Year: 1859




crowds Of folks on the most important thoronghfare


yesterday, including Carondelet street. really no i'm
portant or large operations transpired. The usua
transactions in cotton were gone through but th


talk was, what are so many thousands of people


landing on our levee and arriving in city by rail
| road going to do +! We allude to those who expec


to obtain a living without any great labor; fol


mechanics, artisans and laborers of all kinds there
is an abundance of employment, at good prices anG
the pest oil pay, above any other city the globe al


this moment. Mechanics can obtain from two dolars
and nifty cents to four dollars, and even five dollar
per Gay nave been paid; and ordinary laborers
steamboat hands, are obtaining extrayagant com
pensation; but the talk is that there are many
thousands OF woud.be citizens arriving in our midst
VINO never did days work out of doors, expecting
10 OBTAIN lucrative employment merely for the asking
Tor 1t. We deem it within the scope of our talk to
cautlon all persons from coming to New Orleans to
seek employment as clerks, assistants, ETC. As for
the important duties Of cerkships we have thousands
to the manor born, without the addition of solitary
one from abroad being required, be bis abilities and
Accomplishments Of the greatest kind. For those
who Will go to work the great levee as well as for
eood mechanics, there is ample field with the best OF
pay in gold and silver and not in store orders or wild
cat currency. For men who will really work. there
ls great opening but for about onehalf of the
new arrivals comers the talk is that they are not
wanted. There is not dry goods house, grocery,
factorage house, bank, exchange office, nor any of
the large or small retail establishments, but what
have as many employees as are desired for the
season through and therefore, as our talk at times
takes broad range, we consider it our duty to
caution strangers coming to our city seeking stu.
ations or general clerkships,


The further talk was Of the fine weather. and that
yesterday was good for another ten thousand bales of
the staple The receipts of cotton continue in excess
OF last year, both here, in Mobile and at the Texas
ports Some seven Or eight weeks since we received
from Southern Texas the most encouraging accounts
OF cotton that the crop might be placed at $50 900
bales. We never gave any credence to these high
wrought views and in our correspondence to distant
parts we placed the Texas crop for 1859 at 225 600
bales, and that is all we now credit Texas with even
with the increase of force and consequent augment
alton OF acres Of land planted


While talking of cotton, there were some re-
marks OF bagging and rope-nothing talked about
twine, but few ausions to sand aud dust. which
appears to be increasing in quantity over last year.
The general market for bagging is quiet from all
accounts before US it appears there have been i'm.
ported into the United States since the st of January
last up to the 18th inst, SO 355 bales of gunny cloth
sufficient to cover 100000 bales of cotton so our
planting community cannot complain of deficiency
OF baling. Aluding to bagging brought up rope and
the iron hoop band or tie, of which there was a
remarkable circumstance talked of yesterday in
shipping circles and which will of course lead to
some investigation. 1t appears that yesterday fore
noon bale of cotton, bound with the iron hoop, was
thrown down the hatchway or into the hold of the
snip redwood, loading at post So, Fourth District,
Tor HaVre, and striking on the kelson of the ship
which is plated with iron, caused the cotton to ignite
from the iron coming in contact and actually set the
bale Of cotton on fire, which was fortunately dis.
covered in time to prevent another of those disasters
which occurred the past season. This ia not strange
when the bale of cotton was thrown down distance
Of twenty-five feet, and striking with great force on
an iron object. 1t may be well enough to remark
that we often see sparks of fire from horses hoof or
shoe when going rapidly over stone payements.


The further talk was of the great irregularity of
The mails. The mail due yesterday via the jackson
Railroad failed from Chattanooga. These repeated
ailures are not chargeabe to the Jackson Railroad
or this company faithfully and promptly fulls its
part OF the contract, as will appear by the regular
'rriVal and departure of the trains twice per dav
wen in defiance of the obstacles occasioned by the
great Mississippi river; therefore, in the general
ak the New Orleans and Jackson Railroad is re-
leved OF all blame or censure for the failures which
ppear to occur away up in Tennessee, or beyond.
he causes of which are yet unknown.


The steamer Asia was not announced last evening
here is some desire on the flags to know how Mr..
'ull and Monsieur Crapeau will take their defeat nv
ohm Chinaman, or the celestials.