Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-06-03

Exprcssan intelligent obseryant and d1aa
gentleman s4.s
The Levee at New Orleans is the greatest com.
mercial spectacle have ever seem There are miles
of ships and of steamboats, lining The 5000
crescent, and running far above and below the c;tv
limits; many more are at Algicrs and hundreds
more always on the river above and below the c;tv
he ships lie from two to five and six Deep and pre-
sent picture OF trade and commerce at one view
such as can be seen ut no other port in tho world
have walked more than once over the whole LENGTH
of the Levee, from Jefferson CITY and Iaf,vete to
the lower end OF the CITY, and have seen there thou
sands and tens OF thousands of bales OF cotton and
visiting the Cotton Presses cotton vards and cotton
store houses by have seen Thousands and tons
OF thousands OF additional bales S eamboats arc
unloading their cotton from the up countries and
enormous ships are receiving ii for Europe The
South and Southwest grow the cotton and the
North and East carry it to Europe It would he
Impossible almost for planters to be SINNERS and
hence there to DE Providence almost in ti.
sectional division OF capital and labor which brings
distant people to the same country into freouent 81
cial, and business intercourse. As have Gazed nm
on those many thousand bales of cotton and 20 O0o
are sometime sold after dinner, here BY one or two
persons for shipment, (every one of which worth
$40) have thought that the much abused Cotton
Pdrty' OF the United States was a very important
and respectable body of persons. 1t is party which
raised one hundred millions of dollars year in A.
merlcan produce, for European market and par
ty winch contributes just so much to pay off debt
incurred Dy the United States abroad.
But it is not the number of ships and steamboats,
nor the quantity of cotton raised and brought here
which alone amaze me. The picture of thrift and
industry otprvate spirit and general animation is
unsurpassed. You see, in the miniature of those
many steamers painting, putting, and groaning with
he burdens they bring from afar, which thread all
the water courses of our Western world, foreshad
owing OF inland commerce of the United States It
connects with country, and that our country which
in the article of grain alone could if need be- feed
every mouth in the world! You see at times, too
nearly thousand ocean vessels ready to bear away
this inland commerce to all parts of the civilized
globe You behold for miles and miles, amidst little
colored flags and numbered stats, betokening the
ownership OF property, wide spread evee and gen.
orally much greater in width than the Bowery and
Broadway together covered in the busy season of the
year. all over with articles of home produce or Of
foreign and domestic merchandise ] have seen no
such picture before, and had no comprehension of
the magnitude of such growth and trade rs this
New Orleans may well boast of such commerce
and of such highway to the ocean as the mighty
Mississippi
Let me enter a little into detail in regard to two
of these ucons-Cotton and Sugar The last
is crop almost peculiar to this State and such
Louisianians ought to appreciate it. The first is
common to vast section of country, and this is its
greatest market
From New Orleans there were shipped. in the first
two months OF the present year, 313567 bales of
cotton which brought average per bale $40 67,
and produced an average in value Of $l2 754 300
This city has exported 149 900 bales of cotton more
thus far in the present fiscal year than the last The
estimated differences in value from September LIST to
April 90 have been nineteen million of dollars
and this amount will be increased 500 SCI 1888, if
the crop now going forward is included The value
of cotton exported to the close of the fiscal year.
3Oth of June was nearly SSS, 900 0OO Mt average
of S3l 90 per bale, and in amount 444 900 bales
: Taking January and February 1858, for examples,
the value for the present year will BIO $40 60 per
bale The cotton crop exported this year. therefore
| is worth vastly more than hundred millions Of
t dollars.
The Sugar Crop is of growing Importance
2 and already of immense value. A thousand acre,
in cultivation upon one plantation is a common es
tate, and vastly larger seen in all directions
Sugar has been great product with Louisiana fol
more than century and quarter. The Jesuits in
e troduced the from Saint Domingo in 1926, anc
planted the Malabar and Creole Canes in the sub
. urbs of Saint Marys. The Ribbon Cane. from thu
East Indies, is the favorite plant and it thrive
e earlier and later than any other Sugar Plants
There was suspension of planting when Lousian;
coded to Spain, and it was resumed soon after
and the crop amounted to $4,000 hhds. in l8l8-t
900 hhds. in 1822-'3-to 10000 in 1882 st,
1926 900 in 1884, and to 32I. 934 hhds in the sea
t son of 1923 There are 1000 lbs. net in eacE
hid of Sugar and this yields from 40 to so gallon
J, of Molasses The crop of the past tn
d best ever known. and 20 gallons of MoIasses pc
? 1000 pounds of Sugar was the product. The az
i gregate amount reached &c. 1000 gallons. TIL
. l.
lbs. net per HID and gave grand product of 1868,
4 10000 lbs. Of this amount 80, 480 hhds cam
from fftyone plantations and was manufactured b.
the improved processes which promise to revolution
I ize the manufacture of Sugar. Already Louisiana
i has l.48l Sugar Houses 943 of which regulated
by steam apparatus and 538 by horse power.
The Sugar Estates line each side of the Mississippi
d River, and its legion of Bayous upon average O
I two and two and hafmiles in width and it is nov
known that the low lands susceptible of drainage
and the chapare lands of clearance and cultivation.
Beyond the memory of man,-on this the only rive
in the world the title has flowed from the River
the Forests, until the people frequently made
tremble at the devastation of the foods. From Ne,
Orleans 10 the mouth OF the Ohio is distance of owe
1000 miles, and there is 90 miles of river land beloy
. the city. On these LOO miles nothing of any grea
consequence is grown but Cotton and Sugar, and wit
the lands inn Eoved as they may be- we'll rea
ize their capacity for production their value in sol
Is This city is to depend hereafter more upon the loca
and Southern interior trade than upon the great rive
q tributaries which have hitherto made New Orean
:; what she is. Northern and Eastern enterprise
the Virginia Road at Wheeling,-the Pennsy lvani
+ Roal at Pittsburgh-the Erie Road at Dunkirk,-w
s the Railroad routes between Indiana Ohio, Michga
: and the Lakes, have changed the current of trade
Memphis will ship her cotton and tobacco up river in
4 stead of down, and the River Planters, far dow
d the Mississippi found better market at home hi
Q wear, than by forwarding their produce to New Oh
leans Thousands of up the country cattle have htf
erto found their way TO this market, and they hav
been among the finest in the world But now the
go towards the Mountains and Lake to the great Eas
tern cities. The of the Missss PpI boats com
plain especially of the loss of this branch OF trade
New York is to receive Southern cotton anu tc
bacco by the Northern routs.
: The Cincinnati Nonpare tells this: On our ~
e ward trip to Dayton on Sunday, we noticed in tn