New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-06-21
TURDAY MoRNIN q j r a, 1856

Grand SERENAD Some of#onr most substantial
citizens got grand serenad on Al
in honor Of Mayor Waterman eyeFal other gen.
Mennsn recently elected public office he serenad
ing party, numbering about Two hundred and headed
bysan excellent brass band, proceeded first to the
y Mayor residence Oh square The Mayor
y acknowledged the sefenade, inviting the party
u into his mansion, Eere III tab was snmptuousy
spread with edihes and drinkab les here was q
hearby Reunion over table and the consiVialty
was spicsd II Hill and cheers, nat
raj to sHeh an oecasiolls and sWeetened with some
most e1eallant several known anna
teu1s who were Of tile party. Leaving the Mayors
The party nlplimented Recorder Sthth on Camp
street, and Alderman Landry, on Nayades street.
n They then proceeded to Alderman Summers resi-
4 denee, Oh coliseum Place There the seienade was
responded to hi an invitation inside, where another
cheicely loaded table was waiting. The music
given there was superb, the vocaists being in their
happiest strain. The serenade was altogether Gle
giant affair, and was elegantly y Il sponded 70.
VI Ews AMERICAN PAPER We received yesterday
the first number Of the Central Organ, new paper
Just established in the town Of Iarksville, La,
Messrs Cannon u Taylor is d neatly printed and
well edited sheet and will be Of much
service to- the party which it is devoted. Success
to N, pecuniarily and politically, say we.
Bus1sEss. There have been received this week Of
cotton, sd ar and faolasses, the following quantities
Of each ,2T4 bales Of cotton; 1915 hhds.Gsugar;
25A7 bills molasses, and II AL hhds. tobacco, with
several thousand barrels Of -four, sacks of corn and
4 q large quantity Of assorted prodnc e-say wheat.
pork, bacon, whisky, bagging, rope, and one thing
and another, making up at least for the season of the
year about as respectable footing as could be de-
sired By the most ardent friends Of our city.
We continue TO receive from the country favorable
accounts Of the growing crops. That Of par
ticnlarly forward, and will the means of rendering
our State, iii great measure independent Of the
West that necessary article of subsistence Re
gaFding cotton. we are almost afraid to express our
views from the accounts before US, Of the probable
growth Of this season Should nothing more than
the usual casualties and ycssitudes attend the sea-
son, we can calculate on more than average yield
That is not, however neither here nor there all that
can, Or rather all that will be- raised, will be wanted,
and at very remnner atiye prices.
The great budgets Of statistics which recently emana
ted from the statistical department. at
garding the cotton trade, and which is being pub
lished In several Of leading papers Of the country
does not contain any more information than what
Europe al well as in this country That thereare errors
init is manifest from the fact that in making up the
average weight Of 1891 bales cotton, exported to
Mexico it gives them as being Of only 239 pounds
each, and estimates this weight in tile general calcu
alton Of the number Of bales exrorted it is well
known that nineteenth-t Of the cotton e1
ported hence to Mexico from this port is packed in
what are termed half bales that is every bale Of the
full average weight, say $50 pounds, is taken to a
press and there repacked into two smaller Or what
are termed half bales. No doubt many other errors
can be detected the statement, though for State
,aper It is about MS near correct as State papers
generally are. til 3tz
The freight market ather frnler to-day Vessels
are clearing in ballast for other ports in search of en-
pIoynent. The arrivals the week have been large,
much in excess Of the requirements of trade, though
three towboats MP yesterday light This indicates
a falling OFF for the time being, though the lowest
kind Of rates must be the ruling feature Of the freight
market for the balance Of the season. Or until about
the LIST Of October next.
The mail due yesterday failed from beyond
Augusta Ca, yet the letters by the Ericsson came
through The mails by the Arabia will be due this
morning. The private letters by the Ericsson do not
hold out the least eneourag cement for breadstufs,
grain provisions and, of course, our market will
be much influenced We think that consumers gene
rally viii have the pleasure 81 eating cheap bread
for the next twelve mouths.
IAEE.sHoRE PACKET KATE FRrsBEE.-Th his steam.
err the Belle Of the Lakes leaves Lakeport the end Of
the Jefferson Railroad the arrival of the 2h. 20nl
train cars from Tyoi Circle and Port Pontehartrain
on the arrival Of the o'clock, r. NJ. train, for all
the seashore suburbs from Ocean Springs westward.
. .1 lFt
favor to the $50 passengers going over this evening"
departure. n ss
For LouIsvlLLE.-That famous boat the Magnolia,
Capt. Thomasson, leaves this evening at 5 P. NJ.
for Louisville. OF course, is unnecessary for US to
praise this boat, as her fame and character are too