New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-09-02
Correspondence OF THE CRESCENT.
MOBILE, August 80, 1857

MOBILE, August 80, 1857.
Messrs Editorsv In my last communication
promised to give attention to the investigation
of the prospects and business Of the Southern vi
Company, whose works are now rapidly going up at
the lower end of city. But previous to entering
into that subject, let me pay passing compliment 70
the press of Mobile. s
Our editors have made conlmendable beginning
in calling the attention Of our capltaiists 70 tne
mineral deposits in Alabama and the advantages OF
investing their surplus funds in home enterprises
hose calculated to develop the resources OF the
Southern States, while at the same time the return
will be as speedy and the profits certainly equal 10
any investments they can possibly make ABROAD luz
Tribnne Of this morning has leader, under tne cap
tim of Mobile and her Prospects" and the Regster
| one, "Why are not the Resources OF Alabama pe-
welcomed Both articles tend to the same END, ana
are worthy Of calm and serious consideration. am
reoiced to find more general interest manifested by
| our citizens in home enterprises.
1 Our people-which my experience teaches me is
Characteristic of conference.-the slow to reject and
4 still slower to take hold of any thing new 10 this
characteristic may be attributed the limited progress
| the Southern States have made in everything con-
| nected with manufactures and inventions, as COM
pared with our Northern allies. There is, am con-
| WINGED, ga good time coming" There is no Just
reason why the South should not stand foremost IN
every enterprise that develops her own natural re-
sources Alabama is scarcely second to any State In
the Union in mineral wealth, and yet what has been
| done? Literally nothing! Yet am confident now
that we are beginning to reflect, and that the result
of our reflections will bring forth favorable ISSUE
| But to return to the object of this letter. l pre-
sumo you are better informed of the details of the
| Southern Oil Company's business than l am al
though have taken great pains to possess correct
insight with the advantages OF the process by which
they convert the common rosin into valuable pro-
ducts and also to arrive at correct estimate Oh she
| value of the monopoly and of the benefits our own
State may derive from the factory being established
here. am assured on what consider intelligent au-
thority that the oils are manufactured at cost Oh
Is to 20 cents per gallon and that the oils are pure
the separations being perfectly made by working
close up to the patents No one can be ignorant OF
the rapid increase in the uses of every description OF
the article and any substitute that recommends itself
on the score Of economy must inevitably claim the
attention of consumers and come into general use.
Prejudice must die away in the face OF such evil
dences of its merits, as have seen in circular is
sued by the Company. Besides the very appearance
of the oils made under these patents, samples of
which were eXnlDteu W Solue lFleAus auo HsSSit d
few DAYS SINCE as compared with the oil made from
rosin under the old process, will carry conviction TO
the mind of any one as to the value of this discovery
If the gentlemen who have originated this truly
grand Southern enterprise will give Mobians a
chance to subscribe to portion OF the Stock ii the
books are not already closed, will venture to pre-
dict that it will greatly promote the interest OF al
concerned, We are a little clanish, admit, and il
we do not have the opportunity to join issue with yot
in fprthering a movement which promises SO profit
able results to the stockholders and such advantage
to our turpentine interests then we are not to b'
censured if we do not extend to your enterprise tina
!. encouragement which you might otherwise reason
T. ably expect
g Another point should be duly weighed by the Com
pany would greatly enhance their interest som
of our citizens were identified with this business
Mobile is to be the field of your operations-the hea
quarters for manufacturefor shipment and for sale
5, Here is the point of all others where the citizen
!. | should cooperate; and how can they enter into
with any pride energy if they do not have the OF
ir portunity of being pecunia7ily interested! 1t
lie often said that when you touch mans pocket yo
reach his patriotism Although not altogether pr
We pared to subscribe to that doctrine, yet must ow
I'd that unless you open the door and give communt
w chance, you CAL Haruy eApeeI tnhS VIC aoie9i
AZ AZ community will enter energetcay into the advocat
A of even SO extensive monopoly as the one no
entirely under the control and management of Ne
ie Orleans gentlemen. Yours, u.
ou CRoPs IN ST. LANpRY.-The Opelousas Patriot,
y. Saturday last, says:
During no year within the memory of the " olde
ret nhabtant has it been difficult to toretell an
~ thing about the success failure OF the cultivate
81 of the soil in this and the neghboring parishes.
on A cold and backward spring made planters feari
it'll about getting stand of anything when the Sc
an did come up everything grew well for weel
then drouth set in and continued so long that
ow threatened to burn up all hope of good crops at
ED the rain came, and it still comes, even while
Of WRITE causing cotton to shed its forms and rot
md the grown bolls.
of All we know is, that we have good corn crops,
rs cured beyond the power of casualties, precario
to chance for cotton, not much cane growing, bu
hope that it will yield very well.
ste BANK OFFICER ABREsrED.-A dispatch of the q
it ulu from Buffalo says:
Gill; The charge against Stephen Bronson, Jr cashier
eir the Merchants and Mechanics Bank, Chicago,
a the abstraction of $4,000 in the circulating no
ron of the Cherokee Insurance and Banking Compa
no. from the vault of the bank. He had been eXamln
esy and at the close of the examination was held to
leir in OO0 and in default of the same was commit
Else --o~-.-
eEs Total SHtslligente.
and H"E O~
and r,o,,vcr,oy We wore led into error in reportj
the - A., AZ. ,o,a; Eord, was one of the M,
, "a implicated trading of Mr. Walter rV
IL II shond have been Bernard kendg regret the mist