New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-18
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s 8sSsssS 49ss8 Saturday Night, NcF l6, 1851
The transactions for theweek for shipment havt
confined to sugar and lnolasses, with little
salt called for, for which qhe latter article) the
most extortionate prices have been paid, The de
mand for molasses has been on large scale, the
sales reaching 0o8 barrels against 10000 barrels
for the same week last year. The sales Of sugar
have also been inexcesS of last year.
ing the Western Or upper markets are all closed.
In cation, now on plantations, there have been
some few sales IN the irregular way Of, deliverable
when the ports are; Or the port is opened, at the
very low price Of 80. for strict Middling. These
sales will give rise to great controversy when the
time for delivery arrives, They had better not be
carried to any extent. gsss,ls,
8 In breadstufs and provisions We have to review
market held up by famine prices. Where is the
great yields of grain we have heard of for months
past? They do not benefit our community beyond
! Increasing the commission accounts Of those en-
gagged In the trade. Farmers and growers are
reaping immense returns from the very anomalous
state Of aairs that III an abundance i'd the interior
but scarcity in the central markets. The important
market ef Memphis il also under the influence Of
relative high prices. II il supposed Spectators
and monopoIizers control all the grain raised last
season ~ Tennessee. The shipments from certain
districts are again placed under military restraint
after having been relieved for few days
In other branches Of trade there have been very
limited sales. The great dry-goods interest feels
the eheets Of war rather in excess of other
branches yet the current belief Is, that large re-
Turns IL the way Of profits, have been realized in
the way Of advances on the stocks held during the
past summer. Technically speaking there are no
e lame ducks = Of consequence among the dry
goods Jobbers The grocersa though not partici.
patng to the same extent, have not been idle.
though stocks Of! fancy Yankee groceries are now
getting low. Shoe and clothing dealers have bar,
taken Of the good time, and those whose feelings
and sympathies pre0oniinate with the Northern
Hessians can felicitafe themselves that they have
realized some remarkable gains, and can retire to
Their dolnics and families now residing in The enc
mics dcninions and laugh al THE liberality, gene.
rosity and ehivalrg of tue great south Yea, t,ey
can send their gains North TO be used against tba
South, as many Of them have been doing for
months and months past. " " A5.,,s y
The mechanical branches Of trade are Inerativel,
employed in fact, Industrial and mechanical arts
are under full employment. Tina STATE II .SSar i
bringing out the resources Of the areat sonths
yord the fondest antcipations Of ali sartberns,s
few millions Of dollara now dla n, ~.
banks can wen be employed in promoting mann.
factares and associations for aegeoping the rich.
ness and resources Of the great South. We viii
moi, however, expect 80 much as few millions Of
dollars, but one or two millions at this time Judi
ciously expended 10 home nufacturing viii prove
Of incaenlab bic advantage. True. the South is an
agricultural nation, butSit must never. again be
dependent on the workshops and factories Of New
Jersey, New. York and New England, nor should it
sEer patrenizeth West except 50 far as an inter
'nange the productichof the soil, that is, sugar
nolasses and cotton in exchange for provisions
Ha prealstads. Some writer's pretend to say that
are Of more valuable aid and their
al'or 81 9 higher estimation than farmers and Ill
'rs of the soil. What an Illogical and ridiculous
sumption. What j the Chief support 81 manu- 4