The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-25
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Friday ksenlag. Jan - lS6s

Friday Bssniag. Jan q, 1855
The demand for loans and discounts on the mart
of first class borrowers has exhibited bat little if
any increase since the c.ose Of our last weekly
review, snd sll of the choice paper offered has
been readily absorbed by the banks and out door
cspitalists at u cent. y snDum, at bank, an /
l4@is q cent. month ont OF doors. for short
sDd lO0l2 e cent. B annum for long dated pa.
peT-the latter secured by Al city mortgage.
second.cass and lower grade notes have been
snbJt eted TO considerable scrutiny, hoWever, and
nave been hard TO place throughout, even at tn
IreVousiy disproportionate ruling rates.
GOLD AND SILVER = Rates of the preeiou.
metals, but especially Of Gold, have exhibited the
usual alterations from day to day, owing 20 the
ireqnent fluctuations OF the New York market.
Ihe oheriTg supply has been fair throughout, aud
Tue demand has been OF a moderate character
rom the opening TO the close Of the week or.
lerings OF Silver have been very light and con-
siderably neglected, Of rates disproportionately
lower Than those Of Gold. We append the prin-
cipal sales reported to-day as follows viz: $1,000
snd $4,000 Gold in the morning. at 1885 $1,000
5000 $4,000 and SIS 900 do. at 1881; $1,000 and
$4,000 at 1881; $500, $1,000, $500 and $500 at
I59 ana Sz5OO at 1894. Sales of Silver included
200 Mexican Dollars at la and some trifling lots
OF American Halves and Quarters, within the
range OF our quotations, which now rule as follows
VIZ Gold l5s4@l394; American Silver Coin l3I
0lS2, and Mexican Dollars l4O4@l4lt.
FOREIGN EXCHANGE - The daily movement In
Sterling and Frsnes has shown considerable
falling of during the past week, bat mutations
have undergone fewer and less violent alterations
than for some time past. The Offering supply has
been heavy throughout, and in the absence OF a
liberal demand large amounts have been for
warded TO New York for a market. The tota
Fales to-day included $500 Bank Sterling at 1924,
1880 do, ten days sight, at ll0t for Gold, f60jO
private bankers end commercial do. at ISL Ia
1873, f25O0 do. at 1914, $1,000 and fl500 clear aud
fllO0 aud $4,000 bill Of lsding do at l5l, IS 000f.
Bankers Francs at 3.724 and SO, 000f. do. at 49,
The ruling figures this evening were l520l53
Il e.. ~
1904 for bill of lading bills. 3.72t93. 7Of for Bank
Francs, and 7sl@373l for Commercial Francs.
DOMESTIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS under the
above heading have continued limited, without
any alterations whatever 10 rates, since the close
of our last weekly summary. Offerings though
uniformly ample TO meet ordinary requirements
have been Of much more restricted character
than usual for this period of the business season,
owing 10 the partial suspension OF purchas Is OF
cotton for the North anG East, whilst the demand
has been light and irregular. aud resulted in the
smales aggregate movement Of any week for the
season. The actual sales to-day to banks and bank.
ers comprised only the appended amounts, while
the demand upon the part Of remtters was OF very
circumscfibed character throughout for Friday,
which BY usage has been termed the remittance
day 20 the North and East. viz: $4,000 and SIS.
coo Bankers sisht on New York at ] d cent dis.
count, $1,000 10000, $l5, O00 $25 900 and $4,000
Commercial DO. at IL l6 u cent. discount ahd sl0,
coo and $25 600 do. at ~ cent. discount. We
still quote II cent. discount at Bank and lllGGD
1915 % cent. discount out-of-dOOrS Tor Sight
Checks on the Northern cities.
UECURRENT NOTES AND SECURITIEs-Inoreas-
ing laDguor is the most noticeable feature in City
Notes and all other issues almost wholly
neglected. The purchases Of the former to-day
comprised $1,000 and $1,000 small City issues at 81
u cent. discount; $1,000 DO. at S3@4 u cent. dis
count; $500 DO. at Al u cent discount; $1,000
do. at a q cent discount, and $1,000 aud $1,000
large do. Of Is u cent. discount. Operations in
Securities included shares CarrOllton Railroad
stock at 20; Is do. at 7Gt, and 50 do. at 774.
SPECIAL DIsPATCHEs-We are indebted TO
the Western Union Telegraph line for comics OF
the following private dispatches received over
IN 1t route to-day, viz:
Nel1 York, Jan. 4-l0 A. M.-Gold opened at
l408. IL A. M.-GOd l40s. Cotton demand
moderate, prices firm; low middlings l6i9l7c.,
mddling l74c., Mobile l7@c., Orleans IS TO-, good
mddling l9c. Sterling lO9S@llOt. IL M.-GOld
14OI Cotton-de demand good, prices tending up
ward; middlinRs l750l79c.; other grades I'M
changed. Sterling steady. P. H.-Gold l4Ot.
Cotton-demand active at full prices. Sales to-
day 4OO0 bales-low middling l70lT4s., middling
lie, Mobile lee, Orleans Isle, good middlng
Ice Sterling steady.
LiUeT-poOl. Jan. All A. Motion market
buoyant sales IS coo bales; uplauds I'D; Orleans
Sd Sales for the week. l0l 900 bales-for export
~ 0O0 bales, for speculation 10 ono bales. Stock
o hand 40G 600 bales, Of which III 900 are Amer
Ican. 1870 p. M.-CottOn market unchanged.
London. Jan. Pill A. M.-COnsOls 9Z4G92s
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