New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-03-03
sNe1p ORLEANS Daily Grestent,
9ew Orleans Moneg NarAet.
CRESCENT OFFICE, No. g4 CAMP STREET, !
Friday Evening, March 2. 1866

CRESCENT OFFICE, No g4 CAMP STREET,
Friday Evening" March 2. 1866. I
The feature financial circles
to-day the decline of fully cent in Gold
Foreign Exchange Gold opened dull dropping
advces by telegraph of decline of nearly per the
New York market yesterday. Offerings very heavy
Throughout, the demand of unusually restricted
character and operations for the day have limited
the following at the prices annexed, $1,000 at
1885, 5000 $4,000 l3i4 $4,000 at l3is $1,000 and
$1,000 l3i s5oo $4,000 and SIT 900 at i7G and sIoOO
5000 $500 at l4 In Silver the only sale of mpor
tance that transped $1,000 American halves 49, We
quote Gold at l3i@3 and Silver l3O@13l for American
coin ls49l35 for Mexican dollars Dispatches quoting
et New York received during the day but
failed check the downward tendency.
FOREIGN EXCH ANGE has been very fat to-day. The
than amply supplied to meet the most gene
ordinary demand while the inquiry at time much
better than nominal nearly all the principal buyers still ab
themselves from the market owing the unavorabe
tenor New York advice The transactions for the day have
been restricted the following saes viz: f5o0 at 146 fo
at45 G4OO in four lots, 49, E6000 at la@l5 GloOO
f20Oo the latter taken by bank, at lA fOo at lf4
s2OO f28oO f8OOO l4 f2500 at 1881 Sales OF
Francs comprised 20GOo at s8At 200 in two lots at
$500, lOO,O0Ot and 2OO0OOf at 39lAE The quo
tations at the close business this evening were For
bank sterling l47, clear bills 1ia@l45s, bill of lading
bills li34@liiA bank francs 3.s2119sS34, and out
door francs 3.s71s93923a
DOMESTIC EXCHANGE-The movement in Domestic Ex-
change to-day has disclosed increased rmpes without de-
~eopng however quotabe variation in rates The de
and at bank for sight checks the Northern cities was ac
all day. and of them refused towards the
to sell at the ruling figure of the day Out OF doors
the supy OF private and ercal exhibited but little
any, increase, and the purchases by banks and bank
,ers have been confined to the annexed triing
.amcunts viz: $4,000, $4,000 and $4,000 New York
sight at R y cent discount $1,000 Boston do at "a T. cent
discount and $4,000 New York and Boston, taken by one
bank at 5Ai u discount; $4,000 three days sight at
II $4,000 days at M and $1,000 fifteen days at d cent
discount We quote; New York sight at 4 b cent dis
count at bank and @ q cent discount ont of doors five
ten days sight % p cent discount; fifteen and twenty
days sight l@14 D discount; thirty days sight IL q
cent discount; and sixty days u cent discount.
BLOCKS AND BoNDS-The movement in securities has
been quite limited last The supply of avorite de-
spons light throughout and the general run though
heretofoe abundant continued neglected The following
embrace whole the operations that have come to our
notice shares City Railroad Company tod ock) at 9o
stock reported by two parties one
10 6Q $4,000 City Consolidated Bonds at
80; and $500 do at 901s.
UNCURRENT BANK NOTES-There has been genera
operations in the notes Of the quidatng banks
to-day Offerings light from the opening to the close
demand at time much better thar
nominal Sales have been confined to dbets, and we stl
quote of New Orleans Crescent City Bank and uniof
Bank 8S9c Merchants Bank at 77@S2c, Louisiana Stat
Bank 7376c and Bank of Louisiana at 55@6oc p dollar