, 1872-11-13
The Infamous Election Laws
of Louisiana,
Commercial Spirit Of tho Crescent City,
What Sho Has Donc to Stimulate
Production.
The Texas Faoific Ra;lroad...Steam
Motor on Street Railways.
Cotton and Sugar.
F-on. Our Olcn Correspondent.
New ORLEANS, Nov, 6, 1872.


1oEs1ASA-7aE ELECTION LAWS.
You viii probably taye to wait for some time
JET before sou receive the official report Of our
Loa1s:aaa elections. held last Monday. These
well nigh unbearable delays sre part, and only
a part, Of the fruits Of the Infamous Election
laws under which this people groan. If delay
Tere all, Te could the more easily submit; bat
it is the purpose of tho unnecessary delay that
renders us so uncomfortable. These Election
laws Of Louiaiana we're made by bad men, urder
vicious dictaticn, to defraud honest citizens
out Of the dearest right belonging TO them as
such. The delay bodies no good. writer in
the Pica31ne this Forming expresses, in simple
hSaest phrase, the sentiments Of our people. III
te11ogat;7e;y, in this wise: How much longer
do sou suFpose the people of this city will toer-
ale esch dslav in counting the votes? Suppose
they should mise IN :helr terror and might,
and hurt sor1sbody? Would they be to blaaee
Aad, II they should rot thus act, ID there atil!,
any depth OF degradation to which they may rot
descend? II they ccntinue 20 submit to suc b
via wrong AID disregard their rights, would gcu
not suppose that .tey had reached tie lowest
ceep Of degradation possible OF attainment by
poor HUMAN nature ?'
NEW os-EAss' ccExEsc.AL SPIRIT.
Ae thu commercial interests OF Chicago and
New Orleans are. to great extent concurrent,
you will be pleased to learn that the latter
eeems, notwithstanding al discouragements
from losses public frauds, and misgovernment,
to be arous;oe herself for honorable competition
with The ether great buainess marts OF this
country. Much nigh: 90 truthfully said in
apology for her apparen. eupineness during
tie pas. n;no yeara bu: will now a1lude to
bat one Cause fo1 it which every Intelligent and
thoughtful mind WILL 10 @ create. CT less de-
g.ee. appreciate. The was left Louisiana, Ar
EAnaas, Mississippi. and the whole
couatry commercially connected, BY the
usual relations between producer and factor,
sent:al to the cultivation Of the soil. 4 large
majority OF both ergar and cotton planters had
no money with which to pay laborers, or to buy
prorsiocs, working animals. agricultural imple-
ner:s. or pro7en3er. II noHt cases. tho corn
aal the cotton-seed to plant the limited areas,
attempted to be cultivated, as we'll az s]l elae
Necessary for the enterprise. had to 10 bought
with money furnished BY the factor at the very
beginning Of the year. "Tho March to tho
Etn," with all i:s terrible concomitaats, had, in
tn, ZOE gh Gborgia-Texas only excepted. Add to
this universal destitution the no legs uni
formly experienced difficulty Of adjusting
the 1ahor OF the country to the ends OF its agri-
culture, Under the e!niete1 intertereucea Of d
hungry class Of adventurera, whose aim VAS to
feeco alike al but themselves. and who are now
everywhere known and deaplsed as carpet
baggers;" and you get eome insight into the
lessons Why the planting interest not only re-
qured aid to make 8 recommeucemeot OF cotton
knd sugar culture in 1865, but has been COM
PEELED, ever snce, to call upon the merchant for
like assistance. In 1885, 66, 81, the crops,
from want of due culture, the vis,tations of the
caterpillar, and perhaps, in some degree, to
ctber AID Istural' cauzeB, we're very deficient;
and the merchants OF New Orleans
LOST MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
that they had. without sufficient security, ad-
vaDced to make them, This is g very guarded
statement, and millions more may bo allowed
for Losses elnce that time. even though the
crops, since aud Including that Of 1868, have
been better. Indeed, the process etill goes on,
and there appears to be no other way by which
to keep the country in cultivation than the sup
ply of money by the banks and the merchants Of
Nav Orleans. The former, OF course, have long
ceased to deal directly in this way with the
planter, leaving this onus to rest, as, in fact it
does, upon the cotton and eugar factors. But the
merchants, in order to do this. must have the
many Of the banks; and thus, in the end, and
every year, it all goes TO buy from the West
mulas, pork, corn, hay, agricultural Implements,
and Other necessaries to the production Of q
Southern crop lot to be returned till the end
OF the year. and not then, unless success has
crowned the enterprise OF the borrower So sou
perceive that, ii New Orleans has not built rail-
ways and established OCEAN steam-line8 abe has
at iea.t not bsen charseable With boarding the
capital she possesses, but hks, in the most
patriotic and bene 6cent manner, employed 1t TO
the purposes Of preventing the country from
becoming Wilderness, feeding its agricultural
the civilized world the staple TINT now clothes
so large . part Ct the human races.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
Now, though still loaded down With the same
ponderous necessity OF keeping the country in
cultivation, the merchants OF this city ha7e
come forward and subscribed tho sum required
from them to complete the railway to Houston,
Texas, and will doubtless also speedily take tho
requisite measures to build tho branch from Ver
miliionsille. in Lafayette Parish, to Shreveport,
tbs eastern terminus Of the Texas Pacific. This
Pacific Road seems to be in rapid progress of
construction from Marsball to Dallas,
and even west of tho latter
town, situate upon the Trinity River,
in Texas. You have seen go much about this
road-which. but for Echeming epecu]ators,
would hnve been completed before the war, that
I will not elonGate this epietle by saying more
than that it now seems to be a living, pro-
gressiye thing and it is sincerely to be hoped
that hereafter the mention Of the "Southern
Pacific Railroad" Or "Te1as Pacific Railroad"
will elicit something better than o sneer or an
imprecation from fnger-burnt stockholders,
their heirs and aesigna.
STEAM MOTOR on STEAM RAILWAYS.
1 am sorry to motto that the horse disease is so
rapidly invading tho West and that in Chicago
you are using oxen instead Of horses. Should
it reach us. We shall be 8 little better prepared
for it, in one respect than other Cities BY reason
of our 'thermo-specitic, or detached steam
motor on our street rails. Our little steam
mules do their work go well, and withal go much
cheaper than animal mules and horses, that they
leave nothing batter, as we are at present in-
etructed, to be desired. During his late visit,
new mode Of using steam without furnace or
boiler, and having, With General .Beauregard,
prova1 Of our New Orleans discovery.
COTTON.
Our cotton comes in moderately, the receipts
being 80 far $4,000 bales, in advance OF the eame
time last year, with prices noft. and to-day o
little dropping. we do not expect any perma-
nent advance before tho New Year, az there
must be pressure upon this market before that
time Of tho bulk Of the crop. The weather,
ever aince picking began, has been uncommonly
favorable for gathering. and that operation is
consequently quite forward. From letters already
reca:7s1, note Indications that our American
spinners are likely to fall into the Same error,