The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-06

may be using the machinery invented BY said
Goulding, ct the time Of the renewal and exten-
sion hereby authorized. or subject them to any
claim for having used the came. This extreordi
nary legislation on patent which had expireds
quarter q century y before b: sS'ip'sd p shs
Ing the patent Swing. to Gooiding IN excludv>
property IN paid wooden machinery. IL We unds
this reissue that Eben D. Jourdan. the Assignee O.
GouldiDe, sued the Agsvsm company Tor "a h
nearly every wooden nsnufsctory IN the country
% Goulding's Improvement vas 10 common u.s.
When Congress authorised fss conditional renewal
and amendment II Missouri Republican. .1.
TEE eouTH--I Increasing Prosperity Of 0se
and s xassfacss s he ssssssnss. The csps
tsht and the laboring taxpayer, the eariy rsecus
ifation of the industry Of The South h important
Our country. our whole country, demands on pc
ticsl grounds. - well - for financial prosperity
that peace and plenty should prevail. We vel
come, therefore. every indication that the peo
pie Of the South ere inolined to adopt and prac
tee those means which can alone sdvanoe In .
community permanent progress. One OF these
indications We have found in the recent gathering
ct Atlanta. Georgia, Of the representatives OF the
Southern railroads, and the policy there inaugurs.
ted. The object was. by reduction Of fares -
those intending immigration, and of fares and
aux of population and property. The numerous
letters also sent TO the Northern papers expatis-
ting upon the resources Of the various Southern
States and the kindly disposition Of their inhabi
erners have really and heartily turned their alton
ton to the things that make for peace. .rs..l
Enabled to commence the new year with two
hundred and fifty millions of dolars - the pro-
duct q ,:s yssr the South may vel
lie IN such abundance as to place IL In indepen
dent pecuniary circumstances. The idea hAs takeu
firm hold OF the planters that under the new con
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tivated must be the order OF the day., Again. II
may fairly be assumed that the freedmen, having
Q little recovered from the exaggerated ideas na-
tursly entertained upon their emancipation, will
work more steadily than heretofore, while the
planters will have learned that fair wages and
dioper treatment are as profitable a. they are
Just. The wisest and best men Of the South are
now ready TO acknowledge that for them - well
e. for the negro, freedom IL better than slavery.
Time is mighty healer Of wounds and restorer
Of judgment. Very little is needed to be done
even now. and with Congress and the executive
working tremendously. We may take Il for grant
ed that there will be no more political troubles.
The cotton crop will be, OF course, the great pro-
duct of the South, but there will be msnufscto-
ries erected ere long, and with them viii spring
up iDnumerabe villages; these will attract Nor.
therners who will eND and work small farms, and
by degrees the steady industry, the habits. the
schools, the economy, and the energy OF New
England and the middle States will vitaliEe and
give an impetus to the whole South. isast O.
10 one direction an immense preparation ID al
ready made for the recuperstion Of the South. In
The Mississippi valley there are 76l s79 $40 acres
Of land drained by the Mississippi river and it,
tributaries. This land is now. and will be more
and more, as time rolls the wheat producing ter
ritory of the country. The great question s, how
moot chesply TO get the enormous supply Of grain
grown. and to be grown here to the Eastern mar
kets and to Europe. We al feel practically how
much 1t costs Us TO get Sc. Louis flour. We know
too that very disproportionste share OF the sum
we pay goes, not to the producer, but to the rail-
ways The Mississippi river Ia the natural high
wsy, by means OF which we should receive our
breadstufs. Now, through system OF elevators.
in New Orleans and ST. Louis, as well as In ILL
nois, 1t lie proposed to take advantage Of water
Communication to transport cereals from the great
West to East. Already there 10 at st. Louis m
elevator OF the capacity OF $50 900 bushels one
| on the opposite side OF the river and one ct New
| Orleans, capable of holding 100000 bushels OF
wheat. r.f
The Mississippi and its tributaries afford Is 900
| miles Of water navigation. 81. Louis 10 the focus
Of railways bringing to her storehouses the pro-
| ducts Of land ~ rich as any 10 the world.
| Steamers can run from Cairo to New Orleans In
i've days: allow one day for reshipment, and then
twenty days TO Liverpool, the expense from Cairo
TO Liverpool being thirty-two cents per bushel,
and We see at once that the Missssippi valley 10
| immense exportable surplus. always equal to
| gold. And this trade, with its return commerce,
| is TO Aid in building mp the South. Put this
scheme once In full operation let our capitalists
invest in Northern lands and mines. and the South
| immediately helps us to carry the burden Of our
de bt and reconstruction will take Of tself-
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