Southern shield., 1850-05-25
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New Orleans Market.
CRESCENT OFFICE, Saturday Morning, May Is, 1850. ,

Saturday Morning, May Is, 1850. The past week has been rather a quiet
 one for business generally, and the opera tions in our leading staples, Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar, Molasses, etc., have been quite limit
 ed. The two latter articles, however, are | firm, with light receipts, and command full prices. Flour has advanced considerably,
 but the Corn market, owing to heavy arr-
 vals, is depressed.
 CoTToN.-In our last weekly review we
 left the Cotton market buoyant, owing to the reception of favorable advices from
 England by the Niagara, prices closing fully
 up to our quotations, and with an active
 demand. On Saturday, also, several buyers came forward and took 450O bales, at about previous rates. Monday being rainy, the | transactions of that day are confined to 300
 bales, and those of Tuesday to 22O0 bales, at rates slightly easier for purchasers. On
 Wednesday and Thursday, affairs remained in a very quiet state, and barely 1900 bales changed hands on the two days, buyers still gaining slight advantages without, however,
 being able to obtain any decline. Tester day also passed quietly, with sales of only some 1000 bales, making the business of
 the entire week 10000 bales, taken mostly for England. Prices are certainly easier
 within day or two, but still we find it re- quisite 10 make only slight change on our quotations. The receipts proper at this port, since September l, are 756,Sl9 bales, against l,O50,250 to the same time in lS49, and at all the ports of the United States there is now decrease of $50, O,2O7 bales. NEW ORLEANS CLASSIFICATION:
 Inferior, 10 1O4 Ordinary, II l18 Mddling, If q 128
 Good Middling, l24 l2a Middling Fair, 125a 124 Fair, l3 l34
 Good Fair, l34 e.
 Good and Fine, nominal.
 SuGAR.-The improved rates for Sugar at which the market closed last week, have
 been we'll sustained since, and the better qualities have advanced 5@4c over our for
 mer quotations The transactions have, however, been quite limited, and the sales of the week Gncluding l5O yesterday sum up barely 900 hhds. We quote-Inferior and Common 34@44, Fair 4I@4&, Prime and Choice 5t054c $ fb.
 MoLAssEs.-TheM Molasses market has un. dergone but little alteration during the week. The demand has absorbed the moderate re-
 ceipts, and the closing rates yesterday were
 firm at 22024c for good Fermenting, and
 25$27c aY gallon for good prime Reboiled.
 The latter quality, in half bbls, has sold al 2Sc aY gallon. The weeks sales are 1900 bbls, of which 300 were taken yesterday.
 RIcE.-The market continues quite steady at 35075c, according to quality, and 35 tlerces were sold yesterday at 3ac aF tb. Il SALT-A cargo of 5000 bushels ot 5 } Kits was sold on Monday at 23c aF bushel and we have noticed sales of Liverpoo \ during the week at 95c $ sack for Coarse } and from second hands Liverpool sell 5 slowly at 95@$l O5 for Coarse, and $l ? T 0$l 30 a sack for Fine, free of drayage Il CoFFEE.-The decline in Rio Coffee
 which we noticed in our last review, cou 1, tinued during the early part of this weel , when prices reached the low point of TIC l T cash; these being the rates at which l5O il bags of the Rebecca' $ cargo were dispose of at auction on Monday. Since that tim } we have noticed an improvement, and tn