New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-30
TAX on ,Chanse---cotton.

Talk on 'Change--Cotton.
We have not yet reached the summer standard Of
trade but we are moving towards it. The gatherings
on the street corners and public places are lessenng
daily. The mild and springlike weather for three
days past had an enlvening Influence, and we begin
to feel once more like denzens Of the tropics.
The views on cotton and the prospects for obtaining
any approach to good stand forms one Of the chief
topics in commercial circles We think that the ques
ton of the crop or growth of 1856 is approaching
its quietus and it will not take many weeks to ascer
tain the whereabouts Of those 100000 bales which
were to be received in the month Of May. A week
ago the deficiency in receipts from last year was
4Os 900 bales this morning it will be 445oo0 bales
At this rate, what will it be the LIST of June But
we beg pardon of those attentive for the
English market-we forgot those 100000 bales, and
overlooked the fact that the stock is to "swe to
$50 900 bales according to the estimate published
yesterday. s4 S5 zoe
The richest joke of the season is the latter part of
circular forwarded to Liverpool from New York,
under date of the 2lst inst in the following words
Ne,c Crop-In our last advised that sufficiently hard
frost had occurred New Orleans kill that
above This has been but all are agreed
there was little cotton in condition to be injured and That e
far enough advanced sustain injury only another
ration Of what we hear ali Intense efforts that
Of a,mass from W , ssss s
planting certainly commenced early, has been continued with
unusual activity and will be continued to the latest moment
1asen paee from e Northern slave States Indeed virginia
and Missouri rapidly Of their
their e and dsr
is
being thus considerably increased From whatever point Of
hope for very large crop the coming
that will at last show that pddcion will under the incentive
Of high prices keep pace With beyond consup-
Conceding that planting, under the remarkably
mild weather which prevailed in February and early
in March, was commenced early we shall be glad to
learn the result Of it, The circular expresses opinions
of great political questions and agtations as regards
the depopulation of Virginia and Missouri of slaves
We do not believe there any slaves brought
to the South last season than in former years. The
prospects for sugar cultivation offered no inducements
whatever. But the great mischief occasioned or to
be brought about by these erroneous circulars, is
leading dealers and spnners in Europe to believe that
there will be production Of cotton beyond consump
ton the present before half the cotton planted
has appeared above ground. &
We have from time to time exposed thesfalacies
and misguided views Of cotton dealers for the Euro
pean market and while we do not desire to exult in
the preponderance of our opinions and estimates
ber we take the present occasion to remark that
predictions and calculations with the general course
Of the market have been successfully confirmed and
likely to be sustained in every respect by the course
of trade and events.
Recent Publications.
We have received from the publishers, through Mr..
]. B. Steel No. 60 Camp street. copies Of the fol-
lowing:
ISABEL, the Young Wife and the Old Love. By John
Cordy Jeaffreson author of /" Crewe Rise" etc.
New York: Harper & Brothers.
An English love-story, winding up with wedding.
It appears, far we judge from hasty skim
ming, to be finely favored romance, well suitedto
the sentimental class Of readers
THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND AND ENGLISH PRINCEssEs,
BY Agnes Strickland. New York. Harper &
Brothers
This is the sixth volume of work that has already
won high favor with the readers of biography, and is
the continuation Of the life Of Mary Smart The his
tory is fascinating and should be procured and treas
ured by all.
THE CHILp's Book OF NATURE. Three parts in one
By Worthington Hooker, NJ. D. New York: Har
per 4 Brothers.
A handsome volume Of 40 pages, in which natura
philosophy is simplifed for juvenile minds and euci
dated by engravings. The three divisions of the boob
are Plants -" Animals" Air, water, heat, light,
etc. 1t is valuable book for the enlightenment o
the young. ~ .l-.
READING WITHOUT TEARS; or, a Pleasant Mode o
Learning to Read. By the author of Peep Of
Day. etc. New York Harper Brothers.
A new and improved primer for children, neatly
printed and illustrated. 1t begins with the ab-cs
and concludes with lessons in reading.