New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-04-10
sDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1859
TALK ON ,CHANGE,
After slight shower Of rain ON n,

AFTER Slight shower Of rain on Tuesday even
lug, the Gun rose yesterday morning on eloudless
sky. The gatherings on the flags were free, but
congratulations in general were brief. A little
after meridian the mournful cortege aad proces
sion, following the remains of the lamented Gen.
Albert s. Johnston, passed down Carondeet street.
There were also the conveying of the remains of a
young Carondelet street merchant to his last re-
pose at an early hour in the day; SO it may be in
ferred that it was anything but spirited and lively
on the flags yesterday.
In and about the telegraph Office on st. Charles
street, crowds of citizens congregated through the
day, awaiting advices from the great battlefield
Shiloh, that is, parents, brothers, relations and
friends were there awaiting to receive intelligence
Of the veal or woe of those who Had given their
blood and lives in defense of the glorious cause of
the South.
There were advices received from the Mississippi
sea-coast or Sound that the enemy had retired,
abandoned the coast. The facts are these: we
never credited the report that 1000 men had landed
on the Gulf shore with twelve "a FOUNDERS to send
all the villages to kingdom come, as it were The
question was asked, where were the Confederate
gunboats when an ordinary launch with a gun on
its bow should be allowed to 60 into the Bay of
st. Louis, capture and cut out, as the phrase q,
schooner. A steamboat, with full freight for
Mobile, we are informed, went through on Sunday
last T5 $50.
We are getting on, in ine advancing gloriously
in some branches of manufactures We have no
ticedcandle and soap factories, gun factories gen
eral machine shops and oil companies. Now we
have to talk Of the association called the Coneder
ate Leather Manufacturing Company. We learn
there is no prunea about the association that it ia
actually to be carried through ; that the company
has secured the services of frstrate artisan and
craftsman. The works will be in readiness shortly
when 200 sides of leather are expected to be turned
ont daily. We hope these promises and expecta.
tons will be realized and reduce the price Of sole
leather from 81 10 per pound down to at least 40
OF 50 cents, against 80 or 40 cents, the prices
which were current year ago. a
The public and all consumers expect to have 70
pay higher prices for all local manufactures, pre-
missing them to be of better quality than Northern
kinds, yet they do not expect to have to pay the
extraordinary figure Of one dollar per pound for
sole leather, or Si00 per dozen for calf skins We
are anxious to know how far the Confederate
Leather Manufacturing Company can aid in sup
plying the demand for this necessary article There
is no want of hides they can be furnished at a
much lower price than the Northern tanneries pay.
The talk is, give us cheap leather. Prunella and
goats are not wanted.
There was some talk about the capture Of the
steamer Florida Some Internal traitor and scound
rel must have personally gave intelligence to the
Yankee blockade of Pensacola. The Florida had
made very successful trip from hence to Havana,
and returned to neighboring port discharged her
valuable cargo, and was loading with cotton for e