New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-11
HEB Orleans Iomep @arket.

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HEB Orleans gaorsep SIarket.
CREscEN. OFFICE, No 10 CANT STREET, [
| Thursday Evening, JAN 10, 1856 }
Another day Of cold and cheerless nature, attended
with rain has impeded trade and general outdoor opera
| tons. In the money market the sale Of paper was
limted-we have no change to note. Later accounts
from Europe which placed before our readers this
morning. have had effect market from the fact
there is great discrepancy in several dispatches 80
only allude to the circumstance that markets in
general are unchanged, and politics generally in sat
Some Importance appears be attached to the Of
Sweden in having Joined the Aies this will have about
much effect trade and business this side as the
next shower Of rain will have the Mississippi river
One weeks later ad7ces due from Europe by the
Collins steamer Atlantic.
The Exchange market to-day active, particularly
checks and short sight drafts New York The banks
sold at X per cent discount outside there was free
demand and liberal purchases made at & to q per
cent discount Good sixty day bills freely taken at
% being for bankers dra.-s Produce bills ruled from
~ tx to OK per cent discount Ten days sight from
to Ia discount; thirty days sight from TX to ~ dis
On Boston there is not much Offering at the begin
ming Of the week Factory bills and ships disbursement
bills readily taken 2S to 2S, and for well essb
shea names 21@ On Philadelphia aHd Baltimore there
but little doing, and the general of sixty day bills
| on these places is from 255 to per cent. dis.
Sterling continues to be freely offered, and favo
rite bills adng drafts placed to-day at 6 and OK
There change in clear bills and continue
rates Of yesterday, say to TX. Some negotiations
formed yesterday at reached contract to-day There
was doing in Francs Sales made Of $4,000 at
5s5, $4,000 at 5s32& 600 5.s11 few small
Paris direct for drafts 5.271 and small amount
of produce drafts at 5.37]<. --....-
The movements in Stocks to-day 10 shares Canal
Bank at Ill nett 100 shares of at 1909 80 shares
Gas Light Company at 113 81 shares same on P. II.
% shares Union Bank at 9S5z dividend On yesterday
SO shares Bank of New Orleans at e7h dividend.
These prices indicate upward tendency. Railroad
stocks quiet The last sales of bonds issued the
Railroads s40o issued by the State to the Opeou-
sas Railroad OF 3d. purchased by the Bank New Orleans
to extend its circulation The benefits Of this operation
great and to both PARTIES tie Road and the
Bank there favorable results to expected by
the public in the ability of the Bank to extend its bust
ness 5f -.e -7..,
The earnings of the Opeousas Railrosd for the last
month December show increase of nearly twenty-five
per the month of lest year The deficiency
in the crop Of sugar and moasses is to the prejudice
the road The increase in passengers is nearly twenty
per cent. there been reduction made in the tariff
of both freight and passengers.
Earnings Of tho opsouses Railroad The month of December
1854 1855.
P ps lS41 ls ssi2
| Iii s.-. .er.. al57s els,l5s
The following comprises the produce brought market
| for the month of December, 1856
Sugar 1853 hhds molasses s72e bbls and go half
45 bales cotton 81 bales moss 80 wood 100 hides
4 1856 ducks, 70 dozen Chickens 1855 dozen eggs.
| We learn there three steamboats, running from
Tgersye present terminus of the boats Bayou
Teehe making daily communication with that rich and
ourishng section Of the State We deem it altogether
useless for the State to expend any money in at
tempting to improve Bayou plsquemne, Lake Chicot,
Grand Lake Bayou sorre it will pay. If there
any appropriations to be granted let them be to
extend the benefits of the Railroads
The imports of Coffee New Orleans since the lst of
September last have been
From bags sgass l2 s6 bags in 1ssi
! We append the annual statement of the Baltimore
Coffee market for the year ending Dec 81 1885, taken
from the circular of Messrs White Elder OF that city
appears that New Orleans the largest importing city
| for coffee in the United States.
| BALTIMORE ANNUAL STATEMENT.
1858. 1864. 1866
B 1ssgs,. Bags: Bags:
Imports from other potts.. l6ass s664 l54.8
sos7oa als,5l2 95s GU
nc1sae of mports COMPARED with 1854 ..4si bss s
STOCK hand eis day Of BE- in Is.
hand thE day of other descriptions 500
| 1880 bags
Stock hand period 1865, all kinds bags
Increase year compared with bags
| DURING THIS MONTH.
E[om Rssn5 saI b ba
Total. ......................l4,olsb bags
Exports of Coffee the United States from Rio from
January LIST to November 18th, 1855, per latest
adyices
T. Ts sa oiIes9s 81 ssss
New York. 2o449 bags
|
Other roFts 61,i76 bags
To exports exports. for for s So a
Estimated stock Of Rio, November l9.h,
Essi"atl Rio on hand day importing
Es.imsted stock same period $4,000 baso
Of se Z ea s ca hand N s State: At 10000 bags
say one period was in July 1855 ooo bags
smailes. do. known since above period waa September,
Estimated Of Rio coffee in the United States
| baga monthly, orl 100000 Per
BALTIMORE Dec. 31.-The activity noted in our last
view Of the coffee market during the closing week Of
the present month"; During this interval the bulk of the
transactions herewith reported took place mostly at
the sale of entire invoice 1000 bags prime Rio
coffee, at l25a cents round this being the highest point
reached since December 1853 at which period the market
bore analogy to its present existing state Since
the 18TH business has been quiet holders very rn and
unwilling to make any concession in rates. 1t is some
TRANSFERRED during the month the entire receipts being
held Mt full prices to the cost in Rio We
quote good Brazil ct u to 12 Fer selections higher
rates demanded In the field Of speculation. coffee
has attracted than ordinary attention during the
past year it has gradually grown in better favor and
now holds strong position in all the leading marts of
Europe and America large proportion of the stock in
the United States is held by second hands.
STEAMBOAT DEPARTURES THIS DAY.
Opeousas Neal, MASTER at IL O'Clock, III. J. Johnston
Co., Ne. Front Levee, agents.
Antelope Brown, master, at O'Clock Betterton Keefe
| 20 Tchoupitoulas street, agents.
Madison, Hurd, master, O'Clock John g. Hyde B. Co.,
agents.
susquehanna, Whittenberg, master o'clock J. L. Hyde
& Co., &c Poydras street, agents.
LOWER MIssIssIFrI.
| New Latons, Gross master, A. M
ouAcHITA RITER.
Camden, Jennings master, at O'Clock e. Conery and
| Front street, agent