New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-04-06

we subjoin we may MI pause and resoi1e-to
some purpose. If large class of our citizens
would spend less in summer trips to the North.
they would be fully able to pay more than any
railroad tax They will recognize this fact, after
a while; but then, we fear, it will be too late.
The golden fountain of our Southern home will
no longer furnish the current on which they float
through the summer pleasures of the North.
They can look at this prospect, and resolve
accordingly. They must resolve. not so much
| even for the public as for themselves-not so
| much through public spirit, as through self-in-
| terest They need make no complaints, no loud
professions, in the premises. They must act,
and in acting they will work for themselves.
| They are not asked for tavors they are reminded
| of their plain interests. If they will not move,
others less interested will not take the first step
for them
Why stand we, all the day, idles We can
work whilst it'll yet day with us but if we do
| not, night of disasters cometh in which we
can not. What we do now will be worth tenfold
| all that we can do three years hence. We will
| then be upon the &c easy descent the rapid de-
cline Of, our prosperity and then it will be diff
cult to recover and begin re-ascending. Here
| are facts, stubborn facts They may be disrc-
garded now; but if they are, they will be real
lied hereafter.
| REDUCTION OF THE NEwYoRK CANAL To,ls.-It was
stated in columns time ago that the Newly ork
Board of Canal Commissioners had reduced the OF
toll various products of the West By those
uanted with the course of trade this matter may be
deemed of but little Importance to this section of country
and this city particular 1t may be amss there
/ q a We w
first state the ratio of the reduction On cotton the toll
reduced from two mills to mill per mile On
featured tobacco. from eight mills to mill per mile
On unmanufactured tobacco from two mills to mill
per mile On pork bacon lard lard oil and grease from
three mills to two mills per mile On -four, from three
mills to mill per mile
From this it will be that the reduction is nearly
one-half Cotton and tobacco under this tariff be
forwarded from this city to Newfork through that chan
ue at about 90 cents, while the rates of freight paid for
tobacco and cotton to NewOrleans from this and nerme
date points have ranged from 81 So per hogshead
the former and 81 per bale the latter, which is
nearly equal to the entire charge from here to NewYork
Besides the increase in the rates of carriage taking
consideration the greater length of time required for
signments to reach the Atlantic ports via NewOreans
than by the lake route, which in itself very important
item regards the time in converting the products into
cash well having them in market in case demand
should spring up and consequent realization of better
prices the lake route is by far more advantageous But
there other The rates OF insurance and
missions, via NewOrleans, nearly double those by the
Northern route, say nothing of the climate which
affects the quality and of the price of articles
We might 20 on and enumerate various reasons did we
deem that what has been set forth in the preceding
convincing the advantages Of the Northern
Southern route.
But it may be asked what advantages this confer
upon Louisville? What has given much impulse to
St Louis She is manufacturing city Her principal
business consists in forwarding independent of this
however let examine what probable effect must pro-
duce upon great staple tobacco The little exertion
made thus has nearly doubled the receipts and sales
of last year, and this while all the Northern channels
were closed. What may we expect now since some of
them have opened and the most important will soon open
1t has been often forth by facts and figures that
market is only the best for the planter to dispose
of his product, but also to the home and the foreign
buyer that needs repetition here The effect of it
is already felt Notwithstanding the disadvantages had
to contend with during the past season Among them
fall secondly, the extraordinary severity Of the win
ter which suspended navigation entirely for five weeks
accommodating great quantities Of freight at all points and
enhancing greatly the price of transportation This will
soon be done away with by the opening of the
canals while, in less than year hence shall have
continuous railroad communication by the seaports
the Jacksonville and Columbus Railroad which, it is
anticipated, will be finished by fall and thereby be
leved from depending the river for travelling and
transportation 1t admits doubt that the dsadyan-
tage during the past while they have had
visible effect upon tobacco have seriously nterered with
cotton We look confidently for active business in this
staple the NewYork canals open which will
| take place about the 10Th proximo.
| Arrangements have been made by forwarders to
| have conslgnments sent with dispatch. and the
| lowest terms.
Our exchanges in Memphis Nashville. GAINESVILLE Hop
knsyie, Eddyville. Bowling Green Henderson, Frank
fort Evansville. and other shipping points in this State
Tennessee, Illinois, and Indiana will confer benefit on
| their readers by layipp these facts before them