New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-06-06
Talk on 'Chnnge.

The gatherings at the several corners are becoming
less every day, but that does not interfere with the
general good feeling of old and permanent resi-.
dents. They take things calmly and philosophicaly.
The fashions rather reputed fashions of the day.
do not trouble them Cotton factors and cotton ira
ders particularly are in good humor and the general
confidence in the future is strong and undsturbed
Those engaged in the cotton trade have had good
deal of fun, for it would be pity to assume any de-
gree of anger at the writer of the letter addressed to
the Manchester Eng.) Guardian, dated New York,
April 49, and which contains the following m'orceau
U To return to the new crop The whole force of the
planters has been engaged ploughing and narrowing
the land and as new fields has been put into culture
the labor has been very severe. Seeding down the
crop, therefore, has notb been pushedthe great end
being to enlarge the planting field. 1t is now pro-
crossing, and as it usually takes six weeks, it is APP
parent that there were No plants above ground at the
18th inst. and our mail advces, now received con
firm this. Even the sugar in Louisiana not
injured although the telegraph said it had certainly
been killed. The ground is now mellow and the re-
cent rains will give an extraordinary impetus to the
termination OF the seed. So great is the mania for
planting under the stimulus Of the recent high prices
nearly double what they were at the last planting
season-that cotton has been planted in the usual
vegetable gardens while corn grounds have been re-
4 duced, on an average, fully one-half This can be
done without detrment the space used for corn in
the two previous seasons was large, and planters have
q good supply yet remaining on hand. | repeat,
therefore, that despite the backwardness of the spring
everything points to the largest crop of cotton ever
4 raised. sf
With regard to the old crop, still think it will ex-
ceed 3000a0 bales. Copions rains have swollen the
Ohio and Missouri rivers, and the Mississippi is rising
steadily from the same cause This will aid the de-
livery of such cotton has been previously hauled to
the local depots the banks of that stream and it
is also indicative Of better navigation on the rbuta-
IL - ,4l,a
great deal of, cotton detained by low water The
planters have had to resort to atboat building to aid
the delivery on little Red river, but even with that
aid, boats are aground every few miles. A merchant
from, Alexandria, Louisiana, of high repute who is
now here on his second trip to buy goods, informs
that the cotton crop in Western Louisiana and Arkan
sas exceeds largely the crop of any preceding year
and that means will be found in way to get it to
market before the 3lst August. From the ihforma
derived nom him and from one of our mercantile
agencies, feel quite that reliance be placed
! the delivery at New Orleans within the present
cotton year. of about the following amounts from the
respective points named-say from Mississippi river
! proper 900 bales; from Red river rs GOO; from
Ouachita river, Is, 900 from Yazoo river 20 600
from Arkansas river rs ,0o0 from Tennessee by the
Cumberland and Tennessee rivers now rising 20 000
| from Bayou Sara, 0000; from Tensas, 100000 from
Pearl river and various points by railroad say 00O0
bales, making altogether a total of fully 100000
bales of old cotton and with the present prospect
the largest crop ever delivered may receive at thai
port alone $4,000 bales of new cotton during August
1t is not unlikely, therefore, that instead Of ,0O(
bales, stock of cotton, available for export,
! will be nearer $50 900.
Well, we have not much to say about the above
but only observe how cooly the writer falls from hi
i reliable information" of 100000 bales and owe
down to S,oo0000. But really, we begin to think i
is about time one of our respected cotemporarie
should choose another correspondent in New York.
As regards that merchant from Alexandria, w
think he did not omit, when he made the remark, tn
usual gyratons over his nasal extremities. Our i'm
mortal friend, John Arrowsmith, will be nowher
after ths-his laurels for hoaxing are faded and h
must suceumb to the operator of renown.
/ We have been favored with the following extract q
a letter from of the first planters in Mississippi
who generally turns out 800 bales of cotton yearly
Extract from letter received from Claiborn
county, near Port Gibson, dated May 30, 1857:
The crops condition this region of cour
IVY and do not promise TO be much better The stands of
good or every is endcayong by repantin
remedy the bad effects of the cold weather hut repiapn
only The first planting always shades The
SO as TO injareto greater less We bound
have short nnless all enemies their dep
daions Immediately
Extract from letter received from Last Prairi,
:, Upper Red river, dated May %, 1857:
Crops eok rather seky from the weather Much con
paint everywhere in section
: EDIToRIAI DISSER.-on the goth ult the membe,
OF the Charleston press gave dinner to their brett
ren OF Memphis, and others visiting Charleston Q
the occasion of the railroad celebration. The afa
! took place at Mount Pleasant, S. c., and went q
very happily.