New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-25
Neb Orlsans 1aiIu Crescent.
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Tassday EVENING Jaa II s isSe
With fine weather, large receipts 9f cotton and
products from the great West; with sprinkIings Of
sugar and moIasses coming ID market almost every
honr, general matters, that ID commercial and
financial, moved onward to-day encoHragingly.
The banks find their resources accommodating from
day to day. What else could be expected from the
very large returns for the bulk of our great trade
Nearly 100 900 bales cotton have changed hands
in this market since the first of last September,
amounting 70 over zoe, 0o0, 900, and surplus Of
money onght to follow. The offerings for discount
direct with the banks do not show any diminution.
that Is, they keep up with the sums offered On the
corresponding days of last week. ON the street |
there were sales Of paper 1t the rate of 1904 Get,
and some fagorte signatures taken at the rate
Of s@sa. Operations At these figures are few and |
far between. The banks are doing very little pa
per beyond 90 days. Our general money market
j. not IN the least affected 81 operated OH by The
New York market, that u.s. II has not been for two
days. True, The great exchange operations Of our
city are influenced BY Wall street movements
Our banks now hare under discount s14 $50 Oh Of
paper maturing within 30 days. against &2l 424 1s7
on the same day ii January last There ii ID more
specie expected from New York for Tie present
and when shipment Of sovereigns from Thread
| needle street i announced, We shall promnlgate
the same. There Is some talk ii New York that
the downward rates of sterling exchange NAV lend
1 to shipments Of gold from England; ii they should
Come, we hope will not go right back in the same
steamer, as in some instances heretofore. We are
receiving q little coin here from day to day. ii.
however, comes in dribIets, and goes IN the same
way. The cahaWba, from New York, brought
100000, consigned to the Louisiana State Bank Tor
the Southern Bank Of Alabama at Mobile, which
has gone forward to its destination.
We left the exchange market yesterday under
dropping tendencies for foreign, and stiffenine
feeling for sight funds en- New York. On the open
ing Of business this morning the general counter
rate for checks at the banks was get. dis, with
| round sums to be had at dis. Outside, there
were large movements, sales and purchases, Of
| double Al at dis, and good at !. The banks
! picked up several parcels at from 4Os dis. In
time bills the transactions ranged at from Ii to Ii
for selected names ?, 2i@2I for good and III to hi
for other names, which will he paid at maturity.
The offerings were free, and rather beyond the de-
sires Of buyers and sellers. II must be taken into
consideration that remitters, who only want $1,000
or $4,000, expect to obtain It only at the in
II
Of clear bills, good and AL, ct 1915. lO72@I07E,
and plenty, with other names, at 1914 to 1911 !,
| document bills ranged from l06A 1Osl@l17. Francs
were heavy; there were sales at 5.26a@5. rs, ex-
/ IRENE rates from 5.33z to SIS. There were some
bills which could not be placed better than 5.35.
There appeared to be some movement in stocks
| and bonds. We note the following sales Ninety
shares Canal Bank, within the range Of 100; fifty
shares Mechanics Bank at 99 fifty shares Bank Of
America at 1884, twenty-five Of the same at Is4,
and thirty at the advanced figures Of l34s also $50
shares Jackson Railroad at Ia LOG shares at Ii i,
and 100 shares at III. In bonds We note sales Of
$4,000 city consolidated skies ut s9a and interest,
and sl2 900 at 30. These are the first sales Of city
bonds made known for some time.
Value Of Tmportations of Foreign Merchandise from
Foreign Countries through the Custom House. New
Orleans, for the quarter of the calendar year ling
the 31st of December, 1852: