New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-03
cowMERcIAI Correspondence,

a ing the coming season, which preyer ats engage
ments of crops at prices that at this nIoment wou
not be accepted. a buyer from New York ha
Il been, and is still, believe here, but | have no
i heard that he has operated at all extensively
Il Some 5000 boxes, 10 be6elyerad in bags, for hom
consumption, has beer. engaged within dav o
Il twos Whites at Is reals, first Yellews III reals
seconds Oh, Coours .ches Nos. III to II D. S. at
4 reads per aErobe, with SIS 900 cash advance.
! This would establish a rather heavy decline il
rates, especially in the lower grades, but as thu
new crop comes forward slowly and quotations
q will have to- be made when IL arrives more freely
j do not feol justified in altering my last quota
tioss at tbs time. Only about 1900 boxes (new
crsp1 and 800 hhds. are in town. Some small lots
ID. S. No. H. new crop, for shipment at once, have
been son at 81 reals, but it is generally thought by
intending purchasers the same quality will be had
II very soon a real lower per arrobe At Matanzas
there were of new crop 9before the holidays
about 600 boxes aud 1900 hhds. Muscovadoes at
Matsnzas have sold at reals per arrobe for fair
lrefEing. The stocks here and at Matanzas are
abent Is 900 boxes, against 10000 boxes at this
sesson last year.
Il MoIasses {clayede continue in good demand at
q a reals, and Muscogado at 42 reals per key of 81
gallons for Europe, at which rates several cargoes
have been taken to be delivered at outports. For
\ the United States there is not any demand.
Il LARD-Rates are quite nominal at SIT to ST rs
for tierces and bbs., and SIT for kegs per quntal,
Stock large; say nea " 1000 terces and barrels,
and nearly 5000 Kegs
BUTTER becoming scarcer and rates tend up
wards; % kegs, ex-ship from Philadelphia, sold
10Th inst, at S20per quintal.
CHEEsE-No sales of American reported since
4 my last adrices.
HAas-Yery abundant; 36 bbls. from store, sold
29th inst, at SIG so per quintal.
| BEER in good demand; % bbls., from store, sold
29th inst. at IS 50 each.
CLEAR PoRK-In better request; IS boxes ex
Delhi, from Philadelphia, sold at Sill and 10 boxes
from store, 18th inst, at same rates per quintal
| CoRN-l00 sacks yellow, eA Columbia, from New
Orleans were sold at a rate not made public. !.
soAP-50 boxes yellow, ex Delhi, from Philadel-
phia, sold goth inst. at 81 so per quntal.
CANDLES Composition very abundant and dull;
I5O boxes, ex Habana, from New Orleans, sold at
$21 per quntal.
PoTAToEs-stock large, but demand good. Last
sale at S. so per Dbl.
Onions abundant. No sales reported since my
last advices.
YELLOW P1SE-Two cargoes await purchasers
so. The arrivals have been very large.
MoLAssEs AND SUGAR hogsheads and shocks
wanted and in good demand.
ENTITY HoGsHEADs scarcer and in demand at |
81 rs to IS.
S HooPs-Long shaved $65 not shaved $780, short |
as and SIG, but difficult Of sale.
FREIGHTs-0nly one American vessel has been
taken up since my last a ship Of 800 hhds. capa-
city, to load Molasses at Matanzas, for Cork etc.,
at AIS 3d. per ton. Some Spanish vessels of smaller
capacity have obtained higher rates for Europe.
ExcHANGEs-0 Owing to the holidays very little
has been doing The following have been the rul-
ing rates Sterling l2BB TO 134 prem, New Orleans
tshorD u prem. New York, ETC., 60 day bills to
s prem. for first-class paper
N B.-The Money market is still very stringent,
but good feeling exists among the bankers and
capitalists. Strange to say, the usual weekly
statement of the Spanish Bank of Havana does not
appear as customary in the official government
paper Of this date.
Evacuation of Fort NEodItrie and the OecE-
patton of Castle P1nckney.
From the Charleston Mercury of the goth uit,
extract the following interesting particulars of
the aforementioned events
Charleston was yesterday morning thrown into
4 state of the widest excitement by the news that
he United States troops had been transferred from
Fort Moutrie to Fort Sumter. AT first the flying
JUNIORS were SO numerous and so contradictory
hat it was no easy matter to get at the truth but
n short time the leading facts began to be pretty
veil established.
1t seems that on Wednesday night, about p
o'clock, Major Anderson and his command having
piked the guns, fred the gun carriages of Fort "
doultrie, and sawed down the flagstaff evacuated
he place, and took possession of Fort Sumter in-
tead The ladies, who had hitherto lived in the
ort, had been previously sent to Charleston, and,
fhateyer furniture, ammunition and provisions a
hat could be moved without exciting suspicion |
ad been quietly transferred to Fort Sumter. The 4
eport that the defences of Fort Moutrie had been
. shamefuy mutilated, naturally created great in
ignation in the city.
AT % O'Clock our reporter visited Suyan's
land. Quietness reigned throughout Moultrie- p
lie, and it was not until the fort was reached that
. noticed any signs of activity. Here, however
as a change. Instead of a mass of smoking
inns, were the welldened lines of the fortress 81
1changed, at least in outward appearance. In
cad of utter abandonment on the part Of the gar
son, the senior officer of engineers and six men So
aintained possession Of the stronghold Instead ia
gaining ready admittance, stolid sentinel bar NJ
ID the way, whilst a succession of carts loaded in
it'll canister and grape cooking utensils and cook CT
g stoves made their devious way to the lighter
attendance, TO convey the ilEassorted cargo to Bi
ort Sumter.
Il was easy to see that the fort had been virtu, =
ly abandoned but it was nots easy to ascertain =
e full extent of the damage. The barracks were +
i'll standing, though stripped of their furniture,
I'd deserted by their tenants. In short, it was N,
ain enough an evacuation had taken place. and
at visitors to Major Anderson were expected to
ave their cards at Fort Sumter. From the citi.
ms it was CLEANED that the guns had been tarred :.
id spiked, and that the small columns of smoke =
sing from the interior proceeded from the burn
6 gun carriages. One or two, more mysterious ~
the rest, stated, with omnous shakngs Of the ie
ad that the whole of the interior of the fort had m
zen undermined, and that it was perous to ven ~
re within its walls.
OCCUPATION OF THE FORT BY STATE TRooPs- 8
bout O'Clock the tramp Of detachments from VI
g artillery regiments was heard, and the Wash
gton Artillery, the German Artillery, the Lafay-
te Artillery and the Marion Artillery making -,
tai of two hundred and twenty-five men, rank an
ID file, under command of Col Wilmot G. De- a. a.
nssnre, were soon embarked on board the Nina A.
ID General Clinch, and steamed away down the W.
rbor towards Sulliyans Island. Among those a. a.
board were Col Charles Aston, Aid to the Gov ~
nor. and Capt. Humphreys of the Arsenal. :,
On reaching the island these two last named gem NJ
aHen approached the gate, and the sentinel in ~
'cordance. it is said with ORDERS surrendered on 81
smand. The troops then quietly took possession n.
I'd the Palmetto flag was soon waving over the ~
me- honored Notifications. Three rockets (the ON
gaal agreed UPON were then sent up, to notify =
e people in the city that the fort was in the hands B
tue State, and then the newly installed garrison
etook themselves, as best they might to deyising
r Ways and means Of comfort and protection. >