New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-05-02
Neh 0rlsans 9ailp Grtstsnt,
SATURDAY MORNING MAY 2, 1857.
Talk ON ,change, Towboats and Commerce.

Talk ON 'Change, Towboats and Commerce.
There was not much to boast of yesterday in the
way Of business The weather prevented the usual
gatherings, and with rain threatening every fifteen
minutes, there were few Of the usual assembages
here and there. Business on the 1evee was dull COM
pared to what it was a short time since There Is
large quantity Of produce going to Texas which State
is likely to be Of the very best customers Of our
CITY, The intercourse now with Galveston is so fre
quent that leave our city one morning after
breakfast, and take breakfast the next morning in
Galveston travelling through the fine sugar section Of
Louisiana to Berwicks Bay. Before long (by the
Southern Steamship Company and the new line OF
vanderbits via the Opeousas railroad we shall have
daily communication with Texas. The new steam
ship Opeousas, attached TO the Opelousas or Great
Western railroad, cleared at New York on the 24th
ut for Berwicks Bay and will be due there on Mon
day next. ~.
| The Northern mail failed yesterday. Friday is the
regular day of failure from beyond Augusta. The
Americas mails, Of the 18th inst. from Liverpool,
will reach here on Monday, no doubt The Africas
advices at New York are now fully due, but short
passages not expected since the Collins line has
been reduced in its receipts the unfortunate re-
commentator of the late Postmaster General, to re-
duce the. compensation. 1t weuld scarcely have
required another Presidential term for Mr. Campbell
to have disarranged and ruined the entire postal SER
vice Of the country.
It will be seen by our reports elsewhere that the
receipts of cotton are running low, and we expect
them to run much lower during the present month
We call on SOME of those voluble writers for the
English market to show those 100000 bales which
were to be received this month"; There are parties
very anxious to sample some few thousands of them
as we'll as to realize the commissions.
The following remarks, which we take from New
York paper Of the 23d ult, deem Of sufficient i'm
portance to present for the consideration of those in
terested, which we presume is the general public
The Glad Tidings belongs to Holmes line of packets
which line, we believe, has made something like for
tune for more't dozen owners, and perhaps 70
twelve dozen, first and last, as it was established il
the year 1924
THE New ORLEANS TowBoAr CoMPANY.-Captai
Nelson, of the ship Glad Tidings, which arrived O
|, Sunday from New Orleans, makes the following re
port The Glad Tidngs was detained inside the ba
twenty days waiting, the towboat monopoly sale
for want of water on the bar, although it is srang
fact that several vessels brought in drawing
much, and in some instances than those waitin
to go out whether their being owned in instanc
and their cargoes in other by large shareholder
of the towboat monopoly accounts for the above fac
l
the Glad Tidings was lying there) that drew over
feet that taken out tried on the bar happene
also to belong to New Orleans; very strange coinc
dences 1t is wonder that some company has NJ
started an opposition line of boats before this thel
is mine of wealth that is only known to the stool
holders. Six good boats would have more than the
could attend to if they started on the right pr
: ciple When the Glad Tidngsleft there were 81 We
sells inside and IA outside waiting, of thenfl
: sorry to say, owned by any of the stockholders"
If we recollect correctly, there have been innnm
y rable complaints regarding this towboat monopol
but we really do not know whether there is actual
= any combination. Count Foster, from the year IS
to 1885, with the Grampus, Porpoise, Shark al
er Whale steam tugs was called q mondpolist.. The
l u have been opposition lines started about doz
a times within many years, or say the last TWEEN
IS years, but somehow another they oil resolve ir
this monopoly. Now, we really shall be glad to lea
til the length, breadth circumference of this monop
. alluded to in the above extract. Captain Nelson sa
:" six good boats would have more than they could
tend to if started on the right principle" Will
= captain inform US what is the right principle?
H for the towboat association, we do not know FRI
@ @e the other, the other from one and don't care
e. button whether they tow ships in or whether th
tow them out we will send them to sea by the cam
when they are ready, la Nantucket.