New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-09
TALK ON 3cH LANCE

5 me weather was favorable yesterday for all out
4 door transactions; in fact, we have had remarka
4 piV Dry and pleasant weather the entire week
! greatly Facilitating the great business now goinp
| Forward IN our emporium. The receipts Of cotton
Tor the week foot up well, although the receipts
from Red river are rather light. It is talked of
shat the bulk of the quantity to come TO market
from Carolina Bluffs Shreveport and the banks of
Red river, is already in market. From Lake Ris
teneau the receipts have thus far been yery LIGHT
From the 0aaehita river there have been some fair
loads received during the week. The recejpts via
the Jackson Railroad have been ipterrupted bv fin
storm and ffeshet the night OF the LIST inst The
Bulls and Bears have commenced figuring on the
receipts for the year 1860 and 1861 1t in drbjous
to be estimating on the receipts at Charleston. It
is evident there is disposition to hold back in
soath Carolina and Georgia.
The transactions in sugar and molasses have
been on a free scale, with prices advancing form
ing one OF the chief features during the entire
week. The crop estimates range from 225, 600 to
100000 hhds We shall know all5about ii in a few
days--as soon as the compiler of the annual erops
completes his tour. The demand for the Upper
Mississippi -thatia for St. Louis and the markets
above, away up as high as the lake in the woods
is expected to be larger than last year, and Lou.
isiana sugar is purchased for that Black Republican
place, Chicago, transported via Cairo, on the great
Illinois Railroad
There has been very little talk about tobacco
lately. The weed appears to be remarkably Quiet
The receipts this season are % per cent. in excess
oflast year. This does not appear to be confirm
ing the short crop predictions of last summer
which ran as low as third to onehalf reduc.
ton.
There was considerable talk yesterday about
the depression in the cotton market This is not
an unusual creumstance--that u.s. brisk and active
one week, then followed by week or a few DAYS
OF inactivity. Until there is some important relief
in the exchange market we cannot realize apv i'm
in the staple, Though the last adyiees
from Liverpool were more adverse than expecfed |
they would have had very little influence had not
exchange taken the untoward turn. II is honed
the Directors Of the old Grandmarm, in Thread. |
needle street, will not become alarmed at a call |
rom this side for million or two more gold. The
withdrawal of about two millions more of soyer.
signs might cause some little agitation.
There was some talk about freights but under
ne partial movements in cotton there was no
great desire evinced for engagements Of large
quantities.. Some recent purchases of cotton have
been weighed, delivered and shipped with remark
ape dispatch. Apurchase of eight hundred bales
vas closed on Monday last, and on Thursday (day
before yesterday the parcel was on shipboard and
oitls OF ading received. True, it is an every dav
business 70 buy enc thousand to ten thonsan5
'ales, but to get it weighed and through the
,resses and on shiphoard in two or three 3a1a | S
another thing. The preference for shipping IN
sritish or foreign vessels over American continues
ne position OF affairs has been misunderstood in
highland in regard to State elearances. or iastrnc.
ons without any discretion whatever would not b
ave been forwarded. The inquiry is made, {
neither there will not BE several transfers of
esselsto the British flag. under registers through
le British Consulate. We shall soon ascertain
hether q state clearance will be recognized in
e port Of Havana and 1t Vera Cruz. The steamer i
adams cleared two days since for the former port
The weekly coffee circular shows considerable
itisity IN the coffee market during the week, the
les approaching twenty thousand bags, with i