New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-19
TALK ON iCHANGE.

The gatherings on the flags yesterday were lare
4 Tor the times The talk centered on the iDtelli
gence of the arrest Of Messrs. Sidel and Mason o,
the high seas. Many of the habitues of the flags
as well as the more retired frequenters, would moi
| give credence to the adyiees We regret to have
/ to say that we believe the accounts are too true
On the arrival of Messrs. Slidell aad Mason in Ha
Vana. that arch migrate, Consul Shufeldt, the Con
sueienerai Of the defunct Union, sent Immediately
| Tor the steamer San Jacnto to come to Havana te
4 Watch any vessel on which our Commissioners
might embark. The result is now known. Two OF
three weeks since, the safety Of our Commission
ers was questioned, even under the British flag
based on the following extract from Wheaton's
| elements of international law:
The limits assigned to the operations of war
against Ambassadors by writers on public law are.
that the beligerent may exercise his right of war
against them wherever the character Of hostility
ealsts-he may stop the Ambassador of his enemy
on his passage.
There was very little other talk on the flags until
iate hour when accounts Of great battle in
Missouri were received. The weather was fine
yesterday, and our streets were thronged, particu
larly rue Camp and the grand boulevard Canal.
Even around the quasi brokers' office Of the Con-
federate Government on the northeast corner of
Canal and Old Levee streets, there were numerous
assembiages. In the meantime, strangers continue
to arrive, whose purpose here the freduenters of
the flags are puzzled to ascertain. Standing yes
terday on Camp street, we were tapped on the
shoulder and asked if we knew an individual then
| passing. We replied no. We were told that he
was the Mayor of the city or town of Lynn, Mas.
saehusetts. He was in company with a shoe
dealer OF our city, Undoubtedly parties in Lynn,
| as Wen as other places, may be visiting the South
including our good city, to look after some debts
winch may come under the sequestration act. The
question arises, is the Mayor Of Black Republican
Lynn, or any other Black Republican official in onr
city {? 4@6.1 u : -
There were some remarks about the seouestra
ton act. The garnishee Or agent Of the Farmars,
Bank of Kentucky returns about two hundred
thousand dollars of assets. The assets of the
Bank Of Kentucky greatly exceed this sum, and
the assets of the Northern Bank of Kentucky will
occupy high niche in the temple Of debts held by
alien enemies. We also learn that the agent of
Major g. Barnard returns about thirteen thousand
dollars as belonging to the Major. The Major is not
unknown to fame. He was the chief engineer of
Lincoln's grand army on its march to Richmond
on the 2lst of July. He engineered, assisted by
that other pretended Southerner, Lieut.. Prime. ex
engineer of Ship Island, the grand army of Lin
colnites to Manassas That is the last we heard of
the redoubtable Major until yesterday, though we
have thought of his connections in the South,
Major Barnard, then Lieutenant, afterwards a
Captain, married daughter of our late citizen.
William Brand, of Magazine street. OF course all
Of our old residents recollect Billy Brand, and the
high position he held at one time in mechanical so.
cial and all circles, during long residence in our
city. Through the marriage of Major Barnard he
received more or less property, the remainder of
winch IS now under sequestration, Mrs. Barnard
being deceased and her heirs out of the Confedera
cy, and educated, of course, inimcal to the South
Inere was some talk about salt-that the Gov
efnor OF Alabama yesterday purchased in our mar
ket seventeen thousand sacks at the rate of $9tas
o. and 5000 more sold at SO so. Now, people have
oeen talking for days past that there was no salt
on sale-that it was all gone, dissolved perhaps,
entirely eRaporated. Yet here there were sales
talked Of on the flags to the extent Of 25ooO sacks
yesterday. and these sales at reduction from last
weeks operations. We beg consumers not to be
alarmed; there will be sufficient salt for this season
at least. The very exorbitant prices are bringing
into use all The salt springs in the country and salt
yats on the sea shore are being constructed as fast
as circumstances will admit.
There was soma.talk about the Hessiau feet and
negro steaIers in and about Ship Island. They are