The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-16 00:00:00

NEW YORK MARKETS.-SEPT...3O.

There has been a fair business doing generally, and the
prices of imported goods are such as to give encouragement
for new orders. These to some extent will go out by the
steamers.
AsnEs.—The demand for export is not active. Some
small lots of pots have brought 525, and pearls for consump-
tion.
QUERCITILON BARE is in demand for export at 35 dollars.
The supplies short.
COFFEE.—There is less doing in this market, but holders.
encouraged by the small stock, remain firm at quotations,
10-ic to 111 c for Brazil ; 11c for Laguira ; Sic to 91c for St.
Domingo.
DRUGS.—Nothing doing.
HEMP.—Clean Russia is held firmly at 245dIrs six months;
sales of outshot have been made at 225d1rs; Sisal at 130d1rs:
Italian 220d1rs.
NAVAL STORES.—North county turpentine has been sold
at 2dlrs. Sales tar ldlr 75c.
OlLs.—The demand for whale is not large. The stock is,
however, small. The stock of English linseed is small, and
an advance is asked by some holders. Sales of pure Ameri-
can at 78c to 80c.
PROVISIONS.—There is a fair demand for pork at former
rates. In beef there is less doing.
RICE.—The market is heavy; sales for export at 3dirs 75c.
SALT.—In Liverpool there has been little doing.
WHALEBONE.—SaIes for export 191 cash.
TOBACCO.—The stock of Kentucky leaf in the market is
about 5000hhds, and is in better demand, and an advance of
to cents has been established.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT NEW ORLEANS.—A letter from
our correspondents of the New Orleans Bulletin, dated
Sept. 11, a quarter to 10 o'clock, A.M. says,—At 9 A.M. the
Exchange 11 otel was found to be on fire in the roof in many
places. The flames are bursting out and this immense pile
seems doomed to destruction.' A letter of similar tenor
has been received from the Assistant Postmaster at New Or-
leans, by the Postmaster in this city. It is as follows :
" Sept, 11, 10 o'clock, A.M.—St. Charles Hotel is on fire.
" 11 o'clock.—North-west side all in a blaze ; no hopes of
saving the building; wind blowing a gale from the north;
fifth story on the north side gone. Can't say more. Mail
just a going."
The Exchange, or St. Charles Hotel, was far the largest
building of the kind in the United States, and a very tall and
splendid edifice. It was built of brick, covered with white
stucco, belonged to the N. 0. Exchange and Banking Co.,
and cost between 4 and 500,000 dols. besides the ground. It
is now insured for 260,000 dols., of which 65,000 dols. is in
this city, 10,000 dols. at Hartford, and the rest at New Or-
leans and other places south. Heretofore it has been kept
in an unsatisfactory manner, and a contract was made some
months ago by Messrs. Mudge and Watriss, of the Astor
House, to keep it hereafter. Much was expected from this
change. They had engaged more than a hundred servants
here, who were to go out in a packet soon to sail. The de-
struction of this magnificent building will cause great incon-
venience, as, since the loss of the great St. Louis Hotel, it
was more than ever necessary for the throng of merchants
who throng to that great city for business during the winter.
The Verandah, another important hotel, stands_ across the
street from the St. Charles to the leeward, in a position quite
dangerous. The expressions of regret at this news are uni-
versal among all the gentlemen who have visited New Or-
leans.—New York Journal of Commerce.

COTTON CROP.—In the section of country bordering on
Red River, it would appear that the army worm has been
committing extensive ravages. A few stalks brought down
on a steamer yesterday were shown to us. The branches
were entirely stripped of leaves, which had been eaten by the
worm, and they were wilted and much injured. The Red
River Whig, of the sth instant, represents the prospects of
the planters as completely wrecked. Half a crop is more
than is now expected. The editor had just returned from an
excursion into the country, and states that in a ride of 25
miles, he did not pass a single plantation that had not been
visited by the boll-worm and the caterpillar. The latter, in
immense bodies, had been marching over the fields, stripping
the cotton stalks of every leaf, every bud, and every blos-
som—leaving nothing at all save the naked stalk and branches
and the matured bolls. Stripped as they are of their foliage,
the plants have the appearance of being singed by fire, which
however was not sufficient to destroy them entirely. Such
is the appearance of the fields, where the caterpillars have
finished their work; but in others, where they have just com-
menced, their presence is marked by holes which they have
drilled in the leaves, all of which disappear a few days after
the ravages begin—for they destroy thoroughly, when they
commence, and with a rapidity inconceivable to those who
have not witnessed their movements. A good deal of cotton
has been re-planted, but the presumption is, that the second
planting will in most cases produce nothing. The dry wea-
ther prevailing a long time, has seriously injured the growth,
and the caterpillar will find the young stalks so tender, that
the destruction of the foliage, buds, and the talk itself, will
be an easy matter. The work of destruction seems not to
be confined to any particular district, but their ravages are
extensive, having reached the plantations on Bayous Bceuf,
Robert and Rapide. In the parish of Nantchitoches, the
caterpillar is also busily at work. The cotton fields on the
banks of Cane River, from Clourtierville to a short distance
above the Bon Dieu, showed marks of the destroying insect.
From all accounts the probability is that scarce a half crop
will be raised in the Red River country, unless something
should immediately occur to destroy the caterpillars that are
marching by armies over the whole region.—New Orleans
Bulletin. _

SICKNESS IN THE COUNTRY.—We regret to hear of the
prevalence of sickness extensively through the country
parishes. Many persons who deserted city for the sake of
their health, have suffered seriously by a change of location.
In Mississippi, and Alabama States also, we understand, the
ravages of disease were quite alarming. The congestive
fever had carried off a great many, and the names of several
citizens of New Orleans are mentioned among the victims.
Had the transient population of our city remained here this
summer, they would no doubt have consulted their health as
well as their interest. New Orleans has been as free from
pestilence this season as the granite mountains of New
Hampshire ; and there is every prospect of a continuance of
the same exemption till the appearance of winter.—New
Orleans Bulletin.
New DESCRIPTION OF COTTON.—A new species of cotton
has been discovered by L. C. Hornsby, of Covington La.
He says the bush grows from 8 to 10 feet high, branching out
in proportion, and producing from two to three thousand
pounds to the acre. This cotton is of strong staple, and very
fine texture. Mr. Hornsby thinks it as fine as ordinary
silk. He says one seed was found two years since iu a chest
of tea, imported from China; he planted it, and saved the
seed which was its production, planted them, and now offers
a few for sale. If this cotton proves as good as represented,
we can then count upon a new era in the cultivation of the
great staple.—New Orleans Bulletin.