New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-12-18
/ TALK ON 'CHANGE,

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The weather was most apspicious yesterday.
Nevertheless, the gatherings the flags, partcu-
lay Carondelet, were altogether too diminutive to
command notice. Yet there was disposition to
| talk. Inquiries were made about the Yankee in
vasion. Not much use to be talking about Plea
yune Butler and cohorts. The Yankees are
coming in great force, and, to cut long argument
short, we have merely to repeat the talk are we
prepared?
! There is desire to invest in cotton. Some
buyers are transmitting their orders to Mississippi
| where they can be filled and admitted to landing
on our levee, under restrictions which may be con-
sidered as conducive to the general trade of our
! city, but, at the same time, they are not to be
made public. There was some talk about the re-
oeipts of the barbecue at the Metare Ridge that
is, what disposition has been made of them, and
| what was the amount of net proceeds.
| The telegraph was silent yesterday, followed by
hearty wishes that it would cease its daily advices
of nonsense and ruinors from Virginia. Private
letters from the Peninsula of Virginia up to the
18th inst. state that Gen. Magrnder had been
among the soldiers, giving fresh orders and putting
| the young volunteers to the handling of spades,
wheelbarrows and pick-axes, for the erection of
breastworks aud batteries, stating battle was i'm
minent and here six days have passed and not a
demonstration. From other sources, letter writers
| say that Mcclellan has evidently bamboozled,
| fooled our Generals, that he does not intend to
tigh. on the Potomac, but is laying quiet and low
for descent on Mobile and New Orleans. Our
volunteers near Yorktown and on the Peninsula
have been pretty well worked up during the six
months now terminating.
We learn that one of our Carondelet street mer-
chants arrived two or three days since from the
dominions of Lincoln. He cane via Paducah, or
some other route. He left New York some twelve
days SINCE From what he says, the moneyed men
of New York, the capitalists of Wall street, are
embittered against the South are for prosecuting
the war; denouncing the South in unmeasured
terms; that they are willing to lend the Gorilla
Government all they have to lend to carry out its
measures; and yet there are some of our citizens
who think there will be peace before the LIST of
April next. True, we may effect peace, after
driving some thirty to fifty thousand Yankees into
the Mississippi and drowning them, as Napoleon l
did the Austrians into the Danube.
Full details Of the calamitous fire in Charleston
have come to hand. Some of our banks have been
considering whether they could contribute towards
the sufferers 1t is hoped our bank mandators will
not stop to debate the amount of subscription.
What is to be carried out should be done at once.
Some. of our private citizens have contributed
freely, and it is hoped our public institutions will
come forward with the same feeling.
The blockade of Mississippi Sound nterferes
greatly with the trade in sugar and molasses. The
receipts of these two articles continue large, and
are now, from interruption, greatly in excess of
the demand. 1t will take some weeks to clear the
&C foundations at the several railroad depots. In
the meantime, the weather continues very mild
too much so for the yield of cane in this climate
Some bulls in sugar say that the crop of Louisiana
will not be more than ample to supply the Confed-
crate States, including, Of course, Missouri and
Kentucky. We should like to have this figured
out, as we do not coincide with the estimate. Give
US figures, you gentlemen who go for only three
hundred thouand bogsheads.