New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-01-30
Me(u ORLEANS 1ailp Gresffllt.
MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 80, 1850.
RANDOM PARAGRAPHS.

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reason The nature of the trouble is sufficiently
explained in an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer,
under the caption "The Coming Horde ''-said
| horde being the free negroes whom the Southern
States are forcing to emigrate, and who can find
no refuge in the other free States Of the West, as
all have stringent acts in force TO exclude them,
save Ohio. The Enquirer fears that the State will
be overrun by thousands and tens of thousands Of
4 destitute and improvidentn darkies, who will do
tgreat injury and eectually retard its prosperity
| Such consequence would teach the Ohioans a
good lesson, for it would give them idea Of the
results which the success of the abolition efforts
that they advocate would bring upon the country.
They would learn what they profess to disbelieve,
| that the negro cannot take care of himself, and
will not be obedient to law. The Canadians have
| already learned this, by bitter experience.
The MoBILIANs wish to put tax upon their own
progress, for the benefit Of progress, for on the
18th instant Mr.. Clay gave notice in the United
States Senate of his intention to bring in bill,
giving the assent of Congress to any act which
may be passed by the State of Alabama, authoriz-
ing the municipal authorities of Mobile to impose
| tunnage duties on vessels entering that harbor,
for the improvement thereof. The expenses OF
taking and discharging cargoes in Mobile are about
as much as marine interests can bear, for the
freight of all large vessels has to be ghtered some
| thirty miles. We expect that the enforcement OF
the contemplated measure would cause deal OF
complaint and have tendency to raise the rate Of
freights from Mobile. Shipowners are 10th to go
into that harbor now il they can get freight any.
where else. We think it would be wise and equit-
able if the leyying of the dues made discrinl-
NATIVE, so as to be assessed only on the vessels
which can come up to the wharyes and are, there
fore, not burdened by the expenses of lighterage-
and yet the deepening of the harbor is not for
their benefit, but for that Of those vessels who,
under such regulation, would escape the cost OF
it. OF course it is useless to hope that the Federal
Government will ever do the work. 1t spends the
public money in the North-the South gets the
crumbs which are thrown under the table.
THE HIGH PRICE OF NEGaoEs is matter of con-
tinual remark and no little wonderment. The the
Dry that the price Of negroes is ruled by the price
Of cotton il not good for it does not account for
| the present aspect of the slave market negroes
now being twenty-five per cent. higher than they
were two or three years ago. when cotton was
higher than now. Nor do VIC agree with numbers
Of our contemporaries who argue that speculative
demand il the unsubstantiaI basis Of the advance
in the price of slavesthat the rates are too high
and must come down very soon. It is our impress
sion that the great demand for slaves in the South
west will keep up the prices of negroes it caused
their advance in the first place. and that the rates
are not cent above the real value Of the laborer
who is to be engaged in filling the fertile lands Of
section Of country which yields the planter nearly
double the crop that the fields Of the Atlantic
States do. The Southwest is being opened by o
great tide Of emigration. The planter who puts
ten hands to work the prolific soil of Texas and
Western Louisiana soon makes money enough to
buy ten more, and they have to be supplied from
the older Subsistence the prices which rule in
Virginia the Carolfhas and Georgia. demand
founded on such cause cannot fall off for a score
OF more of years, and the prices of negroes must
keep up. They will probably advance somewhat.
COMPULSORY SUFFRAGE is a reform now being
discussed among our progressive brethren Of New
York. petition has been laid before the Legs-
lature Of that State praying the passage Of act
to compel every legal voter to do his duty at every
election, by voting for somebody. The exercise
of the i" inestimable privilege is to be made an
act of necessity under penalty. This is making
patriotism rather burdensome. We wish such a
state of things could be establishedin New Orleans,
expressly for the benefit Of local Democratic
contemporaries, who after every election distract
themselves with the tormenting conviction that If
the faithful had only voted they would have car.
rieed the day by vast majority; and the supposed
errng and negleetful brethren consequently come
in for the most unmereiful lamhastings from the
pens Of the aggreyed and indignant journalists.
We have always been under the impression that
the unyotng Democratic legions, which these edi-
tors hold up to the scorn and indignation of their
more patriotic fellows after every election, were
mythical characters, suppostitious and unreal.
born only of the glowing imaginngs ofthe pregnant
brains of said non-suited advocates of Democracy.
This impression Of ours We fancy compulsory
suffrage arrangement would confirm, and the fabu-
lous horde of imaginary New Orleans Democracy
would thereafter escape whitening denunciaton.
1t would be rule that would work both ways.