New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-18


new bridge on Eve days date. Any diff
ference in freight over the route of waite,
shipment by New Orleans is more than
made up in the facilities of finance and
the control of market rates. This prin-
ciple of subordinating freights to finance
is gradually working on cotton shipments.
Cotton may be twenty cents pound when
Hour is two cents pound OF course
cotton can pay more for fast freights
than flour. 1t stands, perhaps, next in
this quality to measurement goods,
or merchandise. Our Common Council
may not have noticed that much the
larger part of our cotton is exported
by steam at rate of freights higher than
asked by sail vessels laying at the levee.
But for that steam this cotton might
never seek this port at all. We have ex-
planned this. The shipper by steam can
negotiate his bills at thirty days better
than the shipper by sail at sixty days. 1t
is still finance which governs freights
If our conselors will look at the Pieauune
of yesterday they will see that for the past
week the exports of cotton were as follows:
New vrleans....
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This may have been an exceptional
week, though it corresponds pretty we'll
with the course Of the cotton trade last
year, which placed Norfolk next after New
Orleans, New York and Savannah, but if
Messrs. the Council will make the Admin
istrator Of Commerce, who we may assume
to be statesman of enlarged commercial
learning, take his map they will see that
Norfolk is an Atlantic seaport, a little
north Of the latitude of Memphis, from
which it is separated by mountains and a
distance of little less than a thousand
miles, and that the exports of nearly half |
million OF bales from Norfolk is drawn |
from and across the Mississippi river. 1t |
IS extremely funny, Messrs. Administra-
'ors. Polish your spectacles; regard it
lgain; something less than half million
# bales, which annually could have gone
10 where else except to New Orleans, now
'rossing the Cumberland mountains, the
mountains, and the Blue Ridge
Mountains, rolling along past the coal
mines and the lead mines of Tennessee
nd Virginia; through the corn fields of
he Holster; by the tobacco grounds,
where the broad green leaves CLEAN in
he July sun; through the wheat fields of
where the shocks stand thick,
nd threshing machines roar like train
cars; through dingy and industrious
'ynchburg, with her warehouses and fac
ories, and through an almost unbroken
overly of old field pens, broom sedge
nd grubs, till the tired steam horse
eighs for his manger on the broad and
eep waters of the ocean.
So if cotton is not king it is no longer
slave to any port or route of shipment.
elects that route which is the shortest
I'D most certain, and as it bears its own
lpenses would as soon go through gap .
the Alleghanies as through the Balize.
We apply this principle and these illus
atoms. The Common Council of New
rleans will of course see that street traffic :;
all not be obstructed by railroads or 6
lything else, but they should remember :
at if they impose any unnecessary de- \
:, impeachment or charge upon cotton ,
ing this route to market, it can very 1.
silly take some other. It has required !.
eat newspaper effort to move the .
ckson railroad to the river. The
edecessors of cur Council ripped up
e military rail which connected the
'-town depot with the wharf. 1t was
ought then to favor the drayage element. 9,
zen that interest has come to see that 10
short haul around the present depot is OF
're profitable. Draymen and mules can I'll
mprehend that there is more work and
ges in moving three hundred million S
is than the less quantity brought to the =
depot. The Council will then find it
the interest Of the city to protect the
PIPER and keep down the transit charges. r
have no specific advice to offer as to
extent of warehouse it may be neces-
y to remove, but we exhort and even
m them while they protect to the utter Nj
st the rights and convenience of the th
zens, in the use of the streets, they pr
or the transit trade as far as it may be He
sible to do SO. 1t is delicate interest, e.,
is now in a critical condition. sta
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