New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-27
TALK ON CHANGE,

| The movements were pharmaceutical There is
no desire to talk unless on the part of some Bulls
| in the stock market. The bulls have the call in
certain descriptions Of stocks. and the manner in
which the Bears press down and the Bulls stand up
i would be amusing to the uninitiated. Yesterday
4 passed off very quietly with something of an
/ omission in the usual sensational dispatches over
| the telegraph wires.
| meeting of the Board of Underwriters was
held yesterday, to take into consideration the in
surfing of cotton on plantations and that stored at
the shipping depots and villages in the interior.
| The resolutions, which involve some changes. will
be promulgated in due season. Whether the
Board expect that some of the river towns may be
| invaded or fall prey to the Yankees, aud decline
| all risks thereon, will be fully known. Cotton is
being received in Memphis contrary to the military
! injunction. Last week the receipts there were
| five hundred and eighty-two bales The total re-
ceipts of cotton at Memphis since the LIST Septem-
| Der last have been 1900 bales, and shipments or
| exports have been for the same time 1920 boles,
The question arises, whence or where have these
1920 bales been forwarded? The receipts at this
port, New Orleans, for the same time have been
| only 20S9 bales. Although an accumulation of
cotton at this port is not desirable nor should it be
allowed, yet if parties bring us merchandise, as
well as munitions of war, they should be allowed
full freedom and access to the inland towns. to
make such purchases as they desire, and all faci
ties granted them to export; in fact all and every
encouragement ought to be extended to importers
and exporters of this character ~.
For the past six weeks the weather has been re.
markably propitious for the picking and general
gathering of cotton. If there has not been over
four millions of bales gathered or will be, we
shall be very much disappointed. ALL interest in
the extent of the yield has ceased and will not pro-
badly be brought into talking order until there is
some probability of general resumption of ship
ments hence. In the meantime, while talking of
cotton, call attention to the action af the Legs
iature OF Tennessee on this almportant subject
passing resolutions on the propriety or policy of
fuH crop being planted the coming spring. The
resoletions will be found under our financial
head. We regard a coercive law in regard to
planting cotton, as proposed before the Legislature
OF Mississippi, as unwise, unreasonable and arbi-
trary. If Legislatures pass laws to designate and
say what shall be raised, they can go step fur
Their and place restrictions on corn, wheat and the
raising of cattle and other stock. Prohibiting a
farmer from following his own Judgment in plant
ing and raising what he may conceive to be to his
interest, is as unjust and unwise as interdicting
the collection of debts through the operation of
stay laws. wi
There was some talk about the condition of our
volunteers in Virginia. Several of our citizens
have lately returned from there, giving no very
hattering account of the management of the Com
mssary Department Of the Confederate States
The Hospital Department has been greatly i'm
proved, but it makes us shudder to think what our
sons and volunteers in general have undergone
during the last six months campaign in Virginia.
Regiments and companies are more than deci-
mated. We learn that one company from the sea.
shore OF Mississippi, which left home numbering
ninety, has lost twentythree, eleven killed in bat
tie and twelve died. This was not on the PENN |
sula, where sickness, though fatal has not been To
the extent in other sections. 1t was talked about
that there were seventeen thousand volunteers
SICK and on sick furlough in the several armies in
irginla. The swamps OF Louisiana sustain a higher |
degree OF health than this. 1t is hoped the War |
will take into consideration that winter
IS at hand, and that something more than canvas
tents and pork and beans are required of contract
ofS ior furnishing supplies. It wonld be a wise
move 10 driVe all the offce-seekers, army leeches
'altnres and eormorants out of Richmond
There are many little necessaries reGuire5 bv
'ar Louisiana volunteers WHICH are not furnished
y me government, though they ought to he.
1ae Is the article of gloves or mittens. Il will he
most impossible far our Louisiana Soma IN s,sn5
gard during the cold nights of the approaching
'iAtef Without this necessary Protection. Good t