New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-03-29
TALK ON CHANGE,

Another quiet day was yesterday OIL the flags Of
Carondelet, as well as on Poydras, Tchoupitoulas
and New LeVee streets. On the great quay, the
great landing, there some little hustle and
stir; confined, however, in and about the great
steamer Natchez, from which there was being dis
charged a mutifarfous cargo. There was also
some few hogsheads of sugar and barrels of mo-
lasses lar ded at the sugar depot. The gmlet
rnngers did not turn out as numerous as usual as
many of them have abandoned the gimlet and
taken to Mimic rifles. They will be found at roll
call to-day in the ranks of the Orleans Guards,
Orleans Battalion, Crescent Regiment, and posi-
bly, some may be found doing service in the vari-
Gus camps in and about the city.
There is great falling off in the corps of gimlet
rangers. We are surprised we have never had the
pleasure of chronicling company or battalion,
known as the Gimlet Rangers. In times of great
political excitement we heard of the gimlet rang
ers. The question is now asked, "where are the
gimlet folks; have they divided, scattered, and
each one gone to the war or field of battle on his
own account?'
There was some talk about the large number of
passengers arriving by every steamboat. 1t is
plain that commander of steamboat cannot
prevent travellers from coming on board of his
lagos, landings and wood. piles between our city
and Memphis. Possibly during this critical time
every steamboat commander, who has been on the
river for years, should know every man, woman OF
child between this city and Memphis, and be
posted up in regard to every person applying for
passage to our good city. Spies can, however,
reach our city by taking skif and drifting down
with the current 1t is, therefore, the duty of
,ota nhno{
any skiff or boat passing up or down the river. 1t
is not only the duty of steamboat commanders,
but 1t should be required of every patrol in the
different parishes bordering the Mississippi and
tributaries. We daily observe many strange faces
on the flags.
The telegraphic dispatches were incomprehensi-
ble There have been battles and fights, but &C.
counts are very conflicting. There was private
dispatch received, stating that Capt. Guy Dreux's
Company of Cavalry had skirmish with the
Yankees and came off victorious.
Many of our citizens feel concerned about the
whereabouts of the Watson Battery. We have
seen letters of the 2lst stating it was at Tuscun.
bia, Ala, all well, and anxious for fight, as
thousands of our volunteers want the question set.
tied as soon as possible.
There has been considerable talk on the flags
about the continued issues of shinplasers, other.
wise called change notes. There cannot be any
objections to the issues of tickets of five and ten
cents, to meet purposes of change in railroad cars
and other conveniences. The system, however, is
greatly abused, and appears to be increasing.
Why should individuals who have no Saturday
payments to make, no ostensible employment for
hundreds of Individuals be issuing their missives,
their promises to pay in scraps of paper, purport-
ing to be of the value of one, two and three dol
lars. True, we admit that such firms as Leeds L.
Co., Cook & Brothers, and others, have good and
sound reasons for issuing small notes. But when
proprietors of cotfee-houses assume the preroga-
tive of making currency to the extent of tens of
thousands of dollars another view of the currency
question must be taken.
The Provost-Marshals have very properly and
justly placed an interdict on the dealing in gold
and silver. 1tappears TO us they can also put
stop to the mulifarious issues of individual notes.
There cannot be any objection to a proprietor of a
coffee house issuing tickets for ten or twenty cents,
the same as our bakers have been doing for years
past. Bon pour stn pain. There are just as many
balfdmes, dimes and quarters of dollars now in
the South as there were twelve months ago.
The talk is, that with some exertion the univer-
sal shlnplaster system can be checked. The
boarding system must be checked, if possible.
There is no necessity for it.
There was very little going on at the close of
business The telegraph was silent. It appeared
to have rested from the arduous duties entaied on
it the day before in transmitting very large
batch of supposed intelligence, via Washington
City and other Lincoln localities. 'S'iaaia
There were reports of a favorable result to the
Confederate cause in the gu nboat action on Lake