New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-06-04

the federal patronage is confined to $4,000 for the
Charleston and Havana line, and less than 100000
for the mail service between New Orleans and Vera
Cruz! Here is disproportion in the disposal Of the
general funds which is only equalled by its rank
injustice and the the wrong it infcts upon the
rights, interest and convenience of millions just as
much entitled to the fostering of the government
as the overgrown, overfed and oyerpampered city Of
New York. Ia
About one-fourteenth Of the steamship patronage
bestowed by the government upon single northern
city accorded to the South! If the South was as
unprodnctive as she is productive if her exports
were small instead Of being immense !; if her contr
buttons to the aggregate wealth Of the confederacy
were but moiety of what they are if her CONNER
cal importance less by seyentyve per cent than
tits andif she wasimpoverished, weak and feeble, in
stead Of being wealthy, strong and vigorous still she
would be clearly entitled to than oneourteenth
part of the benefactions Of government, were her
claims measured by an equitable standard. This pro-
position opne will not be disputed by any candid
or truthful man in the United States.
New York is the great importing city it is true
but New Orleans is the great exporting city and were
it not for the exports Of the latter the imports Of the
former would encounter speedy and disastrous dim
mutton. And the truth warrants US in stating that
but for southern exports northern imports would soon
dwinde to comparative insignifcance. To verify
these statements we will bring forward few incon-
trovertbe statistics. Wepresume will question
the verify of the report of the Secretary of the Trea
sury. Well, the Treasury report for the last fiscal
year. ending on the 3Oth Of June, 1856 shows. that
Of the total value of exports of the United
States, (s266 43s .051, not including gold and silver
coin and bullion,) $l47l7S954 were exclusively of
the products of Southern Statesas cotton tobacco,
rice rosin and turpentine spirits from moasses and
such commodities. IT, as De BOWS Review suggests,
we add to this s2s,33300O being one-third of the
value of breadstus and forest products exported the
South will be represented by expectation of sl75
1854 against $50 for the North In this no
account is taken of the material furnished to the
North by the South, which is valued at 81 900 600.
New Orleans exports forcibly remarks the States,
more domestic products than any other city in the
Onion The exports Of New York are set down at
the value of $9s 1853 1877, but this includes coin and
bullion and cotton and rice, amounting to 2ST $685.
which, deducted from the sum total, leaves residue
Of 500 ATS ,S64-more than ten millions less than the
value of the cotton and tobacco exported from New
Orleans, their value being $70s5l 1907. The entire
exports from the latter city were, in the last fiscal
year, ssO,576652. Even allowing to New York the
benefit of her cotton and rice trade and excluding the
coin and bullion she is still some seven millions be-
hind her southern sister. E 4y
And yet this great commercial metropolis, this
mighty enspot ofthe trade ofthe Valley of the Misss
sppi, the first exporting city the continent and
importing city of no mean professions, is virtually
ignored by the government in the distribution of
xyhi
claims receive its almost undivided patronage is
not to be wondered at then that they enabled to
establish steamship lines to Europe, receiving they
d. from the federal treasury, bonuses by the million,
while ICE are cut off with beggarly shilling But,
this is not all. The bad effects flowing from the
unfair discrimination of the government against
southern seaports and in favor of northern seaposts
works to prejudice in various ways. In the first
place, we are taxed to pay our proportion of the
bountes granted northern steamship nonopolists. In
the second place, the very tax thus wrung from us
goes to arm our commercial rivals with decided ad
yantages, which reflect u corresponding depression
upon US. In the third place, it gives them all the
benefits which speed and certainty Afford and these
are extremely essential in this age of marvellous
rapidity and miraculous progress. Time is money
more than ever in the history of the world. In thu
fourth place. it makes our cities dependent upon New
i York for a means of communication. New Orleans
importer cannot forward letter direct to his CORES
4 pondents in England France, Germany or Spain. HI
is first obliged to send it to New York, and Theme
to Europe by means of New York steamships, tn
Capitalization governmental patronage at that pon
4 having superinduced the growth Of monstrous steam
ship monopolies, and created numerous steamship
princes. And in the fifth place, it tends to depres
commercial enterprise of our people by compeln
them to move on under decided and manifest dsad
vantage. The discrimination object to, as far a
it goes, is as much at variance with justice as la,
of Congress would be constituting New York tn
chief importing city of the Union. 1t does by ind
reetion what the latter would do by direction. Tha
: is all the difference.
Suppose the Federal Government bestowed upo
{ New Orleans steamship companies bounty of
million and half dollars per annum--does any ma
possessing the smallest share Of common sense doul
|, for moment that we would speedily enjoy dire
steamship communication with the leading seapo
towns of the Old World? No! And would not sue
communication be in the highest degree advantageo,
to us ? Unquestionably. Are we not as much en-,
tied to a portion of the Governments liberality
New York Undoubtedly. viii we ever obtain il
That is matter involved in uncertainty, unless Pos
master General Brown is different from former Pos
master Generals, as we believe him to be, and unle
our Senators and Representatives in Congress {,
mean from the whole South) join their shoulders
e one common wheel and insist that full measure
justice be meted out to this longnegected section.
The Southern Atlantic seaports, Gulf cities and M
Orleans, are as rghtfully entitled to fair division
r the foreign mail service money as Northern seapo
and towns; and if those who represent the South
the national legislature will only act in vigorous &C
d. cert, they either break down the Northern mono
oies OR obtain equitable allotment for their resp
"a i've constituencies,
Il A MuRDERous YourH.-Two boys in Baltmo
named Richards and Harvey, the Oldest about II, h
lie a difficulty recently but were prevented from fig
err ing at the time. "A few days afterwards Richards
invited Harvey, in an apparently amicable mann
into his fathers house, saying that he had somethi
he to show him. He produced revolver, and VII
De holding it in his hand asked Harvey to look into
y, uzzle and as he did so discharged it in his ia
~ The ball passed through the roof of Harveys mot
and lodged in the back of his neck but it was unc
in tain whether the wound would prove mortal ]
young villain declared that the shot was accidents
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