From tie Price Current, FEB. -.
Ew ORLEANS COTTON MARKET.
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Our last report lri, The cotton market in ah es'
eecdagiy unsettled, dropping aud unsatisfactory
state, the unusually heavy stock on sale, aud a
sudden advance IN irsighis, having caused ma
leral and rapid decline IN pfiors These causes
of depression have snee operated with increased
force, assisted IN the same direction by further
decline IN the rates Of Exchange, and the coase-
qaenoe has been that the market again gave way
On Wednesday aud Thursday fully half rent
from the rates Of Tuesday, Middng 10 tiood Md
ding eailon having heen sold at 10 10Y cents,
and even less, Il Is asserted, IN instances, the
market being 50 unsettled that great iHegulafily
prevailed ia the transactions that took place
The sales Of these two DAYS amounted TO about
$500 bales Yesterday a mofe active enquiry pre-
vailed. and fully 10000 bales were disposed Of the
market acquiring myfe slcadincss and iitmness rs
the day advanced, and closing al rates which ca
hibi a slight recovery from the extreme depression
Of the two previous days. The further decline
above mentioned has been confined 10 grades below
Middling Fair. Ia which nearly all tho business
has been donsi III. better descriptions, owing TO
the comparatively lrh, supply Of them, having
about maintained the position in which they wric
ltii at the date Of our last rcpoll, though with few
OF no transactions The total sales Of the week
sum up 80, 200 bales, Of winch le 500 bales have
been disposed Of within the past three DAYS, taken
mostly ioT England and the Continent The total
receipts al this port snec Let September arc l7O, ,6JJ
bales, against 500 .220 bales at same date last year
showing decrease Of 92,5o1 bales; while IN the
;..e-'as at oil the ports, up,io the latest dates, a.
compared with lau ysaT ,neie e 80 Increase Of
99, COS bales In the total exports from the unu-1
States to fofcgn countnes, a, compared with the
same dates las, year, there IS decrease Of l26,.
9sl bales 10 Gfsat Britain, and I6g9 10 France,
while to other foreign ports there b an Increase Of
q ,sli bales. The following are the particulars
of the sales during the past three days, 20 fsf
made public-ll2 bales at lOi, 355 at III, - at
lO!, 3J2 at l0., $50 at l, 1903 at l0i, II al l0.
81 At 10 1916, so at 10, Ia6 at lOi, 100 Ut l0i,
2G0 at lli. ESQ al lni, 100 ut II, III at lOs, ~
at lOi lO99 at lOi, 400 a, 80, 600 ut -, 200 at
lOl. al2 at l0l, lsi at rot, 1876 at 10, 1900 at
-, i5D at l0i. 1000 Tenn at -, 2GO at l0i
1911 at, 20j ut lOt, 81 Al lO., 100 at l0i, $50
at -, 600 at l0i, 200 at l0l. 100 a, l0t, 1900 at
lOi, 1900 al -, I12 ut lui, l3l a, 10y, 1870 at
l0i. 500 a, II, $50 al 10 9i6, 60 a, II. ~ at II,
30 at lOi 800 a, 10 SIG, 800 at 100, 1900 at 80,
and $50 at lli cents psrlb.


