The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-02-23

ooth for your sake aud ours, that you have not
n la" sb mngn McCloskeys among you Tho trade
OF shreveport once lost to New Orleans will
DC lost to her forever-and when lost she will
Then appreciate it, as we do good health when
gone. II Will then be too late. Hundreds
Oeing compressed and shipped to Cincinnati
ana st: Louis. Why Is every bale of it not
going TO New Orleans, it's proper market and
n1turai destinyf Because the sluggard slep.
while the energetic ones were "up and doin -
Because it was st. Louis and Cincinnati CAPT
tai that built the two magnificent congresses
that now adorn our city, aud their capital and
agents are here, to secure to their marietta evs
cry bale that is compressed; nor are our neo
pie unwilling to remunerate them for their en-
ergy, enterprise and favors. This, New Orleans
capital might and should have done long ago.
New Orleans should have had the foresight to
lerestaii al other competitors in an enterprise
o. Of s SO ieIerage and infuence her falling to
OF vital Importance to her, forces us to the
conclusion that she has more money than
6raiins on IN other words that she has not the
make the best Of her capital and opportunities.
I venture the assertion that, were Cincinnsti
81 81 Louis, or Chicago, (even what is left of
t the ASH WIN their keen-sighted energies, in
the place OF New Orleans, five years would
never have elapsed after the war, without rail
ROAD connection with this city and section as
IL Is seven Henrs haze passed and not rail
iaid between Us a:I seven re will possi-
Oily pass before the enterprise is compieted
WITHIN the last eighteen mon tbs New Orleans
mas Paied and sickcned AT ;r zane of her.bus-
mess and the depreciation ot her real estate
She has beheld her young men ont of employ.
desert her by the hundred may saw to seek
homes nor, and fortunes elsewhere She has seen
nef capitalists, men heretofore of staid and
sober habits, reel and stagger beneath the in
huepce of spirits taken down TO keep their de-
spending spirits up-and yet, like a palsied
granny IN her corner she groans grunts and
cnalr. we say to her: sit still, granny, if
you choose it,; but remember we have warned
you II you take no steps to stir the sluggish
blood in your whitening veins, blame but Your
self for,your premature palsy
Now, Mr.. Editor, before 1 close this prolix |
epistle, wish to call your attention, (strictly
to receive editorial correction: vet. becanse i. |
Is an error, be it ever so small, and in order
that he may "never do 80 any more,n 1 call
the dst to ito say nothing of
ambitions are concerned, do not expect to aim
to pluck one leaf from the wreatLed broWs Of
r. a1 the Ryan. JOAQUIN Miller Tennyson-or
IN his last efforts has much to blush for,) vet.
IN my last to you, January the 18th, uIt., was
eGe Ds to the departed year" stanza of
mastery, and of which assert and claim the
paternity do not think your compositer will
nno, IN MS copy" the ear marks of an orphan
upon ~, ana YET to my utter disgust, he adorn-
60 1t with quotation marks, thereby robbing
me OF what might have been "poetic fame p
eems e he thought it too good thing to
to Iaurelled head, if it did not; and there
lore marked it, to shield me from exposure-I
Ihank him for the compliment and the kind
ness Dnt as he was thus kind once before,
peg OF him not to trouble himself hereafter,
ou1 10 give me all the credit OF originality /
assume until he can find some having better
' ~ II he can find outside of Shreveport,
cations. EIoys,Ds