THE MARKETS.
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The New York Express of the 5th inst, says
" We have received no later tidings from Europe
since our last The previous intelligence contin-
ues TO have a most surprising effect, not only on
the produce of the country but on business gener-
ally. The great staple of the counlry-Co,ton-
is Selling now at double the price it sold for two
years ago; and the difference in the valde of this
article alone will be from thirty to forty millions
-of dollars. Beef, Pork, Lard, Butter, Cheese,
Flour, Wheat, Rye, Corn, Barley and Oats, are
selling at prices that truly surprising. Nor
docs these extravagant prices appear 10 be specua
tive; on the contrary, they are purchased readily
and shipped on foreign account" The same pa
| Whig paper" our produce is taken at excellent


prices BY foreign countries, and paid for !" gold


ind sIrer" These are the results of Free


Trade-this is the suin which MIR. Polk's Ad
ministration is bringing on the country


In New York on the 5th instant, Cotton was
nging from l2 to Is cents per pound. and still
further advance in prices was expected. Flour
was selling at from six to eight dollars per barrel
| Wheat at from one dollar and fifty TO one dollal
and sixty cents per bushel and Corn at from 90
cents to one dollar and FIVE cents per bushei
| In Wilmington on the 4th instant the Turpen
tine Market was dull, with an evident decline in
| the article. The lumber and timber market was
also dull Flour, however, had gone up, and was


selling at from S6 rs to 90 per barrel. Corr


was selling at from 70 to IS cents per Dushei, ano


Iron by the wholesale at from l-2 10 l.2 cent,


per pound. Black eye and Cow Peas were sci


iino At from rs to 80 cents per bushel.


In Fayetteville on the 9th instant, Cotton had
advanced. and sales had been made at Oil 65 pei


hundred. Flour was selling at from S5 Is (
s6 rs: Corn scarce, and at 60 cents per bushei
| Apple Brandy at from 33 to 35 cents per gallon
and and Whiskey at from % to 80, wholesale


The Petersburg Republican of the 9th Instan
saws that Tobacco in that place still keeps low
that Cotton has advanced very much within fe"
days past, and is selling at from IL to Y cent =
ner mound that Corn is in active demand at
ner barrel that Wheat is selling at from one
dollar and ten to one dollar and twenty cents pei
bushel; Flour at SO per bbl.; and Apple Bran
dy at from 33 to 81 cents per gallon ane 20 geod
demand,