New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-28

Brazil and Montevideo. As these
are tropical countries, imported bread.
stuffs are subject to climatic injury, and
only those produced in climate congenial
with the tropics can be safely introduced
into tropical consumption. While, there.
fore, the four Of wheat grown in the upper
and northern West, has always been sub.
jecs TO danger in the tropics there has
been less danger in -four from grain
grown in the Southern Atlantic States,
and in the dry climate of California, where
wheat, as in Syria, may be garnered in
heaps or pens in the open air.
The introduction of the wheat crop into
Northern Texas offers an additional source
Of tropical supply, and already we find the
merchants of that interior conscious Of a
commerce Of great importance.
A letter from Dallas to the Galveston
Ae,es, Of the twenty-third instant, says:
Immense quantities Of wheat and oats are
| being sold mere BOW, most of which is
shipped to St. Louis. Freight on wheat per
car to St. Louis 10 $50. distance of 1856
milee; TO Galveston SO. distance of 3l5
miles; 70 New Orleans $50.
The sale OF q shipment of No. 2 wheat in
Galveston for 81 10, when the same was
courage shipments t. Galveston.
A trade with New Orleans in grain has
sprung up, and the price of wheat has ad-
yanced five cents per bushel in the last
day or two, by tho appearance of several
New Orleans buyers in this market.
This dispatch Of wheat TO St. Louis is
unnatural, except so far as it may be nec-
essary to supply Western and interior
demand. 4 bushel of wheat sent 7s5
miles to St. Louis, must, if intended for
the Spanish-Amefican trade, return over
the same distance. If Galveston or New
Orleans should BE- the port Of expectation,
the wheat would have travelled q distance
of nearly 1000 miles to effect departure
which might have been obtained by q
transit Of 315 miles 10 Galveston.
St. Louis now sends the -four intended !
for the continental markets of South
America across the Mississippi to New
York and thence 70 Para or to Rio.
It is to be hoped that Texas will cause
some cargoes Of flour to be ground from
her wheat and shipped TO the tropical
ports. If containing some Of the essen
ia1 oils it shall keep better than that of
iowa and Wisconsin, we may anticipate
rade that must turn the whole grocery
business Of the West into and through
aew Orleans. We need this basis to es.
ablish any coffee trade, and whether it
nures to the advantage Of Galveston or
few Orleans, the interests OF Northern
Texas will be developed. and New Orleans
'ill derive her full share. 1t will appear
ingular to many who contemplate the
atural advantages of our position to learn
hat coffee has been recently brought to
lew Orleans from Baltimore all rail. To ,
nd our seaport, coastwise and river navi-
alton ignored, and a tropical product
oming from so extraordinary a source
hould inspire thought in the most unre- S
ective. How may this tendency-not
lerely to flank New Orleans but to cir i
her-be obviated? We an t
wer, by testing the capacity of Texas a
our to Withstand the climate of the J
opics, and if the result be favorable, to a
lport it from Galveston and New Orleans c
I'D take in return the tropical commodi-
es in such demand in the whole interior d
Dove US.