SAN FRANCISCO. March 8.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIII, Issue 3044, 29 April 1867, Page 4

SAN FRANCISCO. March 8.

was told in that market at 14 dollars (?) per 1961b. Our market is without special interest. We quote:— Superfiue, halfbacks, per 1961b. f 5 00. to $5 75c. quarter-sacks ... 5 5 „ 550 Extra, half- sacks 575 „6 0 quarter-sacks 6 0 „ 625 Wheat: 4,000 sacks superfine grade sold at 1 dollar 50 cents ; 800 sacks cobbc, 1 dollar 55 cents; 170 sacks medium, milling, 1 dollar 60 cents ; 500 sacks very choioe Coast, 1 dollar 65 cents ; 1,000 sacks choice Bay, 1 dollar 70 cents per 1001b, Barley : Sale of 500 sacks brewing, 85 cents per 1001b. Oats continue dull, and prices are nominal at 1 dollar to 1 dollar 20 cents per 1001b. Potatoes : 400 sacks Bodegas, in poor gunnies, sold from wharf at 65 cents per 1901b. Freights: The 'Ella Norton,' whose charter for Hampton Roadi for orders to discharge at New York or Philadelphia we noticed on the 27th ultimo, gets 19 dollars currenoy per ton. Since that date, however, freights hare declined. The extreme clipper ship ' Winged Arrow,' 933 tons, has been taken to load wheat for Liverpool at or about £3 ss. The Columbian barque 'Sarita,' 494 tons, has been laid on for Mazatlan. The Columbian barque 'Maria,' 189 tons, has been repurchased by her original owner, and her name changed to 'Nellie Edgerly j ' she will load lumber for Valparaiso. The brig 'Ida D. Rogers ' goes to Puntarenas. Ship ' Blue Jacket,' 1,395 tons, and British ship ' Langdale,' 832 tons, have been taken for Liverpool at £3 ss. The Btdletin of the 6th of March reports : — Thereceiptsofwheatfortheweekendinglasteveniog were 53,363 sacks, against 13,046 sacks for the oorresponding week last year. Since January Ist we have received 847,845 sacks, against 395,149 casks for the same time in 1866. Our exports for the week have been unusually light, in consequence of the scarcity of tonnage, and aggregate only 20,272 sacks, valued at 35,916 dollars. In the corresponding week last year there was only a single shipment of 18,104 sacks, to Hongkong. Our exports since January 1 foot up 902,160 sacks, valued at 1,712,199 dollars, against 269,820 sacks for the same time in 1866. The receipts of flour during the week, reduced to wheat, aggregate 13,429 sacks, and the exports, 33, 396 sacks. Our receipts of flour and wheat since July 1, 1866, reckoned as wheat, foot up 4,400,430 sacks, and our exports, 3,277,358 sacks. In the meantime the consumption of flour in this city and for the shipping of the port has been upwards of 96,000 barrels, equal to 288,000 sacks. In addition, a considerable amount has been used for distilling purposes and for feed. A large amount also exists as flour, of which the supply is still altogether ont of proportion to the demand. The stock of wheat in the'city, it is thought, does not exceed 300,000 sacks. Of late there has been a more active demand for China, and vessels meet with quick despatch, notwithstanding the rates are unusually high, say 10 dollars per ton. Already freight has been secured to a considerable extent by the steamship ' Hongkong,' April 3rd, at 12 dollars per ton. The renewal of our breadstuffs trade with China is a great relief to the market, as it will enable us to work off some of our surplus superfine grades of flour and wheat, for which at present there is no demand elsewhere. Our shipments to the East and to Great Britain exhibit no material abatement, except ns they are influenced by the laok of tonnage. These vessels will carry hence about 10,000 tons, equal to 200,000 sacks wheat. The markets abroad are without essential change, There still exists a good demand for flour and wheat both at New York and Liverpool, though late telegraphic advices quote prices as more or less fluctuating, and on the whole, perhaps, rather easier to the buyer. Our last mail dates from Liverpool quote California wheat at 143 9d, equal to 3 dollars 54 cents gold per 1001b. The stock of wheat in that port December 31, was only 32£ per cent, of what it was on the corresponding day of 1865, and only 18 per cent, of what it was on the same day in 1864. As to flour, the stock December 31, 1866, was only 50 per cent, of the amount on the same day in 1865. Concerning future supplies, a late number of the Mark Lane Express has the following: — "There is no doubt that we shall want free imports tip to harvest, and it is by no means clear whence we shall get them. Prices have indeed seriously risen, and Bhould any calamities affect the young wheat, or compromise our spring tillage, they would become perfeotly oppressive." From all appearances, late prices in England will be fully sustained until the ingathering of The harvest in that country about the month of August. Shipments henoe to Great Britain from this time forward will be influenced more or less by that harvest, and hence buyers in this market are somewhat cautions in their operations.