New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-26
TALK ON ,cHANeE;

i The gatherings On the flags Of cottondom were
4 tolerable yesterday. The absence of the many
hundred buyers and dealers in the staple was noted
| Ihere are several hundreds Of operators on the
! way from England detained in New York, passes
| not being available. There were many inquiries
and much talk about Pensac cola. Some parties
thnk It was mere feint on the part Of the Kan
KEGS to ascertain the range and calibre Of the
confederate guns. It is supposed they have found
out ere this.
me telegrapAie adyices received mp to the close
81 business yesterday were not worth the cost of
transmission. There Is entirely too much bombast,
TOO much Haunting regarding every little exchange
OF shots between pickets. If the great Niagara
scales her guns after storm it ia magnfed into a
great bomhardment If one corporaFs guard en-
counters one OF the enemy, it is Immediately tele-
graphed over the country that a hundred or more
Yankee prisoners have been taken, In fact, there
IS no end to the ruInors and false dispatches for
'warded over the wires daily. Some old fogies
think there has not been any great fight at Pensa-
cola, merely an interchange OF salutations, pre-.
paratory TO real dinner party. y s7syss 5-ys,Ys
Y The sequestration act is talked of daily. Some
one inquired OF Us yesterday il we could give any
Information of. 500 shares of City Railroad stock
and large amount of 0pelousas Railroad bonds
owned by party in New York. We presume the
inquiry alludes to what may be termed a half.and
half citizen. We regard these half and half citizens
in no light at ALL We considerthat every man and
woman having a4spark Of Southern feeling should
have been at home since July last that is, If the
south Is their home.5 We feel disposed to probe
this kind OF S0uthernisn TO the root and talk Of it
with freedom We don't believe in the Southern.
Ism where an individual takes his family from New
York and goes to Europe to evade the Northern
feeling Nordo we believe in the Southernishi Of
an individual having his family and residence in
Northern States, sends his family to Europe.
comes South himself, takes the three dollar white.
washing OATH and makes out that he Is d bona fde
citizen Many Of our old citizens do not understand
this kind OF citizenship. Now, for instance, this is
only one OF many: An Individual leaves here In
July last for the Black Republican State Of Rhode
Island He Is very intimate, with Gov Sprague Of |
that State, who held a command in the Hessian |
army at Manassas This Individual calls himself
New Orleans merchant; he did bag a handsome |
sunl on cotton last summer VIII Receiver Ward |
issue his manifesto and ascertain about valuable |
steam propeller called the Florida and distinctly
ascertain how many shares are owned outside of |
Tho Southern 5Confederaey; or what connection !
there Is between the Apaiachieula Steamship Com
pany and Northern citizens, promising that the
Florida Is now in the port of New Orleans ana |
valuable vessel? Com, Marcy says the Hessians
have got possession of three valuable fyesselsE
owned in New Orleans, and in which he is inter.
ssted. Other citizens have lost largely by Illegal
captures. Our scrip certificate is also Ibelled in
In fact, all our citizens are intent
m being made good out of Hessan and alien citi
ems property. Retaliation must be carried ont.
Eye for eye. tooth for tooth, and dollar for dollar,
of picayunish and .mawkish sensbfi.
les.
There was some talk of Q commercial expedi
ON via the Balize having left port last evening
40, OF q small cargo of cotton having left for
arts unknown, and several small vessels ready to
sceiye eargoes here and there. 5.aas
Ine salt market was decidedly fat yesterday.
nd the demand for bagging and rope still aatter.
regards salt, there has never been solid grounds
y ehe5 higR prices, Theresis good supply Of the
rucie IN Texas, with the present ruling prices
ringing out all the productive resources of the
agoons. In Northwest Louisiana almost every Il
image ~ furnished by the salt springs in Arkansas
rom 70 cents to 81 per bushel The furry oe. /
asioned by the Governor of Alabama entering
or market last week and purchasing IL 900 or |
sofe SACKS mas passed of. The country win not
ltier from the lack Of salt As for rome and bag. T.
ing, y Is conceived that no planter considers 1t 10
IS interest to submit to present prices.
The receipts Of produce have been free for the Ia