Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-11-21
FAMINE PRICES IN NEW ORLEANS.

From the New Orleans Crescent, November 81
Passing by the talk on battles and disrup-
tions in the army, we come to the steadily
increasing scarcity of breadstuffs and other
neCessares of life. Even the article of rice,
which is selling in Charleston and Savannah
at two and half and three cents per pound,
is now retailing here at seven and a half
cents per pound. 1t has been the current
opinion that this nourishing article would at
least have been restrained from advancing to
famine prices. 1t would be supposed that an
interchange of commodities would follow the
political changes; that is, the sugar of Louis
lana would be exchanged for the rice of Car
olina. Possibly such may attend the course
of trade. The system of credit which has
been in vogue for years, appears to have been
struck down, wholly repudiated. Therefore,
unless rice is forwarded hither on Carolina
account, we may not have tierce this sea-
son,
According to returns before us, the crop
of rice of Louisiana for 1860 was 29, 502
barrels The Charleston table of exports
says there were shipped from that port for
New Orleans, between the lst of September,
1861, and the 3lst of October, 1861, 1.-TWO
montbs) 1,026 tierces of rice. Has this guam
tity been received here2 Quien SaJe 2 We
have merely to say that seven and half
cents for rice for family use, and at the cor
ner groceries say about fifteen cents, which
the public pay, are rather high prices. Irish
potatoes (excuse the BULLY which might be
raised in almost any quantity on our prolific
soil, are selling. at one cent each, OF about
| So 30 per bushel. Corn has now advanced
to 81 20 and 81 30 per bushel, and we have
for months past been reading of the greatest
crop of corn and wheat ever known. We
| Judge the country is abundantly supplied,
| and that farmers and raisers intend to hold
| on and starve us out here in the Crescent
| City. If planters have these yields secured,
! we urge them to send share to market.
Flour is advancing to famine figures Each
succeeding day is attended with an advance
of twenty. five cents or more per barrel.
Other articles = such as soap, candles,
starch-are advancing from day to day.
| Soap, candle and starch factories could be
made profitable. Soap, which can be made
for six to eight cents per pound, is held at
thirty to thirty. five cents. Starch, another
necessary article, commands forty cents per
pound; in fact, the supply of this article is
running SO short that shirt collars will have
to follow wilted cabbage leaf. For candles
the poor folks have to pay fifteen to twenty
cents each at the corner grocery. Is it mo-
time that some of our leading citizens should
take action, and move in the establishment
of manufactures for these and other articles
1t requires but very little capital. If dealers
in scrip, stocks and paper ever expect to con
fer any good on the country now is the &C
cepted time. But we fancy, if the war should
be brought to close, many of our moneyet
citizens would leave us and go North ward
or to Europe, and our good city would be {
secondary thought with them.
1t is asked what has forced up the price 0
cotton-seed oil. Six or seven months ago
was selling at from fifty to seventy cent
per gallon; now it is held at from 81 so to S
and So so, There is no scarcity of cotton
seed in the eountry--in fact it is a dru
where planters have ginned their cottoT
Are there any solid reasons for an advanc
of 200 per cent, simply fov the cost of trans
muting the seed into oil