New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-01
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SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER /, 1853,
rALK ON CHANGE.


TALK ON CHANGE.
Our great thoroughfares are becoming crowded.
The talk is, what are so many thousands Of people
going to do this season, with the many thousands
yet to arrive. That there is an abundance OF work
and employment for those who can and are able to
work. is manifest from the extraordinary high prices
steamboat hands and lsborers are paid ranging from
sixty 10 seventy, and ninety dollars per month.
1t would be supposed these enormous prices would
command oil the laborers required In the South, yet
the daily talk Is that good workmen are scarce. The
public improvements now going forward such as the
great job OF filling up the batture. the paving of the
several Streets s giving employment to thousands Of
iaborers. The talk is that there ia city on the
globe where physical labor Is better paid than In New
Orleans and yet it appears there are thousands Of
idlers banging about pretending they cannot obtain
employment.
The further talk was how are the expected
hundreds of families who will visit this season to
be accommodated. There are only three firstclass
hotels in this great city Of ours, and they will be filed
to repletion in few weeks There are several FIRST.
class private houses, and they will also be filled. The
project for erecting hotel the square of ground
forming the Southwest corner Of Camp and Poydras
Streets has been abandoned from the inability Of the
purchasers to obtain satisfactory title The talk s,
we must do as they do in New York-go up town
for more space to build hotels and as good city
is progressing towards Carrollton, it is significant
that We must follow the course Of improvements and
build hotels up town. 1t has been suggested that an
association be formed, with sufficient capital and
purchase the entire square Of ground fronting on
Camp, Caliope, Nayades and Delorde streets, divide
1t by running opening Poeyarre street through to
Nayades, which make two squares of ground of full
three hundred feet front on Camp street.
The upper square could be sold and command suf-
cient to pay for both Squares and irst'cass hotel
erected on the lower square would prove good in
vestment. 1t must not be overlooked that in ad-
ditton to the Carrollton and Jefferson road depot
being opposite where increasing business is con-
centrating with Mobile and Florida that the jackson
Paiiroad depot centers Calliope street, within q
few squares of the suggested location and that the
Texas and New York steamships wharve and land
ings are at the foot of Deord street. This would be
most desirable location for hotel, and the pro.
pretors of property on Camp and ST. Charles streets
ought to take the suggestion into consideration.
The buildings on the ground in question mostly
of ordinary construction and bud-some very old ;
and part of the ground is vacant The talk is general
that we must have more hotel accommodations.
True, the new hotel on Magazine street. now in course
Of erection by Mr.. James, will relieve in part the
great pressure, but 1t will be filed to repetion in
week after it is completed. Now, who will move in
organizing the Camp street Hotel Association? 1t
will be good paying stock The st. Charles Hotel
Company paid its stockholders last year ten per
cent, and will pay twelve per cent. or more in a
year or two. Talk will not build hotel, but the
dollars Of our opulent citizens will and little
exertion by half dozen OF our energetic citizens
would result in carrying out our suggestions.
We almost forgot Carondeet street. The gather
ings were numerous yesterday. Cotton and the fine
weather were talked Of, well freights and ex-
change; as for money, every one having redun-
dancy Of the stuff, 1t was not talked about nor
thought Of. Another ten thousand bales was added
to the crop yesterday The weather, however, last
indicated change, or say rain. The Bears were in
good humor, though they are few and far between
= yet, particularly of the Polar or Rocky Mountain
kind. They feel pretty sauguine of obtaining some
good bargains soon as the orders for France and
Spain are completed. They talk that the large
receipts for the week, say from Saturday morning
last to last evening" say 44573, is conclusive of
large yield Col. Wright arrived at New York on
the Persia last week, but we have not heard Of his
estimates for ls59-6s The spectators and holders
in Liverpool were gulling the Manchester folks or
attempting to gull them on the 9th OF September
with 100000 bales, as the extent of last years
crop, but the knowing ones had our estimates of
3820000 of the latter part OF July before them. We
are gratied to learn that many shipments paying
profit, and others turning out much better than
anticipated; yet there will be great losses, on low
qualities particularly, those many thousands of bales
composed in part Of sand and dust
As alluded to, the talk was Of the many new
comers or returning citizens. Among those on the
flags yesterday we observed the representative OF
Brown Brothers & Co., the agent of the Rothschilds
the head Of the Charleston Banking House, all look
ing we'll, and old citizen, retired capitalist
who pushed out to invest his large balances in bank
which have been accumulating for months. We re-
gret that bis French cuisine, enjoyed months ago,
has proved unfortunate to his health but think
o return to Virginia homny and bacon will relieve
him Of the dyspeptc propensities. We also noticed
several other absenees, looking in good health-that
is, about well Us, who have been enjoying
the luxurious and pleasant summer now running into
beautiful autumnal weather. We welcome all back.
There was some talk of the mails but what is the
use of alluding to them? But the talk was of the
complaints of the railroads through Virginia and
Tennessee. They represented disgrace to the
age, and real humbugs and it is wonder we re
ceive mail once in two weeks, instead of one pei
week, as has been the case this week.