American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-06-27
Letter from New Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS. June 81, 1865

Editor citizen Business for the
season of 1S67-S is about closed up
Our birds Of passage have left for q
cooler cline, and we can't-get-aways
are left to the tender mercicS of the
carpet baggerS, who are all Stanton.
llke-they stick.
Reports from the country represent
the growing crops Of cotton, corn,
cane, and rice, us looking well. Com
plants of the worm are made in some
quarters, but as yet they have done
no very extensive damage. Planters
who have to buy corn and meat to
feed thciI lab0rerS and stock while
making a crop, will need iavoring
seasons and high prices to get out of
debt. Pork is now 500 to $50 per
bbl. and corn $40 to Sl.15 per bush
cl. a few acres in oats and few
more in one of the early ripening va
lietes of corn, would save a great
deal Of the money usually paid out
for sui supplies.
Our city finances are in "mess,"
and l suppose will be for.some time
to come. When Sheridan put the
Radicals in charge of the city gov
crnment, city bills wore from . to p
per cent. discount. Now they are
from 50 to 80.
Some Western men are putting up
warehouses and elevators for the
storage and rapid transfer of grain
in bulk. One warehouse capable OF
storing 100, 200 bushels of grain is to
be ready by LIST September, the cost
of which will be 100000. Grain in
bulk is transferred, by elevators,
by river to sea going craft at the
rate of 1000 bushels per hour, at an
expense not exceeding two cents per
buShel
We have an ice mandatory in
operation turning out some GO tons
of ice per day, at an expense to pur
chaScrS Of three fourths of a cent per
pound, Just half the price of the Yam.
kee article. Our present cOnsump-
ton is about eighty tons per day
We shall soon be quite Independent
Of Boston and Long Pond for our iced
.julepS, cobblers, &c.
\ joint stock company has been
formed for the purpose Of utilizing
the natural gas found at the depth
Of thirty to fifty feet under the Mis-
sissippi alluvion. Should they be
successful, las is probable, we shall cut
off a few thousand barrels from our
annual imports of PlttSburg coal.
All these little items saved from be-
ing sent abroad will help to build up
our " waste places"
The sugar crop of Louisiana for
lSG7-S was 1851 hogsheads; that
OF 1862 was 2j9,4l0 hogsheadS..
These figures show the effect of Rad
icaI rule in 1.-the best government
the world ever saw"
The spring clip of wool from Lou.
isIdna, Mississippi, and Texas, is now
coming into market, showing that
cotton Is not the only product of these
States that can be converted into
" greenbackS." If people could be
persuaded to cultivate fewer dogs
and more sheep they would find the
business profitable.
a barrel factory in Wilmington,
y. c., is turning out, by machinery,
900 black gum barrels per day. They
are nd for spirits of turpentlne,
and o,her like fluids, and are prefer
red for these purposes to oak or other
hard wood. would it not be profit
able to the people of Louisiana and
Mississippi to convert small por
ton of their black gum forests into
barrels, instead of send
ing the money up West to buy oak ,
slaves at very high prices?
Your friend,
CHYRRH. ,
RADICAIISM A FAIITRE