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Show HLLkM TItllli: lti:ILT. DUX A Co., for the week ending March T, 1531, lert no great chain, t tu tho condition of trade. Tho adjournment adjourn-ment of Cougreea lia removed on great Impediment to activity In bull-note. bull-note. The fear of monetary legislation !dltilled,at lout, for th pretent-Approprtatloiit pretent-Approprtatloiit havo liceu to large and liberal, that the Treatury turplut will not flgur In financial deallnga'for tomo time, Thlt will help, alio, to In-creoMithe In-creoMithe currency. A ruth of gold outofthocuuntry hat act In, but the Treatury, by charging a ttlglit premium premi-um or tar gold fur export, will check It, Hhlpmeuttot gold, liowover, for the wtek amounted toM0,0iI. It la hopoil that Weateru legislature will adjourn without enacting any lawa Injurlout to corporate Interritt; If to, American tecurllle will Ulu demand In lluropean markttt. There It alto a good protjiect for fair crop next fall, and thlt heliti lo lucreaio conflJencv, Tho one unwholeaomo factor It that rlcoa of cotumodltlea aro moving upward rather rapidly, Hi avtrago having rlaen mora than ouo rcent during Hie laat week, and tho eiporttof inerclunJItoaro tliut liable to la) rettrlctcd. Though cotton I dull In tlio Houlli, yet trad there la moderately fair, rlc la firm, molaaaea ttrong, and tugar dull. At Ht. I.otill and Kuntot City builiieat I fair. In I'HUburg thu cok ttrlko continue, nnd good demand for rolled Iron product I the reault. In dry gaodt, In clothing, aud In tlioet, trade It active but collo tlout tlow. Wool It reported aenrce with worttod tplnnert buty at a profit, Tlio report further taji: "The only speculative market that hat declined during the week la tho cotton market, recclpta ahowlug an Inoreoao of 47,000 baleaover laat year, and txporl an Inoreoai) of i:,000. Tho fall of an eUhtli put tho prlcocloao totholoa-ott iverreconlM hi thlamirktt almo is; I. Hut wheat lit rlaen orer 1 cent, oat lj coin, an I corn nearly 2 cent, oolfeo an olglilh, oil 2'f cent, butler fl cent, and pork product a aha lo. It la dllllclllt to too why wheat fchould advance, with Weateru receipt largely oxceedlng thoo for oorre-pon ling week laat year, wllh tbo ilalbleMUppiy well malntitncd, and exporta falllngotr, Tlnl far thlt week, forluttaneo wheat oxiort aro not half latt yetr'a for tho auuio daya, llour exporta ex-porta not one half, and corn export only one-ninth. Th tpoculttlvo wavt which begRii with the protpoct of free tllvcr cnluiirfo lavt aprlng, will rooislo lu time, ml to Ibo alvantagaof Ihoaowho hold largo atotk of pro luct." When tpeculattou 1 active, aud pro. ductlto Industry dormant, It It a bad algn, Tho Iron trade regards with tat-lifadloutlio tat-lifadloutlio contlnuauso of thu coko htrlkv, an 1 theniut down uf thu furnace fur-nace and mill at Mahoning and Hhenaiigii, The woolen Industry I In Kood condition. Thero It a fair do-inuil do-inuil for knit goods, nnd also for wiirtWd an J dress good. Cotton inatiiiracturu I not In tucli activity at deslrel. IbeTreas iry Im put out, tllrernote Included, ouly .ou,oju more euruuey than It ha taken In during Hi past week, but tba money market art generally gener-ally well tupplled for leglUnule bolne need, though at tomo tioliiU ttrlngentnr more active. Thortpnroialocollectlnn grow a Utile lea-a aalltfaolory, an I yrt It lathe prevailing Impression that bual-lie bual-lie In all pari of Iho country I on a tolld footing, and will prosperwhen gocl trop ontiie, nit extvirt of product from N w York wero irrr lt week, but for the past month how a decrease of about 8 per cent., and the Import Meanwhile thow A tnatkod Increase. The railroad raunlnga continue biwvy, and Iho Clearing lions eichsngo exceed latlyetr't, but deeUlly le than the t.l Vance In prices, Indliwtlng a material d-erct-e In ipiautltte Irantfcrn The stock luarki I reuitln i-omrlivety In actll c, w lib weaknea lu tome stocks, but a general undertone nf strngth, and Ibe opinion grow lhat no jvartlcinar harmful legislation t to bo rxpertM thl year In Wwtern Mate. Th fallun t for lb wiek a rrrted by Dun A Co., are 2.15 for the Unlle.1 Htate aud 3d for C'auaJa For tho correindlug week last year there wero Ul forth United Htate and 37 for Canada. |