Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-12

habitable globe--procecd TO friend SLEW.
let's City Hotel" by 8, P. NJ, take din.
ner not to be exceled at any hotel on this
continent As the shades of night draw
near, you can choose your own manner
and course 10 pass the evening; you will
have three theatres, a concert or two, six
bathrooms, and circus for selection; you
can go 10 elthcr-or you can 60 to church
if you choose. And when you retire to
bed, if you don't come 10 the conclusion
that New Orleans. is place, why, you can
go to Constantinople, or--bnck to Car
rollton.
Markets, Sc.-The operations in the
great staple, cotton, for the past ten days,
have been very extensive +; an advance
of C. per ID. has been obtained; though
small, il is better than being the other
way. Freights to European ports having
declined, a further advance in cotton might
have been expected; as it is, the feeling is
decidedly favorable, and the recent news
is Of more cheering nature than it has
been my fortune TO record for some time.
Sales OF last week in this market reach
10000 bales, chiefly for the English mar
ket, and up to the close of the week fac
tors did not appear to be placing large lots
on the market for sale. think, with
several others, that European dealers have
been forming TOO large an estimate Of the
crop of lS44, and that it will not reach
beyond 2,300,0 900 bales and at that esti-
mate, with the heavy stock in England at
the close Of 1914, not any material advance
in price for several months to come, can
be expected. Should the year ls45 give
another great yield, no Improvement in
price can be looked for until the consump-
ton more equally approximate to the pro-
duction. Spectators and dealers that
got their fingers SO severely burned last
year by the article, have not now the
means or disposition TO enter into the mar
ket on any terms. Perhaps those useful
inventions, the Tennessee banks and agen-
cies, who have drawingpost in this city,
and are at all times very friendly dispo-
sed TO aid the planters in the disposition
of their crops, can operate to some ad-
vantage, and allow fraction Of cent
above the market rates, or they will as
sist the solvent planter by taking his draft
on some of their posts here, and through
their drunmers, payable mex. season at
the rate of IL a Is per cent. per annum,
in exchange for those fancy engravings, or
pretty pictures Of the denomination of !,
2, 3 and SIS, as learn all transactions in
North Mississippi are now based on Ten
nessee shinplasters. There is plenty of
the sound currency in circulation FOX all
business purposes, but il your planters suf-
fer themselves to be deluded into the shin. |
plaster system again, they ought 10 suffer.
The receipts of Western produce are
heavy, and many articles have declined,
Flour, for instance, below $500; Bag
ying, l0i ia c.; Rope, 81 c.
In general, business does not look very
lattering. Heavy stocks Of Dry Goods
ire on hand, not paid for. Groceries are
plenty, and prices rule low. Sugar has
almost as many different grades and prices
Is cotton; on platform, prices range from
to 81 cents. Salt is arriving in heavy |
quantities.; cargo sales have been made be-
ow ninety cents per sack for Liverpool.
Yours, very respectfully, -.