New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-03
on ChRUNUELET STREET,

The cotton demand Las improved. the
morning news ron Liverpool breathing
into its body tie breath OF new life.
Since the new impulse prices have bettered
an eighth 10 2 quarter, and the improve
ment is such thai buyers fight shy Of en-
gaging. Under tie idea that prices will
grav;tate tack ag@.2 70 poor rates. The
news spread through Tie whole cotton
iarliiY and Goctore,i the household Ike new
VINE, and ia the morning hours it was est
mated the sales wculd reach 5000 bales
The EIl-nica-.ve mature of tie stock
market yesterday, in tie minds of those
who set themselves w, or are set up, for
authorities, looks as il Levee had come to a
stanGstill il is upward movement, and is
either getting ready 70 20 down a bit or
else stop al tie s&me station. preparing for
fresh start after -le movement has been
rubbed down and more fodder is in the
crib. Whatever :nlQerce has been at work
the fac. is certain -la-. using tie words Of
one Of the Initiated. 'bGyers are not so
plenty to-da-. ne demand is weak, and the
condition dry" Tat there is some profit
IL Levee is p70Teu by the number OF suits
against the company 10 lay hold OF its stock,
inasmuch as no one enters an action where
nt2la bona is Likely 20 reward his search,
unless the demand is FOR sentimental dam
ages, which, as rs name implies, ends usu-
ally in moonshine.
The late scramble for stock resulted as
such grabs usually Go, n a very few gen.
tlemen owning p very large number of
shares so that The directors election. about
which the street Is engaged in talking, will
boil down to mere form. the detail having
been settled il tie good old way" for
which large corporations are famous. As
10 the sales, ordinary rules from s. 80 to
81 -, 100 shares having sold at this price,
holders asking S6-S7 80 being offered. Pre-
ferred, S. SO paid, ob1igates the payment of
$40, $40 - and SO I1l4, according to tie
number OF shares, Willie on the s. paid
there is fifty cents more than il these
figures.
Ammonia is quoted al Sic, SIS SO and
SO 30, the wide spacing between these figures
being due to the unsettled demand which has
not yet made up lis mind the relationship
between this stool, and the felt-covered
supeT-heated steam boiler furnace-divested
apparatus that daily travels between Napo-
leon avenue and Carrollton and vice
versa.
Except in city zen per cents the current
of city securities casts up nothing remark
able. These are mentioned at 93ls n87N.
aud $500 sGld yesterday at this rate, with
more to c0mc.
It is whispered city sevens are now in
the engine shed getting up steam Tor an
onward movement; several prominent trav-
elers in the vale Of brokerage getting in
readiness to take passage whenever "put
the screws becomes il order. Al present
the rates are unpToroancaJle.
City railroad stocks VII do well to Lane
on, St, Charles street selling for So 20. and
New Orleans City at Sl,9 50-an expected
dividend looming up near by.
Bears are hugging all the vitality out
Of Slaughterhouse stock at present; it is
convalescing slowly at the rate of ST.
Somebody conyulsed the market yesterday
with an order for fifty shares.
Louisiana State warrants are improving
as the prospect Of the funding bill being
signed draws near.
At the Board OF Brokers last evening 10
shares New Orleans National Banking As
ISOLATION were sold at $3i 50 per share,
and % shares Stems Fertilizinc land
Chemical Manufacturing Company at