New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-03-25
TALK ON CHANGE.

The weather was favorable for general transactions
| yesterday, and everything pertaining to commerce
moved along smoothly and satisfactorily, excepting
the distractions at the mouth of the river OF course
the bar absorbs all other talk though cotton still
stands in high favor. Regarding sugar. it holds up
WE'LL and as the season progresses it will advance in
price, We note the receipts at the levee since the LIST
September reach 100000 bogsheads against 162 900
hogsheads for the corresponding time last year. The
arrivals Of steamers yesterday were numerous of
/ vessels from sea, our marine list denotes a very
meagre supply of tunnage for the quantity of produce
to be shipped. Medium draft vessels, or vessels of
1000 bales burthen, in good request. 1t is doubt
full if shipowners will send any more large vessels
here this season. Would it not be very interesting
table of statistics and figures to have the amount or
the expenses, shipowners will be put to this season
merely for delay and detention in our port and its
dependencies :?
The talk day before yesterday was very cheering
in, regard to temporary relief by high water and
changes in the channel particularly at Pass Loutre
where l6 to II feet reported at the last full tide.
1t was confidently hoped that Ia to IS ships would
have been towed to sea yesterday; and, no doubt,
they would have been if there had not been decep.
ton of the most startling nature practiced on
OF the towboats. The talk was, that great devia.
ton from faith and principle has taken place. To
understand the merits of the case, it must be taken
as conclusive that the ship Fl. Hayes of $40 tuns
burthen, with cargo of 5000 bales cotton, was
cleared at our Custom House the 10th instant for
Liverpool that it was represented she drew or would
draw only IL feet water 1t is now charged and was
commented on yesterday that her marks have been
altered that the towboats under the belief that she
only drew l6 feet forward and II abaf undertook to
tow her to sea day before yesterday that while pro-
ceeding over the bar she struck, knocking her bow
up and showing her marks of draft nineteen feet
Who is to blame in the matter we cannot say, and
should be glad to hear the captains side of the ques
tion. However, the reprehensions on change were
strong against him, not so much from the detention
Of his own ship but that Ia Is ships of reasonable
dfanght would have been towed to yesterday DUR
ing the high water but for the Hayes blocking up
the channel. 1t was charged and talked of that her
marks had been altered. 1t is manifest that vessels
are built entirely too large and burthensome for our
port There is, as we have before said Just as much
water at the mouths of the river as at any time dur.
ing the past century The channels are influenced
by the winds and the current of the Mssissppi, In
the year 1926, over thirty years ago, the ship VIM.
Brown of $50 tuns loaded with 900 bales of cotton
drawing 16a feet, went out at the Southwest Pass |
and was about the first vessel of that draught that
used that pass This was considered large ship and
large cargo, and though vessels carrying 1000 to 5000
bales of cotton built to draw no more water
yet, not withstanding the many complaints, we have
met with no talk to change our views regarding the
facilities Of navigating the channe-that is, they are
of the character that have always existed with
in the memory of our Oldest citizens It cannot be
expected however, that vessels of oden times-that
Is, 500 to 700 tun vessels-can carry cotton to Euroi
1t low rates the modern built vessels of 5000 to
5000 bales burthen 1t would make material differ
snce in our great cotton market whether cotton can
De carried to Liverpool for three-eghths of penny
N large vessel, or three farthings in medium or
old size one. viii our cotton factors now understand
the DRIFT Of our takhow deeply interested they are,
and how great the cotton interest is involved in
having channel Of Is or 20 feet depth, Or whether
The present position Of affairs shall continue subject