New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-09
Cotton, Talk on 'change and Florida Marts


The week commenced yesterday with very fair
show of business on the upper steamboat landing for
the of the year, which embraces the Western
produce trade. At the lower landing, or below Canal
street, the coast packets Lower Mississippi boats
do not appear to be doing much. Many of the pack
cts appear to be running for the accommodation of
the trade, and the public in general, without the
owners or proprietors expecting to make dollar over
expenses for the the next four months and if they do
this they will be satisfied. There is, we think more
than an ordinary amount of business going on with
Texas, Alabama and Florida, in the produce line.
The actual confirmation of contract for mail service
with the Florida ports is highly gratifying to all in
terested. The stOce Department has, after years
of trial, concluded to allow reasonable compensa
ton for the transportation of the mails semi-weeky
between this city, Pensacola, Tampa Bay and Key
West, including Apaachcola. More than year ago
| we remarked that the requirements of the govern
ment regarding this SERVICE could not be carried out
for less than $4,000 $4,000. We learn that the
contract has been awarded to the Southern Steamship
Company at $72 ,000 but we sincerely hope this COM
pany will place another steamer the route of equal
standing with the Atlantic. With good vessels such
as the Atlantic, and as ably commanded hundreds of
citizens might be induced to take pleasure trips
during the summer We coasted it along the Florida
coast years ago in foreand aft schooner on tour of
pleasure, and we can recommend the trip to Key West
as combining every pleasure and recreation desirable
much more so than to take money and travel north
ward and disburse it on Long Island Sound or along
the Northern coast in catching excursions.
There was little said about cotton yesterday 1t is
almost unnecessary for us to remark that factors
evince no disposition to recede from the quotations of
the day, and they appear fully convinced that the
prospects for the growing crop anything but of an
abundant yield, and of they do not feel dis
posed to give way. Another batch of circulars was
furnished by the steamer from Boston on Wednesday
last. They were something Of repetition --averse of
course to the cotton interests The following is the
closing paragraph of one of these circulars
| New CRop.-The weather, which we reported cool
and unproptlous in our last, has since become warm
and seasonable and the telegraph wires advise that
this favorable change has occurred simultaneously all
the South. Hence, though the Southern letters,
which come by the comparatively slow medium of the
mails still speak of cold, it is apparent that their
tenor will be different next week.
| "Eh, hem!h Now this is funny. Somebody ia
writing and talking about the ne,c crop as though it
was already coming to market We hone thew will
send word when the first blossom Of the new crop an
pears. We suppose we shall have the first informal
ton from New York. Wemust acknowledge that the
weather is becoming rather on the summer order
sufficiently hot to burn the crop up on the highlands
We have proposition to make to these everlasting
writers about crops and estimates that is lust let the
crop be for sixty days and then have some data to 20
upon, and not to be sending weekly to Liyerpool
opinions which never will be confirmed.