Year: 1860




1t was rather sluggish on rue Garondelet yester-
day. Many operators or would-be operators in
the staple, waiting for late adyices from the
| other side, due by the Anglo.Saxon at Portland,
and the Africa, which will be due at New York to-
day or tomorrow. The depression in exchange,
the late advance in and the firmness of freights,
were talked Of. Talking Of freights and shipping
brought up the movement now making towards
the establishment of line of screw-steamers.
The prospectus and conditions for the organization
of line have been before the public for some
days, and have been received with great favor 1t
would be stigma and reproach on the great fame
Of our city If this project should fall through for
| the want Of few hundred thousands of dollars.
ALI persons, all residents, in fact, every person
connected with the great trade and commerce of
our city, ought to take an interest in this under
taking. We are gratifed to learn stock already
approaching the amount of $4,000 has been sub
scrbed by importers and residents on Canal street
Independent Of the great advantages to accrue to
the welfare and prosperity Of our city by having
direct communication with the chief mart for our
great staple, the establishing Of the line will
lieve the great southwest-of which our city is the
great emporum-of its dependence on Northern
capital which is increasing from year to year
from tIe Edue, tle pdtIOudge anu ule OF
the South This undertaking ought to receive the
patronage Of every merchant and trader; every
clerk and employe who can raise forty eight dol
lars ought to take a share Let something sub
stantial be done for the credit and pride of the
Crescent City. Not only win the measure be Of
advantage to our own importing merchants and
traders, but very large business can be secured
to pass through city for the great city of st.
Louis. The large merchants and importers Of that
place have now arrangements for the transporta-
ton Of their goods and merchandise via the Mon
treal line of steamers through Portland over the
Grand Trunk Railway. The talk is, that there is
now more freight offering for st. Louis and other
places in the West via Portland to come by the
Canadian screw-line than can be transported. The
transportation Of this merchandise, the freight The
expenses the commissions and charges, can all be
secured for our city by the establishment Of line
of steamers The goods can be delivered in st.
Louis via our leyee in thirty to thirty-fye days
from Liverpool and at much less cost than via any
Northern route. OF course, this will greatly in
crease the receiving and forwarding trade of our
city--a trade which was at one time most promi-
nent feature of the business of city, but which
has greatly declined within the past two Of three
"
Goods are imported into New York and Boston for
Western account, which would come direct to our
levee if regular steam communication formed part
of our connection with the European markets. We
have further talk to make public on this question:
which we obliged to defer for want of room.
In the meantime, it is urged on all desrous of pro-
noting the interests of city to call either of
the committee and subscribe.


The arrivals of steamers were numerous yester-
day, and the great Western trade is at its hight of
liyeliness and activity. The demand Tor Western
products for Alabama, Florida and Georgia. is
brisk. The steamers from the two railroads, with
the score of schooners from the upper basin,
are crowded with freight But the talk u.s. that the
Carrollton Railroad is very irregular in its hours of
departure; there does not appear to be any regu-
larty, any system in the time table. The cars
move when they are ready. 1t is suggested that
the time keepers clocks or watches be kept more
in conformity to the time adopted by the banks
and the cathedral However, it is not expected
that much regularity can attend to an attenuated
road, or, as the phrase is, non-paying stock
that the Bears and Bulls never enter on their
records. ==am


The Jackson Railroad is becoming something of
an institution, and when the connection is com
pleted with Montgomery, Ala, via the Alabama
and Mississippi Railroad, travellers will leave here
in the evening of day and dine the next day in
Montgomery, thereby avoiding all the delays, de-
tentions and changing of boats which is now ex-
perienced via the lake and Mobile route and while
talking Of the increase of business over the road,
we find that King cotton is very good patron and
customer, as appears by the following figures,
which cover the number of bales received at the
depot in this city for the first six months Of each
commercial year, commencing on the first of Sep