Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-09-10

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which your city is the great com
mercial centre, l have determined
to call your attention to the ap.
preaching Fair that is to be held
in this city during the first week
of October. The especial feature
of interest to persons in your sec
ton Of country is the Cotton
Premiums" Some of the live, &C.
tive merchants of st. Louis, head.
ed by that heightened gentleman
and efficient merchant, Mr.. Miles
Sells, have gotten up a purse
amounting to $4,000 for the pur-
pose of giving prizes for cotton.
This sum is 10 be divided into va
rious smaller sums and each to be
a prize for u different kind and
quality of the grand product Of
your soil. One thousand dollars
Is especially set aside as Il prize
for the 'lOng-staple," or as 1t is
sometimes called in business cir
Giles, the "New Orleans Cotton
Believing, as l undoubtedly do,
that Mississippi can and does
produce as good-if not better
cotton as any State in the
South, l have taken the liberty Of
addressing you this letter, to ask
you TO rouse your country friends
to an appreciation Of this feature
in our Fair. There will be no ex-
pense scarcely attendant upon
their sending n bale or two of their
different kinds Of cotton. The
Packets have agreed to transport
them free of charge, and hence the
only expense will be the 'entrance
fee" of the Fair Association which
is merely nominal, and the charges
for handling. If Mississippi cot.
ton takes the premium, 1t will
command n better price in the
markets of the country hereafter,
and besides will be a considerable
pecuniary profit to the owner who
sends it. Even granting that it
does not take the prize, it will be
little or no loss to the owner, as
the merchants here are anxious to
draw cotton to this market if not
more for it then could be
obtained in New Orleans es-
pecially so when in this instance
transportation is free. Can you
not persuade some of your friends
to make the experiment? In my
opinion 1t is a subject we'll worthy
of serious consideration.
The merchants of this city are
anxiously awaiting the compile
ton of the Vicksburg and Me-
ridian Railroad to the river. They
have now to pay the additional
charge of drayage at your city
besides experiencing great delay
by reason thereof. Heretofore
the fact that it is cheaper to ship
by boats and because the "bulR
was broken in transferring freight
at Columbus, KY, has thrown
great deal of trade to your city
But now that cars are shipped
through to Mobile and all wal
stations, this trade will leave yol
unless you offer some speedy in
ducements to shippers to sent
goods by way of Vicksburg. II
all points in Mississippi and Cen
trail Alabama and Georgia, !
would be cheaper to ship to Vicks
burg by the river and then BY
rail. If you had your river ex
tension Of the railroad and woulC
ship the cars through when oncl
laden in Vicksburg, then it would
be cheaper to ship b.
rail to Meridian, and Their
have the cars changed ant
thence "break bulk-and it would
even be cheaper if ''bulk" was no
broken, owing to the enormously
high tariff on the Mobile and
Ohio Railroad. Your people mus
take some immediate action in thii
particular, or lose trade. There il
no use in men opposing the exten
sion, because they would maxi
more money, by transferring
freight from your levee to you
depot-if they rely on anything o
this sort, will be mistaken-fo
t they will lose this trade altogether
Politically the free State o
Misery" is no better off than
was a year ago. The Radicals ar
holding q convention at jefferson
City now to decide who shall b
{ our next tyrant. It is prObabl
the "Rebels and niggers' will b
enfranchised and allowed to hol
t office equally after the next electio
There may be a split in the Rad.
cal party during this campaign
One party will support McClur
for Governor, and the other, /
Gratz Brown, a renegade frOl
Kentucky, or E. N. Stanard, tn
present Lieutenant Governor
/. The Democrats will not put an
: ticket in the field. Their polio
is, "lay still and let the RAIDS abus
you-they have done their wOrl
q already and can't hurt you muC
now" This is what is called hel
the "Passive resistance policy
= It may work well; God grant
will. "Rebels" have sufEere