New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-11-01
DUB TRADE LOSSES.

DUB TRADE LOSSES
New Orleans is 3 controversial, not
commercial city. At the season when
others have postponed their political diff
ferences or detailed the professional prize
fighters Of politics TO conduct the conflict
without interference With the business
season. New Orleans divides strictly on
the party line. No intercourse is tolef-
ated with party opponents, and n Co
operation is sought IN promoting thseom-
mon interests. The White Leaguers are
fighting for che helm when the vessel il
drifting on the breakers.
In the midst Of this insane combat .
commercial earthquake reels unheededly
away" and the shock Of political battle
makes Us insensible to the ruin which be-
falls US
The 81 Louis Repubico~. which aeses
permits party venom 70 blind its eyes to
the commercial interests Of the beloved
city, comments with delighted surprise
upon tho tendency Of trade 10 reverse ito
natural course and seek interior points for
collection and shipment The Rspsb';oos
says:
Al fret yiov oAe 10 somehov reminded OF
. stay in tho Law OF grsvitstion, which
would enable water to run up hill; for Coz
ton TO forsake rivers descending to the sea
and come ND into the interior of q continent
by land routes, and to seek the consumer
BY the Same species Of transportation would
almost appear y trsnspositiOn of the usual
courses Of nsture BE this has been done
IN the instance Of st. louis, and this Is not
only IN accomplished fact, but che other
very important one is daily demonstrating
itself-that a. = cotton market II Is CON
stantly receiving all the essential aeceasioas
for it's liability and eKpanciou.
These remarks are applied TO the receipt
Of cotton BY rail from the Red river and
Arkansas region, and may be accounted
for BY fact Of which our cotton factors
may as we'll take notice first IS lasA h0
that all our sivers. e1ceps ~ Asssissipp.
havs been sYe'seded - savis,s b tAs
va;l,oods.
But the RpuNiea~ goes further. 1t
brags about its increasing cotton trade.
which it attributes to
The financial resources which banks are
freely extending, and which tar exceed any
in New Orleans Or other Southern Daskets.
It is claimed
The fact 10 further patent In The 2umbe1
OF factors and buyers resOrting here from
the South, and specially from New Orleans.
Specially is it important that buyers are
attracted here. They are dropping in dolly,
como from New Orleans.
These figures Of speech We all under
stand. but the Republican adds to the .e-
ceipts by rail the following:
Very few wers SO forward a. 20 claim
that this market could receive much cotton
By river, certainly never from tho natural
domain OF New Orleans. But it appears
that the river is also becoming tributary in
| cotton to our city.
Heciting the Eecei pt Of numesous con-
signments by boats coming up the Aissis-
sippi, it adds:
| Yesterday there were Manifests Of 1863
! bales for st. Louis from below Baton Rouge,
| within little over 100 miles from New Or
| leans very important fact.
Really, If this were snything but An
exceptional shipment. we should fear
even the old Mississippi was going back
on rs. But never mind; when We shall
have dispatched and disposed of the White
Leaguers, the shadbelly Conservatives who
advocate the Quaker policy will come out
of their holes and apply for contributions
to take them to Washington. There they
will lobby for nations. for appropriations
| for anything that q Republican Congress
will give to impecuniosity and impor
tunity.
| Would il not be better to dischafg'
some Of the White League attorneys Wit
have now the affairs of Louisiana In thei'
hands, and employ some merchants o
mechanics, interested and intelligent. l,
promoting her INTEREST,"
We recommend an advisory board witt
an umpire. to be appointed from bot
! parties. for the purpose OF considerin
the imminent peril into which the trad
of New Orleans has fallen. It is great
to be apprehended that some body ho
drawn away the cotton trade from Ne
!, Orleans, and made the Mississippi rive
run up hill.