New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-05-09
at. LOUIS AND HER ENEMIES.

| Dert nave Deen also charged, tne one Will
having an interest in the amphibious city,
and the other with intermeddling with
politics. To all this may be added that
the st. Louis Times sent special COM
missioner on tugboat to put this whole
thing right. He reported that the federal
surveys and soundings were all bosh; that
the gulf anchorage at the canal was I'M
safe, and that the poles driven by Craig
and Rightor furnished an admirable har-
Dor.
We have not retaliated by making coun-
ter charges which we had no means OF
proving. Professors Bayley and Fontaine
may have been convinced that the scien-
tiic authorities appointed by the United
States to examine the outlets are very far
inferior to themselves in professional
knowledge We submit, therefore, that
st. Louis knows more about our own
vicinity than our best commercial author
tiles, and must, we suppose, consent to
surrender the guidance of our affairs to
her. Among other acts of enterprise and
munifcence for which our mistress claims
our gratitude is this from the Democrat:
We wish to call the attention Of the mer
chants of New Orleans to the fact that but
| for the formation of the st. Louis Grain As
ISOLATION this record of the grain expOrta
! ton from New Orleans could not have been
made. st. Louis merchants spent $4,000
of their money in their efforts to prove to
| the world that grain from the bins of the
Northwest might safely proceed to market
| ured to the advantage of New Orleans by
attracting first class vessels to her port and
providing extra business for her commits.
sion merchants and fOrwarders; but to this
day New Orleans has never lifted her
finger or spent q dollar to aid in turning
the vast grain trade Of the upper country
into her own lap.
There are, we are compelled to say,
couple of fallacies in this modest as
sumption. According to this st. Louis
organized the bulk grain trade and "spent
5000, 0O0," etc. We remember that adj
vance to buy grain in the st. Louis mar
ket and never heard before that it was all
spent without return; but, if so, did not |
single citizen of New Orleans invest
more than that sum in the bulk corn |
trade? Mr.. L. ]. Highly built an eleva-
tor which cost more than two hundred |
thousand dollars, and we would like |
to know how ST. Louis could |
have shipped bulk grain if New
Orleans had not first provided the
means of transfer? The other fallacy is
that St. Louis ATTRACTED first class YES
sels' to New Orleans. Our cotton export
last year amounted to say $50, 900 tons;
our grain exports to say $4,000 tons We
have no vessels plying exclusively in the
grain trade. Ships load coastwise, in
whole sor in part, with grain, and the
cotton ships may take more or less grain
for ballast and to complete cargo. The
cotton commerce has been made by the
enterprise of New Orleans merchants,
and it is little steep to claim that it is
due to the benefcence Of our up river
patrons, who are doing all they can to
take it away from US.
But while st. Louis was occupied in at
tending to our affairs, she has suffered an
advantage to be taken of herself Sena-
tor Window has gone back sadly on the
St. Louis memorial He has despised and
upon that commercial Koran. He
has united upon the Northern route one
hundred and sixty -one votes in the House
and half the Senate. Besides this force
there is, in reserve, seven territories
States in embryo-which will soon come
to fix the artificial course Of trade across
tho continent, on or near the Northern
Pacific railroad, of which Senator Win
lom has been a director, and to the city
If Milwaukee, OF which he is the repre-
When this Window cutoff shall have
been oom pleted St. Louis will descend
rom her high horse She will patronize
md prescribe to others no longer. She
will send a deputation to Chicago to
NOW on what terms that inconsumable
'ity will allow her to connect and prorate.
The only outlet will be across that
bridge Of signs" built by Eads, and she
viii have little to send East except what
title cotton she may have filched from
Iew Orleans Not bushel of corn or, ,
wheat from the upper rivers will descend to J
It. Louis. It will all be reversed, as so
much of our own trade has been, and ex- ]
'orted through the ports of the Eastern
Atlantic.
We have then very lively apprehensions
OF our affectionate sister and ourselves.
When Eads shall with his wing dams of '
oncrete filled the Mississippi channel \
nth blocks of stone as big as church,
islocated and torn from their places; {
7hen Window shall have turned the
PIPER corn and wheat trade s'from" the
into the lakes, the New
-ork canals and the st. Lawrence,
re fear that our patrons will
ave very little to bestow upon us. Be-
ween Window and Eads St. Louis will be A
ut off, exploded and blockaded; she will
Sc the Bridge Of Signs built by Eads to
onvey her tribute to the East through the
orn bins Of Chicago. She will receive her
hole European and Eastern goods through
he same enterprising city, and the West
IN trade territory of st. Louis will be
arrowed to an isthmus, coming as far
outh as Fort Scott and as far north as
orth Leavenworth. Window will de-
roy her steamboat and barge interests, t,