New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-08
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TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 8, 1855.
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MI Monday Evening, day 7, iB65
ine movement In financial circles TODAY has dis
a closed no variation of any kind that calls Foi
III ep9g'aI remark. Gold opened inactive at gotpr
Jay closing figures, and continued anpnid ani
neslected throughout the day. The following ar,
ule ohly actual sales that have been brought IL
W, houee, VIZ 100000 at 1854 $1,000 and 5000
d. lZs4 ana $500 at 1913. No sales of anv ma q
nl'uue nav transpired in Silver, and we confirm,
~ 9uo'e old at l2S0l2s3 and Silver at l176oI2t
T lars. -'S''-' iof AleAioau uoi
ns = oHE IN ExoHANdE-The movement in Foreign
Dlis II y be said to have come to stand still
80 nave recently very materially advanced
70 the upward movement at New York anG
iiing Oh IN sales of cotton here but the demand
7soated IN an equal or perhaps greater ratio
noW al OF the leading buyers refuse to operate
askihg hgures. The only sales that we have
% zen enabled to verify to-day were 5000 at 1876
3oo0o at 1864, and some trifing amounts at bank
lor remittance purposes, within the range of oul
quotations, which we, however, cannot refer to as
peter than nominal, in the present unsettled con
dlaon of the market, viz bank Sterling 140Dl4l;
clear bills l97@l39; bill of Iading bills 134@l36
bank Francs 4,OOf0305f., and outdoor Francs
9Al0f@4.05f
DOMESTIC ExcHANGE--Increased frmness is the
Gully noticeable feature in Domestic Exchange to-
Day. The demand was only fair all round, and the
supply Of private and commercial offerings indi.
Gated no increase whatever The banks generally
checked in the morning at % cent. premium, but
/ as the day advanced, the whole of them advanced
I their figures to u cent, which was the closing
E ate and the purchases by bank and brokers have
Ieen confined to the following, viz: 100000 New
sork sight in one check, at q cent. premium :
hree checks Of $4,000 each at the same, all
ank, and large portion of it of Mobile bank ;
10000 private at l. and $50, 600 at the latter rate,
III ad 10000 Boston sixty days sight at Il u cent
iscount. The present ruling rate is 105 u cent,
/ premium at bank and 4C93 u cent premium on
the steeet for sight checks on the Northern cities
\ STocKs AND BoSDs-There is no alteration of
any kind to notice under this head to-day. Offer
ings of the better classes of securities continue
'arce and in request, at previous figures and the
{bwer grades, although abundant, remain wholly
neglected. Transactions since our last have been
confined to shares City Railroad stock at 1893;
20 do. at 200; and 10 and % do, at prices that
have been withheld 100 shares Union Bank at 81 Z:
100 do 0pelousas Railroad at 81, an advance, and
80 and 55 do. Merchants Bank at prices that have
mot TRANSFERRED.
n AUScuRREHT BANK NorEs- Transactions in the
issEes of the several banks in liquidation have
been partially or wholly suspended for some DAYS
past Most of the outstanding notes of those
banks are now held by spectators, who do not
oaer them for sale as they look for full payment
soon after the return of the bonds of the banks
referred to.