The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1851-03-11
CORR BSP0N DENC 3.
New ORLEANS. Feb. %, 1851

GEW OhLEANoi ICO' 90 lOOA'
The enterprise Of our Northwestern
brethren in constructing works of internal
improvement for facilitating commerce, by
the means of canals and railroads TO the
lakes, has long been a subject OF interest to
our Southern merchants. 1t was quite clear
that all the produce sent by these channels
would be just so much trade diverted from
this city, yet the apathy and supineness Of
capitalists most involved in the prosperity
of New Orleans, beheld with indifference
the fate that was soon to overtake us. Not
until the changed and changing state of our
diminished trade.-not until property fell in
price-not until houses became vacated and
rents were reduced, did there appear the
least desire to resort to remedial measures.
1t " as well ascertained that the great ex-
pense incurred in transactlng business here
necessarily drove or kept away merchants
from embarking in business, and thereby be
a means of attracting commerce by the IN
crease of honorable competition. Mer-
chants sought other points where trade could
be carried on with greater economy, aud
with increased accommodations, and the
Western merchants were not slow to dis
cover where they could most probably
transact their business. Capital being the
sinew of commerce, it matters little wheth-
er it settles down at the point of production
or consumption, whether a merchant from
Boston or New York, opens a branch estab-
lishment in the West, or whether by con-
structing a cheap means Of carriage 10 the
emporium in the East@he attracts the pro-
ducts thither. Accordingly we find the cap
italist and merchant princes of Boston and
New York are combining and advancing
the funds to the Western States to enable
them to construct these highways that are
diverting so much of the former trade of
New Orleans from us. To regain that trade
| and to attract d more general trade from the
interior of our n~eighhoring States, has been
the subject of earnest sollc'tude mere lof
some months past.
The efforts of the city of Lafayette to
send a railroad to the lake for the purpose
of bringing in the products of the lake shore,
and the southern counties of Mississippi, at
a cheap rate, will be the means of %resusci-
tating that embarrassed corporation, The
yet greater effort to construct the Jackson
railroad to the City, will be attended with
incalculable benefits to both Mississippi and
Louisiana And were our capitalists and
corporations alive to their interests, to Sc
cond these efforts Of our citizens by making
adequate advances, and bv giving good and
cheap accommodations for the storing of
freights upon the Ievees, where they would
be secure from the weather, and the heavy
import of the drayman, then would New
Orleans command the trade which her ma
tural position claims should be hers.
We have had here a strong advocate for
internal improvements throughout the South
generally, and through Tennessee in partic-
ular, in the person Of Gov. Jones-who at
a public meeting set forth its great advan-
tages. His enthusiasm for Tennessee i'm
provements, which by inference he made
necessary to the well-being OF New Orleans,
had the effect Of drawing out 500, 600
worth of subscriptions, thirty thousand of
which was taken by James Robb, Esq.
We are not to blame any one for encour-
aging Improvements; bus it would have
~ PtSuShiS " hdtC seen SuCn ilD6fdIlLV
more generally adopted in enterprises near
er to ourselves. Have you nc man of in
huence who can come down and demon
strase to us the advantages that would re-
suit from the early completion of the Jack.
son railroad, and make an eloquent appeal,
and my word for it, the work would 90
pravety ON, at least the sinews would not be
wanting. wse.
The charitable performance of Jenny Lind
wa but moderately a~ttended-the host Of
Tree tickets We're withdrawn 70 that eve.
nlng, and may in part account for diminish.
ed numbers. but the mania is fast subsiding.
The safety of the Atlantic has caused
great and universal Joy throughout the coun.
Try. When the news reached New York,
at . O'Clock in the evening, extras were i'm.
medlately issued-the news-boys awakiug
many a sleepy head with his midnight cries
Al the theatres anthems were sung, and ey.
cry demonstration of grateful Joy was al.
lowed TO drown the performances OF the
evening. How comes it that we of the
baIms South should not warm up or be al.
fected by tidings Of " veal or wo % unless
II be that we allow the sun to do all the
warming, while we Try to do all the cool
ing il would be hard TO answer the query.
The markets are not in a healthy state.
at least planters will think so, for prices have
fallen 10 their staple, since the Cambria's
telegraphic dispatches came to hand, moth
ing has boen done but by the factor yield.
ing TO the reported prices got for cotton 10
the European and Northern markets.
RETAILER.
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