New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-05-21
Talk ON ,chanSe.


The talk yesterday did not amount to much.
Something was said about freights, and something
more about the anxiety Of many captains to accept
good offers, load and get of. Though it cannot be
positively proved that some efforts will be made to
frghten captainsthst is, getting late in the season.
warm weather, with attempts now and then to create
an impression that the fever season is approaching,
and this, that and the other. Now, many captains
are not so easily alarmed. There is safety here
in New Orleans than in running the gauntlet Of the
stray shots Of the British menoFwsr in the Gulf who
appear to have other occupation than using Amer
lean vessels targets We hope that our rulers at
Washington will open their eyes ere long il they do
not it is about time for every vessel to go armed and
return shot for shot The talk is that it must come
to this long Coasting vessels fired into within
sight of own shores the as previous TO the
war OF 1912. But the chief talk Eve allude to
freights) was the combination which has been re-
ported would go into effect yesterday. There was no
appearance Of it, far we could ascertain, and
freights receded still lower. We learn that less
than 15-S2d. would have been accepted to fill.
With the quantity of tunnage in port at this mo-
ment, and the vessels known be on the way hither
Northern shipowners will do well to consider that
the prospects for profitable employment from this
port for the remainder of the season admitting
there large stocks of cotton and tobacco to 20
somewhere,) shippers do not appear to be very anx-
ious to hasten them to market. The fact is to at
tempt to force up or advance one branch of COM
merce at the expense of another is insusceptible.
The nterminabe question Of crop still forms good
share of the talk the streets We shall know all
about it when the last bale of 1857 arrives in market
Some of our quzzcal operators suggest the idea of
rfhhona fo,varo aud 1;,,,
through the streets. The question of overflow and
frost seems to have been forgotten, particularly the
frost. From all accounts the growing crop is doing
well as could be expected though some planters
are complaining that there is no seed in the country
to replant with. This may be so in some sections.
At the same time, we heard similar remark last
season, and in the month Of August we saw large
quantities of seed thrown away, or sold to the oil
factory. In the meantime, we believe some planters
are in short supply of seed, but that will not affect
the yield. They told last fall they could not raise
as much cotton as the year previous, but somehow
or other they misjudged the yield. Every pound
will, however be wanted.
The following extract from cotton circular which
was forwarded from New York by the Arabia on the
18th inst is very candid
The stock of cotton in this city is now larger than
it has been thus far this season. and to the amount
Offering the same remark will apply. The receipts in
the Upland shipping ports continue to be much
ample than was anticipated the frost accounts by
mall, from the same section where the most damage
was supposed to have been done describes the injury
as light and easily remeded, with the fine weather
then prevailing. The Gulf markets are but little
affected by the reported floods though the diminuton
in the weeks receipts in New 0rleans-reported by
telegraph $4,000 bales - may be ascribed to this
cause, and to the frost importance whatever seems
to be attached. For these reasons-the abandonment
OF three millions of bales as a maximum for this
years crop, and the uncertainty which overhangs
trade aud politics in Europe-the dulness prevailing
in cotton on this side may be attributed
Southern markets have all been dull and declining.
The sales have been mainly for Northern spinners,
local speculation and Spanish account The balance
admit of execution.