| From the New Orleans Daily Crescent |
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| December 17, 1861 |
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| Talk on 'Change |
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| There was talk about the salt
market. This subject is about talked out. We learn that some of the
works in Bienville parish are turning out 200 bushels per day, and with
a supply of kettles, 500 bushels could be readily made. So far as Texas
and Louisiana are concerned, there cannot be any real scarcity of the
saline. There was some falling off yesterday in the activity at the
sugar depot. The inland communication, that is, the railroads, are
blocked with fright, and cannot for the present afford transportation
for the quantity offering. The total interruption of communication with
Mobile, vial the lakes, throws on the railroads the entire carrying and
transporting trade. The Florida, Georgia, Carolina and Virginia markets
have all to be furnished from here; but as there is no cotton
transported inward, the railroad cannot be greatly over-taxed or overrun
over previous seasons. But a very trifling part of the sugar crop has
come to market; though the receipts thus far are largely in excess of
last year -- say 48,447 hogsheads against 31,560 hogsheads -- it forms a
very moderate percentage of the anticipated yield. The receipts of
molasses have been about twice as much as last year -- say 154,500
barrels against 76,600. The want and deficiency in transportation will
have a sensible effect on general prices for some time. |
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