New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-11-20
business,

The cloudy weather of Tuesday turned into q regr
lar rain storm yesterday, b0Ht neon, checking all out
door transactions, and nevdictns the usual afternoon
business on the ship and steamboat landings.
The arrivals for the last tortyeisht hours have Leen
very valuable-among them notice the laEQUe
Mahlon williamson from RIO de Jarcrio, wiki G,py0
bags of coffee to J. l.. phppS X Co.. Conrad, with
4 100 to P. A. Giraud 4: Co.. Cavalier, with 100
to Johnston, Moke ( Co.: brig anli,t Ford, with
300 to Eoigts, ,JeanrcncaUd 4 Co. Total, l1.700
bags which makes the receipts since lSt September
last % 500, against -, 316 for the same time last
wear. There are believed to he few Thousand HaEs
more on the way hither which may increase The re-
ceipts the present commercial year to over four
hundred thousand bags. Or good friend Mr.. Bull,
however, intends We shall not spoil for want Of salt
II continues to come not in small lots Of one hundred
t0u5 as in oldcn time, when General I'dl:rey would
take whole cargocs payable i'll REFRESHING Of cotton
but it comes in cargoes Of 10000 and $4,000 sacks
and the receipts thus far this season are $4,000,
against 2l5 900 same time last year: and l25,o90
bu shells Turks Island and otter kinds against A. 9J9
last year.
Tie general business at our Cu>tonl-IIoH>e is
steadily on the increase, and 10 Indication whatever
that trade is likely to decline, particularly Cor the
next six months when all Northern ports aEj nlarts
will he in part ice bouMd Steamships may run weekly
between New York, Boston and Liverpool, and convey
the mails the greater part of the commercial con-
tents of which allude to cotton, and, Of course the
Southern trade the general topic. They talk
about wheat and corn Of the NorththcSe articles can
in ordinary seasons lc raised to sufficient extent in
| Europe Cotton cannot be therefore, have nc
fears Of the commerce and trade Of New Orleans s.
crOakers rest easy.
The receipts of cotton yesterday were, ~ the Fer
Franklin, from Memphis, ole bales: Swamp Fox
from Alexandria. 1857; McRae. from Eicksburg
l,9lt Laurel Hill, from Bayou sara, IA. Total
SIG bales, and since Saturday morning last, A.;
! bales.
There were some reports yesterday about ice il
the upper rivers. The weather has moderated within
the past twcut yfour hours. 1t is most too soon TO
spectators to attempt to create an excitement n til
market to enhance the prices Of brcad>tutlS and pro
Visions not emitting the article Of coal. OF the latte
article. there have been sufficient supplies rorclyc
from the West and Liverpool, IA keep the pric" dow
to reasonable limits. There several vessels OH til
way from Liverpool, with more less in the mc,iI
time the Breckenridge mines furnishing GOO
supply at living rates, and unless spectators ca
force the Ohio aud upper Mississippi rivers to an cart
freeze the neccS~arics Of life will not }e wanting.
The Northern and Eastern mail failed yc~t"rda
from beyond Augusta, Ga. This is the second nilUr
this week, and as tomorrow is the regular tajIin
day. there will be three omissions for the week. I'll
| Europa's mails will BE dnc tomorrow; possibly ihe
may have reached New York in season II he Gi
patched i'll the evening train OF last Thursdayif =
they may be at hand this morning.