New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-20


4 III been scneMhst agsinst this year; frst, on
% ncceuiif 81 ahc Of the season, which
~ Az nsd ~ wood il ne river; and secondly,
4 cf ~ war n Europe, which prevented the
sai : y ~ = ! ~ * lreights.
81, w X ,, re acc0nnt stands very favorable for
= ~ 1hl u respect 70 tunnage, although
- A5tIfes ~ rather slim for the expectation.
VI ne fiscal year, from the LIST October
4 Iss7 W w soih September, 1858, were as follows
s 81. n.ssss.sy sslsss ss
~ ~ s ~ @Sosany l sss
- inshnsany. SPAS
u Us tuns mahogany, 4s22 cigars. .s2loIoo
imports for same period, from October 1, 1858,
~ 1epee1nber 30, 1853:
s I'm. ssf
- iS
74e2 hides, $4,000 cigars. $lloss2
y AZ this must be added statement of imports,
t5ch embraces the period from the LIST Of January
~ Nd 9Ist OF September 1859: Goods and specie
ii III value Of e264, 40; exports for the same pc
sliod, IA, 5sI.
We have had 81 vessels in this port
NJ past year, against 65 last year. OF
~ number, 80 vessels, carrying 1860 tuns, be-
;Ioaged u tie United States; 10 belonged to Great
carrying 1884 TINS while Germany, France
"a SpAin took the balance. II win thus be seen
tAat where the trade was equally divided last year,
hs year y has largely preponderated in favor.
1Ae tannage ought not to be counted for our
eteaners have made difference, and they have sus-
pended now, which throws US back next year.
FEAST DAYS AND FRoLTcs.
This plsce has been the scene Of unusual feasting
"a ffolicing during the past fifteen days. The
5olliicati on commenced on the 18th of September,
and ended on the 18th, leaving two days to get on
after two weeks drunk independence day com
.enced on the 10th, or rather the 18th, at night,
and was Kept up in all kinds Of frivolous amuse-
ments and religious license until the 27th when the
anniversary Of the entrance Of the Republican army
into the City Of Mexico, and ON the 2sth, the ami
vefsary Of the day Of the death Of all who fell vic
Tins IL the fight for liberty. All these days in
VOWED many frolics such as horse-racing bull and
chicksn.6ghting, and dancing. It has been mat
tex 81 great disgust here within these two weeks
that the people Of this neighborhood have for
taken ~ useful occupations, and disposed them
selvesfor Incidence and dissipation. They seem
HE set Of desperate characters, who, having de-
tsrmined 70 ruin themselves, set about it with as
much Win Is 4 they were engaged in the most
landsble undertaking.
y Tho country il suffering for everything Pro-
visions are high the necessaries Of life are not to
be had, and yet here are hundreds great strapping
lcafers laying about in the day time, dancing about
q night, and passing away the time in utter idle
ness and waste.
JNTyyaT rtysrr 5f,oasv
u This stupendous work, which ought to have been
the pride and one Of the props Of New Orleans, has
fallen nom its base and is q wreck. It has done
one portion Of its mission which was to prove the
practicablity 81 the route, and that is ALL Proba-
BY \ was enough for the present; for as the
Crescent City has thousand undcveloped resources
lying around her, SO this is one, which must uti-
mately be made productive and tributary to her
Trade She does notrepine that there are thousands
Ut acres Of uncntvated lands along the Mississippi
which ought to be sending produce to her mer.
chants; she does not sigh TINT the tropics are still
il barbarian hands nor should she despond if the
Iehuantepec route is at present failure. Perhaps
abe commenced the work too early and that in the
coming years, when her institutions are not cramped
by the action of Federal Government, inimical to
Southern expansion, that then this resource, which
a'uss Sonnecs her VIA Tue EAST small go on 70
ssa,p'sNon'
~ present II y in bad hands. do not know
what The stockholders have to do with the failure
q me nrst enterprise; but this do know, that if
ne company, through Tits executive officers, had
done haif right, the transit would now be in good
order, the mail contract could have been obtained
and the enterprise might have gone forward at
4 least through its infancy, until it was finally trium-
phant But beyond the proof 1t has afforded that
me route IS a good one, and Its success aproba-
plllty there is nothing to be said in favor of the
y present Company. wish to discriminate in this
matter between the bad and the good; but as that
Y = impossible, lido not see but that New Orleans
and the Southwest have nobody to blame but the
Board Of Directors; for until that body cleans its
skirts, and saddles the error upon the proper shout
5 ders, have no resource but to say that the prin