The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-21

there appears to be more confidence ABROAD
better feeling pervades this commercial comnu,
nifty and we msy look for speedy revival OF
trade that will extend through all the channels OF
business, and restore TO our city us FORMER pres
FREIaHTs-The freight movement still dis
closes very heavy and steady falling on. Inc
tonnage in port on foreign and domestic &C
count is reduced TO the summer standard, while
the demands for freight room indicate cores
bonding or perhaps greater abatement. We now
quote nominally cotton TO Liverpool by steam,
9.l6@td.; by sail, cotton, 7.l6d.; tobacco 35s;
-four As; LoI1on I'd. for cotton, BIS. Sd. for TO-
bacco. To New York by steam and sail &c. for
cotton, l4Gl5c. for corn 60975c. for -four, and IS
for tobacco. To Boston by sail lGIc. for cotton,
l5@l7c. for corn and 65070c. for flour. To bre-
men by sail, g@lc. for cotton, and 35s. for to.
baeco. To Hsvre by sail, lbc. for cotton, and
sl2 for tobacco. To Philadelphia, by steam, lc.
for cotton. To Boston, steam, lie. for cotton,
-four Soc, grain l7c.
TIE ARMY WORN IN l770.-Dr. Asa Fitch,
State entomologist. at Albany, N. Y, in his last
report to the legislature on the noxious and bene-
fetal insects that affect the interests OF farmers
and gardeners, quotes from Rev. Grant Powers in
his historical sketches in the northern part OF
New Hampshire the following facts respecting
the army worm. He says:
ain the summer of l77O an army of worms ex.
tended frou Lancaster, N. H., the shire town of
Coos county, to Mortified, Mass, almost the
whole length of the Granite State. They began
to appear in the latter part Of July aud continued
their ravages until September. They then were
called the Northern Lrmy, as they seemed to ad-
vance from the north or northwest 10 the south.
1t was not known that they passed the highlands
between the rivers Connecticut and Merrims;k.
"Dr. Burton, of Thetford, VT, informed the au-
thor that he had seen the pastures so covered
with them that he could not put down his i1ger
without touching worm, remarking that he mad
seen more than ten bushels in heap They
were unlike anything that generation had ever
seen. There was stripe OF yellow from END 10
end, and the rest of the body was brown. They
were seen not longer than pin, but IN maturity
were as long as mans finger, and of prOpOrtionste
thickness. They appeared TO be in great haste ex-
cept when they halted to feed. They entered the
houses of the people and came up into the knead-
iDg.troughs as did the frogs in Egypt. They went
up the sides of houses and over them IN sueh com
pact columns that nothing of the boards or shin
giles could be seen. Pumpkin vines, peas, pota-
toes and fax escaped their ravages, but wheat and
corn disappeared before them as by magic. Fields
of corn in Haverhill and Newberry meadows, so
thick that a man could hardly be seen rod dis
tant, were in ten days entirely defoliated by the
Northern army Trenches were dug round
fields foot deep, as q defense, but they were
soon filed and the millions in the rear passed on
and took possession Of the interdicted feed.
Another ex9edent was resorted to. Trenches
were cut and then sticks six inches in diameter
were shaTpened and used to make holes Ia the
bottom of the trenches within two or three feet oil
one another, to the depth OF TWO or three 1eet IL
the bottom lands, and when these holes were nlled
with worms, the stick was plunged into the holes
thus destroying the vermin. In this way some
corn was saved. About the LIST Of September the
worms suddenly disappeared. Where or how they
terminated their career is unknown, for not tbs
CARCASS of a worm was seen. Had it not been To-
pumpkins, which were exceedingly abundant snC
potatoes, the people would have greatly suffered
fer food AS il was, great privatiOn was felt on
account of the loss of grass and grain"