New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-01

WhSats A.. u.
The receipts of this article at New Orleans are
no longer of special interest, but as the COM
munity are large consumers of Flour some of our
readers may feel curiosity as, to the quality of
the Wheat that is converted into the staff of life
for their daily supplies. It may be hoped that
none of the article referred to in the following
has ever reached this market, but it can be fsirly
presumed that the whole of it has already been
disposed of by avaricious owners. We copy from
the Cincinnati Price Current of February 10TH
which in turn credits the Rochester Union and
Advertiser:
"The papers from the East and West continue to
discuss the condition of the large stocks of Wheat
stored in the warehouses at Chicago, and the con.
clusion appears to be quito unanimous that the
grain is wholly unftfor consumption, and that its
presence anywhere the coming season, will be
productive of mischief to the public health, par
ticularlyif the cholera shouldpreVail.
eve have informationfromC Chicago whichfully
confirms all we have said with respectto the grain.
We are told that so general was the disaster that
befe the crop of Illinois and Indiana that nonum-
Der one Wheat came to Chicago. The board of
trade of that city, resovedto change the number,
and gave what was before styled number two, the
rank of number one. ~ ~ ~ = II
region, and as the Wheat grown was naturally
soft, it was more liable to injury from dampness,
Our information is that there is no dry, hard sound
wheat at Chicago, unless it be little brought
from the northward-from Wisconsin, Iowa or
Minnesota-where the crops were fine and the
harvest dry There is a large feet ef1sails craft
and propellers lying at Chicago this winter. and
holders of this damaged Wheat intend to ship as
| 4,a inf off thoir bopJ
before the warm weather makes it wholly worth,
less They will push this grain to Buffalo,
Oswego and other ports below, and make the
best disposition of it that they can, proVeed the
health authorities do not interfere.
| nA New York grain dealer says the Wheat will
not find market there in the spring. He adds
that the Chicago Wheat now lying in New York
is badly heated, and nearly spoiled already, and
he wants no more of that grain at any price II
is now pretty well understood that the health au-
thoriteaof New York will take actonto exclude
the rotten and damaged Wheat from coming TIC
that port. If that is done, then, of eourse Buffalo
and Oswego will decline to receive it, and it will
go back upon the hands OF the west TO- ehA1eh Inc
i SOIL or be fed to the swine. a.. .-...5.....t.
i Tie millers in Rochesters, so far as we have
conversed with them, fully concur in all that Wa
have stated with respect to Chisago wheat. Thel
ground some of this in the fail, which was pur
chased for sound grain, but which proved the re
verse. The flour would noa pass, and they los
more or less by the operation. They decline t
have anything more to do with Chicago wheat
Their mills will stand idle il they cannot proour
grain elsewhere. They inform us that the crop c
last season in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and lows
was not only large, but the grain was fine. The
: will rely upon these States for supplies nea
season, and they do not anticipated any scarcel
that will greatly enhance values. One miller WI
: travelled through that Northwestern region la
fall says the quantity Of wheat brought out by I'll
: farmers exceeded his expectations fifty fold, al
all he saw was very choice"
y The receipts of wheat at Chicago for the ye
81 ending December Slst, 1866, were s,277,2