Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-06-21

THINGS IN NEW ORLEANS.

New Orleans must, / think, in the
progress Of time, and probably not We
ny long time, be the largest commercial
city in the world. 1t has increased, and
is increasing, dirty and unhealthy as
it is supposed to be, with immense ra-
pidity. Real Estate is very valuable
Rents are higher than in any other city
in the United States. When l cast my
eye over the map, and trace the almost
interminable water communication In the
interior, not from two nor three great RI
vers, but from many rivers, flowing
through regions not settled at all, or
but scarcely settled any where, but no,U
Welding so much trade, am not afraid
to hazard the prediction that New Or
leans must be the greatest commercial
city in the world. The field on which
the merchant is to act is most magnif-
cent. Fifty fre thousand miles oil internal
water communication, it is said, seeks a
vent for its trade at New Orleans-a
trade from great variety OF latitudes,
with a great variety of productions
coming from lands Unsurpassed in Ter
tility, and administering every thing to
the wants or luXuries of man. Think
of this, and run your eye over the map,
and remember that vast portion OF this
country west Of New England should yet
call quite unsettled, and say II l err in
my calculation.
There is the Red River, the trade OF
which goes to New Orleans, up which a
steamboat this year has gone as far as
Cantonment Towson, 1900 miles-4oo
miles above which are settlements,-and
| all along this river there are new planta-
tions, many of which are the richest inthe
world, fertile in the sugar cane and cot
ton, and in almost every thing which the
industry of man sees fit to cultivate
| An individual has Just informed me, that
| in February he arrived there from Ten
nessee and planted with fifty negroes,
and that when he left, his cotton was up
covering two hundred acres on prairie
and was then promising him fertile
and valuable crop.
There is the Arkansaw river, the trade
of which must go to New Orleans, navi-
gable at times by steamboats, 900 miles,
as am informed. Arkansaw is yet but
partially scttled,-but the extent Of the
river is $500 miles.
There is the White River, navigable
for steamboats, from 400 to 500 miles,
and for keel boats 900 miles. Its course
is 1900 miles.
Then there is the Ohio. Navigable to
Pittsburgh 1000 miles from New Orleans
by water, where nearly all of the princi-
pal steamboats, on the Mississippi are
built, the Ohio with all its tributaries,
with the Tennessee, navigable at times
to Knoxville by steamboats,, meandering
through the best parts Of Tennessee, and
the finest territory in Alabama, with the
Cumberland, navigable as far as Nash
vile by steamboats-and many other
navigable more or less, pouring their
treasures ultimately into the Father of
| Waters.
Then there is the immense Missouri
with its tributarics--there is the Illinois
with boat navigation for 800 miles-Rocl
River, navigahle 300 miles-KaslSaskia
so miles, with many others, which any
eye Y i'll note on a map And now to
all Of them may be added the mighty
Mississippi itself, navigable by boats to
the Falls Of St. Anthony. In short, there
is a continent above New Orleans
,uorld Of itself-with streams as useful fol-
trade as the great ocean. A small sklh
or FIAT boat, that cannot stand wave oil
the ocean, adventures in safety from the
cold north, with its ice and SHOWS, tc
the warm south, with its sugar cane, lis
olives, and its oranges.
Nor is there in this Union such fiele
as New Orleans for enterprize-enter
prize of all sorts, from the counter anc
the desk, TO the bar and the pulpit