Year: 1859

The weather yesterday, though not at all favorable
for general promenade on the grand Boulevard, Ca
nal, did not interrupt general transactions. The
great staple king cotton was in request, and sales
were made equal in extent to any day Of the week.
The receipts yesterday were light compared to previ.
ous days. The Bears, however, feel in good humor,
and the Bulls do not show any want Of faith though
the talk is some Of them have lost largely on the
figures which denote the increase over last year. We
are however, impartial in views: If the Bears are
to gain the day, shall note if the Bulls are to
be victorious, we shall be highly pleased-the more
money the crop brings the better. But we do not
approve Of the recipients Of the proceeds taking the
and spending it in Northern regions to the dis
advantage of Southern interests. However, that is
neither here nor there at this moment. With the icy
and roze up regions of the North before US, we can
feel for the many thousands Of poor starving feez-
ing human beings, accounts Of which come to US in
all orr exchanges. We are, however, getting out of
the range of talk Carondelet street. where every
day the people are holding forth on the street with
out great coats or gloves to keep the cold off, and


fires in their Offices deemed inconvenient, as we'll
as an incumbrance. They are talking at the North,
according to teegraphic accounts, of ice one foot
thick, with snow several inches deep and this cold
weather. it is reported checks business and interferes
with cotton transactions To Offset such weather. we
have here slight drizzling rain making, however,
plenty of mud in our streets, and sales of cotton
going at the rate of twelve thousand bales daily
with sugar and molasses in good demand money
abundant and SO on. True, it is reported that the
mouths Of the Mississippi are blocked up to large ves
but who for that long as the three hun
dred thousand dollars are gone and the mud in the
channels about the same as before the first dollar was
ypn In mt panf tn ha fo1E od IN
about those $1,000, because we opposed the man
ner at the incipiency of the undertaking. in which
the work contract to be performed, as will ap-
pear by reference to the columns of this Journal We
had many scruples about the new-fangled science,
which to maintain depth Of eighteen or twenty
feet water the BAR and the talk is among our ship
owners and agents. confound science.


There was some talk about large losses in weight
of sugar purchased in our market and shipped to
New York for profit. Perhaps we may not be out of
the way when we adopt the words of many sugar
planters country writer's and say "speculators are
making all the money on sugar and moasses y but
what the talk resulted in the loss in weight Of
l20 to 200 pounds per hogshead OF sugar shipped to
New York and sold there, averaging on an invoice
fully fifteen per cent, and though planters are con-
tinually harping about spectators and dealers in
sugar. would not give the value of the sugar with
which we expect to sweeten coffee this morning
for all the profit gain that has been realized on
purchases OF sugar made our evee and shipped to
New York this season. There was talk about cotton
yesterdayof increased receipts at the Texas ports
not before received. They will appear in due time
In the meantime, our merchants are talking of the
irregularity of the mails, and wondering how long
the present state of affairs nuisance is to continue
We learn that the jackson Railroad trains perform
their functions daily but that the Irregularities are be-
yond the control Of this Company It is hoped the
PostmasterG General will exact the penalty and not be
bought off, as in instances heretofore.