New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-02-28
comparative cotton statement for the week ending
Bales.
MARKETS.
Domestic Markets.

| NEW YORK. February q. Evening.-Moner active
and easy; 3a4 per cent. Exchange - "a. Goid
cradle doing. State bonds nominal.
sizes OF 1881, l2o1; fve-twentles of 1881. ll7ll.:
of 1864, II9h; of 1865, l20ai: new ll9; Of 1867. 1i9as;
of 1868, II9la; new fves ll45.; ten orties, ll6.
Tennessees SO new 80; Virginlas 3d.. new 40.
consolidated 5lhs, deferred ~; Louisianas 80.
new IS, levee SKIES 48h. Fights SO: Alabama eights
65, fives 81; Georgia skies IS, eights .l9: North
Carolinas %, new Il, special tax 9; South Carolinas
Is, new 80, April and October Is.
Gold opened at 1928. defined to li2h. and has
since sold at ll2k@ll2s8. On gold loans the rates
have been 3, 81 and 4 for carrying. Prime bank.
ers have reduced their rates for sterling bills to
s. sJ%G "a 81. respectively: with business IN sec.
ond hands even lower. In the money market lend.
ers have 10 make an effort to fully employ their
funds, and this because, with the present volume
of business and the absence of anything like spec.
ulation at the Stock Exchange, there is a red uced
demand for money. Government bonds have been
steady. Southern State bonds at the board are
dull and a fraction lower. The stock market was
firm Suring the first half hour OF business. but
been heavy. Proxies for Union Pacific stock are in
demand for election purposes. the quotation for
them having been "a i.
Cotton closed QUIET: uplands 10 &c; Orleans l6t.c;
gross receipts 400 bales; sales 1873.
Futures closed easier; sales 29, 400 bales, as fol.
April Is l7-32al5 9 -iGc; for May l6 l.32 0l6 Lice: for
June l6 l5-32al6Nc;. for July 1G8 0l6 29-32c.
Southern flour dull and lower; ST soar IS for
Whisky lower. 96haS7&c. Wheat heavy and Ease
lower. Corn, Doc for new Western mixed. Rye
uull. FORK hehvy; new mess SD %. Beet III.
CHANGED. Lard steadier. 8 l.i609sc Tallow
steady. .A07 10 lGC. Turpentine 43c. Rosin 81 IS
az so.
Coffee iirmer. with a fair iobbing demand. Sugar
somewhat Irregular: -asU7ssc for fair TO good re.
flung; 74a1sc for common to prime muscovado.
SIC for centrifugal. Molasses dull and unchanged.
Freights to Liverpool quiet and unchanged.
CINCINNATI, February 27.-Cotton steady. demand
moderate; middling l5Ac. Flour dull and un.
changed. Wheat dull and dropping; ST. 389l 40.
Corn dull; sOa62c. Oats dull and lower; l6052r.
Mess pork dull; 6l4 25014 50. Lard dull and lower;
steam 37l6085sc; skettle sha8Bc. Bulk meats
dull and lower; shoulders &c: clear lib &c: clear
1s67ac. Bacon dull and d%rooping; SHOULDERS
81; clear rib shc; clear CSC. Whisky active and
firm at 93c.
ST. LOUIS. February 21.-Cotton active: mid.
ding 15Ac. Flour in better demand and I'm.
changed. Wheat dull and unchanged, only
sample lots sold. Corn dull and lower: No 2 mixed
59hs 059'ic in east elevator. Oats dull, unsettled
and lower; No. 2 4Gkc on east track. Whisky 93c.
Pork lower; round lots STA 81. Dry salt meats
dull, Bacon dull; only small ,iobbing trade, lard
nominal.
Foreign Markets..
LIVERPOOL, February q. $50 P. M.-Cotton-Saies
of uplands, nothing below good ordinary. deliver
able March and April, : 7-l6d. Yarns and fabrics
at Manchester dull. with a downward tendency.