The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-14
Commercial JnteMaemte.
CRxscKxr orrIo., NO. u OAnp syssux.
Thursday Evssins, August Is l863

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| pie continues almost at q complete stsndstilI
Offerings of desirable qualities are still of lin
red character, and, as the Liverpool and New
York markets are reported favorable, holders do
not seem willing to sell at the figures offered by
| purchasers. The total sales to-day embrace only
| Is bales while the market is still too unsettled
for any reliable quotations.
COTTON STATEMENT.
| Stock hand Sept / 1857, ......,,,,..,... msss
seceived since Yesterday. ....-...........
Esde m from n,s, ,l "a ,. osoOSi
received in sacks sGd bales here since
september l. 6SlS-66l 500
- ia
Exported since yesterday .................... 900
Exported previously 2lisl7 27
Stock on had and shiDso.rd .............. 1907
SUGAR AND MoLAssEs-The market continues
quiet, without any movement in sugar except 10
a retail way, while Molssses remains fat and in
no demand whatever. We continue to quote :
Cuba Sugar. grocery grades. l24@l34c.. and
Louisiana sugar, prime 10 choice, l6 t0Dl6ic. D D.
| Louisiana choice reboiled Molasses al 85c, and
Cuba do. at 45050c. % gallon.
| FLoUR-The offerings Of lower grades continue
to be very limited, while the STOCK all around is
| very much reduced, and buyers evidently await
| better supply before investing to any extent or
| IN excess OF actual requirements. Sales to-day
| embrace 900 bbls. viz: 40 and 200 treble extra
at So SO, leo do. at 50 u.s. so choice at sll so, Gil
do. at $l2 %, and 100 and 800 bbls. choice Flour
1 upon terms which have been withheld. We quote
nominslly: Superfne S. SOFAS IS, double extra
1903 Is; low treble 50 5OGlO so, and choice
CORN-1here is very little grain of any kind
| upon the landing The offerings 10 corn, continue
| to be of limited character aud are held at full
rates The Gales to day foot up $50 sacks, OF
| which 200 mixed at 81 10, l60 yellow mixed at
| 81 l2s, and 400 white at 81 Is per bushel.
oATs.Are quiet but firm. The only sale on
the landing was one lot of So sacks at &c., which
were yesterdays outside figures
BRAH-There is none on the landing aud no
sales to report The last sale was made at 81 Is,
being slight advance on previous rates.
HAY-The stock is light without any upon the
landing. Choice Western is retailing from ware
house at $26@27 per ton.
PoRK-Contnues quiet, but holders are firm.
There are buyers abroad, but they won't come to
terms. $3l was refused to-day by A dealer for
round lots. Mess is retailing slowly at $SI so
BACOS-The market is quiet. There was some
little business done, but only in a retail way. We
continue to quote shoulders l4c., clear ribbed sides
I64Gl1c., and clear sides l7lGl8c. D ID. Choice
sugar cured hams are retailing at 20612lc. q u.
LARD-The market continues unchanged. We
repeat previous quotations, viz: Choice in tierces
ls@lssc.; in kegs 2l@2lAc. % b.
tREIGHTs-The freight movement still dis
closes very heavy and steady falling off. The
tonnage ID port on foreign and domestic &C.
connt is reduced to the summer standard, while
the demands for freight room Indicate q CORES
poDdlDg or perhaps greater abatement. We now
quote Dominsly cotton to Liverpool by steam
Sl6@td.; by sail, cotton, 7-l6d.; tobacco 35s.;
-four As; LONDON I'd. for cotton, 37s. Sd. for to.
bscco. To New York by steam and sail &c. 70:
cotton lao l5c for corn, 606l75c for four and a.
Tor tobacco. To Boston By sail 261Hc. for cotton
l6@l7c. for corn and 6507Oc for -four. To Bre.
men by sail, s0lc. for cotton, aud 35s. for to-
bacco. To Havre by sail. lte. for cotton, and
sl2 for tobacco. To Philadelphia by steam, Ic
ior cotton. To Boston, steam, lie. for cotton,
-four Soc. grain tic.
NEw YORK COTToS MARKET-The following re-
port of the New York Cotton market for week
ending August is from the circular of Cornwall
Sdt,rddy-Lverpool market steady, with sales
Of H. 900 bales at 9sd. fer middling uplands and
lO!d. for Orleans. Our market quiet but steady
with sales Of 1900 bales, including 1882 bales TO
spinners and 9lS bales to spectators.
MOnddy-LiverpOol market opened firm, clos
ing easier with sales of 10 900 bales at same quota
tons. Orr market quiet, with sales of 1915 bales
AZ &c. % ID. decline. OF the sales, spinners took
245 bales and spectators 1880 bales.
Tuesday-Lverpool market fiat; sales 1000
bales at unchanged quotations. Our market dull
and lower on the low grades. Sales 1882 bales,
including 625 TO spinners and S07 to spectators.
HednesdGy-Liverpool market dull and easier,
with sales OF 5000 bales at 81 G9id. for middng
uplands and 9s0l0d. for Orleans. Our market
heavy and lower. Sales $40 bales, of which $50 |
were TO spinners and 290 to spectators.
ThlTSddy-Liverpoo market opened steady, |
closing with declining tendency at Old. for mid
ding uplands and gid. for Orleans: sales 10000 |
bales. Our market dull and lower, with sales of
l0l5 bales all to spinners.
friday Liverpool market steady, with sales Of |
lOOCO bales at same quotations. Our market dull |
snd heavy with sales OF 1888 bales including 1908
to spiDners and 2S5 to spectators.
Liverpool Brokers' Circular makes sales for the |
week SIS, 600 bales, of which ii 900 were for ex-
port and 5000 bales on speculation. Stock in port
5Sl 900 bales OF which 269 900 bales we're Amer.
icen. being an increase on total stock for the /
week of rs 600 bales, and on stock Of American |
decrease of 5000 bales.
Cotton at sea for England 767 900 bales, of |
which 5000 bales were American. being a decrease |
for the week on total amount a6ost of 80 900 bales
ard on American a decrease of 5000 bales.
Our market for the week has been dull and de- |
Ginning, closing quiet at &c. y D. decline from
the opening prices of Saturday. The total sales |
have been 1853 bales including 1870 bales to |
spipners, 373S to spectators.
The good grades Of Cotton continue In fair de- |
msnd, selling readily at the quotations while the |
low grades, still neglected, are not in demand even
at the lower quotations.
Contracts for middling Cottons are offered /
for December delivery at 234c., and the same for |
November delivery at 24ac., and for October
at 26Ac.
The advices of the growing cotton crop show |
serious damage from heavy rains in Georgia and /
Alabama. The advices from the other sections
continue good
The first bale of new cotton was received here
on Thursday. the 9Th. by Messrs Spoford, Tlleston
d Co. II was shipped from Houston, Texas,
classed strict mddling, and was sold at $780, % H.
to Messrs. I. Z,zinia Co. for export to Liver
pool.
The later reports from the South do not sustain
the earlier advices that this seasons crop is two
weeks in advance of the crop of last season. The
promised early receipts of new cotton are not yet
reported. No party has yet accepted the offered
wager OF $40 900 that the crop of l66S69 will not
Xceed 500. 600 bales