American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1869-02-13
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.


Saturday is just to hand. 1 have
read 1t with interest. 1t contains,
as usual, many items of interest to
me. | am reminded of a promise to
''drop you a line " occasionally, and
take my pen in hand" to do SO
now,
The season is barren of interest,
really, to us here. The reporters for
the morning papers are hard up for
items to fill the local column. The I
bulletin boards make a wonderful
about1 p. NJ, every day, but :
When You get the afternoons edi-
tion," you are forcibly reminded of
the story of the Dutchman who was
thrown from his horse, by "Hans,"
his son, making such "pig pooh at
Won leetle 'oss." The boys, to sell
their papers have to get up some
sort of excitement. and might be con-
victed in our novel Recorders Court
of obtaining the "nickle," or 1" car
ticket under I" false pretences," for
really there is often "no such thing"
as they represent. to be found in the
papers
! Everything here, almost, belongs
to and is controlled by ring" In
commerce we have the whisky
ring the ''cotton ring,"." tobacco
ring" Western produce ling" In
finance, "the bank ring, the tex
change and stock brokers' ring -
Besides there are divers other rings.
The man who don't belong to some
of these rings "-is-is-Out Of tie
ring sure enough. Hence the con-
slant scuffie here to wiring in "
someAh here. A man can scarcely
avoid thinking and iuquiring within
himself which ':ring" shall l try
How shall | manage to get in If
he has the money he can get in some
where. By theby, the "printing
ring" under Radical rule, is very
comfortable one. If you could just
manage to get the CITIZEN into that
"ring" in Mississippi. you could
soon offer me or some other fellow a
suJship, and retire yourself. But yOu
are not yet sufficiently " reconstruct.
ed," "BOs," you wiN occasionally
let it leak out that you have gone
over to the fire eaters" 1t is mighty
hard for a good old fashioned Wing
to be a Democrat and yet we have TO
swallow the pill now. The Democ-
racy are doing their best to get back
what they so rashly staked and lost
in the dreadful conflict for four years.
, And L say, lend us helping hand
! But we are under the wheel, and we
must lay as close as possible till it
passes over. We are not able to roll
, it back yet. "Prudence is the better
, part of valor" l don't ask you tC
endorse my sentiments, but | am fol
) making the best of the situation.
5 New Orleans is poor, very poor
r and will continue so, until the enter
! prise of her citizens takes some new
: direction. Every thing like public
improvement, is shamefully neglect
1 ed. Many of the principal thorough
' fares are almost impossible. None,
/ and office are the objects for Whicl
:, the people seem to scramble. Al
! most every department of bushes
5 is ovcrStocked. Comparatively few
Il Commission Merchants are maxim.
I. money, notwithstanding the higl
u price of cotton and sugar. There i
scarcely a lawyer or doctor that i
l. making expenses. Mechanics cal
: barely live; Churches, Preachers anC
= School Teachers appeal to the CHAIR
% ties of those who have to give
MOnOpolies control the transporta
ton to and from the city, and tn
tariff of freights is destructive to tn
u commerce of this great Southern
n mart. The masses complain, bu
e are powerless, it seems, to remedy tn
s. evils. a change must, and acW com.
u But it may not be in our day. Rae
- icalism has not yet completed it
re work. Still it goes bravely on. Gu
tie model Legislature is doing its par
m The Senate to-day favored us wit
T. = social equality law. The Hous
q will adopt, and the Governor wi
re approve. SO we 90.
lie This has been a havest season t
II the country people. For once, tn
~ producer has had the advantage
L. Prudent management will maintai
G. for them the vantage ground. 1t
sc thought by some here, that cotto
y will go up still, and reach 81 cent
, Ivy spring. Next fall it will ope
er with fine demand and full prize
C. Meantime, Western produce, wit
sugar and molasses, are going Il
d too. The farmer Of the South ca
In raise his own meat and bread. Il
We ought to do this, and make cote
too.
hope my old friend \. G. Brow
= will render Mississippi some servi'
N. at Washington. You are gettn
If along better under Genl GilIcm ths
you might possibly under chang
- Of rulers. But you ought to have
+. constitutional and settled Cover
of ment; it is essential to the prosperit
SIS of the State.
CT If these scattering thoughts a