The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-09-12


and in case of doing SO Austria womitk huid
Russia responsible for The consequences.
The Mississippi Rivera sad DiAap-
pOintment.
t.. A late New Orleans pa1ecr. whie Iii
nounces with grand flourish, the ar
rival of a steamer, loaded with progi-
sions, from st. Loiis, contains in its com
mercial columns the significant fact that
this arrival hal put down the price Of
-four and pork twenty-five per cent. on
previous very low rates Their rates
| were already below the rates in the North
ern cities. The Mobile Tribsne says:
Here is a practical illustration of the folly
and infatuation of those who imagined that
the victories at Vicksburg and Port Hudson
had opened the navigation and liberated the
trade of the Mississippi, or that any physi-
cal force can, without the consent of the
Southern people, effect those great objects
which, more than any other, have stimulated
the Western people to such great exeriions
and sacrifices in this war. 1t is in vain that
Admiral Porter offers a convoy of gunboats
to :l trading steamcrs-that lie has floating
batteries to defend his wood yards. II is
in vain that the Yankees in New Orleans
celebrate the great victories ut Vicksburg
and Port Hudson, and the whole North ana
West illuminate and go crazy on the joyful
occasion. The shrewd traders and operators
are more sagacious and far seeing. They give
Il cold shoulder to the cnterprising pioneers
in ''the revived trade, aud decline purchasing
articles that are for the present in great de-
maud throughout the valley of the Mississip-
pi. The people in this valley are everywhere
suffering for Hour and bacon. The prices for
these articles are fabulous. The people
l loss IA or
channel of trade. II commerce were Is es-
| tablishcd, flour and bacon to amy amount
WoIld command enormous rates, payable III
! the most valuable of a!lagiicultural products,
| cotton and yet these SO greatly needed ar
| ticies are held in New Orleans and on the
steamboats,, and at any landing commanded
by gunbOats, 1T prices lower than they have
been Sold at for the last ten years.
The dealers in these articles refuse 10 &c.
| cumuate aIy stock. The city demand won't
justify it; and they estimate the prospects
of country demand So low that they will not
give the cost of freight and charges tor arii.
cles which, within ten miles of the Missis-
sippi and hundred miles from the city,
would if trade were free, yield profit OF
| several hundred per cent. This is the COM
mereal view of The value Of the present
'lree navigation Of The Mississippi" And SO
| il will be to the end uf the war.
The good time expected from the "open-
ing of the Mississippi" has not yet come
to New Orleans, as will be seen by the
following extract from the commercial ar
ticle Of the P;cayuae:
We have to repeat the general dullness,
| the nOn-appearance Of the usual habitues and
| frequenters ON our flags. On the great levee
th,re was a general noneniiy of commerce
and trade. There were two or three steam
| ers preparing to leave for up the river. There
were also parties looking for two or three TO
| arrive. 1t was, however, something of i
cheated place on the grand quay before the
| little grand shower of rain, which fell be-
tween II and Il O'Clock. There is no pres
pect OF an immediate amelioratiOn III com
nerce and trade Tor the present. The great
| hiyhway--the rivcr--iS receang from It's al-
| titude TO float colossal steamers heavily laden
| to the Crescent City. There are also other
| contingencies and serious negatives To which
| free intercourse with the great West IS sub
ject, before We can realize any real aud solid
Improvements to our own very depressed and
| light trade.
| The New Orleans True Uelta, a Yam
| kee sheet, thus holds forth on the sub
| ject
| Our Western friends share the overWLeim-
ing distress which oppresses us when the re-
| turn of their boats, empty and void, tells
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| among their former most reliable, welcome,
| and atiiuent customers. Louisiana OF old is
| Louisiana no more She was committed to
| civil war; contendin, armies have desolatcd
her faircst features, and faction, made drunk
| by its uuwonted success, is engaged in tTy
| ing the experiment how II is possible, in the
| shortest time, to make the greatest havoc Of
| the Republic piece meal. As Louisiana is
| to-day, Massachusetts Will ere long be; there
| is nothing new under the sun.
| Some six ar eight weeks ago, ere yet
| Niekshurs or Port Hudson had fallen, we
| warned our Western brethren of the danger
| of believing the reopening oi the Mississippi
| 10 be the revival of the old, lucrative, recip-
| rocaly advantageous ffadc with this lover
country. No idea could be more lalIaci0ns.
| The Confederate edicis to burn and destroy
are no more destructive to commerce than
the acts of the Federal Congres and the III
| comprehensive regulations (g) Of the Trea
sury Department, with its swarm Of election
| eering spies and agents. No man IN Lonisi
ana can DC said, literally aud truly, to be
master of amy description OF property. II !
man buys u shirt for himself, or cotton
| gown for his wife, 10 20 out vi the city, ht
| must FIRST go To the permit agent aud wal,
his convenience to receive FROM him five pcl
cent. tax on its cost, and then so to a Proves,
! Marshai and wait six, eight, ten hours, orpe.
l;ps = day, to have his permiasioa to take il
home. Ii i planter buys barrel of ST. Louis
nour, pork, lard, or beef he las to 20 through
the same process, and this whether or not l.,
belongs To what he il, in official jargon dcsig na
ted loyal to Louisiana. In like manner, il
man wishes to bring sugar or molasscs to th,
city, he must pay i've per cent, on its As
snined yalne for tAc privilege, and then Oh
arrival two cents per pound additional III
ternal revenue tax, to say nothing OF th,
five dollars hospital fee aud the tatuloa'
freight charges. Ii permit To bring cotton
to the city is required, the applicant mus
first deposi. twenty dollars per bale a. tla'
tax at random ievied upon il, and should Ia
return without his cotton tor want of trans
1 poftation, or other reason, hc sni,st Wal
leisnrely for the return Of his deposits /.
however, he succeed in getting his cotfo,
here, then the treasury agent will seize i
aud mold it for proof satisfactory TO him u
loyal ownership, and that, as such, it's owRe
has never given aid or comfort voluntarily I,
the C0nfedcracy.
Our Western friends VIII See the ute
hopeiessness Of expecting any trade worth,
Of the name being done here, even IL thes
were products iA the hands Of our ,,laI.ter
to dispose OF The growing crop is scarcel
worth consideration, either Of cotton or 81
gar, consequently there can be no trade vii
people having notLing to give. in setur
fer the neeessas iee they require, Slavery
practically aboiished by the Goy<rnu,cn
the country h s'clcantd 0Ht, y the future
J before ~, and the gslld- Laying goose Is dea4
! We deplprn the catastrophe, nssl vo rej0ie
J that 0nr conscience aeqHits ns ~ ecnnplirit
/ IN Il. The day 0f nlouFNin9 tuf NeW tnt
land sud the West = MI ye3, bat luph NJ
! be- t.<t ~ walt ard ~