The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-02-10
OUR LOUISIANA LETTER

SHREVEPORT, LA, January 81, lSIU.
Editors of the Register:
Some time has passed since i wrote
you, and l had almost determined to do
so no more on account of the unpleas-
ant murmurs in regard to one of my
former letters. Nevertheless, / wish it
understood, 81 still live" and prosper.
My letters had the effect Of bringing
some cousignments here, and, although
ate in the season, hope they will yet
turn out well. Wagons, nails and
stoves have been shipped direct from
Wheeling to this place, arriving on the
top of an Overcrowdtd market, but your
merchants may Iest assured the very
best will be done with them that can,
and, trust, they will pay well.
Some days since l had visit from
John Hutchings, artist, 81 Monroe
street, and his brother in-law, and had
tie qualification of smoking some sto
gies, Bentz's best, with them, quite a
treat.
A week ago this morning l received
letter of introduction to gentleman
from Baltimore, a carpenter by trade,
and as 1 went TO breakfast stopped on
the road and got him job, so that he
was not day Idle. Thomas Hughes,
Esq, introduced him to me, and of
course will be glad to hear OF his sue
cess.
| also met on the street Mr.. Alex.
Euston, formerly of Wheeling. He was
we'll impressed with Shreveport as a
business point and a place to make
money. The receipts of cotton up to
this time at this place have been over
Sirty thousand bales, which at an average
of 800 bale causes circulation of
considerable money, about equally di-
vided between gold and greenbacks.
The freedmen are largely interested in
the incoming cotton crop, aud rarely
ever leave the city with any money,
paying we'll for all they buy. About
sixty thousand barrels of flour have ar
rived here thus far, and more are COM
ing in daily from st. Louis and New
Orleans. 1t is estimated that five or
six thousand wagons have also sought
this market. We have a regular line of
large boats from here TO st. Louis, fill
ing our warehouses with all sorts Of
edIbles and drinkables, as we'll as agri.
cultural implements of ali descriptions.
understand that some of your citi.
zens propose visiting US, and hope they
may find it all and more than repre-
sented. Money is plenty, and to be
made in plenty, by hard work and close
attention, and your correspondent is
bound 10 hare some Of it.
By this time most of your citizens who
read the REGISTER know who
"Berxes" is, and it may crafty
some of them to know that he
is well and doing well, and hopes
to come and see them some day with
a pocket full Of rocks. Right here l
wish to return my sincere thanks to
those who have written me words Of
cheer and to those who have asked me
questions, to say that / have not time
to answer one half asked me but hope
to be in Wheeling next summer and an
swer personally all such.
Va VIZ poSb "SOh Wo udNO udu uS-
lightful weather, like May in your
county and altogether unlike your win
ter weather.
regret to notice in your paper two
deaths, that of J. c. Acheson, ESQ.,, a
valuable citizen to your place, and that
of Captain Wright Kelly. particular
friend of mine. 1t seems hard that one
commencing life with bright prospects,
surrounded by the best of friends and q
loving family should be taken thus
early; but "He dosth all things we'll"
get the REGISTER very irregularly
and shall look snxously for the result
of your charter election. / save the pa
pers i get through the week to read on
Sunday, as l have no other time to
spare. Trusting this to the uncertainty
of Uncle SamuePs males you may hear
again from BRRxE.