New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-02

REAL EsTATE-There is no alteration Of any
kind to notice in sales of real estate. EHgibly To-
Gated stores and dwellings are in request at eX-
IRENE figures, while less desirable property is
freely offered without attracting buyers. We sub
Join some recent sales, as an indication Of the
present ruling figures viz:
By the sherif-Six lots of ground in First Dis
trict in square bounded by Cypress, Florida land
ing johnson and Galyez streets, s}056. a lot OF
ground fronting on Where, between Cont and
Bieuyile streets, $500. A lot Of ground fronting
between Apollo and Nyades streets. $500.
2 BY c. f. Girardey " Co.-Resideuce 81 and SO
Bourbon street s24 $50: lot corner St. Charles
and Julia 5000; cottage Nos. Jos and 10 Cal
uope $3.50; two lots corner ST. Andrew and Lib
erty, 1856; house corner Rampant and Toulouse,
1850; house adjoining on Toulouse street, $362j
two story frame house on Palmyra, $500; house
on Rousseau, $1,000; cottage in Gretna, 500;
two lots on Julia street, $500; five lots on Apollo
street. 1850; three lots on Lafayette street. 500;
three lots on Tont street $50; one lot Julia
near Dorgenois street, 500; nine lots on Julia
near Dorgeuois street $l7lo twenty lots OIL
Camp, Chestnut, Aline and Foucher streets, $1,000
sixteen lots on Coliseum, Foucher Chestnut anG
Antonine streets, $5OS0.
By Gardner Smith & Yeiser-5 shares Louisiana
Bank capital stock at 50.
By I. De Feriet-House and lot on Spain street
between Goudchidren and Morales, at :ls2j
house ana lot on Dauphine street, between Poe
and Enghein, $l4O0; house and lot on Old Leve
and Hospital, $1,000 house and lot corner Q
Enghein and Dauphine $2SGl; house and lot 0
Derbgny street, between Kerlerec and Coluu
bus, $lO25 house and lot on PerdidO, betwee
Baronne and Dryades $2075 house and lot o
Old Basin between St. Peter and Toulouse, $4,000
house and lot corner of Marigny and Victor,
$495O; house and lot on Maras street, betwee
Esplanade and Barracks, $685.; house and lot q
Clio street, between Liberty and Benton, $l75C
house and lot on IRENE and St. Peter streets al
Carondeet Walk, $40; house and lot on Ola
borne street. between Main and Philip $4l25;
lots of ground in Faubourg Avart, in JetIerst
City-l8 lots at 1925; Is lots at $l55; Is lots
$40; lots at $500; lots at $3.50; IA lots
ground near the City Park, on Bienville and Be
nadotte streets, at $50 lot.
H1GH PRIoEs-I7se Cause and Remedy-The
is general and very natural grumbling at CO
tinued high prices for all we eat and wear, and /
almost every kind Of production. The effect
hard upon the rich and upon the poor, for it
mnisheB the incomes Of each. The fact of all tt
is more easily discovered than the cause.
notice, for example, that the receipts of whC
and -four at tidewater from the Western Stat
during the present season, are largely in excess
what they were year ago; larger, indeed, tn
they have ever been at any former period. I
wheat crop which is now being gathered is ami
enough for the coming year; and there is
good reason, apparently, why flour should l
be furnished to consumers fer S. barrel. MAJ
featured goods also continue to be held at hi
prices without apparent good reason. The supl
is large enough to Justify the expectation of low
rates; cotton is far from being scarce, and
coming crop, with all the croakiug, it is beliey
will be abundant to warrant handsome redueti
The high prices, Notwithstanding, are maintain
almost ii the war still ragged, gold was at z
and there was neither the supply OF raw mater
to be depended upon, nor the requisite LABOR
These being the facts what is the remedy? ]
Financial Chronicle we think, answers this GU
ton very fairly, when it says:
~ The remedy exists in Congress and the COVE
ment Speculation, stimulated by the inflated c
rency, is again rising on its paper wings and
articles of prime necessity are being bought
and held by the men that can most easily proc
the capital. In this manner flour and wheat
the principal points in the West were raised
fall to price almost as high as they stood in
York.
The banks lent the money to keep up the NJ
gin and maintain the eXtrayagant prices, till
many instances the grain became injured
heated in the storehouses, We are liable to h
this repeated again this season, and the evil m
grow upon us unless efficient measures are s.
taken to bring the currency at as early day
possible to a specie basis. This will reduce la
from its nominal to its equitable value. EV
other expense will undergo a similar transml
ton. We shall no more have prices of war
famine when the soil is productive and the nat
isat peace, The men doing business on bOrroT
capital, it is Verylkey, will suffer; but the |
d1cing classes will be placed in better Giro
stances. They are the ones whose well
should be first Considered. The present dispa
isTapidly impOYerishing the great majority of
people. New York Express.
PAR REDEMPTION IN NEW YoRK.-The Gin
natl Gazette (RepubIican) talks thus seriously
-I,tP, IL,