The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-13

Of which only $50 bales were American.
According to the Liverpool cotton state
ment made up yesterday, the sales during
the past week In that city were 1000 bales,
against 10000 the corresponding week last
year; the stock Of all kinds amounts to
341 900 bales, against 4s5, 900 bales at the same
date last year. The receipts since the first
Of September foot up $4,000 bales, against
$4,000 bales last year. The cotton afloat Of
all kinds is 11s,oO0 against 10000 bales last
year; OF this 10000 bales are American,
against 1O, 900 bales at this date last year.
The stock Of cotton now In New Orleans
consists OF 4741 bales, against 6312 at the same
date last year. OF this 4612 bales are In the
presses, unsold and awaiting orders. At Now
York there are q, 453 bales.
At the sugar-sheds there was no bushes Of
any consequence doing. The stocks are
small, and held entirely by dealers.
Business on the grain landing was quiet,
and the tone OF the market was not as steady
as on Thursday.
The movement In flour was active for both
the local trade and shipment The receipts
from the West this week show marked I'm
provement over those OF last week, being
a. All barrels, against 1882 barrels last
week.
Provisions ruled quiet and irregular. The
receipts from the West were as follows:
Pork, 1156 barrels. against ITO barrels last
week lard, 3O3 tierces ana 3G4 kegs. against
472 tierces and GAS kegs last week; bacon, 80
casks and LOG boxes, against 1863 casxs and
800 boxes last week; hams, 265 terces, against
40 terces last week; bulk meats, 1880
rc,1ndu yoinot 15Q Goa nounda last week
The quotation at the New Orleant Mint for
silver bullion is now 81 u 4.l0 per ounce for
fine.
The steamship Celia cleared yesterday for
st. Nazaire France, with $4,000 bushels OF
wheat In bulk.
There was no quotable change In the rates
yesterday for State Consols or Premium
Bonds. The sales at the Stock Exchange of
Premium Bonds amounted to $4,000.
At New York United States per cents yes
terday were quoted at 1o17 s@l02; at London
at 104l1aa, ex coupon, and at New Orleans at
1927. The money rate at New York was 7
per cent. 5M5a@5=
We learn from the Republican Of the tenth
instant that freights by rail from st. Louis
remain steady, and that river rates by boats
and barges to New Orleans advanced last
Monday and Tuesday.
The receipts of cotton, notwithstanding the
advanced condition of the crop, are small In
comparison with those of last year. Up to
date the receipts at all the ports Of the United
States foot up 36O31 bales, against &c. 76 bales
for the same time last year.
A merchant sitting in his Office In New
York recently received an answer to dis |
patch sent to Shanghai. China, six hours
previously. Shanghai Is $4,000 miles distant |
from New York by telegraph, and the mes
sage mot making allowance for delivery at |
the two cities) travelled at the rate Of 100 |
miles minute
It'll wonderful how many cities want to be-
come cotton markets. Chattanooga, Louis
vile and Chicago are among the new aspir-
ants. Duluth-Proctor Knott's town of the
unsalt ed seas-has not been heard from.
Chattanooga expects to handle 10000 bales
this year, and Louis vile 10000. Chicago ex-
poets, Of caurse, to eclipse the world.
The Louisville Courier-J ournal of the tenth
instant says: Prom all over the State come
crop reports of great damage to the corn
crops by wind and rain. 1t Is probable that
the extent of the damage Is exaggerated, as
Is usual In such cases. but there Is no ques-
ton but that it Is considerable and that 1t will
be increased II the wet weather should be fol
lowed by an early FROST"
If the prices OF other articles of merchan-
disc in Wheeling, w. Va, are advancing as
rapidly as those OF nails, there ought to be no
occasion for complaint on the part of people
who have goods to sell. The manufacturers
of everything in the nail line. from tack to a
railroad spike, are said to be overwhelmed
with orders, which may account for the fort
nightly advance of a shilling or more in their
price lists. The cause Of the unusual demand
for these wares is not apparent
The heavy outflow of currency from the
large cities to the country remains one Of the
most hopeful signs of the permanence of the
present animation in financial circles. The
outward current is steady and large from all
the chief money centres of the country. 1t is
Still subject Of remark in New York that the |
banks OF that city would even have been bad
ly crippled by the heavy demands of the in {
terror Tor currency but for the large receipts
OF coin and bullion from abroad, which have
been transformed into currency on arrival s
through the medium Of the sub-treasurv
We publish In another column the annual
statement OF the cotton crop for the wear |
1S7s-1s7s, and give the following totals in
condensed form:
1S77-7S lS7s-79
Receipts at United States
ports .:.....-...... 4.45,.36S 1894 100
SVarland 70 mills ...-.------- 439.s42 295 3O6
Overland to ports, .....-..... 392 3i5 34l arc
Southern consu mption lS6, 4S9 l37747
OF which taken from ports. 1854 337s .
Total crop o74l55 4.77s,ss5
Northern consumption 1875, 1884 1344653
Exports
TO Great Britain ........-... 2,Q52 555 2o471s5
France. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 422.94S 4a5 1875 {
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