New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-22
.alu Orleans Daily QresteOt
TUESDAY MORNING, MAY %, 1866.
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Moniay EvGong MAY 81, 1870
The Gold market has been quiet hut firm since
In last. Offerings of cash Gold continue light
sd the demand is Of restricted character and
Inost exclusively confined to filling orders for
nv payment of duty and the purchase of coffee.
Arces have undergone no quotable alteration of
S,y kind to-day, and operations have been
Estricted to the subjoined sales, viz $500 and
O0OO at l3Ok 700 Spanish doubloons, rated at
lbs IS, at 1909 $4,000 and $4,000 Gold at 1909 i;
l5OO $500, SIS 900 and $40 600 at l3l, and s60OO
In private terms. Nothing beyond drblets has
tanspred in Silver, and we continue to quote as
pillows, viz: Gold at l3O9@l3I, and Silver at llS
yll2l for American coin. and l308@l3l3 for Next
I ban dollars.
FOREIGN EXCHANGING stated in our last that
The banks had on Saturday advanced their drawing |
Hates for Sterling and Francs about u cent, but
fthat outdoor quotations had undergone varia-
Ition whatever The movement to-day has dis
Tclosed the converse Of that proceeding. Bank
L rates have remained stationary, while outdoor
figures have exhibited an improvement of about l
10 cent all round. offerings of private and com
mercal were at no time better than moderate,
however, and the demand was of restricted
character throughout, both at bank and on the
street. The following statement comprises the
liable FORM viz fIOO0 at $780, $4,000 atl40, GlO 600
sold by one party at l42k0l434, $500 at 1929,
aud the following sold by bank, viz $4,000 at
ll432 El500 at IA $500 at I44B and 1850 at 1885,
lior gold. Sales of Francs have been restricted to
I20OOOf sold by bank at 3.85f, As O0Of., bought
Iby bank at est, 10 O0Of and 90 GOOf at 30s3f,
and 100000 and 50 ,O00f at 4.O0f. The quotations
this evening are for bank sterling HIGHS, clear
bills lH8l43, bill Of iading bills 137G1l40; bank
Franks .9003S5f., and outdoor Francs 40OGg3.95f
DOMESTIC ExCHANGE-There is quotable al
! teration to notice in the movement in Domestic
/ Exchange. Offerings of time bills exhibit some
increase, but those of sight and of short sight
continue restricted. The demand is only moderate,
however, either at bank or on the street, and the
inquiry for remittance purposes has been very
light to-day, while the sales of private and com
mercial have been restricted to the annexed lots
viz $40 900, $50 900 and $4,000 New York sight
at ID cent. premium; $4,000 do. at y cent
y premium; $4,000 twenty days sight at par aut
$4,000 sixty days' sight at % cent. discount We
still quote sight checks at 4 D cent premium a
bank, and 30s q cent. premium out Of doors.
STOCKS AND BoNDs-The movement in the bet
ter classes Of Securities continues active at gen
orally full prices. offerings at public and privat
sale have been heavy to-day, and transactions ex
llDlb oil UNUSUALLY Lal 30 dbSi BhbSi dS VIII
on reference TO the subjoined particulars viz: 3
shares City Railroad Co. at 2OOB, Is do. at 20ll
and so DO at price that has not TRANSFERRED; i
shares Gaslight Co.'s Stock at 1872 100 share
Citizens Bank at 1899, and 50, so and So do. a
40; l65 and $50 shares Bank of America at 1884
266 shares Union Bank at IS 4G shares CONNER
cial waterworks at 52@ 30 shares Crescent Cit
Bank at 40, and 80 do at 42i; and the follown
sales at public auction, by the sheriff, viz; 10 an
SO shares Mechanics and Traders Bank Stock
l33; l22 do. Opelousas Railroad Stock at SIS 81
200 DO at IS IS, a5 do. at S. 373, l78 do. at IS
and Is, 90, 50 and l27 do. at IS 25 per share
UNcuRRENT BANK NorEs-There has been
movement worthy of special notice in any kind
the issues of the banks in liquidation since o.
last. Offerings of most descriptions were of tt
restricted q character to admit of heavy, or ev
average operations, and the demand was but lit
better than nomindl from the opening to the clos
In the present state of the market, rates are on
merely nominal, and it would be useless to attem
to furnish quotations for any class.
NEW YoRK MARKET-The Commercial of t
10th inst, says:
Gold is excited under an active foreign mo-
ment and the assistant treasurer is a seller at
M hest price over 100. and this source of supply
checked an advancing tendency which would ?
babIy have produced more violent fluctuations Il
have been experienced for some time past.
7 conrse those Who had gone long in gold with
t f9yinS into account the possible contingency
the Government coming into the market, are /
in tLeir condemnation of lii action of the Treasr
Monev IA a dug mon the market There is an
nnipy far I5rre amounts at Z ID cent for the !
99ose Of Gold specuatons aud Tor speculative +
rboses Of lie LOS which are being returned Fl
Fnrone Int ii is not found easy to procure
iarrep amounts at that rate The general rate
cali loans ia 5 10 cent Prime paper continues C
naTativejy scarce, the rate on short dates bC
PF@Si "a Senf and on B to 1 months bis 5Idl5
ceyta 0Forajrn Exchange is nominal at yegterd
Snsi,g onotstions.
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NATIONAL pAnN9. LEI ZEN r'on h"EA9o
SPINNER.--The following copy OF a letter from
limited States treasurer explains itself
TREASURY OF The UErrrp STATE,
washington, May l6
Dear Sh'-Your letter of the ION has Just
been received: You ask " 10 what extent is
Government liable for the redemption of the Il
4 e H. not;onoI hanks answer. tn tho
oil Ihe hsllou"t Jam" F or,|4rnt ;i T.
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