New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-20
VOLUME XII.
NeD Orleans 1ailg Grtstent.
FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 20. 1860.
TALK ON CHANGE.

1
The very fair weather yesterday brought out m
immense number Of folks. Canal, ROYAL and
Charities streets werc throngcd At an early hour
! As for Cafondtlct and enyiFors the usual
gatherings were large, and great deal Of talk w..
| gone through previous to the announcement OF the
1 arrival Of the Anglo-saXon, bringing Liverpool
dates to the 5ti. The cotton bears did not know
what 10 think ot the s.eadnr4s Of the Liverpool
| cotton market, while some Of them concluded 10
| take all the good and clean cotton tlley could
| secure at the prices OF Wednesday. The general
! commercial and financial a,vices were regarded AZ
| Of very favorable import. IL is useless 10 refer
I to tie price Of tonsos OH the London Stock Ex-
change ans than 1t il to refer to the price of
New Orleans consolidated skies on our tluEs which
hafe aboRt as much influence on our money inar-
ket as the |. o. u. Of tho Great Mogul. The gen
Gta political Intelligence by the Anglo Saxon is as
usual made up Of reports and surnisea, will much
interarding of, III il said.H Then after giving
several remarks and reports, The dispatch turns
round and says the reports are not, however fully
credited, as confirmation is lacking Then why
forward such trash, which is not credited? There
were no public quotations of the cotton market re-
eeiyed yesterday. Further accounts were expect.
ed last evening. The ship Congress, reported as
having been toHed into Fleetwood dsinastcd, was
cleared at this port for Liverpool on the 29ti, of
October with 2SG0 bales Or cotton by Mcssrs. Il.
Jones Il Go. There are some very. heavy losses to
BE settled on cotton iroin slipTreck and otherwise
injured eti9jte. The ship Charlotte Nesmiih. re-
ported as having put into Key West on fire. WE
cleared hence for Liverpool on the 2Sih December
with 3ltl bnleS Of cotton. We have noH accounts
Of $4,000 balCs of cotton being stranded, burnt or
otherwise damaged aud destroyed. after leaving
this port anl Mobe, WITCH will not reach the ip
tended markets.
Ihe talk is of sandy and dusty cotton. Notwitl-
standing the many complaints promulgated ana
made public fat anl near, VIC examined several
packages Of cotton. Of which sand aud dust formed
The component part Which were taken out Of the
inside Of bales that were purchased lsre last I'LL
as Mldling aud NIiddlitg Fair cotton and forward.
ed to the Merrimac Manufacturing Company Low
ell, Mass. Tlle-c packages, or the cotton sent
back, denote great lnalieasance somewhere. IF a
bale Of cotton. or rather trash v;ts composed en.
tire Of the samples returned, it wonld weigh abont
1900 pounds. The cotton returned can lie Seen nj
No. q st. Charles street. up stairs and planters
now in the city will do well to call and look AZ III,
several packages, and satisfy themselves that the
many complaints are not ssopMdlesa but based on
facts. =.Z
Our marine register denotes numerous arrivals.
and il was very active Oil the levee and landings
yesterday. There was considerable animation on
Poydras and Tehoupitoulas streets Our Western
dealers and merchants think they viii be fhll of
business in Il few days. Az soon as lie ice in the
tributaries of the Ohio dissolyes, large receipt, Of
the produce Of the teeming West are expected.
There was incidental talk about tobacco. Tie
receipts TINS far are light, but that il no reason
they should not increase aud turn out heavy before
the ilfst Of June proNimo II Il difficult TO arrive
at anything tangibe about the weed or the extent
of tile cfep. VIII some Of Our friends and CORES.
pondents favor HIS with their Yiewsi In advance.
regarding communications, il il desirable that they
be accompanied with real name OF authority. as
anonymous ones go into the stove at once, and
those parties who send US communications through
the Post.0ffice without a signature are Informed
why and Wherefore their mi-sves are not noticed.
The plaeard at the Post-oflcc yesterday repeat
cd tic same old story, mails failed via both
routcs." The mails are behind date from tile 10th
TO the 10TH from New York. The mails of the 18th |
OF january from NewYork are missing Fragments |
ai the 9th, 9th, 1th and att Of January have come
TO hand As ior the Western mails, II they are not
forwarded by steamboats,, it is not likely that we
shall have more than two or three per week for
some time to come. In the meantime, il viii be |
well ior our mercantile eonmunityto prepare their
correspondence 10 go by express for HE steamer
oI the 2Hth from Portland.
The weather was remarkably clear and pleasant |
last evening. \ week OF such woatHorWill lry the t
roads in the country and enable the cotton 10 be
forwarded To market