Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-05-21

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the contemplated project Of reopen
ing the Bayou Manchac with view
to rendering it available for purposes
of navigation, prompts us to lay be-
fore our readers the copious ercerpta
embodied ID the article below, which
we copy from the Mobile Register
of the 10th inst:
THE MANCHAC IMPROVEMENT.
This great movement, says the
Register, still continues to attract at
tention and accumulate support in
every part of the Mississippi Valley,
from St. Louis and Louisville to New
Orleans We learn, through private
| advices from st. Louis, that the
"Union Merchants Exchange" of
that city endorses the action of the
Board Of Trade and will support the
movement. The merchants of that
city who have specially interested
| themselves in it are very DESTROYS of
having the delegation from Mobile
proceed Immediately to st. Louis,
and are prepared Immediately to
unite with them in urging the matter
| forward.
The st. Louis Democrat of the
18th inst, contains an account of the
presentation Of gold watch and
chain to Myron Coloney, the COM
mercial editor of that paper, by the
members OF the Union Merchants
Exchange, in token of their appre-
citation of his services in behalf of
the commercial interests Of the city.
Several speeches were made--among
them one by Mr.. L. r. Shryock, one
Of the committee that presented the
watch. In the course of his re-
marks-speaking of the advancing
prosperity Of st. Louis--Mr. Shryock
said:
She needs to make one other step
to give her commercial supremacy
that will deity all competition, and
hasten her to a position that she
must inevitably occupy very soon
the great commercial and manufac-
turing centre Of the Mississippi Val
ley, il not Of the continent. | allude
to giving her prestige and influence
to the proposition | have recently
brought to the consideration of the
Board Of Trade Of st. Louis to re-
open the Bayou Manchac, in order
that ordinary Western river steamers
may load at our wharf with pro-
duce-especially grain in bulk
manufactured goods Of all descrip-
tions turned out of st. Louis work.
shops and foundries, and land along
side of vessels anchored in the deep
waters of Mobile bay, aud discharge
into them the shipments made from
here to the Atlantic seaboard or the
markets of the old world, also to de.
liver supplies to the city of Mobile
for the immense country tributary to
that city, and receive return cargoes
of salt, coffee, sugar, hardware,
queensware, dry goods; and in fact
nearly three.fourths of the goods now
received here by expensive railroad
routes, could reach st. Louis by this
inner passage to the Gulf at a rate
SO cheap our merchants could Under
sell all Western competitors APP.
plause. May I not hope the great
Importance of this enterprise will
commend itself to our friend Coloney,
and that, by the power of his pen,
he will aid in making it, as he has
the project of through grain ship
ments, a complete success. Con-
tinued applause.
Gen. Shepard-another speaker
on the same occasion said:
One gentleman has referred to
the opening Of the Manchac pass.
You received the reference joyfully,
gladly; but what ought you to do (?
1t was stated at the Board of Trade
the other night, that an appeal would
be made to Congress for $25O,0OO,
to prosecute this work. Why, if
you appreciated your own interests,
gentlemen, in less than six months
time that $25O,OOO would be forth
coming from your own pockets, and
you would be clearing that pass, and
your boats would be loading cargoes
for Mobile. Applause. You, gen
| fInynns, hopA tIn