The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-31
QUIZ NEW MOVEMENT.

We COPY the article below from the st. Louis
Democrat, and we call attention to it as demon
strating this fact, that we, too, must be up and
doing" There is no time for delay; now is our
accepted time; now is the day of our salvation.
We have been shown a letter from one of the
most prominent New York grain merchants, in
which he says "At your request inspected the
wheat of this first lot at Cairo, and find il far
bandsomer than any samples that we have in New
York. and trust that it will meet the attention that
its condition and quality fully warrant" He
further ssys Energy alone is needed, and that
at New Orleans. Show the West that you are
disposed to help yourselves, and they will help
you.r The whole thing needs no further COM
ment.
A WORD TO New ORLEANS MERCHANTs.-The
time has arrived az length when IL is important
that every merchant in New Orleans should do his
whole duty in the matter of this grain movement
st Louis has worked faithfully: al least the move.
ment has taken no backward steps since it was
first preached. IL is true we have many mer-
chants possessing both influence and capital, who
having spoken an encouraging word or two IN the
outset and made an initial shipment or two, have
turned back and became as pillars OF salt in the
enterprise. But there have been few faithful
ones TO fight out the battle. foremost among whom
we may mention the firm of Henry A. Homeyer
Co. We remember the conference held ID the
Office of the Citizens Insurance Company last fall,
when half dozen Of our leading merchants met
Mr.. Hughitt, superintendent OF the Illinois Central
railroad, and Capt. Geo. II. Rea, president OF the
barge company. The proposition made then was
for twenty Of our leading merchants to risk 600
each as experimental margin to move
forward from Chicago or Iowa 100000
bushels of wheat to Liverpool the Illinois
Central railroad and the barge line agreeing TO
risk the entire amount of their freights in
the venture. We were present at that confer.
ence and the wait Of enterprise displayed by tue
parties present stgnck us as the most conspicuous
Indifference 10 the public good it had ever been
our lot TO witress. Some one or two Of those
present had lost Money by venture Of similar
nature mouths beiore. and had soured against the
entire enterprsel At this point Henry A. HO.
never & Co. steghed forward and soon closed
contract with thi Illinois Central Railroad Com
pany and with nj Mississippi Valley Trsnsporta.
tion, (ihe barge }ne,) and employing Mr.. SiIler,
of Dubuque, (thd sharpest wheat buyer in Iowa
TO make their pIt chases, boldly struck out on
their own booknl 10 is not their intention to ship
their grain any iUtther than New Orleans. There
they propose to lhave it elevated into Higbee *
Sons elevator ant let il await customers. There
fore, what we defiIe TO impress upon the minds
of New Orleans merchants at this time particu-
larly IL this III make up y0lr minds to sell
this grain to Litrpool customers for onehaIf
OF one per clint. commission, in lots of
cay 5000 bushels dld upwards, and to Immediately
issue circulars II this effect and send them all
over Europe, is the very least yOu can do. You
ought to be wiiIk to buy this wheat at the New
York cityprice, tss the difference of freight be-
tween Liverpool and New York, as compared
with that betwedk Liverpool and New Orleans :
but to expect anything so radically progressive as
this from you is sfogether too much. We shall,
therefore, be we'll satisfied If you will furnish Gus
TONERS for this grsin as cheap "a New York will.
One of the firm o. Homeyer Co., now at Cairo
experimenting the shipment of the grain IS fast
as il arrives there, has addressed a cOnhden-
tial letter upan the whole matter, from which we
take the liberty Of making the following extracts,
that New Orleans N erchants may understand the
feeling that aotnstes our leading merchants in
this matter of Through shipments:
"All that is poe needed 10 make the enterprise
q success Is the hearty cooperation of the mer'
chants Of New Orleans. We are willing to do
ours and If they meet us halt way all will be well.
1t is not the province Of our st. Louis merchants
to send shipments through New Orleans. When
they put produce there, their part of the work is
done, and il is the duty of the New Orleans mer-
chants to buy it from them at fair prices, and send
il forward to New York, Liverpool and other mar.
kets. With.s difference Of only I'd. or Sd. between
freghts from Ne ~ Orleans to Liverpool, and Ne "
York to Liverpool 10 favor of the latter, certsnly
the merchants of New Orleans can afford TO take
this wheat at some where near New York prices.
Our arrangements contemplate the handling OF q
large amount in case II be disposed of there at
safe prices and shoud this shipment meet with
success, others Will follow in quick succession, as
long as it can be bone with safety. We do not eX'
pect that the New ORLEANS merchants will come
forward and take h.ld of this enterprise By giving
ms market for Feat. Our object is TO open up
this route this lDter, that with toe opening OF
our upper river ID she spring, So. Louis may reap
the benefits Of itinL[St. Louis Democrat.