New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-12-27
TALK ON CHANGE.

The week opened yesterday with numerous
rivals of steamboats, most of which brought in the
very largest loads The great levee and landings
were crowded with produce-reference is made to
marine list for full detas-and the great trade
which is now US yet the talk is, that there
only few branches of the great business of our
city feeling the effects of the large receipts of pro-
duce. The great levee, with Front street, Tchou-
pitoulas street and New Levee street, completely
threw Carondeet street and environs in the rear or
shade yesterday. The great dry goods trade is
particularly slack and inert at this time.
The European correspondence by the America,
up to the Sd inst. received in part yesterday.
The nature of the private letters indicate lower
scale of prices for cotton. The inference to be
drawn. from the correspondence that Manchester
folks were expecting heavy arrivals from this side,
which could not reach Liverpool until a change of
wind, which did not happen for some days after
wards Of course, the advices Of the l4th and 18th
inst. will be looked for with anxiety the first
are fully due at Portland, and the latest by the
Canada at Halifax tomorrow or the day following,
though there are two three of the militia or
irregular boats of the 14th about due.
There was some talk of the destructive fire on
Christmas morning. 1t was not large fire, for
there was not one entire building destroyed. 1t
was, however, most destructive one, and equal
to any cotton press with sheds of cotton. The ex-
tent of loss and damage cannot be arrived at for
some days, though every insurance company hav-
ing risks will have to foot up the entire amount of
policies called for, particularly on the great estab-
shment of Hyde & Goodrich Some of our local
companies have amounts of $4,000 each. For
r.yI-
in the great fires in the Fourth District, who are
unable to bear them though the misfortune falls at
a most unproptous moment, when the great and
varied stocks of the sufferers full, and at the
hight of the business and holiday season.
There was but little doing on Carondelet street,
in fact, this great thoroughare seemed to be under
some depression. Cotton was dull, exchange going
down, shipmasters and agents feeling their oats as
they say they have had none to feel for two or
three years past, particularly some of them who
were detained at the mouth of the river last season
for weeks and months. 1t ay-bel inferred that
freight of cotton to Liverpool was stiff at 1924.
to I'D.
The talk was not favorable for an early resump-
ton Of intercourse with the Upper Mississippi. Ice
and cold weather have laid real embargo above
Cairo. The adyices from the Ohio river and tribu-
aries do not give any encouragement of large ship
ments of produce hither. The people of that re-
gion do not owe anything with u.s. and all they
want from the South is sugar and molasses, though
some of the leading merchants of Louisville Gin
cinnati and other places do import some kinds of
merchandise from Europe through our Custom
House. They will import merchandise from Eng
land of various kinds but Mr.. Bull does not rec
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or the pork and bacon unless at his own prices
which will not pay. In fact, there has not been
shipped or exported to Great Britain this present
commercial year from this port one barrel of -four
a bushel of wheat, nor barrel of pork, or keg of
lard nor pound of bacon. What makes up the
mighty balance of trade, but sovereign cotton?
st. Louis, Louisville, Madison, Ind. and Cincinnat
are ports of entry, and though importations are
made, duties paid to government, they export
nothing whatever direct.
The receipts of cotton yesterday were large. We
have now received more than one-lalf of the crop,
or the quantity allotted for New Orleans. We re-
ceive some very queer dispatches through telegra
phic operators. One before us, purportng to come
from Augusta, gives the receipts of the season up
to last Saturday at 2,S3S, 800 bales-an error of
million-and the receipts at all the ports last
year at l39,s55 bales. Another error of about
$1,000 bales. Once for all, we desire telegraphic
operators to dispense with their kindness in send
ing figures relating to cotton to this office. These
views and accounts are not desirable. We keep
our own tables, and such dispatches the above
are entirely useless and unreliable.
We have again to complain of no mails. We be-
gin to think we shall have to call on Mr.. Postmas-
ter-General Holt to inaugurate the Florida route;
we shall then be certain of two mails per week,
which is about the number we have received in
schedule time for the last four or five, or perhaps
eight months for really it is so long since we have
received three full mails in succession, we have
forgotten when it was, and have time to refer to
Postmaster Marks, who, we learn, scolds the con-
tractors roundy, who fortunately for them, do not
come within the scope Of his administration,