New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-11-30


We note among the items of transporta.
ton on the railroad $40, 627 barrels OF
flour. The receipts of New Orleans were,
it will be observed, only about 100, 900
barrels more. As our receipts have been
nearly stationary, and those of Baltimore
increased last year nearly 100000 barrels,
we may expect this great Western staple
to adopt other routes of expectation. Our
receipts are chiefly for domestic consump-
ton.
But we Seseech ou. merchants 20 Oh.
serve that here is but one leak in the
Mississippi trade. It bears little com.
parison with others more formidable, yet
here is rail that bridges and crosses our
own Ohio, climbs and tunnels the allie
ghanles and conducts to and from our
own great West weights and values ap-
| preaching our own trade with the same
region. Nay, this artificial work has built
up city richer and more populous than
our own. For the fruit does not more
| palpably grow upon the vine than the city
| OF Baltimore upon the railroad which con-
| meets her with the commercial nutriment
from which she derives her subsistence,
Our values exported exceed those Of Ealti
| more, but we can not estimate the yaIne
OF the travel immigration and foreign
merchandise moved and sold through the
quay Of the road. Still less the value of
the cheap food and fuel supplied the me-
chanics and mechanic arts of Baltimore.
There is great wisdom in the integrity
OF the railroad company. There is also
great practical sagacity in the manner in
which it has attracted the through COM
nerce and travel, by connecting and
sheiterlng the rail and shipping. There
IS no change, no delay, no exposure, in
the transfer of people or packages
between the shipping and this railroad.
More than this; to guard against the
uncertainties Of expectation, this railroad
has, itself, built lines Of steamships. as a |
part Of its rolling stock, SO that a bushel |
or box can be billed through. between
Liverpool and Cincinnati. without the !
inferpositfon Of 8 consignee. That Allan !
linee which w. Highly has bee.. expecting |
here has placed ':seyera! large and frs:
class steamers upon the .oute between !
Liverpool and Baltimore" We hope that
they will also spare some more steamers
for this port
We have made this comparison be.
tween this railroad and the Mississippi
river to show that natuca! ADVANTAGES
alone are insufficient to sustain {. man o.
a city in the great struggle agains, energy
and cultivated Intelligence. Here !, one
Of our competitors for our conme.cia: in.
aeritance. When we add others ia. NOR.
formidable. get I'll competing agains, Us.
our contes: before Congress will wear a
serious aspect. We hope and si1al. con.
END 70: our rights in this respect. bu. we
.ust remind the Fusion convention now
n session that it is mistaken in s,,pposisg
hat ous CONNER. II stagnation is cavs.,;
solely by our political troubles. !,
The convention says: Commerce an! .
agriculture, our chief dependencies. have :
teadilv ~ancd. Cur agriculture ias 10.
'waned." New Orleans. received. in sp;t. ,
Il new rail competition. three hundred :
bales Of cotton more las; year
han the year preceding. Commerce with :
be interior wanes, becsus. our compet:.
ors have provided themselves with supe.
'os facilities. while our political gamblers
'em to think tina. if they could bea:
rant np out Of his seat. they could have
legame their own way. We beg them to Q
e that it is not because the State govesn- Il
ent is not IN good hands that ''want of c
'nfdence has been eng endered beyond j
e limits Of the State to su, III an extent as Il
exclude capital. With slimate and c.
II unsurpassed in the Uni, IN, we find K
'rselves surrounded BY a po. itieal Chi. Il