New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-19
TALK ON soHhNGE.

The weather cleared on yesterday. II was the
first read drs day we haTe had for weeks, How
eyer, itimparted no particular zeal oractisity pn
the great thoroughfares On the great levee, that
il, down amung the sugar hogsheasis and barrels #
melasses, trade was excessively dull IN Fact, the
girnietrangers seem to have natling 10 do but to
talk Of the great BAH 1T the opera house, which
was to have come OF last night and the great
sugar interest, IL mas taked W woalsi be well and
truly represented fte weather WAS suspicious at
tic setting IL Inc san iaSt evening. Further up on
the great leyee there mas great activity and live
ness. Tue sraayaisp d hests were many, as well as
uslnsan,is Several 81 them were from the Ohio
fiyss, III bringing full cargoes There will be
lisely tisaes the landing for some weeks, as all
feays9f real freeze up in the waters Of the Ohio
river are abandoned. Tchoupitoulas, Poydras and
New Leyee streets were III good feeling at the
prospects and with the free intercourse with the
luwer tributaries of the Mississippi, lively times
are talked Of for at least eight weeks. On Caron.
delet street the usual gatherings took place. with
broad latitude Ia the general talk, embracing cot
ton, sugar, tobacco, freights, exchange. money,
paper. interlarded with something about crinoline
and long dresses. It has been remarked and talked
Of Of late that the flags on Carondeet street have
been remarkably clean. Some Of the habitues in
sinuate that it Is due TO the long dresses which
daily sweep through this great centrally. they
having lately eneroached ON the domains of the
great King Cotton.
There were some movements in cotton. The
foreign exchange market yesterday favored cotton,
while the freight market moved to the contrary.
Notwithstanding the many arrivals Of large freight
ing vessels from Northern and foreign ports with
cargoes, there are vessels arriving from Cuba in
ballast which went there in search Of business,
and vessels arriving from South American ports in
ballast, yet the freight market i wen sustained. 1t
appears that everything in the way of freighting
vessel has been sent South this season in search of
employment The inquiry is made, if the great
Black Republican merchant in New Moses
H. Grinnell has any vessels looking for business
in the South Now, Moses was a very good sort
Of Democrat when he appeared in New Orleans
on the anniversary Of the Eighth of January A. D.
1898. III company with Saul Alley and Colonel
james Hamilton as the representatives of the
great Jackson party and Tammany society in New
York. Gen. Jackson, the invited guest of our
Legislature that year, was present and participated
in the celebration. Moses Tor the honorable Mr..
Grinnel 1t Is now) was then a tolerable modest.
unassuming merchant in Front street, New York,
the junior member of the old commercial firm of
Fish, Grinnell Go. We cannot say how many
thousands or tens of thousands of dollars Moses
has accumulated through his ships carrying slave
grown cotton and tobacco. But he is well to do in
the world now, and if Massa w. III. Seward should
be elected President in all probability Moses would