The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-28
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Saturday Evening. FEB. q. I6i9. !

Saturday Evening. Feb. q. 1873. J
There is no alteration of any kind to notice in
the money market. Gold opened at New York
this morning a. 1919 against 1872, the closing rate
yesterday. 1880 A. n. il stood at 1919. At IL n.
1t ruled at 49, and at P. NJ. 1t closed at 1918
Operations have been restricted throughout and
prices have declined TO correspond with the falling
of in rates at the North. We appeal particulars
of the days transactions as follows, viz: $4,000,
sc eco and $50 COO at 1914 $1,000, $500, $40 OC0
ard $4,000 Al 1884, $1,000, $4,000 sad $4,000 at
1915. sS5. GOO at l3l2Gl3l2, $4,000 aud $40 900 at
l3lsQl3l4, $4,000 81 1918, $1,000 and SIS 900 at
1872 5000 and $50, 900 at 1924, closing at lsll0
1872. Nothing reported In Silver.
FOREIGN EXCuANGE-Rates of Sterling and
Francs have gone still lower to day, owing TO the
further heavy reduction in quotstiOns of Gold aud
foreign bills at New York. Offerings continued
light throughout, however, and the demand was
OF a very limited character from the opening to
the close Of business. The following comprise
tbs total sales. so far as particulars have trans
PRED, viz: 1850 and $4,000 bill lading Sterling
at AL; $4,000 do. at l4lg; fjOc0 AL commercial
Sterling at l42; $1,000 do. at l423 fl0C0 privsts
bankers at l422; flOO0 bank at las and lea, 000
bank Francs at 39644S.973. We quote bank
l42l, bank Francs at 3964G3.95. and commercial
DO. at 4O0Q3 971.
DOMESTIC ExCRASGE-The movement under the
above heading has disclosed steadily increasing
q mpeRs to-dsy. Onerings OF commercial sight
and short sight were moderate and the demand
wes fair throughout, as will be seen by the an
nexed particulars of the actual purchases by
banks and bankers viz $40 eco, $40, COO. $4,000
and $50 OC0 sight on New York at par $23 900 do.
at lilo premium; $780, 900 do. at ! premium ;
sl2 Geo ten days. sight on New York at discount ;
$40 900 and $45, 0C0 fifteen days do. at4 discount ;
$50 GEO sixty days do. at II discount; s35 coo
sight on Boston, without grace, at ! premium ;
$40 600 sight on Pbiadelbia at l6 discount. We
quote bank sight on New York at 1 premium,
o. commercial do. at par@s premium.
UEcURRENr NOTES AND SFcURITIss-There il
still very steady and at times active inquiry
noticeable for nearly all classes of securities and
prices Of the better descriptions are very firmly
maintained. Offerings Of those most 10 request
continue light, however, and quotations OF the
latter have already advanced TO figures beyond
the views Of general buyers. City Notes remain
firm and State issues held at extreme rates. The
following include the principal sses to-day, viz
$1,000 and $4,000 City Treasury Notes at 25Ac.
discount; sl2 500 do. al 25lc.; $4,000 and 500 900
do. 26c; $4,000 City Ten Per Cents at &C.,; $1,000
State Wsrrsnts at Sc; $1,000 do in small sums at
S9G90c. $1,000 past due coupons Of old State
Bonds at s5c.; $4,000 six per cent. Levee Bonds at
704c.; SCI COO do. at Tie; SOC do. at 7l3c.;
$4,000 Metropolitan Police Warrants at $780,;
$4,000, $1,000 and SO 900 do. at S53c.; $1,000 do.
at s6c. $40 600 State Notes at sac; 500 600 Bank
of Louisiana notes private terms; twenty shares
Bank Of New Orleans stock ct s42 per share;
thirty shares Canal at $50 50 twenty shares do at
ISL; twenty shares City Railroad at $l64 so; four
hundred shares Bank Of Louisiana, buyers option,
thirty days. fiat, at So l2t; Elk hundred shares
Opelousas Railroad, buyers option, thirty days,
at 81; end two hundred and fifty shares Crescent
CITY Bank at t26 rs per share.
Messrs. G. E. Girardey & Co. sold at auction TO.
day: 25 shares Canal and Claiborne Street Rail-
road at $40 y share; rs shares Bank of Louisiana
at 81 70 q share.
BOARD OF Brownsville only sale OF the bosrd
tonight was $500 gold at 1917.
SPECIAL DIsPATCHEs.-We are Indebted to the
Western Union Telegraph Line for copies Of the
following private dispatches received from that
route to-day, viz:
Neto York, Feb. 27-l0 A. M.-Gold opened at
1914. 1880 A. M.-Gold 1911. Cotton holders
anticipating advance are holding stocks out of
market, asking ic. higher. Sterling loS!@l09l.
Net receipts at ell United States ports $4,000.
Exports of the week from all United States ports
70 Great Britain 49,4so. Exports to continent
1910. Stock on hand and on shipboard not yet
cleared at all United States ports Is 4O7 $40 bales.
IL A.-Gold ISL. Cotton holders asking advance.
Buyers operate with caution. Quotations nomin-
ally unchanged. P. M.-Gold closed at 1917
Cotton-demsnd moderste-prices firm. Middling
29i@2sAc.. Mobile 2s4G2eic., Orleans 2slGSOc.
Sterling l0st@lo9i.
LsueTpool, Feb. 3T-ll:l5 4. n.-Cotton frmer,
higher. Estimated sales 10000 bales. Uplands
Hid, Orleans lad. p. x.-Cotton market
quiet. Sales 1000 bales. Prices unchanged.
London, FEB. 77-ll;l5 A. x.-Consols s33
5.70s 81.