The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-03-20

Onxssasr 0TyIcz. No. - OAny sykKz1l
THURSDAY Evening. March l9 isia
Inactivity has been the most prominent feature
OF the movement IN financial circles to-day. Gold
opened at New York this morning at 1891 against
1855 the closing figure yesterday, aud at III A. NJ.
II Was quoted st 1881. The demand and supply in
this market have disclosed but little IL any varia-
ton throughout, and the total operations have
been confined to the appended amounts, viz
$1,000, $40 600 and $4,000 at 1891 $4,000 at
1886 $4,000 in lots at l39l0l39i; $4,000 and
$4,000 at 139l; $4,000 at 1885, and $1,000 at llO.
Sales OF Silver have been restricted to driblets,
and we now quote Gold 1870 39f, American
Silver coin at lS5@lse, and Mexican dollars at
l42@ll3.
FOREIGN ExcHASGE-Hterling and Francs con-
tnue heavy. Offerings Of commercial are ample
and the remittance demand indicates no improve
ment whatever. At the same time buyers Of oat.
door bills exercise q very rigid scrutiny In the
selection of names, and none bat fsvorite sigma
lures can pass the ordeal on satisfactory terms for
drawers and sellers. The subjoined statement
comprises the whole of the actual sales to-day,
viz: $4,000 bill Of lading Sterling at l49s; f2l00
Al commercial do. at $50; $4,000 do. At 1907;
$4,000 bankers do. at 1851 for Gold; f3500 Al
commercial DO. at 1901 for currency; f2000 and
fSC00 bank do. at l5li, f400 do. AT l513; 600O0f.
bankers Francs at s:7S2f, and 6O,0OOf. and
loo 0O0f. commercial do. at 3.75. The ruling
figures this evening were l5ltGl52 for bank
Sterling, l50Wl5l for clear bills. l491Dl504 for
bin Of ading bills S.73}D3 IT, for bank Francs,
and 3.7s203. I5f for commercial Francs.
Domestic ExcHANGg-rhere is no further ma
terisl alteration noticeable in the movement un-
der the above heading. The supply Of comtner-
cal offerings is still ample, while the demand on
the part Of RENTERS continues exceedingly re-
stricied. The purchases by banks and bankers TO-
Day Included only the annexed amounts, viz: &c.,
eco, 900 and $4,000 New York si0ht at -l6
q cent. discount; $1,000 $4,000, $4,000 and
$4,000 do. at . cent. discount; $500 and sl2,.
coo do. at Is Il cent. discount; $25 900 and
$50 coo do. at q cent. discounts; $3.50 I've
days do. at u cent. discount, aud s25 500 ten
days do. at Il cent. discount. Rates, though
evidently weaker, are not quotably lower. how
ever, and We, therefore, repeat previous figures
rs follows, viz: Par at bank, and i04 b cent.
discount out Of doors for sight checks on the
g. Northern cities.
UNcUARENr NoTEs AND sEcUmrIEs-There is
nothing Lew to notice in the movement in City
Notes. Sales to day included 5000 at 20 and $2O,
GOO lots al 203 u cent discount. Transactions
ia Louisiana State and Bank Of Louisiana notes
still suspended. and operations 10 stocks have
been confined TO 200 shares Bank of New Orleans
81 293.
BOARD OF BRoKERs-At the Board Of Brokers
last evening, the following sales recorded !:
5000 American silver at 1854. 50 shares Mer.
chants Bank at 2l3, 50 shares at %, $500 small
city notes at 20 discount.
SPECIAL DisPsTcHEs.-We are Indebted 70
the Western Union Telegraph line for copies Of
the following private dispatches received over
that route to-day. viz:
Neto York, March 1910 A. M.-Gold opened
at 1881. IL A. N.-Cott0n market dull; prices
nominal and heavy but unchanged; middling 25c.,
Mobile 25Ac., Orleans 255c. sterling l09l0ll0t.
l2M-C Cotton market quiet and weak; nominally:
niddlings 25c., Mobile 251c., Orleans 25lc. Ster-
ling steady. 3 p. M-CottOn market dull; prices
unchanged; entirely nominal; middling 25c., No.
bile 253c., Orleans 25lc; sales 200 bales. Sterling
steady.
liverpool, March 49, ll:l5 A. Motion mar.
ket quiet; estimated sales 10000 bales; uplanis
l0id. Orleans 10id. LEO P. Motion steady
and unchanged; estimated sales 10000 bales. 8
P. M.-Cotton market steady; sales to-day 10000
bales; uplands l0ld., Orleans l0ld.
London, March 19--l:20 A. M.-Consols o3t q
9Sl 5 2os s2sG72l.
DAILY PRICES or GOLD FOR Six YEARs.-The
New York Commercial and Financial Chronicle
of the 4th inst, contains a table exhibiting the
price of gold in New York every day during the
last six years. 1t gives the lowest and highest
figures OF each day for that period. We should
be glad TO furnish the entire table TO readers
for u IL financial history IN which the credit OF
the government currency may be traced step By
step during the gloomy period OF the war down 20
its lowest point, and thence through its recovery
TO the present time.
We awe below statement exhibiting the
range Of prices of gold fer each month aud each
xGar.