The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-22

Strict Ordinary. ....... 9s@ % -
Good Ordinary ... o5s@1OS 10
Strict Good Ordinary. 1ota@io,s -
s sGE T Io% Mladiin9. i iis% -
Middltng .,.............. 12aW12h Ra
Strict Middling. ........ 12s@12H -
Good MiddlinR. lsAy!SSf lSa
Mt1dl1nR FAIR. ........ 13sMhfp
FAlr ......-...,-........'
In the above it will be observed that
we make a partial advance OF &c In low
middling, middling and the higher
grades, retaining 12hc as our outside
figures for middling.. A high style OF
this grade, nevertheless, sold at 1890,
the scarcity Of such description or of the
high sales at which they were held.
This was partly owing to the factors
being inspired with more confidence by
the encouraging tenor or the dispatches,
Liverpool being reported steady, with
sales of $4,000 bales and New York
steady for spots and 3-32 5-32c higher
for futures. Sterling exchange, more
over, ruled at an improvement OF about
10 per cent.
The sales Of the past three days sum
up 3o,450 bales 00,10O on "Wednesday,
$500 yesterday, including 100 and 600 not
gregate for the week of $500 bales,
against $500 last week, and $1,000 the
week before. Weeks receipts G1,70O
bales, embracing 4165 from other deliv-
cry ports (of which 1870 from Mobile, II
from Florida and 1854 from Galveston,
etc., and 57,542 proper against 65, 445
last week, and 32,767 last year. Total
proper since Aug. 81, 's2s,671 bales,
against 668,S42 last year-increase
1898
The exports comprise 44,977 bales,
4. M M ~
Havre, 4O3 to Rouen, 1000 to Rotterdam,
1900 to Bremen, 500 to Santander, 1883
to Malaga, 1853 to Barcelona, 1921 to
Genoa, I2959 to Boston, 1871 to Provi-
dencc, and 2045 to New York, to which
we have added 70 by river and rail.
| The Exchange kilograms make the
receipts at all the ports from IL m.
yesterday to IL m. to-day 23,O24 bales,
against 24,99S last week and 1851 last
year, and since Friday 1886 bales,
against 100, 1873 last week and 1858 last
year. Total since August 81, 2,786, S07
bales, against 2, 1896, 463 bales up to Thurs
day noon, January 81, last year, Tex
Guiding the above 1S,151) -increase 406,-
344.
Exports FRIDAY to Thursday inclu-
sive) to Great Britain 65, $40 bales against
78, 23l last week, and 52,1t9 last year,
and to the Continent 20,571 bales,
against "a, SAG last week and 1857 last
yeRr; .. all ,o,,s s;n.o son. -
Great Britain 1,0l7,3 43 bales, against
1874 last year, to France and the
Continent 534 1923 bales, against 300, 1889
last year. Total TO Great Britain and
the continent 1852, 1865 bales, against
1877 ,654 last year.
Stocks ut all the delivery ports made
4 m tr IN lEc crE hoInc aOoipof Qpo
| $50 last week and 8S1 ,942 last year
| The weeks receipts at the chief in
terror towns embrace %, 159 bales, against
80, 25l last week and q, 1913 last year; the
shipments rs, FOG bales, against 81 ,773 last
week and 1892 last year; and the
stocks 1913, 761 bales, against 127,749 last
week and 148,551 last year. Compared
with last year this shows an increase OF
1921 bales in the receipts and 1894 In the
shipments and decrease OF 10, 100 in the
stock.
The Exchange makes the amount on
shipboard not cleared before to-day's
exports) 142,0 81 bales, embracing 63,07
for Liverpool, 30,458 for Havre, 81 ,7GO for
the North Sea, 1874 for Bremen, 1910 for
Spain, 1841 for the Mediterranean, 1913 for
Mexico, and 1888 for coastwise ports,
leaving In presses agreeably to its ac-
count at IL m. 1872, 319 bales. Ii we deduct
from this the amount sold but not yet
delivered, the balance will be about
1860 bales to represent the quantity
unsold, large part Of which is with
held from the market, in transit or not
yet sampled.
At noon to-day middling was quoted
at Galveston ut 1873, at Mobile at 121M
12sc, at Savannah at 12sc, at Charleston
at l2sc, at Wilmington at 12ic, at Nor
folk at l2s@122c, at Baltimore at 12ac,
at New York at 13c, at Boston at 131c,
at Memphis at 12@12ic, at Augusta at
124@12sc, and at Shreveport at 11Ac.
The Exchange reports "Sales 1880
bales; market steady" The sales are
computed from 8 p. m. yesterday to 3 p.
m. to-day.
We notice pasted on the bulletin
board Of the Exchange q letter from Mr..
W. G. Black, President of the Exchange,
to the Postmaster General, in which he
calls the attention OF that officer to the
chants Of New Orleans from the mails
to the interior and to the Northern and
Eastern cities, being closed at 4 D. M,
which does not allow them time to no
tlfy their correspondents by post of the
current business of the day. He con-
sequently memorializes the head of the
department to make such arrangements.
II practicable, rs will allow the mail to
the points indicated above, to be closed
not earlier than s p. m. In support of
his application the President refers to
the fact that the values handled by our
cotton trade during the seven bust
ness months Of the year amount
to 500, 600, 900 and constitute large por-
ton Of the foreign exports Of the coun-
try. We hope that this perfectly proper
application will receive the immediate
attention it merits and result in such
arrangements in the railway postal SER
vice as will reduce the time hence to
New York to 20 hours or less, and
thereby enable our postmaster to keep
the mail open until the time specified.
There can be no doubt that, owing to the
conflicting interests Of railroads, the
mails from New Orleans to New York
are carried over a longer distance than
necessary and that it is practicable to
reduce the time from ~ hours to 20 or,
perhaps, 6S. Mobile and other South.
ern cities are concerned in this matter