New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-25
WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER 25, 1861.
Aeh 0rleans 4ailp Crescent.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER rs, 1851.
TALK ON CHANGE. ~ | a.


WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER IS, 1851.
TALK ON CHANGE. -. |
1t is often inquired, "Watcl man, what of the
night?' and much more satisfactorily answered
than the repeated inquiries yesterday on the flags,
" what do you think of the news?" Lincoln backs
down, was frequently exclaimed here and there, |
and the Bears were in high glee Before the close
of business, say P. NJ other dispatches were re-
ceived, which placed a different aspect on the
question 1t was something like the bull that
Sc gored my OK" 1t is useless to comment on the
great discrepancy Of the dispatches received yes
terday if they should be published this morning,
the general irreguarity and nonsense will at once
be discovered. Between IL and O'Clock yester-
day the difference in the general feeling, views and
| Impressions were equivalent, il the regular per
centage manner of calculating, to rs per cent.
Even the salt dealers pnt on a brusk determined
air, and held the saline at high prices. The bag
ging and rope dealers did not manifest any anxiety
or impatence, though the talk is, that the inter-
course with Kentucky will be opened before many
days of the coming year OF 1862 will pass away.
| In the meantime, the talk of a want of bagging
and rope comes up. AS for bagging, if planters
desired to pack their cotton forthwith there might
be great lack of covering. AS for rope, every
planter has substitute on his plantation, premis-
ing that he has at least few oak hickory trees.
In regard to the other essential, baling or cover
ing, we have heretofore suggested the use of their
| cypress boards. A correspondent has refreshed
our memory this subject, in the following com
| munication: a---. r7. .s.
Cotton planters are in want of bagging to bale
| their cotton. They have now mostly picked the
crop and housed the same to suffer it to remain in
bulk, ginned or in the seed is injurious and leaves
| it subject to imminent danger of destruction by
fire from combustion AS the usual bagging CAM
| not be procured for the purpose of covering, why
should not the planters apply thin board cover
| ing, say quarter of an inch thick? The sawmills
| in the country can furnish it at one dollar q
hundred superficial feet costing the planter for the
quantity required per bale As cents. This would
serve for the preservation of the bales when bound
securely, and rope and iron bands are not to be
| had at reasonable prices, wood hoops are sug-
4 gested for substitute. The oaks about the plan
i tatons afford the timber, which the negroes are
used to splitting for cotton baskets, OK and wagon
bows, etc. A tie for this purpose is now sold in
this city, which has been patented, tried and found
! to be perfect fastening without nail. The cost
of this e added to the mills price of the lumber,
| will amount to Is cents per bale. This moderate
expenditure the planter is surely authorized to
make for the sake of having his cotton baled ana
ready for shipment to the seaports. surely under
the circumstances it will be received III that torm
| The buyers of the staple themselves will bear the
expense of covering with bagging should the
itbOardS be found inadequate Tor lorelBu SnPneHt.
The extraordinary circumstances OF the country IN
a state of blockade, cut off from intercourse with
those parts of the world on which we depended ior
good many of our wants, compes us to resort 10
measures for the preservation OF the fruls OF our
labor, DEVELOPMENTS of our own resources take
place daily, and covering cotton with wood VIII
rank as one Of the means OF proving our capacity
to sustain our Independence. These suggestions
are worthy of calculation, and we think cotlol
planters may profit by them.
Among the bills introduced before our Leglsla
ture is one for the benefit and relief of sugar plant
ers. This motion movement takes US by sGr
surprise 1t has been the generally received opin
ion that our sugar planters have been highly ia
yored in regard to the extent of their crops. True
prices rule at much less rates than last year, bu
we have yet to learn that the returns have or vii
l. be unremunerating. Up to this time the receipt
of sugar and molasses this season have been in ex
cess of any previous season. and sales have bee
, | corresponding. The movements in favor of relic
for cotton planters have undoubtedly been tn
Y cause of bringing forward measures for the benef
n of sugar planters. We have yet talearn that tn
+ sugar interest is in want of legislative aid If Sc
the cattle drivers of Opelousas and Attakapas vii
e be applying for relief so may the rice growers Q
~ Plaquemines and the vegetable raisers all apply TO
, relief. In fact "poor 49," editors, reporter
aud printers, might with the same propriety appi
, for relief Poor us,' as old Judge Martin, of til
{ Supreme Court, always remarked when long
! winded pleader arose to address the Court with
u six hours speech-yes, poor us, won't the Legsla
ture help printing house square, on Camp street,
h no further than to grant editors and compositor
vt relief and immunity from the calls of Captains, Mt
jors, Golonels and Generals Though when th
- | Hessians actually invade Louisiana, and com
within distance, we will one and all be prepared
meet them, and that under the black flag, rrespec
! i've of our worthy friend, Mr. Secretary Benjamin
Instructions that every Hessian is to be considere
a prisoner of war. We wish our friend Secre'ar
BENJAMIN, to understand, when we go to the goo
fight we shall forget his orders, ask no question
and shall not parley about prisoners of war. "
- are having our old Mexican lance put in prin
q order; it has performed wonders heretofor
II though in other hands, at Monterey and BueI
- VISTA 1t never thought of West Point in tho
nj. days. 1850 -, -.-
ap M. Yesterday was another beautiful day peculiar
! the Sunny South, and while we were comparil
r. notes with past years, we were tapped on tt
u shoulder about the Slidell and Mason embrogll
Considering that question about to be disposed {
we must wait some weeks for the final solution.
the mean time it occurs to US if the Yankee steal
NV | ers' kiduappers arrest an English steamer on
high seas, en- route from one neutral port to 9
other can they not detain and capture a Span
wa vessel bound from Havana to Spain, with a car
of cotton, which cotton may have been shpp
"A from this port since the pretended blockade del
cred in Cuba, from thence reshipped for Spai
That Migrate, Robert W. Shufeldt, the Hessan CO
sui in Havana, is always on the watch for tht
- cargoes. This man Shufedt was highly feted,
ted and extolled in Mobile, when in command
W the Quaker City, and some of our city coteml
|, | rares were not backward in their extolling a
,,v commentator of the migrate. Possibly his aeti'
may be working for the good of the Southern C
federacy. He is so inveterate against the Sol
H. that he would stoop to any misdeeds or villany
ARCHBISHOP HuGHEs.--lt has been supposed
23t the people of the South that Archbishop Hugh
nm of New York, has been sent to Europe for the
no pose of advancing the interests of the Lincoln
- ernment by using his influence to counteract
representations of the Commissioners sent fr
llac the South. But the Staunton Spectator expires
itn its gratfaction at learning from satistact
-" source that his mission is 1or contrary purpt
stls From priest of the church OF which Archbis
tss Hughes is the head in this country and who Ii
~ beyond the limits of the Southern Contedera
= the Spectator learns that the Archbishop has b
I'M deputed by council of the Fathers y OF