Year: 1859




The mild weather yesterday brought out an
almost countless throng of folks. On the grand
boulevard, Canal the crowd was large all through
the day the folks comprising it were altogether of
different class from the abtues of rue Carondelet.
Though Carondelet street and environs furnishes
the snews of trade, yet dry goods and crnoline as
IN all great places, rules supreme. Cotton and dry
goods are blended. Taken altogether, they the
controlling power of the mighty trade of the uni
verse; therefore, the talk is that seller Of tape
has much influence in general trade as the seller
Of thousands of bales of cotton .9


it is hardly necessary for to talk of the large
receipts of cotton and the daily accumulation of
stock. Every one engaged in the trade is conver-
SAINT with the receipts sales and exports from day
to day. Up to this moment the receipts from the
interior off from the Mississippi river have been
very triaing when placed in juxtaposition with the
mammoth receipts from the banks of the Missis-
sippi We made some allus0n to the returns of
sales of cotton in Liverpool at 4ad., which cost or
stood in warehouse in Liverpool Cad. We learn
that some account sales are being returned, which
exhibits loss of not only ten dollars per bale, but
fifteen and eighteen dollars per bale. OF course,
there will be some large recanations but there is
another feature in this low quality Of cotton.
There many thousands Of bales in Liverpool so
dirty and sandy that it will not sell for Sd. - ID
then. again, we are informed that there are thou
sands Of bales that cannot be sold at any price,
and that it will be altogether thrown back on the
consignee or shipper. In the meantime, the talk
is who is to suffer these prodgioiS losses or on
whom are the reclamatons to be made ? They who
are closely interested will, Of course know who is
to stand the deficiency.


The receipts of cotton have been heavy this
week, but not so large as they will be next week
and the week after, provided the weather continues
favorable.


The mails failed yesterday by both routes. There
is chronic irregularity in the mail via Mobile on
Fridays. We noticed yesterday part of the Eu-
ropean mails by the Africa received. 1t takes
three days now to receive our European mail after
it is landed in New York that is, we get a part
one day, another part the next day, and another
part the third day: that it takes three days for
contractors to deliver one mail that should be de-
iivered on the first day. Mr.. Postmaster-General
Holt. or his contractors, are fbustering. There
was some talk of Of war steamer, the
Crusader of twenty-five guns, having arrived of
old Slaughter-house point, consigned to Marshal
Kennedy and Collector Hatch, to assist in watch
ing the fishing party. Fortunately, the yachts OF
our citizens have gone into winter quarters they
might be snubbed up by this man of war. Our
merchants talk, though, that if this of war
steamer and her twenty-five great guns officers
crew and marines, would raise steam this morning
and start for Brazos st. Iago, and aid in protecting
the town of Brownsville and the Rio Grande val
ley from the Mexican marauders, there might
not be any further use for Mexican protectorate
to guard the western part of the State of Texas
and that they would be rendering essential service
to not only this community, but to the State OF
Texas: as well as protecting the honor and stand
ing Of the United States. ...