New Orleans daily crescent., 1862-04-05
TALK. ON CHANGE.

| 1t was remarkably quiet on the flags of Caron-
delet yesterday. On the grand boulevard, Canal
the gatherings were quite large-crinoline spread
largely. In fact, our old Canal street, which was
years gone by the reservoir of all the trash and dirt
| in the city-because there was an apology for a
canal running its entire lengths something of
| place. The grand statue Of the great Kentucky
statesman stands there facing the east instead of
the great West. Well, it is not much use to talk
Of Eastern affairs at this time that is New England
| and Northern matters. We have closed business
| movements with them, and hope they may be con-
| tinued closed. We desire to have no more to do
with them, and our citizens who have their fami-
lies there should be making arrangements to bring
| them home, that is, if the great South is their
home. The great question Of loyalty to the South
will before many, days be brought directly home
to these half.and-half citizens. It is due to the
great cause in whchwe are engaged that it should
be. There should be no passports granted to able.
bodied reputed citizens to leave the State at this
| juncture. They might talk too much or too fast
| on their landing in the realm Of Lincolndom. In
fact, no citizen who has spark of Southern feel
| ing would leave our city at this crisis. We are
knowing to departures which should not have been
allowed. There are believed to be many sympa-
thizers WITH the Lincoln dynasty in our midst. 1t
would be an unwise policy to permit these folks to
| go North and give Information Of what they know.
! We hear it talked Of that member of the bar,
that is, lawyer who was supposed to be friendly
to the South, obtained permission to visit the Hot
Springs Of Arkansas, under the plea Of ill.health
The last time we saw the individual in question
| he looked about as we'll as we had seen him for
four or five years past. Our physicians must be
cautious how they grant certificates. The oath of
allegiance to the glorious South is something of
| pill for many to take who have been basking for
years in the favorable results of social, CONNER
caf- and financial connections and transactions.
The time has arrived for to know "who is who, u
and the result of the investigation must be known
before many days pass.
Passing from the flags of Carondelet to other
localities, we found yesterday general good
feeling prevailing. On Tchoupitoulas, Poydras and
New Levee streets, there was some little stir OF
business. Provision and breadstuff dealers, though
somewhat chagrined at the action of the Provost
Marsbals, appear to be in good humor, and will
| ingly fall into the requirements of martial law.
The arrivals Of yesterday added to the stocks Of
breadstufs. Say Sis to SIS per barrel for -four
ought to bring every barrel in the Confederacy to
our levee. Who ever heard of such prices follow
ing such boasted large crops of the year 1861
One steamer from Memphis reported 1000 sacks,
say 1000 barrels of flour, with corn and other no.
tions. This will do very well. If farmers and
growers want money to meet their taxes, they can
readily realize it by sending stock, chickens, but
ter, corn or any other product to market. It
puzzles us to know why the article of butter alone
cannot be furnished by our planters to meet the
demand of New Orleans. Forty to fifty cents per
pound surely ought to be remunerative, when the
Yankee farmers, particularly three or four coun.
ties in the State of New York, have realized mil.
lions Of dollars yearly from sales of butter and
cheese, at about twenty-five cents per pound for
the former and twelve cents per pound for the lat
ter This reminds us Of the remark of an old
farmer, an old fogy; he, however, raised cotton
| in one of the healthy pne.woods counties oi
Mississippi, with whom we stopped a day or two
He remarked that large majority of his neighbors
regarded cotton as the chief object; that when the
| COWS came home from the pasture at sunset fol
milking, the owners were too indolent to milk
them. 1t is hoped change is about taking place.
The market Of New Orleans can be supplied with
an abundance of butter at twenty-five cents per
pound from the two States-Louisiana and Missis
| sippi-With the same ease and facility that the
great city of New York is supplied from the Nortl
river daries of that State.
The policy Of raising cotton this season has beer
talked of SO much that it must have become worn
| out by this time. We have only to say, plant
corn, potatoes, peas, beans, anything but cotton
We estimate the quantity of cotton in the entire
, South to be equivalent to four millions and five
hundred thousand bales. Promising that about
one-fourth of the ground devoted to cotton will be
the extent of this springs movements, it is
able to suppose that about the lst of December
next there will be available nearly six millions OF
bales of cotton. Promising that the stocks of cot
ton in England and France will be absorbed by tht
:. close of the month of June, (only sixty day!
hence the die is cast in regard to cotton for th
year 1862 Europe, including Great Britain, vii
receive little or none direct from the South--nc
more than the adventitious movements of SOM
bold operators will allow
There were many war rumors afoat. 1t is diff
.fcult to ascertain anything positive. The tele
graphic advices from Bay st. Louis about a fgh
in Mississippi formed an item for joke. Whel
that New London is sunk or captured, and actually
in our possession, we desire to be informed of 1t
But really there is too much jesting in fact, non
sense given out in regard to this New London. 4
schooner or some sort of craft, arrived in tn
basin yesterday from Mississippi Sound, reporting
everything quiet, and at a later hour a dispatch
came from Capt. Brand, indicating there had beel
fight, but "hobody hurt" Well, we are tired o
these reports of nobody hurt" The public de
sire some proof that there has been real fight
they will not hereafter believe ia the exchangin!
" ola few shots at long taw unless somebody i
hurt" --. '...-