New Orleans Republican., 1873-07-19

6Die UeicSaC0 OI tuc 1No" OIiO"Ao Nue~I
of Commerce at the late meeting OF the
National Board of Trade in New York.
am quite sure that you will approve OF
the suggestions made by several leading
members of the board, that the cOmmuni-
cation be. brought to the attention OF the
members of the board generally. and
through the city press to that of discrim-
mating public. ] am. yours truly,
New ORLEANS. July ), 1879.
r. Haw!ey. ESQ:
DEAR SIR-The importance OF tho longi-
tudinal trade or exchange of commodities
produced on different parallels OF latitude
render it necessary that the inhabitants OF
cities situated relatively as Detroit and
New Orleans should have direct CONNER
cial intercourse.
When the trade was water-bOrne, Detroit
was compelled to take all tropical goods by
the Hudson or the st. Lawrence. Those
commodities then came charged with the
freights, delays and transhipments OF the
system. Among other disadvantages, the
delicate fruits of the Southern seas were
not known in Detroit in their proper per-
fectiOn. Under that system the sugar OF
circumnavigatiOn Of the Atlantic States,
while social intercourse was confined to the
accidental visit of few invalids seeking
lost health in an exchange OF climate.
The railroad system but recently COM
pleted has connected New Orleans with De-
troit, as you will see from schedule ac-
companying this letter. by q journey via
Louisville of only ffty-seven hours. Re
Gently line of travel and transportation
has been opened connecting Detroit with
the Mississippi at Cairo. It employs the
Cairo and tincennes, the vincennes and
Indianapolis, and the Wabash, Western
and Toledo, railroads. You will see, there.
fore, that commerce has opened this way of
communication. 1t will tend, then, to real
ize your wish that the sectional "aliena-
tionS of the past may all be blotted out and
our country become more strongly united
than ever before" for you may remember
that merchants made this union. and mer-
chants alone can maintain it.
If you will examine the map you will see
that New Orleans and Detroit are sepa-
rated by, fourteen degrees OF latitude,
and that the diagonal which connects them
would measure about 1850 miles, or at
twenty-five miles running time fifty hours.
Our steam time to Havana is sixty hours:
so that by close schedule your city is with.
ia four and half days of the central sugar
market OF the continent. You can thus
take pineapple from its stem on Monday
and enjoy its luscious juices on Thursday
following. The oranges Of Louisiana you
can have with the leaves unwithered. But
it is the importation of the sugars, coffee.
furniture woods, drugs and dye woods.
and dry hides of Spanish America by
this inboard route. to which I would
call your attention. You will have
steam direct in six days from Aspinwall.
or in two and half days from Havana, or
three and a half from Vera Cruz to New
Orleans. You will have barge Transports.
ton to Cairo, always open and adequate
winter and summer. You will have land
line without grades, fully fifteen per cent
shorter than that from New York. can
not compare freights nor insurance, but
both are evidently less on the inboard than
on the coast route. Tho ocean voyage
from Havana to New York is 1850 miles
that to New Orleans about $50 miles. The
danger and insurance on the coasts OF
Florida and Carolina are of course charged
in the cost of navigation. l can not omit
the consideration that on the inboard route
your freights go to the credit Of our West.
ern roads and lines.
1t these views shall induce your mer.
chants to look to New Orleans as their port
of communication with Spanish America.
will not the same reasoning influence your
neighbors and customers OF Western
Canada!
l have seen that Montreal desires line
of steamers to Jamaica. Could not that
city for almost half the year employ the
New Orleans and the Detroit route in pre-.
ference! 1t is already organized. There is
already an agency which will sign through
bills by river and rail between these two
points. Will not the Grand Trunk rail-
road connect with this system and carry
fruits and groceries. at least in the winter.
The east coast of Michigan and Of Canada
would no doubt adopt the same line. Con-
goods to pass American custOnhouses in
bond. Why can not this law bring in q
hogshead of Havana sugar as well as
crate Of Liverpool ware or cask OF Bor-
deaux brandy!
Your report shows al importation OF
nearly $2,O0O,000, but it does not separate
the sugar and coffee from other articles,
nor does it show the cane sugars produced
at home. You receive 100000 pounds OF
wool and $4,000 dry hides from your own
tanneries. We can send you all these ar
ticles in quantities sufficient TO supply all
interior demand on both sides of the line.
have thus, my dear sir. described COM
mercial communication opened by railroad
enterprise. It will connect two countries
originally under one and the same govern
ment. 1t will reunite the commercial ideas
of Marquette and Joliet and Lasalle. 1t
may tend to realize your hope that Canada
will rejoin her ancient alliance, and will
seek to become one with us in political
union" What is of infinitely more import
ance, however, and more Immediately prac-
ticable, will be the cordial reunion of people
and interests estranged by political quar-
rels. and only to be reunited upon the basis
of reciprocal interchange of friendly
offices and commercial interests.
1 remain. very truly and respectfully
yours.
WILLIAM NJ. BURWELL.
The subject was considered by the Board
Of Trade this morning, and the following
offered by Charles NJ. Garrison,
ESQ.,. was adopted:
Resolrcd. That the thanks Of the Detroit
Board of Trade be conveyed to Mr.. Bur
we'll for his interesting and valuable COM
and that we suggest to the
merchants of Michigan that they may find
it to their advantage to test the relative
cost of the class of merchandise referred
TO, when purchased in the Atlantic cities or
in New Orleans. and transported over the
inland route.
A Western farmer, it is reported, refused
to look at q simple sewing machine re-
Gently, as he always "sowed wheat by
hand.' He is said to be related to the man
who did not want a threshiug machine on
his farm, "for," said he. "give me harness