Year: 1859

The long wished Tor ran WHICH mas Deen talked vi
for three weeks being required for the full growth
of the sugar, came yesterday. To what distance it
extended up and down the coast not ascertained
last evening 1t s hoped, however, that it was some
thing more than shower though the rain which
fell in the city could not come under that denomna-
ton, commencing, as it did, about meridian, and
falling at intervals until late in the day, with signs of
continuing through the night. Of course, there was
some interruption to business, and the general talk
was confined to few subjects, and one particularly
in which shippers of cotton more or less inter-
ested; and though the gathering on Carondelet
street. out Of the rain under cover, were not large
yet they sufficiently numerous to bring up some
highly important talk, and on which we have often
reflected Observing several Of those new.fashioned
carts vehicles passing through the streets, having
ten to thirteen bales of cotton on each, and in the
midst Of one of the heavy showers of rain, it re-
minded those who happened to observe them that
moving cotton in the rain was of no advantage to
that the bales being freshly or recently marked, the
rain would obliterate marks and numbers of the ship
pers. There is truth than poetry in this talk.
In fact the rain yesterday was the topic Of comment
with many shippers. The further talk was of vessels
or agents, when engaging freights, are obliged to
agree to receive cotton at any moment, whether the
inward cargo of the ship is or is not discharged
that the cotton is sent to the evee to vessels DUR
ing storms and ont of storms that it must be re-
ceived rain or sunshine piled up on the levee or
wharves full receipts given for it, leading to bills of
ladng being required, when the cotton is partly on
the levee and share Of it in the presses The further
talk was that which has been currently stated in
Liverpool regarding damage of cotton called country
damage, may be traced to the exposure which cotton
receives on the levee and landings by being rolled
through the mud and rained on for days at a time.
Moreover, more attention ought to be paid by ship
pers to the condition Of ship when the captain is
called to receive freight that is many shippers,
after taking up vessel insist condition that she
shall commence to receive, or we may say give re-
ceipts for cotton at any moment when sent down,
whether the inward cargo is discharged not. This
with the anxiety for the signature to bills of ladng
in hundreds Of instances, leads to the piling and
storing of cotton the levee subject to the rains
and storms of the climate. If captains and agents
demonstrate against this haste and hurry, they are
threatened with protests for the seeming delay. The
further talk was, that due regard to all interests
requires that the great haste to make shipments fair
weather foul, should, if possible, be avoided, and
many complaints, much acrimony be obviated, and
much damage to cotton be prevented The further





owners of gins from many complaints Of plating and
false packing who are in the practice of following this
fraudulent COURSE But it was plainly manifest yes
terday that the rain did not do the cotton now in
course of shipment any good furthermore, damp
and wet cotton, when slowed in a vessels hold, is


liable to take fire from combustion and it is not out
of place to remark that many of the vessels de-
stroyed by fire, resulted from the taking board
and slowing cotton while in wet, damp and humid
state II was further talked of that there was fully
twenty thousand bales of cotton now being pushed
and urged on ships not yet relieved from their inward
cargoes, of which cotton, or good share of it, bills
of ladng are wanted to facilitate it is presumed,
change operations The large increase of cotton
presses enables vessel to receive from 500 to 1000
bales of cotton. Of course, the changing of one kind
of cotton and causing damage or loss, is not within
the province of talk at this moment. It is hardly
necessary to repeat that the rain interiered with all


sort of outdoor transactions after O'Clock yester-
day that good street (that is the sidewalks and
roadway not the the dwellers i) is all topsyturvy
and that we shall have nice of mud if the rain
should continue for two or three days. l
The letter mails were reported through yesterday
by both routes to the 7th instant The Charleston
Courier seems to take exception at some of our re-
marks regarding the failures of the Northern mail


because we ntimated that the delay through Tennes
see or Virginia might be owing to causes connected