New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-25
Sixth District COurt-The Habeas Corpus
VS.. the Vagrant Law.
The st. Louis and Attakapas Trade.
The St T,ouis De,o0e,0f saws.


1t is settled thing that Captain Carter
will send steamer into the Attakapas dis
trict, Louisiana, early in October next,
probably very soon after the close of the
great fair here, and we again urge upon
our merchants the proprety of embracing
that opportunity to visit the plantations Of
this magnificent spot. Let this initial trip
be made sort of picnic excursion, with
business and pleasure combined. The
wealthy and refined population of the
numerous parishes which form the great
Attakapas district are liberal buyers of
fine goods, superior groceries, elegant fur
niture, etc. They not only want the best
of everything, but they are large consumers
and have valuable products to exchange for
snch goods.
Sugar molasses, rice, indigo, oranges,
figs, nuts, pineapples, sweet potatoes, ba-
nanas, early vegetables of all kinds, fruits
of many descriptions, and great variety of
valuable lumber, are among the things
which the industrious and thrifty jewellers
in this garden spot of the South will offer
in great abundance for our dry goods,
queensware, stores, hardware, groceries,
wines and liquors, boots and shoes, cigars
and manufactured tobacco, furniture and
kitchen utensils, drugs, oils, saddles, har
ness, wagons, plOws and improved farm ma
chinery, horses. mules, corn, oats, hay, pork,
bacon, HdHlS, HOur, apples, clC.
When this initial steamer departs from
this city for New iberia and other points in
the Attakapas country we hope to see at
least one representative of each of our lead
ing houses on board. The people of that
district already entertains a feeling of cor
diality toward us which needs bat proper
cultivation to ripen into warm, permanent
and profitable friendship. Colonel F. d.
Richardson, recently an extensive sugar
r,lo ofN ario 1y,nr hnn
has this to say concerning the enterprise
proposed:
To ship hogshead of sugar now from the
Teche costs three dollars to New Orleans.
and reshipping and forwarding from New
Orleans to st. Louis three dollars Lucky
are the shippers then if, via New Orleans,
it gets here under charge of seven dollars.
The ,Teche is fifty miles nearer st. Louis
than New Orleans, with fine navigation
during the business season and fair all the
year. Vide letter of Captain FOrgey in
your last weekly. Now, if the crops could
be brought direct to the consumers there
would be a saving of at least three dollars
per hogshead TO those who are struggling to
recover from wars desOlation at both ends
of the line. Not less the effect outside of
the great staples of cotton and sugar. These
orchards, nowsteeming with luscious fruit,
and turning to ashes here for want of direct
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and the same with the orange and other
tropical fruits there not suitable to bear de-
lay and double transportation. Intelligence
will draw its own conclusions.
The gigantic strides st. Louis is now
making for the empire of commerce should
know no rest or WEAKNESS till every nook
and corner of the great Southwest can
send its tribute at the least possible cost to
this grand central reservoir. Her fifteen
iron'arteries can throw back the hfeblood
ipto'every portion of the West, and give
the producer and consumer all the benefit.
Great efforts are now being made by Dir.
Morgan, the money power of Louisiana,
and Judge BOyce, the indefatigable, to
complete the road from Berwick's Bay to
OpelOusas. This done, st. Louis can not
resist the temptation of filling up the gaps
from Little Rock, which would give direct
rail communication with New Orleans. by
the right bank of the Mississippi through
the richest portion of louisiana When
this is done, we will be less than forty
hours from the Gulf of Mexico and will
get our figs fresh from the "home of
Evangeline."
Events have made the Southwest one in
interest, in feeling, in everything, and the
sooner they are in full embrace the sooner
will they be invincible in the fields Of com
merce, and in the halls of legislation.
We have no hesitancy in saying that
Colonel Richardson will personally pioneer
the ST. Louis merchants who may choose to
be of the party on Captain Carriers boat
next October, and we feel sure that not
only will an enjoyable, but profitable trip
be experienced.
VIII not our merchants do something to
retain the Attak apas trade