New Orleans Republican., 1873-08-16
WESTEIE WHEAT BY WAY OF NEW
ORLEANS.

We are indebted to the courtesy Of Sen
atoc West to- copies of correspondence
appended below. between the State De-
partment and our consuls at London and
Liverpool. We are more thankful to
General Wes. for his vigi,ant attention 20
our local interests than We are 20 Cover
nor Fairchild for having written SO Tonga
letter about such a mythical business as
the transportation of Western wheat by
way OF New Orleans to Liverpool" If
Mr.. Fairchild has had the rare good for-
tune to encounter a merchant who ever
saw cargo Of Western OK other wheat in
Liverpool from New Orleans, he has made
a mos. astonishing discovery. He must
be a very ancient and venerable grain
buyer, indeed, who can testify on the
subject matter of Governor Fairchilds
letter.
We shall take occasion a. an early day
to p-esen. our views upon this subject,
our chief object to-day being to thank OF:
attentive Senator for kindly furnishing
copies of the correspondence
[Copy No .a.i
UNITED STATE. Coy.r..-E(
Liverpool July 3 1873. J
Hon j. c. E. Davis, Ass.caa: Secretary of State:
S1R-Reterring TO your dispatch, No. 49,
dated June TO- 1878. have the honor to
report tina. l have made diligent inquiry
among some Of tue leading merchants who
Gea! largely II grain here. wita the follow
ing result: You inform me thac the Hoc.
William. WiuGiCn, makes this inquiry. "Does
Western wheat. transported wa New Or
leans. rate lower in tie Live.poo! market
than Western whea: shipped 70 Liverpool
from New York" and i. IS stated :nlt the
ebjec: OF :.ia inquic; /. 20. ascertain TO
wha: extent wheat is injured By storage at
New Orleans and by passage through the
lower Mississippi AID TIE Gulf OF Mexico
The testimony .. tie merchants with whom
have consulted is unanimous that wheat
arriving here via New Or.e ans does no.
rate lever II this narke. than wheat trans
ported via New York: provided it arrives
here from both ports IL equally good con-
ditiou. l. la. very often happened that
Western wheat. coming via New Orleans,
has arrived here in damaged condition
Almost invariably am informed when the
wheat has been ru: into the chip. at New
Orleans il the least damp, and over it has
been slowed cotton l: has been In
ju-ed 90 a greater or less degree dur
ing the passage, while Western wheat
arriving frou. New York has almost
invariably reached here in good condition.
Wheat which has been transported from
New Orleans il steamers, without being
slowed under cotton or other freight which
would keep the ais from it, has arrived
here in good condition. 1t has also arrived
in good condition in sailing vessels when
slowed in the same manner. I am informed
that but little has thus far been thus trans
ported, because other treights. or mixed
freights, pay the ship. better.
Ii to-day q merchant here should offer for
sale on board ship. two cargoes OF wheat
one coming from New Orleans and the
other coming from New York, both to be
sold without examination and at the risk Of
the buyer, the cargo from New Orleans
would undoubtedly rate much lower in
price per bushel than that from New York.
because the past experience of the mer-
chants here IN the grain trade would COM
pei them to base an efey fos the