New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-03-26

| prime bankers having put their nominal rates
10 $tSo 1857 and business for this class having
rates. The rise in sterling was one Of the reasons
ior @ the rise in gold The money market is 304 for
gan % loans. and "a az for prime mercantile paper.
Interior but great is the Surplus reserve OF the
banks that the chance that there will be even an
| ADVANCE in rates is diminishing. Government
oonds are strong, ana higher than yesterday; be-
cause gold is higher, and because the price OF gold
anscss n operations in bonds both in this market
nu anu foreign markets. Southern State bonds at the
board We're steady. with transactions Of moderate
amount. The stock market opened steady and dur
hrst board it became strong and since then there
mas Deen rise OF to g. the special features having
oeT Tha IN Ss.ern Union Telegraph and Pacific Mail
during the day in Wall street markets subsded
sCmewna. o4e 9 at the close, and there sharp
suit OF the delav of the Senate on financed soma
reports from Washington less favorable to in
iiaton and the fact that the Western Union direc-
tors did not declare the expected dividend at their
meetir day. The events of the day in Wall
street t; were more important than
lation took many by surprise. and but few were
prepared for the violent fluctuations.
Southern Hour quiet and steady: common to fair.
extra Sc soar 20, good to choice 81 250ll. wheat
quiet, without dec ded change. Corn better fairly
active at as0s2e for new Western mixed. Coffes
7a 07Asc for fair to good refining MOasses ste
small sales. Rice firm, fair jobbing trade Rosin
tive and tirmer, mess s l6 80. Beef quiet Lard
frmer at 9ss as ll-l6c Whisky decidedly frmer.
some sales at 97kc, afterwsrd CSC bid held at s l..
Cotton closed easy; middling uplands l5ssc; Or
29l7.
Futures closed quiet and steady; sales 17,OoO
bales, as follows: Low middling for March 15a. a
Is lI-32c; June Is l3.l60l6 27-3Ic; July II $3.50
II 1870; August II 7-l6Ol7 9-l6c.
Leather unchanged. Wool steady; domestic
fleece 4o@s5o; tubbsd 5ac pulled 25aS6c; unwashed
Freights to Liverpool shade armer; cotton by
s san , 100, by steam 0S-lSd; corn by steam 81 %
twenties of 1862 ll7k; of 1864 ll9a Of 1865 l2e5
new lbs; Of 1867 l2O Of 1868 1884; new fives u.s.
ten-forties ll4k.
l5sic: Flour quiet and unchanged. Wheat Arm;
$l 4301 As. Corn frmer; mixed 62065c. Oats
firm; 54053c. Mess pork held at Sl6; SIS IS bid.
Lard firm; steam SO bid, 9tc asked; kettle 9Ac.
clear 8a 0shc. Bacon firm; shoulders Sac; clear
rib 8 4 09c; clear 9kc. Whisky steady; &c.
st. LOUIS. March 25.-Cotton quiet and un-
shasSsd %SS !. Sole 9rE s. dun and
extra s5 1916. wheat firmer; No. spring
Chicago 81 2sa; No. red winter '$l 37,k bid for
and GoTs ss.d demand en- No
na1d fair; market firm; No. . SOC in elevator.
Whskey firm, &c. Pork firm; SIS so up coun-
try, seller April. Dry salt met firm shoulders Sc to
buyers March. Bacon firm: shoulders So, c. clear
rib sc; clear SIC cash. Lard firm; good &C.
Foreign Markets..
LIVERPOOL. March 25 Evening. -Cotton-sales of
up'ands. nothing below good ordinary shipped
February ard March, AID do do shipped March
and April 8td do, nothing below low middling,
deliverable May and rJune, 3l6d. Common rosin
LONDON, March Is, Evenng.-Refned petro-
eum llhs. TallOw 38s.