New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-23
TALK ON CHANGE.

| Rather quiet than otherwise yesterday-that Is
compared to movements week before last in cotton
The staple holds up well. Some parties were sskinl
IL cents for Middling, with current freight on light
draught vessels, exchange 81, must bring 7s I'd. t.
covsrln Liverpool. The reported stock shipboard
and in cotton presses is 900 bales, of which
there is not much over bales for sale good
share OF IT, however, is trashy, leafy and sandy and
| unsaleable.
| There were no late advices received from the
mouth of the river yesterday. The telegraph lines
were out OF order. Undoubtedly we shall hear from
that now interesting point to-day. The chance fol
the removal OF the obstructions are hopeless. The
gentleman OF Algers could not be prevailed upon to
accept the task The talk is if four or five large yes
sells go to Ship Island harbor and load at once some
powerful appliances will be brought against the OBJ.
structions it only requires few ship-masters and
agents to move in the matter and it would be accom-.
plished at once.
The further talk was the large concourse of trans
lent residents and visitors leaving by every boat.
Inc facilities for travelling this are great The
most comfortable and pleasant route is up the Msss-
sppi river. Every one has choice OF routes, an d
the many floating palaces daily at the levee are not
surpassed in the world The river route has prefer
ence Of all others. Starting from here, choice of
the levee, they who are going Northward and East
ward can take the unrvalled steamers for Memphis,
and from thence by railroad or go Cairo take the
Illinois route, or pursue their routes on boats either
TO Louisville and Cincinnati, to st. Louis In fact
the river route presents all the advantages comforts
and safety required the accommodations are, as
heretofore unsurpassed, and cost of travel reasona.
BILE. The Southern route so called, via Alabama
charleston and Savannah, furnish through tickets at
low hgures, somewhere about forty dollars-but a
person cannot be carried to New York like gentle.
man for this sum. The talk is that route is resbip
and transhp from one vehicle to another from the
time OF startng-which is first being shipped at the
St. Charles Hotel then from the carriage at the Pont
chartran Railroad to the cars travel half an hour,
then shipped in mail boat crowded, perhaps, with
passengers for Mobile; arriving at Mobile another
transfer takes place for Montgomery, on just such
boats as contractors choose to furnish there being no
choice OF boats or captains after leaving this city,
At Montgomery another reshpment takes place, with
the usual transfers until arrival at Charleston or sa-
vannah, where another shipment takes place, If
one is in luck he may, perhaps, obtain a bunk or q
berth for his three days sickness to New York.
No choice of steamers on the route ntervenes they
may be good bad, or Indifferent. Then, if equal
speed is desired, our jackson Railroad will put one
through to Washington city in five days, provided
the grand junction delay is obviated. In the mean.
time the matchless superiority of our river steamers
are to be preferred choice of boats and comma nd
ers is always available.
There was nothing later from Europe last night
The America, of the 18th. will be due at Halifax to.
morrow. From Tehuantepec the Quaker City is
about due. There were parts of several mails re-
ceived yesterday.