New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-06-02

NEW ORLEANS IN a Business PoINr or VIEW.
The following interesting sketch Of our cit, in a
business point Of view is from the pen of one Of
the editors Of the NewYork Express, Z. Brooks,
ESQ, an intelligent, ohsoryant and well ira
veled gentleman There are some predictions
in the closing paragraphs that should command
especial attention
The Leyee at NewOrleans is the greatest
commercial spectacle have ever seen, There
are miles Of ships and acres of steamboats, lin
ing the extended crescent, and running far
above-and below the city limits: many more Mt
Algiers, and hundreds more always on the river
above and below the city. The ships lie from
two TO five and six deep, and present a picture
OF trade and commerce, at one view such as can
be seen at no other port in the world | have
walked more than once over the whole length of
the Levee, from jefferson City and LAFAYETTE TO
the lower end of the city, and have seen there
thousands and tens of thousands of bales Of cot :
ton, and visiting the cotton presses cotton
yards, and cotton stOrehouses near by | have
seen thousands and tens of thousands of addi-
lonal bales. Steamboats, are unloading their
cotton from the upper countries, and enormous
ships are receiving it for Europe The South
and Southwest grow the cotton and the North
and East carry it TO Europe 1t would be i'm
possible almost for planters to be shippers, and
hence there seems to be a Providence almost in
this sectional division of capital and Ia Dor which
brings distant people to the same country into
frequent, social, aud business intercourse A
l have ga1ed upon those many thousand bales
OF cotton, and 20,OOO are sometimes sold after
dinner, here by one or two persons for shipment,
(cVery one Of which was worth %4O1 | have
thought that the much abused Cotton Payty Of
the nrtd States was Il very important and
respectful body OF persons. 1t is a party which
raised one hundred millions of dollars year in
American produce for European market, and
Il party which contributes lust SO much To nav
oil adebt incurred by the United States abroad
But ii IS not the number Of ships and steam
boats, nor the quantity of cotton raised and
brought here which alone amaze me The pic-
ture oi thrift and industry, Of private spirit and
general animation Is unsurpassed You see in
the immature OF those, many steamers PAINTING
putting and grooming with the burdens thev
bring from affair, which thread all the water
courses OF our western world, a foreshadowino
oil the inland commerce of the United States il
connects with country, and that our country
which in the article Of grain alone could, if need
be, feed every mouth in the world. You see, at
times, too, nearly thousand ocean vesselsread
TO bear away this inland commerce to all parts
OF the civilized globe You behold for miles and
miles, amidst little colored flags and numbered
stats, betokening the ownership of property,
wide spread levee, and generally much greater
in width than the Bowery and Broadway to-
gether, covered in the busy season of the year
all over with articles oshome produce or of for
eign and domestic merchandise. | have seen no
such picture before, and had no comprehen-
sion of the magnitude of such growth and
trade as this. NewOrleans may well boast of
such commerce and of such highway to the
pee an as the mighty Mississippi.
Let me enter little into detail in regard to
two Of these productions--cotton and sugar.
The last is a crop almost peculiar to this State,
md as such Louisianians ought to appreciate it.
The first is common 10 a vast section of country,
md this is its greatest market
From NewOrleans there were shipped in the
irst two months of the present year, 3l3, 567
'ales of cotton, which brought an average per
'ale of $40 81, and produced an aggregate in
'alue Of Sl2,154 ,306 This city has exported
$1,000 bales of cotton more thus far in thepre-
ent hseal year than the last The estimated