New-York tribune., 1896-01-30

The receipts for the corresponding hal,-week In
1898 were 81 900 bales and the shipments 1900.
The duness in the drygoods market on which 80
much stress has been laid by the bears. gives signs
of passing away. along with the disturbed financial
! situation which caused It. Buyers coming on;
after the cotton goods at last the following from
| the drygoods market report OF The Evening Post"
yesterday shows:
Many buyers coming along inquire FOR bleached
are exhausted and the fight between this market
Chicago and ST. Louis seems to have worn Nsei.
Buyers from the West stated .ha, the financial SIT
uation had more TO do with the backward character
OF trade than thing else.
The situation in print cloths continued unchanged.
Buyers nooded mill centres with bds a, 2. cents
market Sellers ere hrIn; and dei7anl NJ iiat prce
stocks are Increasing Al the rate % over lp"'
pieces week yet there IS no curiailneAt OF pro-
ductioa.
New-Orleans Jan. 29-The Tribune on Sunday
said that should the visible supply disappear the
same last year. 5000 per week. Il would
leave the visible on September 1coOv, bales. The
Tribune overlooks the fact that after last saturday
22D0O American came IN sight last year. while not
much II any. l.l0JO 90 Uill come ia sight this
year therefore at the present rate Of consumption.
Don't believe from now out hat india vii ship
over 10000 in excess Of last year Egypt seems TO
The REQ ouaehi'a and Misssnspp TlyeTs pras-
ticaly played out, except stocks AZ shreveport :
Monroe. Camden. Natchcz and Greenville
The Tribune recently criticised an amazing state
ment sent out over the Stock Quotation Telegraph
Conpany's ticker from Grenada Miss. IN plain ian
guage Further light on a despicable method of de-
pressing values. common in Wall Street. Is fur
nished by the following letter from one Of the lead
ing cotton Of Louisiana:
TO tn. Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: | notice IN n clipping from The Tlnes-DeinO-
crat" copied from your paper, that 'h'rr was u
large amount Of cotton held In Grenada. Miss.
This rather surprises us. as on saturday. the @tl
inst A large cotton buyer from North Mississippi
wired here 20 try and buy 200 baes strict mlifling
cotton but 4, was not for sac. The inforina ton
from Grenada Is Ike that which emanated from Fnc
Rlur Ark stating that this crop MAS from
100 0.,o to 75DoGJ making use OF statement that
there were large stocks Of cotton held ali this
country. also stating that there were 22OD bale9
stock here wncn our stock by official count was
as truths by the mills and their co-lahorers. the
hears 10 hammer the market. II is no wonder That
IN sn,te o, a rapidly decreasing visible supply and
a short crop they are able TO keep rrices down.
Monroe La Jan. %. 1896. A. T. TISSINGTON
THE FACTS ABOUT COTTON
To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir: I noticed in 1.-The Times-Democrat." Of this
city an extract your paper Of the 2lst inst.
| which strikes me as very much TO the point and
| of grea, benefit 10 the Southern farmer inasmuch
as the facts therein presented plain and OF easy
| deduction a. the average cotton man-producer and
| dealer They certainly owe you debt OF gratitude
for putting the case so plainly before all parties In
interest as you haze done in your several articles OF
| late date. - D. II. I'i-AhE'
New Orleans, Jan. 26. 1895