Pointe Coupee Democrat. [volume] (False River [i.e. New Roads], Parish of Pointe Coupee [La.]) 1858-1862, 1860-10-06
Correspondence.
New ORLEANS, Oct. 8, 1860.

New ORLEANS, Oct. 3, 1860.
EDITOR DEMocRAr-The great inquiry
to-day in this metropolis is, What is the
injury caused by the great storm OF yes
terday? So far, no news has been re-
ceived from any distance, as the mails
have not been received and all the tele-
graph wires are broken down.
In this city the damage is considera
bic; many buildings have fallen down
or been unroofcd. The shipping has
suffered considerably steamboats, as
much as usual, as they are constructed
on the gingerbread order, their strength
being nothing to stand against such vi
client tornadoes as that Of yesterday.
A new and unfinished building fell yes
terday, about four O'Clock, on Camp
street, near the City Hotel, which caused
much destruction. In it's fall (being a
ive-story house. it crushed the two add
joining buildings; but, strange to say,
only two persons lost their lives. But
what of that! this will not in the least
prevent the future construction of paper
houses, as most buildings are put up iii
this city. You know last week fourteen
persons were killed outright, and a few
more would not be missed. So the
world goes in this great metropolis.
But whilst the wind blew and the rain
fell in torrents, some were alive to their
own interests, and were solving the
question how this storm could blow a
breeze to their p~ecuniary advantage.
See what was done by one man on a
rainy day: a. +. Jones, one of the most
intelligent and active brokers Of this
city, was seen going, through rain and
storm, buying all the cotton that could
be obtained fftecn thousand bales
were purchased by him that day, for a
sum exceeding three-fourths of a million
of dollars; as a broker, netting him the
handsome sun of $4,000, and perhaps
$500, 900 to the capitalists.
This purchase was made on the sup
position that the storm had much i'll
jured the crops in the country-a fact,
| am afraid, which will prove but too
true. So, YOU see, there were some pos
sessed of their sungg ffroid who were alive
to their own interests on that day, mind
less of the threats of the King of winds,
the great Eolus.
Politically, here there is nothing very
interesting. 1t is confidently conceded
on all hands that j. G. Breckenridge will
carry this State by a handsome ma
jority.
Soul6, the great Sonlc, who went out
to the country parishes preaching the
doctrines Of Helper and Seward to the
people, has returned to the city. Would
that he had continued in his mission in
the North part of the State, preaching
submission and the inferiority of the
Southern people; telling them, as he has
done in some parishes, that there was
no use for the Southern people, the
owners of slave property, to stand by
their rights and excite a war between
them and the North, because, forsooth,
there were ten men North able to bear
arms, to one South; and those Patricks,
why, good God! they are three to two
against the shareholders, and what inter-
est have they in the maintenance of the
institution of slavery? 1t is to be hoped
that his health will soon be restored,
and that he will go on preaching his
peculiar doctrines to the people OF the
country.
The city itself, in spite of Soule & Co.,
is coming out bravely for Breckenridge
and Lane. The 1000 you heard of, have
melted down to almost "a cipher.
On the Goth instant, Mr.. Yancey, that
great bugaboo of the Bellites and Doug
~lasites, is to speak here. You will see
congregated, perhaps, the largest audi
ence yer got together in this city.
Yours, B1ESyILLE.
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