The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-27
Ght 9tru Orleans Ggestsnt.
WEDNESDAY, MORNING. JANUARY 81. 1863
Dew Orleans @onep 5tiarket.

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Tuesday Evening. Jan. 26. 1864
The money market continues to rule as for sew
eral weeks past. Currency is abundant, both at
bank and in the hands of private capitalists.
while the demands for accommodation are quite
restricted, and rates of all grades of paper are
nomnaly unchanged. We repeat previous quo
tstions barely for reference, however, viz: Eight
" cent. q annum at bank and 1@l4 % cent. u
month ont of doors for short gilt-edged paper,
and 10@l2 u cent. b snnum for long. dated notes,
secured by strictly Al city mortgage.
GOLD AND SILyER-Operations in Gold have
been OF only moderate extent throughout the
week, but owing to the limited character of the
supply and the stringency Of rates at New York,
prices have been maintained, with an upward
tendency all round.
Offerings Of Silver have exhibited some increase,
and sold readily at about 2@24 points below Gold
rates for American halves and quarters. and 2}13
y cent. premium on Gold for Mexican dollars.
The sales to-day were $500 Gold at 1869. $50 900
at 1864 to 1867, 900 and s35 900 at 1861 $4,000
at 1877, 5000 at 1871, and $4,000 at 1874.
In Silver we note the sale of $500 American
halves at 1873, and $1,000 and $500 do. at 1924.
We now quote Gold at 137@l37I, American Silver
coin lS2@l329, and Mexican dollars at 1884
FOREIGN ExCHANGE-1he movement In Sterling
and Francs has been very light since the close OF
our last review, and rates have further advanced
under steady improvement in Gold and Foreign
bills at New York. The supply of Commercial
indicated marked reduction, however, ewidg to
heavy falling off in sales of cotton, and the de-
mand has been at no time active or general from
sales q si3oo Ba IadSg Sterling At AZ sl5oo
dS q ~ alCSO Bank dS ooa At iaa $4,000 Al at
Francs at 3.7Ssf., 25 900 Bank do. at 3.773, and
$4,000 do. do. on private terms. We now quote
Bank Sterling at l4940l493, Commercial do at
l4S{@l4s}. Bank Francs lat 3.77i03.76l, and
Commercial do. at 3.Sl3 S3.S0f.
DOMESTIC ExcHAFGE-There has been a fair
business done under the above heading through
out, and quotations have been firmly maintained
from the opening of the week. The market has
been at no time better than moderately supplied
with commercial sight, while the remittance in
qury has been generally steady and at times &C.
tive. The following comprise the principal trans
actions today, viz: $4,000 sight on New York
5,le discount, $500, 5000. 10000, $4,000
600 do. at D. s25 600 sight on Boston at ZIG, ST.,
600 do do. with grace at &, s25 900 sixty days on
New York at q u cent. discount. We quote bank
sight at discount, commercial do. S04 discount
UNoURRENT NoTEs AND SEcURITIEs.-The de-
mand for all of the better classes of securities
continues steady and at times active, but the sup
ply is limited and sales show only q moderate
increase. City Treasury Notes have advanced
since the date of our last review. City Ten per
Gents have further stiffened and most descrip.
tons Of stocks and bonds are held at still higher
prices. Operations to-day included the appended
amounts. viz SIS 900 City Treasury Notes at
%; $4,000 do. at %; $4,000 do, on time, at
29@; $1,000 City Ten per Cents at IS; $1,000 City
Warrants at 81; $500 State Nores at SO $1,000
State Warrants at 50; $4,000 do. at S74@s94
$40 600 six per cent. Levee Bonds at "; $1,000
past due coupons on old State Bonds at $50
$1,000 Jefferson City Bonds at 65 $1,000 do. at 66
$500 Metropolitan Police Warrants at 70; $4,000
do. at 72 and 625 shares 0pelousas Railroad Stock
at So per share.
SPECIAL DIsPATcHEs.--Ws are indebted to the
Western Union Telegraph Line for copies of the
following private dispatches received from that
route to-day, viz
Neto York, Jan. 26-l0:30 A.M.-Gold opened at
1864. Cotton dull and nominal. Sterling l09}@
1l0}. 2 P. M.-Gold 1865. Cotton quiet but
steady; sales so far 1900 bales middling 2S5c.,
Mobile 2slc., Orleans zoe. Sterling steady.
liverpool, Jan. 2e-ll:l5 A. M.-Cotton market
dull estimated sales 5000 Dales; uplands liz
@1lsd., Orleans llt@llld. Shipments from
Bombay since last report to 22d are 5000 bales
l:20 p. M.-Cotton market unchanged; estimated
sales 5000 bales. 5 P. M.-Cotton market easier;
not quotably lower; sales to day 5000 bales.
BOARD OF BRoKERs-The following comprise
the sales at the Board tonight, viz $1,000 Gold
at l37; $4,000 State Warrants at 81; $500 and
$4,000 City Treasury Notes at %, and SIS 900
do, buyer's option fifteen DAVIS at 27l,