The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1848-07-17

MONEY PREsstRE.-The amount of uncurrent
money received at the Foreign Money department
Of the Suffolk Bank of Boston, on the 9TH inst, was
$4,000 dollars; and at the Receiving Tellers de-
partment, over 900 dollars-makng more than
one millions dollars, which was paid in at that
bank in the course of six hours on the 9TH. From
the LIST Of January to the LIST of July, the Foreign
Money department alone, received and redeemed
upwards of eighty-sir millions Of dollars.
SPEcIE.-The Britannia, left New York on the
9th inst, with some ffty-fve passengers and a
heavy mail. Her amount of specie was very tri-
ding-not over $1,000 The Havre packet had
much larger sum-say $3.50, 900. 1t is generally
believed that the export of specie will soon settle
downto the ordinary standard.
IMMGRATIoN-Th immigration last month at
New York, was beyond 5000, making some IS, 900
in the months of May and June. The immigrants
are mainly of more wealthy class than any yet
arrived there. One small shp-oad of them re-
Gently, from Holland, with about 100 passengers
brought out upwards of $500 600 in gold and silver
0g~ The Portland Advertiser wishes it under
stood that the " Atlantic and St. Lawrence railroad
is now fairly opened and in opera ion.'
DESTRUCTIVE. FIRE IN BRooKLYN.-A pretty
row of cottages in Fulton street, Brooklyn, n Y,
called Princes Cottages, were destroyed early on
the morning of the 9th inst, with the bakery of
VIM Bond, in which the fire originated. The
raging element only allowed the unfortunate in
mates barely time escape in their night clothes.
The New LoAN-s25 900 of the sixteen mil
lion T. s. loan was sold on the It'll, in Philadelphia
at $l05, being 5per cent advance on its par value.
From KINGSTON, h-The ship Sir Robert Peel,
Capt McEwen, arrived on Saturday from Kings
/ ton, ia, which port she left on the 3D. inst.
7 Col. Reid 1.-The Governor ofthe Windward Islands,
! had sent his resignation to England.
. In the island of Barbados the planters aban-
donng the cultivation of sugar and are giving their
attention TO the culture of provisions. The papers
IN Jamaica and the other islands are urging their
planters to the same course. A planter, writing in
Inc west indian, paper published in Barbados,
4 closes his article thus
! According TO a calculation which, we under
stand was recently made, the sum Of three millions
/ OF dollars has been expended on the purchase of
breadstuiIs SINCE the LIST Of August, 1888. Nine
/ tenths of this have been paid 10 the Americans.
Notone dollar Of this will ever again visit these
] shoresp
The papers in all the islands are complaining of
their condition. The planters, they saw are deeplv
! in debt produce is low, and it would apnear as #
| a
meeting had been held in Kingston to take into
consideration the state Of the island and resoIII
tions were adopted pedtiOning the Home Govern
ment to modify the tariff SO as to give free labor
sugar an advantage in the English market and in
/ the British colonies. The Trinidadian, paper re-
Gently established in Trinidad, thus describes the
condition of things in that colony:
Her treasury is worse than empty, containing
| obligations and demands instead of bullion and
/ bonds: her local governments are perplexed and
IF
| ton, and present incapacity; her staple products
are at an alarming discount in the British market
her laborers and merchants, the sinews of her
strength and the opponents of her wealth, are al
best i'll remunerated, and in many cases rregulary
paid if paid at all; and as necessary consequences
her mercantile interests are in a ruinous state
public confidence, there Is none and distress Il
Thf weather n Ell Tie nriush Islands q ssshsa