New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-19
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4 What vacuum the suspension of cotton ship
ments causes on our grand leyee, and which is SO
strongly experienced on The flags OF CarondeIet.
The New York Black Republican sheets, such as
the Herald, are terribly exercised at the planters
of the South Withholding their cotton from market.
The money article of the Herald of the 9th inst is
very sore on the subject. 1t exposes its ignorance
of the situation of the South. The finances of the
! South are now in position, and will move forward
tremendously and gloriously. The Herald can re-
frain from writing trash and lies for the European
market. Twas limited that Mons. Belmont had
very sore head Y that the London Stock Ex-
change was too warm for him at the date Of the
Africa's sailing that some Of the doctors on the
London flags prescribed dose of salts In other
words, the attempt of Belmont to borrow $780,
600, 900, or f20,o0o000 sterling for Lincoln Chase
Il CO., has proved failure.
There was some talk about an arrival at Sayau-
nah from Europe. Well, it is expected there will be
other arrivals that will not appear in the papers,
There were numerous arrivals of people yesterday
and the day previous. There are many unknown
persons (neW faces1 appearing on our streets. It
is very cheap process for Northerners (Lincoln
ssympathizers) to take the oath of allegiance and
act the spie and informer Three dollars is very
cheap for the privilege Of acting spy and informer
Some days since we intimated that it would be ad .
visable to place our city under martial law. This
has ELECTED from distinguished planter in Mssis
sppi the following communication:
u ~ VERNON, Miss, Sept. IL 1861.
+ To TAI on Change T. -
You are right as to the declaration of martial law
mands IT The defences Of the CITY having been
somewhat overlooked, New Orleans must not be
overfun by an unfrendly and doubtful population.
str up the authorities on the. subject The cOun-
Try tfenpes with interest as to the fate of the city
- g Yours. truly, --
For the information Of our correspondent and ali
Others We have to state that the Notifications for
the protection Of the city progressing that for
various reasons it is deemed unwse to allude to
them in the public prints,
= It has been suggested to the Commanding Gen
eral to prohibit all engineers and others from Civ
ing details and particulars of the extent and pro
gress of the works of defence, as was allowed
few days since and published in a Camp street
journal The plans and specifications might as
well be forwarded to the enemy at once; the
enemy we'll know cur weakest points, They are
in possession Of Mississippi Sound and likely to re-
tain it, We called attention to this point months
ago. dozen glnboats ought to have been in
readiness long before this The money and time
spent on Ship Island would have furnished a dozen
gnnboats Of three guns or more each All our
authorities have to do is, to work the harder and
put our city in condition for the grand fight.
The latest from Mississippi Sound is up to Tues
day evening. A, general stampede of residents
sooarners and visitors followed the evacuation of
Ship Island. The coast packet Creole left yester-
day morning, but wonld not proceed further than
the Pass. The communication with Mobile was
suspended yesterday. AT least such was the infer
ence from the instructions to the railroad officers
not to receive freight for the mail line. The gen.
eral impression and talk is that the communication
with Mobile might have been kept open; but too
much diy-daflying has attended the movements of
those in power. Whether of Mississippi, Alabama
or Louisiana, We talketh not.
The currency question having been settled, 80
far as Gonfederated Treasury notes are to be CON
sidered az such, leaves little for comment. The
talk is strong and general issues on the part
of the city for fractional parts Of a dollar. We
trust our authorities will protect US from the vile
and miserable scheme of five, ten and twenty-five
or even fifty cents shin plasters !, even if they
are made or printed on thick pasteboard. The
Confederate notes are working their way into
favor, though it Is said high official refused to
take them for rentals from some of his tenants.
The question is asked, g to whom can the Govern.
ment look for support of its measures if its officials