The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-12-06
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA.
A Correspondent's Views of Our Late
EIeetion-The Question OF Climate
Low Water and Cotton Shipments
An Openiug for Wheeling Products
and Manufaetnres-Hiut 10 Men of
Enterprise-Rnilroa Projects, &c.
SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA,
November %, 1869.
Editors Of the REGISTER :

November %, 1869.
Editors Of the Register:
Many thanks for the REGISTER con-
tanning the election news, at which
your subscriber is much reioiced. West
Virginia is fast redeeming herself, and
the probabilities are strong that she
will yet reinstate those of her sons who
dared to sympathize with the South.
Speed the day, say |, when those who
had the misfortune to be born on South.
ern soil will be forgiven for expressing
or acting in sympathy with their native
land. Ohio county did nobly to the
tune of "the Campbells are coming
short, and tiink effectually piled up
Hubbard on the boards. The RAIDS will
now have ample time to form the &C.
quaintance of some of your candidates,
unknown to them prior to the election.
Enough of politics. l see by the pa
pers and private adyices that yon have
had some winter already. How differ.
ent here. Warm and bright as the
pleasantest May morning, spring seems
smiling upon US, and nature still wears
cher livery of green" making North
erner think there is, or can be, no win
ter here. Later in the season we are
visited by strong northwest winds, SO
we'll known in Texas as "Northers,'
and they are very severe and the only
cold spells we have. / have been here
before during the winter, but after an
absence of over four years had almost
forgotten the nature of the season. Am
rapidly learning it, however, and shall
ia. nf y nd fin
left behind me. The season has been
unusually dull thus far, owing to the
low water in Red river. The shipment
of cotton thus far has been 20, ,609 bales,
coming in at the rate of 300 to 500 per
day. The rainy season will soon set in,
the river get up, aud then for the grand
rush. / committed very great blum
der in my last in saying "at least ten
wagons week could be sold here"
The merchant alluded to said he could
average "teH tragons a day for the nert
,reek," and have seen that many sold.
This morning see on the levee u lot of
wagons from Allegheny, Pa. Cannot
Wheeling furnish them as cheapi She
has the reputation of making the best
wagons that come South, and certainly
ought to furnish them as cheap as Pitts
burgh. Wheeling nails (bought in New
Orleans) stand deservedly highest in
this market, and these and other arti-
cles can be shipped here ria mouth of
Red river, saving at least 500 miles
transportation and proportionate rate
of freight. There is another project on
foot here in which Wheeling might
take interest to some advantage-thatI
of bringing coal here in model barges
by the same route, instead Of going TO
New Orleans or Baton Rouge for a sup
ply. This can and will be made "big
thing" The foundres here bring their
coal and iron from the Ohio river.
Cannot your foundries, where these
articles and labor are cheaper, furnish
at less cost stoves and castingsi
This would certainly be one of the
best points in the country for tannery.
Besides the hides from cattle slaugh-
tered here daily by the hundred, not q
Texas OF Arkansas wagon comes in
without more or less dry hides for sale.
You have more than enough tanneries
in Wheeling. Let one practical man
como here and he will get plenty of
assistance and realize fortune in half
the time.
Carpenters especially and mechanics
generally are much wanted here at
compensation of FIVE TO seven and half
dollars per day.
Besides the Yicksburg railroad, men,
toned before, there are two other roads
in contemplation to connect here with
the Southern Pacific railroad. One
from Little Rock, connecting there with
the East, and one called tho New Or.
leans and OpelOusas railroad, forming
direct communication with New Orleans,
as effectually barring Rcd river delays
as the sand in low water.
In conclusion, Uncle Sam is very
negligent here in the way of mails
The REGISTER does not come regularly,
aud l wish you would send me in an
envelope the complete returns of the
late election. Letters come more surely
than papers.
Yours, BERXE.