Show NOONE WAS SCARED + McKinleys Message Was What WaIl Street Expected + TTERMENT IN TRADE + THE COUNTRY FAIRLY OVER VaBLMED By PROSPEBITY According to the Mercantile Agen ciesBut Wool Bas Gone Still Lower and the Manufacturers Axe Now BuyingIron aid Steel Industry In-dustry Enjoy ng reat Prosperity + New York Dec 9R G Dun Cos weekly review of trade will say tomorrow to-morrow The most significant thing this week WM the entire absence of the customary nervous fright before I or after the meeting of congress the i presidents message and the tre3mrers report No one showed the least alarm and nobody could find occasion for any Money and stock and grain makes moved on exactly as if the government were automatic certain to Jo or say no more than the people had alinady decided and expected There is a larger demand for products in nearly all the great ndustries larger expo t demand de-mand for foreign needs a more healthy domestic demand since seasonable weather arrived anda comfnciig conviction con-viction that November bUSlllSS the biggest ever done in this couniy in any month was but a step tow ard something better Exports last year in December were marvelops but this year are starting far ahead The Atlantic wheat fX ports flour included have leen for the week 5636767 bushels against 4312137 last year and Pacific exports 556523 bushels against 793083 last year and prices have declined 2c for cash but western receipts of 10135109 bushels against 63134 from last years great I crop stops argument The wheat does not come out at low prices or the people peo-ple have less to sell than last year at 20 cents more per bushel Woolen goods have been in much better bet-ter demand and many of the smaller mills have been buying after concessions conces-sions secured by the larger The much broader market is more healthy and promises far more for the industry and I sales of 10655200 pounds in two weeks pat at the three chief markets against 10852700 pounds in the same weeks of 1892 are quite in line with the demand in prosperous years Prices yielded I about half a cent in November according accord-ing to 100 quotations by Coates Bros5 and from Philadelphia dispatches I appear to be about a cent lower this week The rupture of the inchoate rail combination it appears resulted in lower prices and larger sales in the first week of sharp competition than were realized a week ago Prices were made in some transactions much lower than were then or are nm quoted and while 17 at Pittsburg is now named special orders are said to command lower figures The purchase of 150000 tons Bessemer pig at 10 at valley furnaces and 100000 tons billets for Pittsburg works at 1550 of which 40 000 tons went to a hoop mill with 11 000 tons rods at Chicago at 22 and 22 000 tons plates for one concern at Pitts burg besides enormous orders for bars and plates in car and shipbuilding steam contract on the Delaware and a contract for 5000 tons for bridges at Chicago give some idea of the heavy business coming forvard ji1ist when the works usually expect a period of idleness idle-ness and waiting Pig iron has risen at the east to 1150 and quotations for pig throughout the country a shade higher than at any time this year though prices for finished products have recently been declining and are lower than in the early months of the year I This weeks failures have been 248 in the United States against 312 last year I i and 22 in Canada against 29 last year |