New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-06-26
FArLuRn or THE on Supply.

we notice IN many quarters throughout the Cor.
federate States, expressions of concern founded
on the apprehension that the supply of oils for
army, machinery and other purposes, private
and public is likely to be cut short in consequence
of the existing wharf.-the South having purchased.
heretofore, nearly all the oil she has consumed
from the North AMI West. Among the many init
nations to this effect, quote the following from
| the Richmond Dispatch of the 2lst instant:
WASC OF or FoR RAILROADS. AND MACHINERY
| The pF2sIpBRsTUM SUPPLTED.-If those who have
the authority will direct those who control the va,
| rious camps in the Confederacy to appoint scav-
eDger or sc&vengers, whose duty Il shall be to can
Vess the oeSnps every morning tt collect the grease
which is otherwise lost, the apprehension as to the
want of oil by the Government will be lisneued,
and great desideratGm will be supplied. If this
ADVICE 10 neglected, the want of oil will entail
serious trouble.
The suggestion of the Richmond Dispatch is en-.
titled to consideration, and much good may result
from its reduction to practice. Still, however it
will prove inadequate to the requirements Of cir
cumstances, and will fall far short Of supplying
the stern necessities of the occasion.
Oil is an indispensable article. It is necessary
to every department of human industry, whether
exercised in the arts of war or peace. Without
oil the finest cambria needle cannot be manu-
featured l. neither can the hugest Columbiad
Steamships wouls be unknown, railroad locomo-
tiyes myth, and cotton and wooIlen factories un-
heard Of were the sources of the oil supply cut
off entirely. Hence, the oil Question becomes no
secondary topic of discussion in the Confederate
States, when it is borne in mind that our ports are
blockaded, and that we have hitherto obtained all
our supplies from sections of country that are
now waging war. of subjugation, if not of exer-
mination, upon the Southern people.
Therefore, it is proper we should look around
and see if we cannot render ourselves independent
OF the North in this respect, as we already have
IN many other respects. In breadstuffs and pro.
visions we have, in single season. demonstrated
our capacity to more than doubly sustain ourselves
in manner alike wonderful and unmstakable,
When our crops are harvested and garnered we
shall have on hand supply of food amply suffi-
Gent for two years. We can do the same thing in
regard to the particular pIoduct-that OF oil
which has led to the writing of this article. Our
Southern forests full of inexhaustible supplies
of the raw material and the works of the South
ern Oil Company at Mobile are sufficient or can
Be made sufficient, easily to furnish better car
box oil than Southern railroad companies have
been in the habit of purchasing from the North
from Abolition Boston, New Bedford. Cincinnati
etc.--at about onehalf the cost. This supplies
the deslderatum spoken of by the Richmond Dis
patch; and no anxiety would now be felt, Or ap-
prehensions expressed, if Southern railroad com.
panles, Southern steamship and steamboat com
panies, engineers, machnists, founders. etc. had
patronized this purely Southern enterprise as it
deserved to be patronized from its commencement |
to the present time.
Now that war, with all its stern rigors and ne
cessltes is pressing upon u.s. it is to be hoped that
tins enterprise will be duly considered and encour-
aged. IL only wants encouragement and patron
age TO enable It's managers to supply good car-boX
oil to all the railroads in the Confederate States
with almost any quantity of oil suitable for large
The neglect with which the products of the
southern Oil Company have been treated by South
ern railroad men is incomprehensible. 1t has been
put to the seyerest tests, and whenever properly
handled, has been found to answer the purposes
or which it was designed, admirably. 1t has never
allied except when badly used and this is a trait
Common to all oils, and we may say to all things
Use. Letters and circulars have been sent to all
he Presidents of all the railroads in the Confeder
tie States-htherto with but limited effect-Cin
innati, New Bedford, Boston and New York. hay
ng the preference for some cause or other over
Aoehs--diainclination to try new experiment,
10 doubt, being the cause-and it has had to work
ss way against d1lcuEtfes ss-oyrgsp og
o ordinary character. Still it has been and is a
uccess; and now that supplies cannot be OBJ
aimed elsewhere, we earnestly hope that this
outhern enterprise, which has already accom-
lished SO much, and which promises so much
nore, will meet with that consideration and pa
ronage at the hands of our railroad managers it
o fully merits. Even if the oil cost more than
oregn oils it should be purchased for railroad use
n the South; but as it is sold at nearly fifty per
'ent less than lard OIL and as it is equally as good
when properly handled, it should come into univer-
al use on the railroads throughout the South. Duty
interest patriotism, all dictate this course and we
rust it will be followed.
Will our Southern contemporaries oblige US by
irving widespread publicity to these facts? By
o doing they will aid true Southern enterprise
md do public good. The office of the Southern
iii Company is at p Camp street, New Orleans
nd the factory is located at Mobile, Alabama.