New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-03
Ap 0rleans 4ailp Crescent.
SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 5, 1850.
TALE ON CHANGE.

1t was rather quiet on the flags yesterday. The
numerous gatherings at the corners were wanting,
yet there were some confabs. 1t partook, how
ever, Of special character, with few remarks
regarding the events of the 4th of March, or rather
We may say the Sd, as everything pertaining to
finance on the 9Th hns to be taken care Of to-day.
There was not much talking going on, hut there
was acting. There were larger sales of cotton
than for some days past Some parties seem con
founded almost at the large receipts OF this port
this week, which will reach 10000 bales, sending
up the total quantity received at this port to within
1860 bales of 100000. The excess in receipts at
all the ports over last year has now reached GIL, :
600 bales.
An important feature was more apparent
yesterday, which may lead to something real
unless there should be a large influx Of vessels or
tunnage, as the number OF vessels in port yester
day, great aud small, was reduced to ia, which
caused ship agents and shipmasters to talk pretty
stiff and with increased frmness. The benefits
and advantages of screw-steamers between this
4 city and Liverpool are now inanifest il we had
ten or fifteen steamers running here, say three
four a month, though they could not carry all the
cotton theywoud keep the freight market steady.
Thetalk is now Of 81. next week for Liverpool, as
about all the nsurabe ships at the Northern ports
are engaged, and very few are expected hither.
In the meantime, II will be desirable for our
merchants, one and all, to be moving and en-
couraging the organization Of the screw line.
Our steamboat register indicates continued large
arrivals from the West, bringing full loads Of the
varied productions. Tie article Of tobacco Ia
coming in freely, and the stock will be ample in
short time to amt OF the large operators to move,
though the prospects for an advance or increased
prices are not very fiattering. In the meantime,
the article Is susceptible Of putting.
There Is some talk that the sugar crop will reach
225,O0O to 100000 hogsheads, which will do very
well for d hatf CROP We shall know all about it
in few days, as the big book and full figures will
be out. The supply on the platform, or at the de-
pot, Is free, though there are several planters
holding for higher prices, which, it is talked Of will
not be available for some time, perhaps not for
two or three months.
The European mails by the Europa, up to the
18th ult., were received Thursday and yesterday.
It would be too laborious an undertaking for con
tractors to deliver O full foreign mail in one day.
The private correspondence reads hopefully as re-
CARDS to clean cotton. They were, however NOV
ing ON under views OF moderate estimates Of the
crop and shipments from this side. The talk IL
that Tie Manchester Cotton Supply Association
will be relieved Of all doubts regarding the ability
of the United States or the South to furnish tole
rable good quantity of cotton. There was some
talk yesterday that prices receded on Carondelet
street, though all cotton chasing above Mddling
is held at firm prices: but how much cotton is IN
der advances cannot be ascertained, and the gene
raj talk is that there will not be anything gained
by holding This is the view Of impartial brokers,
or neither Bears nor Bulls. ~z
There was failure via the Jackson Railroad
Yesterday. The Tennessee and Virginia contract
ors require stirring up. The Postal Appropriation
Bill has been approved, and payments are being
made through the country, More than one or two
failures per week can be attributed to nothing but
sheer neglect ard carelessness.
We have the pleasure Of announcing and infornl-
ing onr sea-shofe residents say Bay St Louis, Pass
Christian, Mississippi City and Boxi-that the
mails for them will probably be forwarded to-day.
Though it was announced last week that &, boat
had been found, and was advertised to leave three
times this week. she made only one trip but it i
believed she was too nice for the coast villages
and since then has been diverted to the Mobile
trade, There is now a prospect of tr-weekly
communication until another accident or breaking
occufa.