a trifle. Cotton has advanced 
fully half a-cent per lb. Grain, Hay , Molasses, and Provisions , 
also, there is a slight advance. In other articles we find nothing 
particularly worthy of notice. 
Crops .-**-'The sugar crop comes in lighter than was anticipated. 
The estimates in New Orleans, of the present crop, vary from 
125,000 to 150,000 hhds. 
To Correspondents. —Communications have been received 
from Cato, Old Lady, E. S., James Rough, M., Edmund Rufiin, 
J. Murdoch, John Parker, Dr. Charles T. Jackson, L. F. Allen, M„ 
YV. Philips, John P. Norton, Dr. James P. Peacocke, Robert Cor¬ 
win, R„ Abbey, and An Old Subscriber. 
F.utawah is informed that her excellent article on Apple-Butter 
is laid by for our September No. 
Cato’s former article on the History of Merino Sheep will occu¬ 
py more room in our columns than we are able to spare for 
the present. 
Will Messrs. Hovey & Co. inform us whether their excellent 
nurseries in Cambridge have ever suffered from the gases of the 
brick-kilns in that vicinity? 
Will John Browne, of Long Island, in Lake Winnipisiogee, 
furnish us with an account of his mode of cultivating Indian 
corn ? Can he send us some of the corn, bearing his name, 
for seed? 
Acknowledgments. —Report to the New Orleans Chamber of 
Commerce, in Reply to the Questions Propounded by the Honor¬ 
able Secretary of the Treasury, on the Subject of the Tariff and 
Warehouse System. Also the Transactions of the Agricultural 
Society and Mechanics’ Institute of Newcastle County, Del., at 
the 11th Annual Meeting, held at Wilmington, on the 16th and 
17th of September, 1846 ; the Address delivered at the opening of 
the 19th Annual Fair of the American Institute of the city of 
New York, by the Hon. Mahlon Dickerson, President of the In 
stitute, and the Horticultural Report of the said Fair by Thomas 
Bridgeman ; likewise an Address on Agriculture delivered before 
the Worcester County Agricultural Society, by John S. Skinner, 
Esq., in September, 1846, and a pamphlet on the Analysis of the 
Oat, by Professor John P. Norton. 
Horses.— We have received a letter from a breeder in Western 
New York, saying that he has two splendid pairs of horses for 
sale; one brown, six years old, only sixteen hands high, bob 
tails, and can do 13 miles an hour together, and either do a mile 
in 3 minutes and 40 seconds ; price $600. The other pair bay, six 
years old, only sixteen hands high, without white, bob tails, can 
do 14 miles an hour together ; and either can trot alone a mile in 
3 minutes 30 seconds ; price $800. They will be delivered here ; 
but will only be brought on a positive order ; the purchaser to 
have the privilege of returning the horses, and receiving back the 
price if they be not what thev are represented. 
A B. ALLEN, 187 Water St. 
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE. 
The Subscriber has just opened an Agricultural Warehouse at 
New Orleans, where he will constantly keep on hand a very 
general assortment of plows suitable for the Southern planter, 
together with harrows, rollers, cultivators, horse-powers, grain 
threshers, rye threshers and hulling machines, fanning mills, 
burr stone and cast iron grain mills, corn and cob crushers, corn 
shelters and huskers, vegetable cutters, straw cutters, seed sow¬ 
ers, wheelbarrows, trucks, grain cradles, ox yokes, shovels, 
spades, forks, scythes, rakes, axes, hoes,, picks, chains, churns, 
grindstones, &c., &c. 
Among his plows are those from the celebrated factory of Rug- 
gles, Nourse & Mason, of Worcester ; from A. B. Allen of New 
York; and R. Sinclair Jr., & Co. of Baltimore. 
Castings of all kinds of patterns extra for the above. 
Agricultural Books, a complete assortment. 
Orders will be received for horses, cattle, sheep, and swine, 
fruit trees and shrubbery ; and any other articles planters may 
wish to order from the north, j. 
R. L. ALLEN. 
New Orleans, Dec. 1, 1846. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 
Being a condensed Encyclopaedia of Northern and Southern 
Farming, embracing Soils, Manures, Draining, Irrigation, and all 
staple productions, as the grasses, grain, roots, and miscellaneous 
articles; cattle, the dairy, horses, sheep, mules, swine, and 
poultry; their treatment, food, diseases, See., &c. Price $1 retail. 
A liberal discount to the trade. For sale by 
SAXTON Sc MILES, 205 Broadway. 
A. B. ALLEN, 187 Water Street. 
IMPERIAL OATS. 
A few barrels of these superior oats just received and for Sale. 
Price $4 per bbl. They are great yielders, remarkably free from 
husk, and weigh over 40 lbs. per bushel. 
A. B. ALLEN, 187 Water Street, N. Y. 
