The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-11-28
down on her last trip about 1900 bales OF cot
ton. All during yesterday this


IMMENSE CARGO
was being brought ashore, and the conse-
G,lepce vas O. scene of activity rarely wit
nessed anywhere At Canal street the levee
was jam med and Uttered by barrels Of flour,
hopsheads of sugar, bales Of cotton, etc.
Continuing on down the river, the most
striking objects after passing Canal street
are the sugar sheds, with their contents.
Scarcely an available space is unoccupied in
these sheds, rs they are crowded with the
various products Of the cane.- Near Custom
house street are the steamboats, John w.
being unloaded of large freights in the shape
Of cotton, cotton seed, sugar and molasses.
None of the Cromwell New York and New
Orleans steamship line steamers were at the
company's wharf yesterday, but nevertheless
the freight warehouse of this line
WAS STOCKED
with merchandise brought in during last
vessels John P Best, Jeranos and G. r. Hook,
all being rapidly loaded with cargoes of cot
ton and corn
At the Picayune Tier are innumerable ves-
sells, most of them being in the fruit trade.
The wharves, here, ore strewn with tho fruits
Of tropical climates, and In many cases as
fast as the fruit was laaded 1t was sold at auc-
ton to small dealers and itinerant vendors.
At the head of Esplanade street the steam
ship Orator is receiving q cargo Of cotton and
grain, and will leave on Saturday for Europe.
From Esplanade street down as far as the eye
can reach one can see lines Of tall and taper
ing mastS.
AROUND FRENCH MARKET.
Dropping into Mr. Lions large clothing es-
tablshment, at the corner Of st. Ann and
business had sensibly increased siuee the epi
demic. "Well,' answered Mr.. Lion, things
begin to look better now, and there are signs
of better times ahead. The sales increase
daily and orders from the country are being
received. AS the merchants and planters in
the parishes are ut present engaged in gather
ing the crops we cannot expect q full and free
intercourse with the country before next
month. My city customers buy fairly now,
and, taking all in all, have hopes OF doing
better business shortly"
MIR. G. LAzARD
was next visited. He expressed himself in
the same manner us Mr. Lion, and said that
many of his country customers had visited
him and were ordering goods freely.
The butchers In the French Market said
they could not complain Of hard times, be-
cause the whole year round people must eat,
ways good. One old butcher facetiously OBJ
served that he sold moro now than during
tho epidemic. owing, he remarked, to the
ferociOus appetite Of cnnvalescents.
The leveo between Ursulines and st. Peter
exhibited its usual activity, and many fruit
laden schOoners and ships were discharging
their cargOes. The scene presented was such
as one would have expected to have seen on a
week day during our fall season.
AMONG THE MERCHANTS.
In the afternoon q DEMOCRAT reporter made
O hnsty trip around the commercial portion
Of the city, finding everywhere unusual stir
and commOtion of tho most encouraging
naturc-Poydras, Magazine, Fulton, Tchoup-
itoulas Peters, Gravier, Common, Delta, De-
cntur. and all other business streets, being
going towards the shipping or the railroad
'Ehe din of the heavy chariots, and the hue
and cry Of the drivers endeavoring to thread
the maze of trading wagons, was perfectly
dnafpniug Leaving the draymen to settle
their questions of right Of way among them
selves. our reporter sought refuge among
some of the principal business houses on his
path.
At Sam1 Boyds wholesale dry goods store,
in answer to the question Of 'HoW is bust
ness p 1t was said that the trade was (that
the coast trade Was) enormous and business
much better than WAS expected, even cOnSll-
erng the circumstances.
At W. u G. Blanchard's shoe establishment
the same encouraging report was obtained
protracted quarantine, but the prospects for
the spring were bright. At Morris McGraW' $
housefurnishing goods establishment the
business was as good as could have been ex-
pected. Our old friend, ex-Administrator
Rengstorff, of the firm of E. F. Kohnke Il Co,
flour merchants, said that business in his line
was even better than had been Anticipated
after making liberal allowances for the loss OF
trade consequent upon the protracted country
quarantine. Messrs. S: Hernsheim Il Bros,
the largo tobacco mahulactuteES ana 0eaieES
replied that their
BUSINESS WAS VERY ACTIVE,
and that under the circumstances they couid
l., t,1tt ar
sidewalk in front OF this concern would nave
been evidence Of itself Of the improvement IN
business here. In front Of the houses Of Peet
4 Bowling, dry goods; taylor u McElroy,
clothing; Isidorc Levi Y Co., wood and viii
low ware; Holloway X Edwards, hard dwarn; ;
cry; + Belden & Co, hats, etc, on Magazlne
street: Lehman IL Co., dry goods; htaulfer,
Macrcady IL Co, hardware; Wolf q Marks,
clothing; Levy Loeb, Scheurer u Co.,. dry
goods, and many other houses on CaI';ol
Street, innumerablc cases dald packages irdi.
Gated in eloquent terms that business had not
only revived, but was in its zenith.
AT WALLACE & CARY's
heavy shipments were in order, and much
| satisfaction expressed at the turn OF affairs
Messrs. Taylor, MoElroy Il Co. admitted thai
| they had been over busy, and had SOLD more
| bills to country merchants during the Gay
| for cash-than for an entire month previous
| The reason was that merchants were Hooking
here with the satisfaction that they could ,pur
chase here, for cash, cheaper than elsewhere
A.BALDwIN & CO.,
hardware merchants, reported that business
was not only good with them, but brisk, ant
that they were agreeably disappointed IL
| their apprehensions that many OF their Gus
toners might have gone to other markets
during the fever scare to procure goods 10
such was not the case. On the contrary they
were receiving daily orders from long distan
ces from points which they had feaSon fnn, TO Pc
North and West.
MEssRs. sTAUFFER, MACREADY & CO.,
hardware merchants, also gave most en-
cOuraging account Of the revival Of business
and expressed agreeable disappointment a
the condition of affairs. They have been yer
busy for the past two weeks; in fact, beer
doing as much as they could stand up to, an
business was far better than had been ex
pected.
Our reporter was, however, unfortunat
enough in his rapid ramble to meet g very bl
merchant brreit of courtesy, the plain an
polite question of "Wbat is the condition {
business in your line, sir?' being answered b
n frr,ff 81 have no s7lch reDOIt tN make to