New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-01-23

Ihegatherings on the flags yesterday were free,
anu the talk OF cearances Of vessels continued
Though stpmasters appear to be alarmed, the
buyers oil cotton do not apparently coincide with
what may be the imaginary trouble. Cotton was
IN request yesterday and the sales free clearance
or no clearance of vessels. Yesterday was another
) very active day in and about Collector Hatch's
premises. Thrty-eight vessels obtained clearance
which, with fifty-eight the day previous, makes
nlnet.siX for two days. Vessels are cleared with.
out any cargo on board. OF course if these yes.
sells are boarded on the high seas by one of the
Northern cruisers or men-of-war, it is not supposed
that the commander Of such man.of.war will 20
behind the date of clearance, or rather be so in
quisIaTe as to inquire whether the cargo was on
board the ship at the date of clearance whether
1t Taa in the cotton presses, or whether it was in
the sln:house on plantation. In making up tables
or accounts there cannot be any reliance placed on
the figures or number of bales of cotton exported.
According to the Custom-house entries there were
95,9iO bales of cotton cleared Monday. How
will Col Wright and other New York operators
make up their export figures for the Liverpool mar
4 ket? In about three days more, if cearances go
/ on at this rate, all the cotton in the city and some
Al thousands of bales on plantations will have been
ii cleared. The present being times Of great emer-
II gencY, there may be some justification for these
u simulated movements. Therefore, the entire ex-
port tables Of produce for the coming forty to fifty
Aidays will be in confusion. The subject has been
Abrousht up as regards clearance in another shape
NlThat captains of vessels can 60 to Washington City
#and obtain passes or projections from the author
n ties there power, which will obvate and prevent
Is any detention on the high seas. This course would
q ay4bFto vessels which may be in port at date Of
81 ssion of the State Of Louisiana 1t is presumed
Il there will be some kind of Government at Wash
4 ington Philadelphia elsewhere, whose pass or
Il protection will be recognized by its cruisers. If
4 New England vessels do not feel safe under State
l clearance, protection can be obtained from the
ruling Iowers. Captains and owners cannot be
answe#ble, nor ought they to suffer for being in
the predicament which many imagine they will
be under clearance from sovereign State. OF
course, q pass from Washington authorities could
not be eregarded as protective from cruisers only
for limited time, that is, allow all vessels in port
and those to arrive after a given time the advan-
tages to be derived by these suggestions.
The nature of blockade, as to neutrals, is pre-
sumedto be well understood that due notice must
be given to cause binding effect OF course,
1 every captain would have to go to Washington and
/ present himself to the "powers that be' OF
course, Northern Black Republican ship owners
will have paramount influence with the authorities
at Washington. AS regards foreign vessels, our
Livery good trans Atlantic friend, Mr. Bull, will take
Il care of his flag under State clearance or under
amy other and if cruisers under the old American
flag interfere, it would be a muss to be settled
afterwards.
Later advices were received from liverpool yes
terday. The most important intelligence is the
advance in the rate of interest by both the banks
of England and France up to f3ct This advance
was predicted by some of the frequenters on the
flags two weeks since, though the dispatches say
the advance was unexpected in Liverpool. The
cotton market opened on the 7th quite brisk in
Liverpool. The demand was checked on Tuesday,
the stf by the enhanced rate of interest. A differ
ent influence prevailed here yesterday in fact the
old grandmarm's bowling was only partially allud-
ed to-. All that is required now is about one hun
dred to one hundred and fifty sail of burthensome
j British vessels to transport the staple. 5d.@ld.
sterling 9 ib freight to Liverpool is something to be
talked or as well very entcing to foreign ship
= owners.
a The question of Black Republican vessels was
i again brought up yesterday. Some folks say it
is very difficult to keep clear Of them, though there
are many good captains who say they are opposed
to their owners politics, and many that voted did
go iIffavor of Messrs. Bell and Everett. Some cap
tains and co.owners happen TO haveesome of these
Black Republicans as co:owners, of which they are
inaaeent as in the case 0fthe ship Webster Clark,
Capt. Kopperholdt. This ship halls from New Or
leans aud is registered at our Custonihouse,
is owned in part by our felow-citizen, R. B. Sum-
her, with Capt. Kopperholdt. The other owner or
owners reside in Maine. Their politics, of the
Black Republican school, is not denied, though
when Messrs. Sumner and Kopperholdt became
owners the question of Black Reppbcanism had