New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-11-15
VOLUME XIII.
Ne(u ORLEANS 1alIp Crescent.
TALK ON CHANGE.


levee. AZ broad as the leyee II, it was difficult to
move without being run against, knocked down by
the numerous vehicles engaged in moving the large
receipts Of produce; and although the cotton fact
ors and cotton brokers were rather idle than other
wise yesterday, their lay days will be Of short dura
| ton. On the grand rue Poydras and old Tchoupi-
toulas there were unmistakable signs of brisk
ness. Receipts Of Western produce and sales
thereof free, or have been for the three days
past. True, we met with -four or pork factor,
and inquired, How is business? how goes it2''
Dull, of course, is the answer. But make inquiry,
How is it, f business ID SO very dull and sales SO
| light, that the.steamers for Texas and Mobile
all carrying large cargoes, say from 1000 to 5000
| barrels each, and leaving our port daily?" How
is it, we inquire, that the produce business can be
called dull? Who sells all the produce which is
| every minute, from the rising of the sun to the
setting thereof, landed on the levee, received in
and turned out of stores and warehouses, passing
through Streets to this and that railroad to the
! New Basin, to the Old Basin, to the steamboats,
leaving daily? II business is very dull, or has
| been attended with much dullness, how comes it
in this carly stage of the season that the proprie
tors of the Mobile mail line have at several periods
given notice that the press of freight was great
and heavy that no freight could be received? How
is it that the 0pelousas Railroad has been crowded
with merchandise and freight? How Is it again
that we see daily long trains of cara leaving the
jackson Railroad depot, fully laden with produce
| and merchandise? How is It that all these i'm
mense quantities Of produce and merchandise are
bought and sold without some action or animation
What has become Of the very large receipts Of
many kinds of Western produce, il they have not
| been sold, delivered and paid torf what has be-
come of them? Is not idle then, out OF place, for
some paFties merchants or rcpamiasion merchants,
| to be moaning and complaining Of dullness and
| staguat0n in trade, when we here present incon-
testibIe ana incontfovertible conclusions to the
contrary? Admit aa we do, that in some depart.
rnsnts of trade, say groceries, dry goods, hard
ware and dconcomitant branches OF the great trade
Of our city that il has been dull yet the real basis
| of Our commercial strength and greatness Ghe
| produce) shows no dminution, no failing Of.
| As strong confirmation q what We are talking
about, we have only 10 taSe ito eohsiaefatioh the
great and increased earnings OIL our fsi'foaas-say
the opelonsas, the Jackson, the oid Fohtchaffalh
| so great has been the increase on lhe oio foht-
! chartfain (which IS due 10 the great increase Oh
freighting busness) that the directors Oh the COM
/ pany (the old war horse) contemplate TO declare
/ dividend, and pay it stockholders next month OF
FIVE or five and half vet out Of the earnings for the
last six months; ana all this great and increasing
trade is destined to enhance, even under the move
| ment of secession At the same time, while we
are talking and can talk 50 very favoraby of the
| gigantic produce trade, we have word to say in
regard to tie dry goods and other trades, retail
and Wholesale The indications for these hitherto
4 influential branches of commerce are not at this
time encouraging. A change is coming over the
minds " people, and it u taken into consideration
whether we of the South cannot got along with
only one.half of the usual quantity of fine and
fancy merchandise that we have heretofore, there.
by retaining the equivalent Of these large sums Of
money in the country which have been disbursed
among those who are inimical to the dearest inter
ests of the South
As we have no space to talk at length on politi.
cal ar commercial economy, we must return to the
anas on Carondelet street, where we found at a
Iatn bour Yesterday a good deal of feeling much
confab on cotton and exchange. Some weak
minded nsrties evinced more or less perturbation
beeause there was a pause in the market. Some
folks talked as though matters and things were
co,nino 10 n d4aJ halt. We were not exactly taken
Ioof 4 +ba oxnrasaons Of some folks in rerard to
mo bnncor,he and fancy dispatches received by
teleeroph. OF course, those parties who receive
| fhair advicas reonlafly in cvnher know what is
what We do not find many Of them at all alarmed
NOR In any manner troubled by the position of the
New York and Northern markets in general. The
great exchange market will work itself out o
chaos into REGULARITY and order and if there should
he ealnness and inactivity in the cotton market fol
a day. two days, or week. it ought not to create
the least uneasiness. If three-fourhs of the tee