New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-01-22
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CRESCENT OFFicE, No. 70 Camp street
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| & @ CRESCENT OFFICE, No. 20 Camp street,
| g Monday Evening, JAN q, 1856.
we have had another blast from the Arctic regions BIZ
it s attended to day with beautiful sunshine and q,
tive in most every branch of trade though
fine steamboats, are prevented the icy embagoes aboy
from leaving port We do not think that this preser
cold cycle will last long.
we nave no change to note in the general None
Markets paper was taken to-day OF last weeks rate
say per cent The csls on the Banks to-day were
largely beyond their receipts and though there impe
anents to the receipts of produce the market does
feel the effects
The Exchange Market was not brisk was it quiet
the Banks sold their checks NewYork OF Il and pc
cent discount purchased good sixty day bills tn
same point at TX outside there was not much doing
and we have change to note from our last rates.
There better feeling in sterling-about 100000
clear bills taken at 81 and per cont bills will
shipping documents quiet with no change from ou
last rates say from tx to and o.. In Francs die
| not learn of a sale
The Exchange operations of Saturday last reached
eight hundred thousand dollars.
In the general Stock Market aome negotiations have
been made in Bank Stock though they have not reached
ansfers In ST. Charles Hotel 400 shares have been sold
during Saturday and to-day at 12h At this low price
this stock will assuredy pay 1t is worth than fifty
cents per dollar At late hour twenty shares Union
Bank were sold at par.
The annual elections for Directors in the Union and
Mechanics and Traders Bank held to-day For the
Board of the Union Bank this year. the following
tlemen were returned: Eye
Alfred Penn, ". P. Saunders Of the house Of Ward,
Saunders S Hunt Geo. A. Pynchon Edward Male,
of Nalle Summers Co.; P. simms, of Peet, Smms g.
Co.. ; e, J. Hart of 3. J. Hart Co. IL. Mccall, Of
Lauve Mccall; Charles oavaroc, Of G. Cavaroc & Co.,
Chas e. Alter Messrs Saunders Alter and Cavaroc take
the places of Messrs. Bell, Kirehof and Howard.
A f1oM hops,St TraAa Po,,fy J
Dudley. Of Dudley & Nelson Samuel Stewart, builder
A. D. Crossman, ex Mayor; Joseph W. Carroll of Blu
chanan Carroll Co. cotton factors Thomas Langridge
druggist; ". +. Vredenburg, commission merchant;
Samuel Jamisop builder; W. G. Robinson general mer-
chant, and John Hall, Of Hall, Rodd Putnam were
elected.
No changes other than W. G. Robinson takes the place
of B. T. Fox Both tickets the reelection TO the
Presidency of each Bank the present inoumbents Mr.
Penn the Union and Mr. Dudley to the Mechancs and
Traders.
We have no mails from the financial center Of the
Union to-day, and it uncertain if the mail will become
regular until the summer when it will not be required
The annual statement of the State Treasurer before
We condense from it the following by which it will
perceived there balance in the Treasury on the
sIst December, 1855, Of s652e35 So. @
Balance in the Trasuryon the lot Of Janu.ry, 1856,
Amount Receipts from is Isl Of janasr. to tho sit Of
December 1855 annexed Statement 15,76ss 50
ss,sOa4g4 II
asz0d Statement 1,6ssoss 50
Balance ia the Treasury December slat 1856 subec. to
draft on each OF the following ssas9s IS
General Fnnds. .s1es,sss SO
al ~ " 70s,24s IS
nteras 1ml rovsn,snt "a. Fuad sI7s AZ
Mt Eakl Inc 6 oyemsn; Fund 1908 25 ~
evee and Drainage Fund. 752,56l 10
Soaa and LeYse 3r,7l3 Is. S6329e5 IS
G. E. GRESEAux, State Treasurer
Treasury Department. Baton Rouge, Jan. 4, 1856. = =
Of the expenses Of the State there as been
ended for free public schools S226s State Engineer
nd his department, SILL There has been invested
stocks under the acts of 1858 and 1854 sl2a o54 for
,terest bonds issued to the New Orleans jackson and
reat Northern Railroad Company. .s........s 22950
or interest on bonds to N 0. Draining Co. $500
- - Mexican Gulf Raroad.... $50
= N. 0. and Nashville R. b.. 2SSso
N. 0. and opelousas R. R.. 400
:. For relief of the State Trea-
sury, (this, we presume, is the interest on the
last loan of s75o,000, taken by Corning & Co.,
in July 1859 Observation-Disclosures % 400
,terest on bonds to the Charity Hospital ... 2e25
- H. t..-" .. Citizens Bank. .......... $500
55%.r.& r.....s.. ..r-a ,.-5 Si20OSO
DE- payment of interest coupons under act 3D. 66375
Total paid for interest. .............. sls6435
Another costly tems for printiEg and advertising sew
ty-six thousand five hundred and nine dollars Another
stly bill is $4,000 paid for Robnson's Reports this is
to be the reports of the decision of the Supreme
ourts yet another costly bill is, $4,000 to establish
lsrantne The contingent expenses of the Legislature
% Se8655 This will do pretty we'll for sixtyGdaysser
ce ~ as
mong the receipts are statetaxes direct for the
year 51929S