New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-09-08
COMMERCIAL MATTERS.
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CREscgsr oFfIcE No. 70 CAmp srnEgr1
| Friday Evening, September z, 1856.
The balances surplus in the several Banks to-day
dicates bountul supply Of money The Bank of Loui-
sana oos up the respectable $500 0oo the Canal
Bank 100000 the Citizens Bank sal6ooo the State
Bank The free banks 10 the aggregate S35o00o
These balances with shout s1sooooo in exchange
pose tolerabe formidable battery, adding thereto q
stock Of Cotton of about As 900 bales (which 10 equya
to gold and silver any day In the Year, to close the
first week in the month Of September II the means of
transportation at hand, would have the pleasure
at this time Of recording large business in great
staple ever before occurredn fact more extended
| one, for the season of the year.
The weather to-day of that kind denoting an ap
proach of the fall months and gave every Indication Of
of those dry spells which have often occurred during
this equinocal month"; within the last thirty years or
the present generation do not desire to 20
further back for comparisons.
Wear grated in having 1T within our power to say
the health Of the city continues Improve and that
cases Of sickness among the resident permanent pop
few and far between In fact the sickness Mt
this time 10 not of that character create the belief that
any real epidemic exists in our midst
Our great avenues Of commerce, with the imposing
evee, are lively. The numerous arrivals Of boats the
present week have impaired yeness which Is not often
attained In the first week of the month Of September
and fifty hundred sail Of vessels could be placed at
the Levee within week. should have olerabe brisk
state Of affairs to chronicle
In moneyed circles to-day general ease and quetness
prevailed The Brokers have nothing hand in the way
Of good paper nobody appears to want money at this
moment, and rates Of interest nominal. yet for
standard we remark that paper, long Dated will bs
taken at per cent other grades from 10 to and 12 per
cent. ~.,5...%
& The Exchange Market to-day presented decided
frmer appearances. No advances in rates Asked et
a.
quotations Of yesterday with the remark that liberal
amounts Of Francs will be taken at So
Six days London co.r bill oa< per # MAN
sy days London with bills hiding s o.. s Ct t. pr
s1ty days on HewYoik dis eia cent n
, q On New Yor on she S
Checks on New York, bank rate stiff
Tho Stock Market presents nothing Importance other
than sale Of 1877 shares Canal Bank PIT, and 15
shareu Of Bank Of Louisiana at no. Commercial Water
Works and the Railroad Stocks drag heavily though we
expect shortly to have the pleasure placing two
Of Railroads higher niche in ths category of
quotations.
The receipts Of specie this week are from.
Fsa s, "a s $50
rom suAtan Island.
Total since LIST September, 1884 s7qss
Also received to-day at the Branch Mint from the
United States Treasurer St Louis in gold 100000 We
cannot yet put this in our list Of receipts because may
not yet advised whether it may may not be special
transfer when we are we shall place in its proper place
The letters by the steamer Canada, from Liverpool
through to-day. They encouraging 30 far as
applies to commercial aG.rs The of interest were
very Arm In England at 3 per cent The accounts of
the harvest were of the most favorable nature this
caused increased confidence In all commercial circles
Our dates from New York. of Saturday last give us to
understand that active demand for money existed at
to per cent, though it hoped 1t would not be of
long duration. Foreign Exchange firm at the follow
Ing rates:
Foreign Exchange is in better demand Bills on Lon
don 100 to 10; Paris I21 Antwerp SIS to 5I2k
Amsterdam Al to Az Frankfort 43 to 41z HAMBURG
s6 to 36a< Bremen 7e11 to 1871 Prussian thaers IS
toT4.
We also annex below the most interesting details re-
oeiyed by the Canada Of the London Markets
Our Stock Market is quiet, and disposition eynce
on the part of holders to accept lower than our quota
TONS Our quotations embrace prices approximatins to
last sRies