New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-10-04
The Close of the Week.

Business has gradually improved during the week,
and the general aspect for the month is decidedly
favorable In cotton the transactions have been large
As fast as it is landed and sampled it meets with
ready sale, at prices highly remuneratiye to the
grower. Opinions among the best informed are still
conflicting about the effects of the late cold weather.
However, they can be readily passed over by acques
cence that there is plenty of time between this and
the middle of November for killing frost. As we
intimated yesterday the Arieas advices, which came
to hand about meridian, quote no changes in the
Liverpool market. AS our correspondents have re-
marked from time to time, Mr.. Bull is decidedly stub
born and will not believe anything of short crops till
towards Christmas. The rece pts for the week, up to
n. NJ Yesterday, were 26,SG2 bales. The receipts
for the corresponding seven days last year, that is the
9th, 2sth, 10Th 3Otl September, LIST, ID and Sd Oc
tober were % ,i03 bales. One load due this week,
Of nearly 1000 bales has been detained by low water
The arrivals of boats from Cairo and st. Louis are
fully up to expectations and bringing they do full
cargoes business on the landings is unusually brisk.
There is no mistake about it, and those who are so
very incredulous about the trade Of our city-who
repose all day in some quiet location and
Canal street more than once a month or go to the
evee more than three times per year-nlay find many
OBJECTS OF interest," nD0uI llleSc tlleS DctWceH
upper limits of the Fourth District and the dividing
line of the parish of St. Bernard, the lower bounda-
ries of the city, Then we can refer to the upper
Basin, where have arrived this week &C coastng
ses all fully loaded which, with the 3G STEAMBOATS,
and seventeen vessels the river make l9 arrivals
for the current week.
We observe that all the New York prints maintain
studied silence regarding the increase Of business in
our city the great value Of exports for the last
commercial year has not attracted notice. though two
years since, when slight decrease in the value Of
receipts of produce happened to take place, good
care was taken to proclaim the fact to the world We
have, however, gained one admission, hatis it is con
ceded that New Orleans is the largest exporting EN-
porium of the Union, while New York is the centre Of
the great importing trade and the great shipping
point of all the specie which goes out of the country
and it is the focus of many other things which we arr
not ambitious Of coveting.
The Boston papers announce that the great shll
builder, Donald Mckay, has been compelled to call
meeting of his creditors and ask an extension.
The mail failed yesterday as usual the mails du
the day previous came through. The Canada's mail
will be received to-day, provided the mail via Mobil
comes through. The next steamers due from Liver
pool will be the City of Manchester, at Philadelphia
on the 24th; the tago from iavre of the same date
the Anglo Saxon, Of the same date from Liverpool
Quebec and the Niagara, at Boston on the 9th. Th
ice in the St. Lawrence will soon place an interact 0
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