New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-08-18
MARKETS.
Domestic Markets.

NEW YORK, August l..-The POSTS hnancial
article says: Gold continues to rule at l09Is %
ls9ss. On gold loans the rates have been flat and
ss1l " cent for carrying. Foreign exchange con-
business from 81 86N to 81 81 and 81 $685. to
Isl 80. Government bonds are steady to firm.
State bonds at the first Board were dull, the only
The stock market opened steady, and has since
been strong, prices having advanced h0A. Ex-
assa sss ssys; telegraph S5S75k; Pacific Mail 4ss.
$D46 Ri Wabash IS 036s; New York Central 1O1 Z a
a s s. af Fsu s1als Hnsas sB
and Ohios 23h D23a. Money lends on call at 2d3,
and on prime mercantile paper at s17.
eood refining C; for prime 7sses.c for or musco
vado exc; for centrifugal IN 07hc. Molasses dull
Cotton closed quiet middHng uplands l6x 0l7sc
Sales 5l3 bales; net receipts S7a; gross 2633.
Futures closed quiet sales "a 900 bales, as fol
Is se October IS
IS 9l60l5 1920; December Is 9.l60l5 1890; jan
1ary IS 2l.320l5 lll6c; February Is l5-l6c; March
70 I-l60l6 5-32c.
Southern flour firm, moderate inquiry; common
20 fair extra IS 7O16 3o good to choice Sc 400s So
Wheat less active, ld2c lower; holders generally
more disposed to realize, scarcity of freights
Materially checks the export demand; 81 219l 70
tor old winter r, and red Western 81 SOL 81 for
3 350l 45 for new white Western Corn shade
better, less doing; sld8lhc for Western mixed,
and yelloW WESTERN 95096c for white Western.
Coffee dull and nominal Rice dull without
material Cnanpe. IallOW steady; &C. R0Sln duli;
lower 1928 50 for new. Lard firm; ii 1-l6c for
prime steam. whisky lower; 81 Olk0l OF.
Freights steady. Cotton steam Il.
Skies of 1881 1184; five.twenties of 1862 III 81 of
ls64 1l5k; of 1865 ll6T; 1l6i of 1867 ll77s;
new fives Ill 3; ten fOrties 1881.
Tennessees IS, new rs; Virginias %, new 30. con-
co.'s 5la deferred 8; Louisiana skies %, new 20,
levee skies %, eghts 20; Alabama Fights Is. tives
80; Georgia skies Tx; sevens SO; North Carolinas
q new 10; special tax 5k; South Carolnas %, new
48 April and October Is.
CINCINNATI, August 1T.-Cetton dull; mldoung
use. Flour steady; demand moderate Wheat
Demand fair and market firm; red 81 0501 08;
white ST. l56l 20. Corn isteady; demand mod
crate at 65067c Oats steady; demand moderate
at 400!8c. Pork dull and nominal at 1928 Lard
demand fair and market firm; summer lake, bid;
kettle, jObbing sales at l6ac Bulk meats quiet;
steady; demand moderate; shoulders exc; clear
rio 2ac; clear l3c. Whisky steady demand mod
crate at 91c.
ST. Louis, August 17-Cotton-nothing doing
Flour dull and unchanged. Wheat-full prices
ssked but no demand; No. red / O9Is0l II; No.
red winter 81 l7Is. Corn dull; No. mixed GAO
6Sc In elevator. Oats dull and lower No. 2410
Pork firm. at 1874. Bacon strong; small lots of
shoulders at Sc clear rib &c., clear 130l3Ac. Lard
Arm; only peddlins sales.
Foreign Markets.
LIVERPOOL, August II, 430 P. M.-Cotton-SaIes
of American to-day 1000 bales; sales on the basis
of middliug Orleans nothing below low middllng
deliverable October and November, Sad; sales of
shipments Of new crop, basis of middling up
lands, nothing below good ordinary, 8Ad sales on
a basis of middling uplands, nothing below low
ruiddling, deliverable October, Sled.