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Show Mi.v.ki.i in tin: iu.xr.ir. 1)UM ft Co, fir the weik ending 1-cbruary 14, l'il,reort au Improve inont In business at Iho l.ast, lut In theWmt and Houtli at a slandatlll. Chrliiglioiiiivsynientt for January of this j i or show no Increase over last year. The, volume of busliiwala on the whiilu smaller thin last jear at the aittle time, though an advance of 10 Ir cent In the average Jtlco ofiom modules has taken place. Hhortage of cro, and doubt as lo the munitar-future munitar-future may hnvo iairo.1 thai. The Iron, coal and coke trades are unsvtllrd. Theivke workenof Con nelltvllle aiu on strike. A war of lihiailtajprohendcd anionij coal producers. pro-ducers. The demand for copjier Is slow, and for tin wtak, whllu Die lead market la almost dead. Dun A. Co. uys: Ttie deuuiid fur wool conllnues strung, and worsted grail s aro ruing, hales at lloalou in Januir) were IT.OIO, tJU unds, renin, t ll,i,lo last year, an lucrensoiifsUiul to sr rent, an I Iho market for dreaa goiala U parti, ularty active, ac-tive, agrnli looking forward lo a tlmo of extraordinary rtntrlty. lluior.leraf.ir In aly goods are aiuuly, an.lilotlilerit rriiieinla.rlughvy Insai-s of 'past win-tera, win-tera, arobuing with great cailtluii, Tbs ixiinuilMlon ineixluuus sro also extreme lycsrcrul aloul en-Jlts, with last Hilt's t X perlenee In lnln.1 The trade lu cotton gnoilalaMrhi s.ituiiie, and rlnlelolhi art. n sluido sln,ng. r In price. The Uiot ml ati.Ni trad allows sums Ini nisciut ol as to Volume, though llrei ublaluisl are not highly siitlift lory, I-uIhtIs flrm, and at Host.iu Ihe ettiort demand la a lintoniirtliy feature Hugar mtlnsrs me liiis,w!ihatiile ordr for ruturo d. Usury, llioiiglipri sent Intde Is niturillv light, Tlio gnf ry trade la lalrl) active, and In llealel n doennau In llio denitn I forinaiiuiitliin. I'mvlslutiahuio Ivon ashnlswMkrr, with a fall or I , nt lu crn, and w hsal and rata liaru ilc rlliMil each a fnirtljn on small aulos, but enms aud oil aro stronger and cotton1 Ull- The buslncias failures for tli wuk ineutloued wire 07 fur the United Htatcs and Canada, as coiuiured with ivslfor Ihe jretloui week, and with JWIfor Iho week ending February II, lbiK). |