Year: 1859

The week opened quietly yesterday. Some folks


talked though it was dull. It might, with propri.


ETY. be asked il our city must be in continual bus.


tie and excitement, buying and selling from one


years end to another-that is, are we to be bound


down to the car of commerce, and follow the wheels


oftrade three hundred and sxtyve days in the year


For nearly nine months has our city been one daily


routine Of buying selling, bargaining and transferring;


therefore, our commercial community ought not to


complain at the present ul and prospective nactiy-


ity for few weeks. The talk is it is possible there
may be results of doing too much busness-that is,
some parties may have gone too far in pork others
rather overstep the market in tobacco some may
have touched cotton too deep, others may not have
scrntinized sufficiently sundry bills of exchange and
some may have chartered ships at too high rates. All
these kinds of remarks make up some of the talk
daily, with that endless theme, the cotton growth and
receipts of 1858. There was towards the close of
business yesterday some talk of the advices from
Europe. The telegraph one way and another affords
a great deal Of amusement. 1t is a most fortunate
thing that the great Atlantic submarine telegraph
never succeeded, for onehalf Of the community
would have been kept in constant dread, and good
share of the remainder would have been watching
from hour to hour every word forwarded. The talk
is if community will calmly come to the conclu-
sion that there is to be general war in Europe and
prepare for the worst, and base operations in con-
formity, it will be about the wisest course to pursue
for the coming three months. Nevertheless there is
talk from parties who profess to be well informed
that there will be cessation Of hostlites and peace
follow within ninety days. We. however, repeat our
own views that the of events in Europe cannot
with any degree OF accuracy be predicted on. The
talk was from the incoming Of this year that there
would be no war, and we talked the other way. We
now talk that what day or week may bring forth


no one can forete therefore, as the season for busi


ness Is closing, it may be as we'll for all to take


balance books, settling accounts, and ndte their an.
nual circulars in time for the lst of September tax.
ing care not to make estimates of the growing cot
ton crop at SO great variance as predictions and re-
suits of 1858 have transpired. In fact, some folks
think that we might as well omit talking about
events in Europe and let those fellows fight out their
differences Ifthey do not get through by the lst of
October next then 1t will be time to consider Of the
then future. In the meantime, our Ariel is lowering
around, and insinuates that the Bank of France is
buying gold in more markets than one


There was considerable talk about the stoppage of
the conducta Of specie between Mexico and Vera
Cruz. So far the talk went yesterday, fully one
million and ahalf dollars expected to have been
received by the Tennessee. The plunderer General
Robles he styles himself-General Robber might be
appropriately called into use.) appears willing to re.
lease the money on paying the export duty, which