Show Trade in the East Atew York accumulated orders pave a surc appearance of greater activity but is yet too soon to judge which way the tide will turn and the reit from other cities though nearly I all hopul in tone do not indicate the expected ex-pected iprovcment The situation seems letter it Milwaukee satisfactory at I Oinahaood at Cleveland as to most branChe but questionable as to iron I rather dh at Kansas City mid St PPJ and less couraging at the chief centres of I tho graiuiron coal and leather trades Report bout the wool trade are contradictory contra-dictory vt New York prices are lower but Philaelphia reports more sales and I prospect Oan advance A report that the treasury my not decide the woolenworsted question fr months disturbs importers who have quantities of goods locked up because coectors wait for a tiedisioli Otherwise he woolen trade shows a little better movenent but mills are not working work-ing at nearly their capacity Cotton has advanced an eighth and printcloths one sixteenth anl there is a more active jobbing job-bing trade bu in some lines at a reduction time n prices Silks and many are quiet mills but are linens i working are short quite JCtive In the leather trade general disc dis-c is bv some thought the pro I ctrsor of better things and a fair business inbootsand shoes continues helped by tho recent decline in prices of some grades I Th paper trade is active and contracts for delivery in England and Australia are reported re-ported The slow improvement continues I in drugs and chemicals heat goes lower yet having sold at S2J4 ceutSj and corn has declined threequarters and cats 1 cent since last week Dreams of successful corners prior to July are still cherished but all the facts of the present sitnatbn make the attempt appear extra hazardus Pork is unchanged with lard and hogs a shade higher coffee and sugar are unchanged but oil 211 eighth higher In I general the course of prices still tends downward but many products of large im iwrtance arc now so low that not much further decline is expected while a quick advance might follow a revival of demand or speculative confidence Stocks have been neglected and dull but a little stronger in price with a disposition 0 to believe that the next considerable movement move-ment must be upward Yet in spite of r some excellent reports the earnings do not I generally compare with last years as wells I well-s they did in January or February to say iir nothing of March and tho outcome of controversies f con-troversies at the west seems really as t doubtful as ever The future of the market probably depends much upon the movements of money and the feeling of foreign investors and for the moment both Ii favor holders but bankers look upon a considerable I con-siderable outgo of specie as not improbable improba-ble and the policy of Secretary Windoin as far as it has been made known does not Iv seem likely to cause large disbursements before July The one favorable feature is I I that merchandise exports are still largefor four weeks of April at New York exceeding I exceed-ing last years by 4309000 or IS per cent the increase in imports here having been only 3 percent But the treasury has taken I in during the week 1SOO000 more than it I i has paid out and there are many reasons for expecting that the exports of merchandise merchan-dise may presently decline The business failures occurring throughout through-out the country during the last seven days as reported to R G Dun < fc Co number for the United States 185 and for Canada 29 or a total of 214 as compared with a total of 213 last week and 246 the week previous to the last For the corresponding corres-ponding week of last year the figures were 234 made up of 209 in the United States ansi 25 in the Dominion of Canada |