New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-07
SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL CONVKN.
TION.
First Days Proceedings.

First Days Pfoceedings.
We copy tho following report from the
Memphis SIN, of Wednesday:
CINCINNATI, October 4.-The Southern
Commercial Convention was called to order
at ten o'clock this morning by Hon. K. n.
Bishop, vice e-president for Ohio, in the alb.
Hall, which place has been tastefully fitted
up for the occasion by decorations Of ever
greens, flowers and flags. Three hundred
and fifty delegates assembled. A divine
blessing was invoked, and the delegates
received on behalf OF the authorities Of Gin
cinnati. Welcome was extended as the
delegates came to promote the interests Of
the whole country, and to extend its infiu
ences for the good which had emanated
from the previous c0nventiOns-those OF
Memphis and Louisville.
The country, it was stated, is 90 extended
that they needed to come together to
benefit commerce and improve social
acquaintance. An annual gathering of the
kind was necessary for the dissemination of
proper principles of trade and commerce,
and to gather up and carry back to the re-
mote sections the good will of each in the
land. The welcome was extended TO them
as the representatives of the best interests
of country, and controlling that which, by
proper guidance, may keep this great
aggregation of commonwealth united. IsO-
late either Of the Commonwealth, and
what harm to themselves and what cOnfll-
sion to others concerned.
Hon. George H. Pendleton delivered the
reception speech, and remarked that he
was commanded to give most 1raterral
greeting, and to say, with sincerity and
warmth for which be found no fitting words,
that the delegates were honored and most
vrnloOYna Thaco ovVica h1vy in n
meetings, this cOncourse Of representatives.,
these delegates from every State, city,
chamber OF commerce and combination of
business men, from the PenObscot to the
Rio Grande-these thoughtful debates of
the friends of every industrial interest and
enterprise, from the Blue Ridge to the Rocky
Mountains, attest the dignity Of this cOnven-
ton. Your debates will touch every pro,
ject of material development, every phase
mercial intercourse, every plan OF finance,
every question of governmental economy.
This convention meets 10 advance the i'll
terests of the great Mississippi Valley. This
valley extends from Central Pennsylvania
to Western Kansas, ami from lake to guilt.
Ere long hundred millions of people will
inhabit it. They will till its fertile soil,
work its fruitful mines, manufacture its raw
materials, bring every force Of nature into
cooperation with every appliance OF art and
use both with devices and human ingenuity,
in the development of its resources. They
will acquire and will have uninterrupted
and easy communication with the gulf by
the Mississippi river, with the Chesapeake
by canals of Virginia. with New York har-
Dor by canals Of New York, and with the
North Atlantic by the lakes and st. Law
renee; and they will reach the Pacific by
the Northern, Southern and Central Rail
roads. They will sweep away every en-
barrassment. and demand every improve
ment in their midst. In this they are
charged with the preservation of free gov
ernment, and it is your work to aid in this
development, and to set in motion those
agencies which will tend to its accomplish
ment. Prolonged applause.
Invitations were received from the Indus
trial Exhibition and the Mercantile Libra
ries, also from the managers of the thea
tres, use OF the city cars extended to the
members: also the use of the telegraph
lines of Pacific and Atlantic company. The
official programme was announced Ill form,
and differing slightly with the one already
announced. With the subject first named
was included: Immigration, Southern Pa
citic Railroad. and was made second in Or
der: a continuous water line cOmmunica-
ton, third; river navigation and canals.
fourth; Obstructions to navigation, fifth: re-
mOval OF the instructions from the mouth
of the Mississippi river, sixth; levees on the
Mississippi, finance, etc, eighth; abolish
ment tolls, navigable rivers, ninth; enlarge
ment of the more important lines of ca
nails in the United States, to adapt
them to steam navigation, tenth; charges
on passenger and freight traffic by rail and
water lines, eleventh; all railroad viaducts
over navigable rivers be made highways for
railroad companies, which will pay a pro
rata toll on the same, and that efforts be
made to secure legislation. was placed
twelfth; programme to abolish license on
commercial travellers, thirteenth; free trade
in money, fourteenth; settled policy with
regard to disposition Of public lands, fif-
teenth; Improvement of seacoast harbors.
sixteenth; wharfage on navigable rivers,
seventeenth; ample railroad facilities from
the Ohio river TO central south. eighteenth;
direct trade with Brazil and other South
American countries, nineteenth; tares and
short weights, twentieth; removal of ma
tional capital. twenty-irst. The resolutions
adopted at the convention in Louisville last
year were included. The convention re-
assembled at 3 p. NJ, and the Credentials
Committee reported three hundred and fifty
delegates.