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New Orleans Daily Grescent THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT New Orleans Money Market. CRESCENT OFFICE, No. 70 Camp street, Wednesday Evening, Sept. 30, 1857. Generally speaking, there was A better feeling in monic ircles to-day. The calls on the Banks for discounts thong arge were not in excess of last week. The same ratio of offe ngs and the same line of discounts appear to mark the mov nents of the Banks as last week. Confidence in the future co Inues strong. Our Banks are doing all they can in sustain he good position which our city has held and now hold There is no excitement prevailing. Cotton is coming to mark reely, and the prospects for the sugar crop are most suspicior from the fact that some of the present season's growth has be received, and reported to be sold at almost unbeard of price This augurs well for us. In fact, there are not the least remo causes to apprehend anything serious for the future. We 8 willing to admit it in a difficult period for exchange trans tions. What of that ! the same has occurred before, and o good city, with its merchants, has survived the results, a there is nothing discernible on the commercial horizon to ere the belief but that we can pass another crisis-yea, or balf dos of the same nature. Confidence continue unimpaired. Produce is arriving free to place our factors in a good and desirable position. It is, however, too early in the season to predict the course prices, As for the stability of our Banks, any individual ch lenging their solidity after perusing the last monthly stateme rendered to the Board of Currency, might well be consider fit subject for the Insane Hospital, The movements in paper to day were limited. We heard some transactions at 11@12 per cent., and some at a higher re up to 15@18 per cent. In exchange there was nothing dof other than some sales of sterling clear bills at 1 per cent. I mium, and some offers of par. Francs were taken at 5.55. ( of the Banks sold checks on New York in small sums to customers at 11/4 per cent. premium. There were reports a that some of the Western Bank agents were drawing coin, we did not discern anything more than usual, and think t there is very little due the West or the Western Banks, and t the demand for coin must necessarily be very limited. T bills on Northern citles are almost unsaleable. We do not e the North at this time, and If New England manufactu want cotton, they will provide the ways and means for paym There was nothing done in stocks to-day. The manager the Crescent City Bank have called for the second instaln which will be payable to-morrow at the Banking House, con of Carondelet and Canal street. The Bank goes into opera to-morrow-that is, opens for business. The Louisiana Savings Institution, having been reorgani has removed to 59 St. Charles street. The difficulties un which it labored some fifteen months since have been remo and it is now in a good position, and able to carry out the poses of its incorporation. Deposits in this Bank of as sma sum as one dime are received and interest allowed ther Those who arefdesirous of encouraging babits of economy savings, will do good service by encouraging this institution We have frequently alluded to the mismanagement of mongrel affair, the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Comp Possibly it might not have been worthy of our notice had D former merchant of New Orleans-a graduate from Bost been at the head of it. As from what has transpired, the re sion now going on may be said to be unavoidable. It w have been about as well had it commenced among the n concerns than the lead should have been by a corporation w has carried so many with it. The last Cincinnati Price Current has the following rema