New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-01-04
TelesrapheA to tbe lev 0rIeans eS1
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EuRORK
ARRIVAL OF THE srxAMsHIp AMERlcA.


M fBy the National sDd scushsrn Lines.1
HALIFAX, Jan. 3.-The Cunsrd teesmship Amer.
ics Capt Hickman, has arrived at tik port with sd-
vices from Liverpool to Saturday, the ls,h ul which
are three days later than those received y the Ha
ton 1t this port.
Commercial Intelligence
LIVERPOOL, Dec. ls.-Tbe sales Of Cotton for the
week ending Friday 18th, were 81 900 bales.
All qualities Of Cotton have advanced !. The Coz
ton market is active, and closed with an advancing
tendency OF the 81 900 bales sold dnfng TIE Week,
$500 bales we're taken by spectators and 3oe9 bales
were sold for expectation. The market closed buoy.
ant, with an increased demand The sales on Friday
were 5000 bales, Of which 1000 bales were sold to
spectators and exporters. The market closed firm
at the following quotation: Mddling Oreans ID. !;
Middling Mobile l5l6d.; Fair Uplands IT'D. !; Mid
erpool is 100000 bales, Of which 2Is500 are Of
American production. Some circulars report an I'd
vance Of lie to only.
LONDON, Dec. 1S.-The funds are unsettled. Con-
sols for account, exdividend, closed at 81. .,
The advices from Manchester continue to be Of .
favorable character There was good demand from
India. Yarns and manufactured goods were: ad-
yansing. !.
HAvRE, Dec; 16-The Havre cotton market
opened in the early part ol the week with declining
tendency, but closed firm ct los francs for Orleans
Tres Ordinaire. 81
The sales Of the week amount to 5000 bales.
The stock at Hayre is 80 900 bales.
LIVERPOOL, Saturday noon, 1Sth-Lafest.-The
estimated sales Of to-day Is, 600 bales The cot
ton market has an advancing tendency and prices are
= shade dearer. sss F
The Liverpool breadstufs market closed dull with
some little symptoms Of revival.
The provision market also continued dull, with lit
tie variation in prices generally. ao1 n @
4 General Intelligence
HALIFAX, Jan. 3--The America arrived ct this port
yesterday.
The steamships City Of Baltimore the Prince Albert
and the Glasgow, had arrived out at their respective
ports of destination. te
The political news from the Continent is not Of An
important character,
Everything quiet except in Italy, where politi
| cal affairs have assumed rather serious aspect.
| The Government officers had arrested number
more Of the Phoenix Club in Ireland, for reasonable
acts in connection with insurrectionary scheme,
which is supposed to have emanated from the United
| States
The scheme has been carried further than was a
first supposed.
Pixies have been manufactured, and arms have beer
imported from the United States for the purpose o.
! carrying out their plans.
The Government troops have been distributed il
strong detachments in the western portion Of thu
county Of Cork, to prevent any insurrectionar!
movement.
4 Seventeen arrests have been made in Belfast.
Lord Malmesbury has declined to intercede with tn
j Pope for the liberation Of the Mortara boys.
Cardinal Antonelli has taken measures to suppress
all letters of foreign correspondents at Rome.
The British press in return threatens to expel q
letter-writers in England who correspond with ROM