New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-04-30
Patrons Of III usbQudry.

Elsewhere in our advertising columns Mr..
N. ID. Wetmore puts forth an appeal to all
subordinate Oranges in this State, and
throughout the whole republic. His appeal
embodies also an admonition to the end that
Patrons should look we'll to it that their
contributed resources are properly applied.
In regard to those injured by the over
flow to such an extent as to necessitate q
removal, Mr.. Wetmore is specifically exact
in his Instructions. Relief will be promptly
furnished, but the wants of sufferers must
be made known and authenticated before
the executive corau,lttee of the State
Grange.
There is 10 doubt but that grand rally
will take place on the part of the order
throughout the whole Union to succor our
distressed and homeless people. But or
ganization is needed in this, as in other
things, and we refer our readers to Major
Wetmore's advertisement as esnbodying the
whole principle. -. -.
Report olAssbe Senate oeminittee' on
Transporiation. -.
The following digest of the report made
by Senator Window, in behalf Of this com.
mttee.. we copy from the St. Louis Repub
lican Of the twenty fifth: ..
The committee recommend the construc-
tiOn of. several leading lines of freight
roads from the Mississippi river and the
great lakes to the 'seabOard for the pur
pose Of preventing mOnop0lies, and by com
petition, having the freights . reduction
Of from twenty to thirty cents q bushel on
-, f~pvp hal vvNysr ~ t<Ht hn
lantie and guilt ports, and Q consequent re-
ductiOn OF about twenty-eignt cents on
present rates from st. Paul to Liverpool.
The committee have also examined into
the several projects of internal improve
ments in the great water highways, and the
proposed canals connecting them with the
seaboard, and have arrived at the conclu- |
sion to recommend the Improvement Of the |
Illinois canal, from the Mississippi river to
Chicago; the Fox and Wisconsin canal. and |
it's enlargement; the widening and deepen
ing of the Erie canal, from Buffalo to Al |
bany, and from OswegO to the deep water |
of the Hudson; the Lake Cbamplain route, |
and an outlet to the st. Lawrence river; the /
Niagara ship canal; the Ohio river improve
ment, and . canal or railroad from the |
kanawha river to Richmond, Virginia; the
and deepening the channel
from st. Paul to Davenport, Iowa, so
Is to give depth OF water at all
seasons Of rot less than three to
four feet, and from Davenport to St.
Louis, and from st. Louis to New Orleans,
IF six feet; the construction of canal at
,he mouth, SO as to admit vessels over the
bar with depth Of twenty-eight feet, and
;he improvement Of the Tennessee river,
rom its mouth to Knoxville, and . canal
,r railroad from some point nearest to the
read waters of navigation of the rivers of
Alabama and Georgia, 80 as to give cheap
'utlet to Mobile, Brunswick and Savannah.
The committee estimate the entire cost of
he improvements at about $l5O,O0O,OOO,
md the time required to complete the
works at about six years.
Mr.. WINDOWS argument was intended to
how the actual necessity existing for the '
rosecutiOn of these works, for without ,
hem our people are fast losing their posi-
ion in the markets of Europe. through the
reat strides which Russia is making to. !
'ard monopolizing the grain markets there,
nd might ere many years elapse be able to
nmpete with us in our markets here on the
astern coast in supplying our owa people
ith her cereal products.