New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-03-30
NEW YORK.

DALI Business In New Kork-RuudsnT
sznt Pals Snecuiatton-Meney EnsS-
Gold Quiet aud Steady y-SovernMeDte
Firm - Southern Securities Closed
Strosg Financial Matters - Letter
from KaEEy to Pleasant"n-sente"S
for Coau.erfeitiag-- &especs to the
Memory eff General Thomas.
New YoRE, March 29.-in the different
departments of Wall street dullness IS the
chief feature in mercantile ana hnanclai
circles. Business is generally dull ana the
spring trade therefore is unsatisfactory,
the funding bill hanging Ike 8 pal. over
speculation and legitimate trade, and no
Improvement of consequence is looked for
until the bill is disposed of. Money is very
easy - the general dullness naturally
limiting denand. Call lo&us 4Q5; prime
business note 7@Sc per cent discount;
foreign exchange dull and weaker !;
prig9 bankers sterling 1OS3@lGe5; gold
quiet and steady at the close. 1t opened at
ILL, touched III and HI, and closed I'LL.
Carrying rate SGT per cent; ciearances
S5G, 600 600.
Governments firm in gold bonds, which
show an advance Of ! to + cent. Currency
sizes fell off TO l12 ia decline Of to II cent.
Money: limited demaud at 50p. Sterling
weaker at 81. Governments closed firm.
Southern securities closed generally strong.
Discounts unchanged. Coupons: ive-twen'
.ies of 1881, l13s; j-20's Of 1862, 10: OF 1864
1887: OF 1865, 1871; new. l07E; OF 1867, lO6g
of 1868, 1083 10-40s, 1863; Virginia SKIES, old,
7O5; new, 70j; Louisiana SKIES, old, 755; new,
724; levee elXes, az; eights, 934; Georgia
skies, 81; sevens, 81; North Carolina, Old,
465; new, 22s; South Carolina, old. 50; new,
$50 Alabama's & weaker; eights, 81; tives, 7S3.
General Pleasanton, the newly appointed
Internal Revenue Collector, vice Bailey,
absconded, after taking the oath Oh Office,
received letter from his predecessor eXcul
pating his subordInates. None knew OF the
matter OF irregularities except Chlid5, who
| derived no money from the transaction.
Deputy Collector Coaps has been released
| from the Ludlow street jail.
| Martin Frank, convicted OF counterteltlng
| tobacco stamps, has been sentenced TO hNt
| years in the State Prison.
The letter received by General PieasantoI
| from ex-Colector Bailey says his determine
| ton to leave New York WAS made but hal
| an hour before he started. and he mad nc
| time TO put thugs i'll order. he confirms
| the results OF the investigation SO far a;
they have gone, and says none OF ms sqoor
| dlnates but Deputy Collector Chllds knew
| ANYTHING Of the matter, and he got nt
! personal benefit from using the money, as
| serting that it wac used to ferret out
| fraud since the discontinuance OF certain
| Bayley's suits cgainst the liquor merchants
Deputy Collector Koop has been released
! from Jail, and tae charges of trespass pre-
ierred againt him have been Withdrawn.
! The flags were at half mast on every note
! to day, in respect to the memory OF the iatt
| General Thomas.
The excitement over the Tammany quar-
! rel continues intense, Notwithstanding the
return of most OF the politicians tt
| Albany. Sheriff O'Brien svows his opposi
| ton to the Sweeny charter, which was in
| troduced into the assembly last night, II
nearly the original shape, and he says tina
| the young Democracy wlll.vote 1t dowi
while they get up a new one ia the Interests
| of the people. Albany dispatches, however
say that the charter is sure TO pass.