New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-17
cOKMERcTAL CORRESPONDENTS.


cONMERCrhL CORRESPONDENTS.
spesi.l sssls Nv oraeaa,s Crescent
HAVANA, Jan. ID, 1850.
Hill nssesisi There has been scarcely anything
doing iii the Sugar market since the date ef my
u last aSvices, except indeed, some rather heavy
contracts chiefly for Mnscovados ~ full rates-say
from ri to ii and rails per arrohe, The outside
quotation being fer strictly prime. resale q
some 1000 boxes the product of different estates,
a was reported last week, At rate not disclosed,
Int which was believed To BIZ II rails per arrobe.
There are little above 20o0 boxes anew CROP
sugars III town. none Df which have ~ yat, bsen
sold The general impression ii that tho rates Tor
The new crop open AZ high as 4 70 % riais per
arrpbe fur III. S. No. ~. Yet venture to predict
thai before the end of March there viii be = CON
II siderable decline below those rates
4 From Matanzas my adyices inform me that All
HE old crop had been taken, and Tint only about
aye to liz hundred boxes new crop had come for
wars ana that All early active demand was antci-
patsd 1t high rates, view Of recent asiyiees from
The United States and Europe.
The arrivals here Of new crop Molasses have
been qnite tritiing and Clay i quoted at to u
rials per key All Mafaazas The demand has been
active, and cargoes are reported to have been
taken AZ To Al rials for Ciased, and to 5a rails
for MuscoFado per key. Contracts for receipts to
The end of March are said To have been closed at
10 rials for Glayed, and from ~ 70 rials for
| Muscoyado, per kegss.
LARD Continues dull without any improvement
lii rates. The stock Ii about 1850 terees and bbls
and gD00 kegs.
| TonAuco Ii il difficult to get at The truth re-
u {xJ
parties who are aiefested say that the first plant
ing having been washed away there will not be
half crop whilst Others ii position likely to be
ii vel informed, state tile crop will be full
| average one. The reports from the Partido dis
tricfs md Vaeitro Ambie IRE quite satisfactory,
both as II tic quantity and quality Of the growing
crops
CiGA ery little doing just at present !: manu-
facturers nding il more profitable to remain idle
than to pay tile rates demanded for the leaf, and
then seil their goods III the rates offered By pur-
clasers. Cigars, at present, may generally be OBJ
tanned for cash heloW the regular rates Of almost
ill The manufacturers
BrgIEa ~ kegs from View York sold on the 9lh
INST Ut d rate not made public.
/ GHEEsE TO Cheeses from New York sold on the.
10th inst, 4 all round ut Mi per quintal.
HAMs--30 bbIs. eg steamer Habana in white
bags, sold on the 18th inst. at SIS 49, and bbIs.
| from New York, Id yellow bags, sold same day at
/ 81 q per auintal.
BAcoS-l3 bbls., eS steamer Habana, sold on
| the 1ath inst. at 80 per qtlintal.
| TALLow-5D hhls. ex steamer Atlantic, from
New Orleans, sold on the 9th inst. at So per qvin-
TIL. and 80 barrels, * steamer Habana, sold on
the l2tll inst. III rate not made public.
4 PoTAroHs Large sales Of Northern since my last
4 adyiees, at rates not made public also so bbls.
from New York, on the 10th inst, at III 50 per
hbl., 400 bbls On the 18th inst. at rate not made
i public. aud ITS bbls.. Gall from New York; saII
round, NJ 81 rs per hbl.
II OsIoSs ~ 900 punches, from Newport, sold on
Il the 10th Inst. at d rate not made public.
q YEI.Lo# PisE III fair demand. A cargo or two
q atoat await purchasers.
sHooks Molasses and Sugar Hogshead, Getty
nale) sales at 80 - to 81 so; Empty hogsheads,
sales at ~ soto s. u.
Ifoors Short, ssls Long 81.
# FREIaHTs Very dull. The only American YES
seis reported engaged since my last adsiees are a
brig Of 800 llds. capacity to load sugars at Ma
tanzas fer New York at - 50 per hid: a bark Of
a2so boxes capacity, 10 load Tor New York for
II 70p. and d brig Of 100 ds. capacity To load sr-
gars Dit Cienfuegos for New York or Boston, at II
/ cents pr loo lbs.
4 Exon aseEs Dull and declining. ! quote ster-
4 ling ID ID III per cent. premium; NeW Orleans,
j lshort ID tn 81 per cent premium; lew York,
ete.. $50 day biilso q b per cent. premium.
Az ever,
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