The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-08-16
Business Affairs In Nevs Orleans.

IRON TIE National Advocate, august d. Il
The most important feature of the week Is the large
accession the stocks Of breadstuns and proysions
fonr steamers have arrived from Northern ports with
lul cargoes FOR general sale and consumption among
them wo notice 300 barrels OF -four some fow hun.
dred bushels Of corn. WeIavo not however, the salts
faction Of announcing to consumers that prices have
terafiy sccinsd cvcn down to SIS per Dbl Corn is
selling here at So bushe in New York at Soc
il st. Louis ,34e &c., anj IN Illinois at 12c zoe. per
bushel. There another production which the South
has for years depended on tho North for;
per s worth in Sew 'g York o - p sS s
or $l5 per ton. With the exception Of transac.
lions and shipments or there Is no basis for
merce Some few bales OF cotton bavc been received
during The week. On Friday and Saturday there was
considerable animation and stir tho sugar
depot From Canal down TO ST. Potter street, tho landing
wasoccpied by steamers, steamboats, and sailing craft
receiving and tischargng cargocs There also OBJ
serva5le two stsamboats-the rbsrvie and Empire Pa
rshoading for tho coast, with many articles OF the
nccessaes Of lRe the stocks OF which have out in
Orleans In some OF tho interior towns which have de-
pended supplies from this ctys starvation
IN the face True the corn crop Is made, and learn
occasionally that good yield OF wheat has been realized
On the other hand, there salt available Of
Mississippi; neither there any coffee pork bacon.
Northwest Louisiana is well supplied and the inhabitants
thereof free from the owls and scarcity provisions
impending the Mississippi all the way Georgia.
In the rnanme sugar is com ng 10 market freely from
the coast below Bayou Sara and commands prices highly
satisfactory The receipts Ut state productions this
week. say from the 7th Iuy TO aurday 2d August in
elusive, Of sugar. T,0i9 hhds.; OF rncasses s57
5bs. Of cotton, 3s5 baies5ror.At n''by forty three
dgoghes and eleven steamboats,, rather the latter
<, The exports Of the week were:--
sag'u5 nus
Hp's go
ssolas'tN, Dds.
cttpA, Diles b1o
Koin bols.... Il ,S74
hioss, bales Observation-Disclosures. ............. A
d for New York, excepting 6l9 hhds. sugar and 2y1
bbls. moasses for Baltimore.
There has been little rcsuscitatin in the foreign
export trade, the exports for the week being
For Havro-Cotton. bales Observation-Disclosures. Az
Tobacco, mas ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 253
otaVcs.. 10,VlC
g Specie, dollars. Observation-Disclosures. 81 600
For Spain-Tobacso, hhds Observation-Disclosures. 2sS
The total cearaCcs OF cotton for the week 1sS
bales making tse total shipments exports Of I've
staple since the opening of the port 20 be 473i bales.
There arc few hundred bales moro in course OF expoa
tioD, which VIII probably close the present saa
yeara most gloomy and sad record for tho year VIII
entered up In the annals OF history. There havo been
ve.y limited arrivals Of sailing vessels during the week.
the number only figuring no six, though there fifteen
or twenty reported beow-that Isl from the QuSrantine
ground doan TO outside the bar There arasDevora
others fully due.