New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-06
TALK ON CHANGE.

The weather was favorable, very favorable
yesterday for outdoor transactions and the gather
ings on Carondelet street were free. Considerable
exutation was evinced on the successful ternna.
ton of the fourth Of the month. The usual trans
actions in cotton were effected though il does not
require much exertion to effect sales and move.
ments in good and clean cotton. The demand
| continues good, and will in all probability remain
SO, under Liverpool quotations of ID, with good
demand for yarns and goods in Manchester. The
receipts Of cotton begin to fall off from the shin
ping points on the Mississippi river. This is not
unusual at this season of the year. There were re-
ceiyed last year after this time to the 9lst August
1,913,000 bales. The Bears and Bulls can figure
out what the receipts may be for the coming two
hundred and thirty days, expiring on the slst Of
August next. =4..-z-u
The accounts from the West yesterday were Of
an icy nature, which led to an advance in some
kinds of Western produce. The talk is if Western
merchants, or those connected with the Western
trade, enhance the prices of their products buyers
for distant markets will withdraw and await a
movement in the rivers above as an ice embargo
cannot last long,
There was some talk Of cargo Of 5000 bags of
This will prove d dead loss Of at least sl20OO0
cargo and vessel. The cargo is supposed to be in
sured in England where the amount of purchase
money was to be forwarded on the landing of the
coffee on our Ievee.
We hope we shall not have any more losses to
chronicle for the present. They have been count
ing up largely since the first of November. The
valuable cargo Of the Silas Holmes, sunk in the
Gulf, falls chiefly on distant Offices large part of
the cargo being for shipment up the river. As she
is insured at several places it is believed 10 be well
divided, though the cargoes Of these packets yery
often exceed in value 200 to s250,O00 The loss of
the ship Heidelberg and the cutting through By ice
Of the steamer Grenada in the harbor of New York
have occasioned considerable talk among the scrip
operators. The impression is that we have a good
many more losses and disasters to be advised of
before the assets and revenues of our several in
surance companies will be affected or operated on.
The mails failed yesterday by both routes. Our
merchants complain that their correspondence is
scattered all over the country part coming by
one route and part by another; but when the
Florida route is organized they hope to receive
a mail from New York at least once in three aays.
isyery immateria whether 1t comes in five or six
Nv olo titou Vi hearing Oh mails being
ceiyed from New York in four days or 30 hours,
and all this, that and the other.
There were no advices Of the steamer from Liy
erpool Of the 2lst received yesterday. The Arabia
will be fully due at New York to-day AS the
Cunard line has no real opposition, Sir Samuel
Cunard, Bart. does not deem it important to
American interests to push his steamers.
WEATHER IN MoBILE.-The Advertiser of We'd
nesday says:
The weather suce New YEARS. Eve has been
about US severe as have ever known in this lat
itude. New Years day and yesterday were yery
cold--iee forming in the shade all day. Yesterday
morning ice In the CUTTERS was nearly thick enough
loI skating purposes, and we have been told but
VIII not youch for the report that One Mile Creek
was frozen over.
Inc cold too was of that raw, penetrating char
acter, that went right to the hone. Heavy wool
ems seemed to offer no etfectual resistance to the
searching wind, and coal CRATES were decidedly
cold institution The thermometer in a not verv
exposed place in the city went down to 20 deg
Fahfenheit, yesterday morning, and we presume
IN some places must have been two or three de-
grees lower. What 1t marked at Spring Hill we
have not heard. There is prospect now of n
little warmer weather, which we are glad to see
So far this will pass for of the eoldest winters
onrecord in Mobile.
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The dear little thing, said the affectionate old
sea captain with tear in his eye-.tI hope she,
grow up till that little hand is as large as my owna