New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-11-19
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER
Weh OFleaus 9ailg Grest&ut.
MORNING, NOVEMBER 10, 1856.
business ard General Items,

Wei, what OF business some old cynic asks, when
any remark Is made on the general character of com
mcrce ana trade. 1t was lively on the evce ycatcr
uay, ana on the principal streets the usual winter
throng OF residents, nonresidents-comc to-day and
go tomorrow resldents-was observable. The great
cvee, the STEAMBOAT landing, ia the most attractive
feature III Our metropolis at this moment. Though
the sky Was overcast in the earlier part Of the day
and indicated rain, yet towards night the weather be-
came 'luItc cold and bracing and the utmost good
feeling Wt3 cherished in the commercial community
70 be sure, we met now and then, some curmudgeon
whose vocation it is to complain -- first Of one
thing then OF anOthcr-Who takes us bv the button
and talks upon some Anticipated subject or brings up
town lots two feet under water. Now who cares
about lots OF ground which will not be wanted till
the next century and more particularly at this time
when the jackson Railroad will convey anv one in
two or three hours to locations that are high and dry
and which can be obtained for oneourth the price Of
q cty lot, besides being about ten times its size
Nothing Is tending more to the increase and prosper-
tE OF our city than the two great raroad5-hc
Jackson and Opcorsas roads. The Jackson road is
now Completed to within short distance of Summit
and the cala now run distance of los miles from the
city, ten miles the other side of Magnolia, and by
January next the road will lie completed 30 miles be-
yond Magnolia. The Opelousas road will, in all
probability be completed to Derwiclis Bay by the lst
Of February.
4 paragraph in New York paper, of the
18th inst, gives list Of vessel. building in and
about the ship'yards Of that city, and denotes
that something is astir with regard to steam coInmu-
nitation from Berwck's Bay to Galveston:
Me- j. Nlno'@n hae lS, commenced construction of two
@ p"a, W. Is. ,I %n''dors Vanderbilt FOR ne New nrls@n,
slent. ~ '''' "'''' W. '''S "<''''s
According to this, the steamers may be here in
March. From the dimensions Of the boats, it is eyj
dent they are not intended for shoal water They ore
rather too large for the Lake and Mobile trade so it il
presumed they are intended for the Texas trade
It has been suggested CT rather surnliSed that the
Jefferson and Pontcartran Railroad Co. woa!d place
one or two owpressure boats On the Lake, in the Mo-
bile and Coast trade. 1t must be a bold association
comprising enterprise and capital, that would enter
the trade Of the Lakes with the present Mobile mail
line. However, competition is the very essence the
life, Soui and body Of commerce.
But what Of the cotton market what news l,rinps
the City Of Washington, at Philadelphia? asks cot
t9ndeans individual who starcs Us from leyerie.
as it wc!e. of steamboats, and railroads. Well, the
cotton news is not oacccptablcas might be though
buyers smile and doride the idea of any further ad
vance: yet stocks are getting low and some letters
per E"Iii" intimate that Mdllngs will advance to led
i'll the spring, as high as they reached in l>4S and
lNi9 This i, not very probable
Then. on the other hand, there are letters referring
t7 the heavy receipts here, which think that our mar
Ne will decline, On the suppoSition that Midtllings
vii! 20 down in Liverpool to 6! to ga. We do not
KNOW how the war will end--whctbcr the Bulls will
toss Liverpool and Manchester Or the Bears hug to
the tune Of l2c. The contest will he strong, hut
whether the result will lie profitable or serious, We do
not pretend to divine The chief receipts Yesterday
were by the Magnolia from Yicksburg, 1902 bales.
making 3oGoo bales since Saturday morning last.