New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-11-28

1t exeites our risbe faculties now and then to
read the remarks of many financial writers in the
North regarding the position and influence of New
Orleans. They are writing away in NewYork that
in the event of secession on the part of the cotton
States that Charleston will be the prominent ex.
port city of the Southern confederacy; that Sa-
yannah and Mobile will be secondary ports, and
our good city (New orleans) is to be ignored alto
gether, not even thought Of. The drift of the re-
marks below, taken from the monetary article of
the New York Herald, which is one thing to-day
and another tomorrow, is easily seen through. 1t
desires to create the impression that Charleston is
to be the chief port in order to distract and divide
the attention of New Orleans and Mobile, which
cities going in strong and forcby for the great
Southern movement There will be ample bust
ness for Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and New
Orleans in the new confederaey. How greatly
disappointed many of these Northern quasi friends
of the South will be when they read the proclama-
ton of Governor Moore, of Louisiana. There is no
mistake but what New Workers, of every class
trade and profession, are greatly alarmed at the
Southern movements. The charge that reckless
ness can be attached to the movements in Charles
ton has not shadow of evidence to support it, or
that the citizens of that city governed with the
idea of making that port the great Southern com
mereial center, is preposterous and absurd. We
might call the great Herald "a grand humbug.n
The severity OF the commercial suf1erings of the
past week has to some extent diverted attention
from their first cause.-The disunion movements at
the South. There are, in truth. very few facts to
be added to those which were stated in this column
week ago. Disunion conventions will probably
be held in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and
Mississippi, in the course of the next sixty days;
what they may resolve is yet matter of some un-
certainty. Well informed persons from South Caro-
lima seem confident Of the cooperation of Georgia
and Alabama, and predict already that Charleston
will be the New York OF the South. Mobile and
Savannah are to be secondary ports, occupying the
same relation to Charleston that Boston and Pha-
delphia do to NewYork. 1t will, of course, in the
event of secession by the cotton States, be imma-
teral to the North which Southern port grasps the
lions share of the new foreign trade to be created
the future decline Of Savannah and Mobile, and the
looming greatness of Charleston, may, however, in
measure, explain the apparent recklessness with
which the people of South Carolina have been
jeopardizng their banks and their cotton trade for
the sake of disunon. There was, it seems a
method in their madness. Charleston having taken
the lead in the matter of secession, and borne the
brunt of the first shock, that win naturally become
will be so considered in Europe. Merchants de-
srous Of shipping goods to the Southern States will
clear their vessels for Charleston Charleston will
once more become the principal commercial city
of the South and Savannah, Mobile and New Or
leans will fall into the background. Already we
hear that some of our leading houses, believing
that the erection of an independent Southern con-
federacy is inevitable and that the Southern trade
is lost to New York, are contemplating the estab-
lishment of branches at Charleston. But we do
not hear of any similar establishments being IN view
for Mobile or Savannah