New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-05
Nth @rltans 9aiIp Grsst.nt,
TALK ON CHANGE.

It was rather quiet yesterday on Carondelet street.
Though there were the usual gatherings perhaps
they were more numerous than usual, from the
weather being particularly favorable for outdoor
exercise-there was general disinclination on the
part Of dealers in cotton to operate until further ad
vices from Liverpool were at hand. In our last talk
the item Of cotton got mixed up with sugar and mo-
lasses making all brisk and active, whereas the cot
ton market was quiet, sugar and molasses brisk.
Cotton was quiet again yesterday, and sugar and
moIasses brisk. The market or what was on the de.
pot Of the two latter articles being under contract
for delivery. While talking Of the levee the grand
levee We may term it, we have to remark that there
never was 80 much business going there or in pro.
gress AZ at this time. Look at the immense and
numerous loads Of cotton arriving from Red river.
Look at the enormous quantities Of merchandise and
products going on board the almost countless number
Of boats trading up that river the Ouacbita river and
tributaries. It almost astounds the old fogies to
observe the prodigious increase in the commerce Of
our city. The talk is, that everything Is going on
well enough in up-river matters. There are many
complaints, many grave charges against the conduct
ors and managers Of other important appliances Of
the trade in city 1t is charged that the Towboat
Associations are an unmitigated monopoly, throwing
obstacles in the way Of free and rapid egress and
ingress Of vessels at the mouth Of the river We have
complaints before from ship agents of the assoca-
tions. We want light, we want information on this
subject. II what is charged against these assoca-
tions is susceptible Of proof can be substantiated
then the vast trade of New Orleans is subject to one
of the very worst Of despotsms. We have alluded
to the distractions at the bar Of the Southwest Pass
We have called for information regarding the app-
cation and expenditure of the large appropriated
by Congress for the clearing ont and improvement
of the channel. It is charged that the Towboat
Association amenabe and subject to denunciation
We published statement Of the vessels detained at
the Southwest Bar. Among them was the ship Far
West, cleared on the 18th Of last month for New
York, and got TO on the I'd Of this month"; say at
ter fourteen days detention. The bark Joseph Hale
left here in company, and is still detained which is
charged to the monopoly Of the Tow Boat Association
or Associations The captain of the Hale was tele-
graphed to take an extra boat and go to sea- his
sci being only 522 tuns not SO large as the Far West
nor drawing so much water vessels that had
crossed the bar. The captain sends up the following
in reply to order to engage extra boats and 70 to
sea:
SOUTH WEST PASS, Feb. 4, IL N.
agreed to take two boats at first i; have had two
flags flying great part of the time, and yet am not
taken to sea. JABEz STEVENS.
If the TowBoat Associations are in the practice of
throwing obstacles in the way of free communication
it is about time that some remedy should be applied
We have often heard Of complaints against them, and
many anonymous complaints have been made, which
we never noticed In the meantime the feet of yes-
sells is accommodating daily at the bar, though it
reported on Change, at late hour yesterday sew.
era vessels had crossed the bar inward and outward
But it appears many are still detained.
Whether the large cargoes Of cotton will get to
market in time to meet the bills is talked Of on
Change; and, while talking of cotton, we can say
that wagers on the excess or increase of receipts
over last year reaching one million Of. bales, were
promptly paid yesterday, on the mere supposition
of these figures being attained. It will appear this
morning that the excess is one million and three
thousand bales and as the time is approaching
18th of February-when we said the extent of crop
would be fully developed, we close our talk on that
important subject for few days, congratuating our
planting community on the good returns and the in-
dependent position, pecuniarily, in which the large
yield will place them; and our factorage friends on
the firm and unyelding manner they have sustained
the great cotton interests the entire season.
N. Bat a late hour we were favored with the
following dispatch, from private source:
SOUTH WEST PASS, Feb 4, ppm
There are "a ships and barks inside, and ships
on the bar, bound out. 10 ships and bark outside
and one bark on the bar, bound in. Ship Belle of
the Ocean, bound out is hard aground at Pass
aLoutre Bar. The ship Silas Holiness intending to 70
out at that Pass has been towed to Southwest Pass
owing to the want of water. There being but l3 feet
on the bar no vessel drawing over IA l4 feet can
possibly pass.