New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-17
TALK ON CHANGE

Il TALK ON CHANGE
Yesterday was another very quiet day on the
flags. There was something said about cotton, but
it is entirely too early for any extended operations
The orders from France have not arrived as yet.
4 There were some receipts of the new crop yester
day, and it is supposed that the Nieksburg packet
due this morning. will bring in tolerable fair load
The boat for the corresponding day Of the week
last year brought in I'll bales of which 40 bales
were of the new crop. The Fort Adams packet,
4 W. Burton, arrived yesterday with 696 bales. The
same boat brought in for the corresponding date
last year n bales. The Yicksburg packet Alice
Vivian, brought in the date in 1858, 96 bales
| of cotton of which % were new. The Fort Adams
packet, same date, l6 bales, of which 10 were new
1t appears that planters are forwarding their cot
ton to market Just as fast as it is picked, ginned
I and baled. Whether this almost unexampled dis
patch is to provide for obligations maturing, or
whether they are under the belief that the yield
will be large, and are desirous Of realizing the
opening of the market, afford subjects for com
ment; but certain it is that the staple is coming to
market with more freedom than expected, though
the receipts of the new crop, previous to the 1st of
September, will fall far short of the receipts in
lcoa, WneH tney topped AoY1e4 Dales.
/ There were some further accounts Of the late
storm received. The details, though sad and
gloomy, are not unfavorable as at first reported
For instance, we had it that Mr.. David Urquhart
had lost twenty-five or twenty-sx negroes. This
| is not confirmed, nor is the cane so much injured
as at first supposed. The talk was, that wherever
the weather foreboding the storm was conceived
precautionary measures suggested and acted on,
the damage has not been serious.
| The late storm was predicted on Friday last
| particularly on Lakes Pontchartrain and Mauri-
| pas. Some people had the temerity to expose
| themselves in old and condemned vessels and
| steamers, very properly denominated wash-tubs.
Take the steamer W. G. Young for one instance;
| then there were numbers of yatchs, under charge
| of amateur sailors, badly found and only calcu-
lated for fair weather. There is very little proyi-
| sion made or precaution taken for the hurricane
| season. u.M.
| We have drifted off Carondelet street, but have
| had little talk about tobacco. Well, what about
the weed? The Bears assert that with only half Of
crop this season, the supply for next season will
be ample to meet the demand. But the weed is
/ pulled away at rapid rate. Our own market this
week has been some little excited. The stock un-
sold has been partly withdrawn; another part is
Z unless in round lots. Lues have advanced, and
high prices are demanded for admitted. One
serious interruption to the tobacco trade is the up
ward tendency Of freights. Vessels are scarce in
Northern ports, and fleights have materially ad
vaneed during the last thirty days. Of course, if
paying freights can be obtained in Northern ports
for foreign countries the usual amount of tunnage
which every autumn seeks New Orleans and Mo.
! bile for employment, may not be available here
for some weeks to come. 1924. are now asked
/ for cotton to Liverpool The fall business has not
/ yet opened, and it is premature to predict what
may OR will be the position of commerce and trade
on the 1st of October coming.
i The Northern mail, due via Jackson yesterday,
failed from beyond Chattanooga, Tenn. It is
almost astounding to witness the great and rapid
increase in travelling on this route. Several of our
/ citizens have already returned from their annual
/ iaunts. They came via the interior route, the
jackson road, instead Of taking the route as in
former seasons, via Mobile or via the West. They
| take the inland route, coming from New York in
/ eighty to ninety hours. On the other hand some
Of citizens talk as though we were too close to
/ New York; that it would in general be more con-
i dueYe to our trade aud business that Gotham was
farther Off that the facilities for travelling and
speedy communication with the North is drawing
off some of the trade which ought to concentrate
here. Perhaps it does, then perhaps it does not.
! However, we can do as much business. sell as
much merchandise, borrow as much money, and
go into debt as deep as we ought to, if New fork,
Philadelphia, and all their attractions are only
three and half days distant.
The last European adEices, brought by one of
The Galway steamers, have had very little effect on
our market, The letter of the Nephew Of Ny Tn,
Gle to his man Friday in London, was talked of
yesterday. But We could not meet with any ons
who could make out what Mr.. Napoleon does
mean. The political aspect Of Europe is decidedly
cloudy and unfayorable. Mons get5'9as