The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-06-14
To thi, we must add the following additional

Total. 055
To this we must add the following additional
allowances: Pilots allowed extras by law
towboats allowed extras by regulation har-
bor.masters, extra by law; port-wardens, extra
by law; and, when all these extras ale put on, we
safely suppose this enormous sum is swelled 10
81, 500 900 for the three years. being average OF
a million-and ahaf of dollars annually levied on
our commerce TO get TO our wharves.
He would ask if it was matter of wonder that
the commerce of the city was leaving her, when
such heavy charges were upon it, that Charles
ton or Mobile should be complaining of these
charges on shipping at New Orleans, and giving
that as reason why those ports better adapted
for trade. Charleston was already beginning to
draw off this trade, and one of the strongest rea-
sons for building the Charleston and Memphis
Railroad, was the argument that it would deprive
New Orleans of 100000 bales of cotton per an
mum, and would tap the commerce of the Msss-
sippi River. They allege that Western produce
will go that way, and not come South because the
dampness of the climate of New Orleans was not
well suited to the produce of the West as the eli
mate Of Charleston and in time that that will become
the great emporium of Western, and part of the
Southern trade and all these calculations were
made upon the fact OF heavy port charges driv-
ing commerce from our shores, and from the sup
position that they will remain they are.
A gentleman held a conversation with him few
days ago. who had twice loaded his vessel with
cotton at this port for Liverpool On his last voy.
age, the snip was sent TO load at Mobile, and she
had slowed away 100000 pounds of cotton more
than was ever slowed in her at this port and vet
the expenses We're but fraction above one third of
what they would have been had she loaded at New
Orleans. This was matter OF vital Importance to
the inhabitants of this city, for Notwithstanding
their natural advantages the sister city of Mobile
had risen and become the natural rival Of New
Orleans, and was decrying her for her heavy port
charges. Apaachicola, place OF so little impor.
lance that it is scarcely worthy of place on the
map is growing by our short-sghted policy and
Savannah and Charleston, emboldened by our
blindness, are sending their avenues OF travel and
OF carriage, to the very banks OF river and into
the centre OF our valley, and these ports promised
| to supply return trade for that which we should
be robbed Of amounting to mac than seven mil
lion of dollars.
When Governor Jones addressed the citizens of
New Orleans, upon the subject of the Memphis
Railroad, he stated that it would bring cotton from
the east of the Mississippi, for some distance to
be shipped to New Orleans but he has since gone
| to stir up Charleston and Carolina, and there he
had told them that the same line would cause the
cotton to go to Charleston. But when that gen.
tleman told them in the Commercial Hall that cot
ton of the same quality was worth one half a cent
more in Charleston than il was in New Orleans
he mr. Payne) thought he was mistaken but
he was sorry to find that he was not, and il was
his opinion that next year it would be one-fourtb
of cent higher in Mobile. As long as we con.
tinue these port charges We Offering as il were
premium to vessels to 90 to other ports in prefer
ence to our own, and are also Offering pre-
MUM to planters to send their produce TO other
cities.