The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-26
Commercial tgntslIiaenfe.
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saturaAy Evening. Jan Is. 1868. !
CoTToN-The market has been very buoyant
throughout to-day, but the total sales have been
limited 10 1900 bales, owing to the restricted char
acter othe supply and TO the unusually high prices
demanded by factors. Buyers willingly paid &c.
d ID. advance on all classidcatiOns and in excep
tional cases they submitted to still further i'm
provement but even this did not effect the object
desired-an augmentation OF the offerings. The
demand was of an active and general character
from the opening to the close of business and the
aggregate operations would doubtless have been
exceedingly heavy had the supply on sale been
equal to the requirements of purchasers. We
have again enhanced our figures, aud would now
quote as follows, with the remark that the market
closes exceedingly stiff at these prices. viz: Or
binary l44@l54c., good ordinary l69l64c., low
middiiDg l76Dl7tc., middliug l73@l74c., strict
middliDg ls@Is4c., and good middhng nominal at
l6lc.0- =. IL is hardly necessary to add that the
striDgency IN prices is principally due to the &C.
tive and upward movement Of the Liverpool and
New York Cotton markets, and incidentally to an
uDmistsksble improvement in the rates of Foreign
Exchange.
COTTON STATEMENT.
ssOch hand Sept / 1857. 1888
Received previously. 5OzjoOo03 4'5
$50 8i8
Exported since Yesterday. III
Exported previously 80 iOo-Zo552f
stock on hssd and shipbOars this sveninE.... 9O
The exports include 81 bales for Philadelphia /;
32I bales for New York, and 27l3 bales for Liver.
pool.
sUGAR-The mar ket to-day is less animated
than has been motto ed for some time past. Re.
ceipts, however are light, but the demand to-day
has fallen of materially, although prices remain
steady and firm. Sales comprise all the receipts,
and We still quote:
IneriOr.. 7ke &c. p n. Fully Fsir....ls7lels c q D.
Oommon.... 91S@lNe - Prime lib "a 511c -
ssoSacosg s slrass Y YsoS csTd Siio
Good Fair ny el251c. - White = l54Si51sc =
Receipts since yesterday 4O3 hhds.
MoLAssEs-C Continues in good request and
prices for all descriptions steady and firm. Sales
embrace all the receipts, at 59D62c. for common,
67@723c. for fermenting, 75977ac. for strictly
prime TO choices, and SOC. u gallon for choice.
FLoUR-The market to-day is very quiet, but
prices, especially for the grades of superfne and
double extra, still tending up. Other grades are
steady end very firm. Sales are confined to 400
bbs., of which so and 500 superfne at SO; 100
do. at $40 l2t 100 06 double extra and 200 on its
so Go. at $40 so u Dbl. We now quote jobbing at
$40 rs for superhne and $40 rs & bbl. for double
extra.
CoRN-The market Is quiet, but steady and firm.
Sales 3l40 sacks of which 1000 sacks white at 97c.
and eco white at 97@Sl, and 800 white and yellow
at 81 u bushel.
OATs-Are dull. be. prices steady. Sales 100
sacks at S5c. u bushel.
BRAN-OnIy so sacks were reported at 81 so z
100 fbs.
HAY-Is dull, and prices for round amounts IN.
settled and dropping. Sales today 100 and 200
bales fair Western at $40 e ton.
PoRK-The market is inactive to-day, but
holders are firm and unchanged ia their views
Sales to-day 100 bbls in lots, at So 90, aud 100 IN
| one lot on private terms. We quote lots s22 $50
~ 80, and jobbng at s23 y barrel.
BACON-Ony moderate jobbing trade is doing
to-day at lOI5lO4c. for shoulders; l250l2le. for
clear rib SIDES BE- for clear sides, and l2Ol7c.
| q 10. for hams. Sales Is casks clear sides on
| private terms.
LARD-Is quiet and the marketsteady and firm
at l2i@l34c. for tierces l42Gl5o. % b. for kegs
RYE-A lot Of 100 sacks sold at So As y bushel,
| sacks included.
FRuGETs-Tbere is a very active demand for
room, both foreign and cosstWse, and offerings OF
freight are plenty but with scarcity OF tonnage
in port rates rule higher and firmer than noticed
in our last We now quote for New York by
steamer l3l &c. for cotton, 81 u Dbl. for -four 25c
u sack for corn SO ~ hid. tor sugar, and 81 Il
bb.. for molasses. By sail l@l5c. for cotton, 81
for four 25c. for corn, s. e hid. for sugar, and
81 u Dbl. for molasses. By steam for Bos on &c.
Tor cotton, 81 for flour, SOC. for corn, $40 for
sugar, and IS q Dbl. for moasses. Liverpool by
sail id. for cotton and by steam 3D.; by sail to
Hsyre lS6Dl 7l6d. for cotton.