The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-09-17
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| tiOn OF learning something that would, at
least. prove encouraging to the business men
OF New Orleans, who are ready to cooperate
with any and all efforts to establish trade
| that will contribute more to the building up
of their city and the development of the NJ is
sissippi valley than anything else. But the
facts must stand for themselves and teach
those who are truly interested in the move
ment what course they should pursue. The
enterprise is too solid, its results too substan-
tial. to be aided by fictitious accounts OF en-
thuSiaSm in the cause.
| NOW Is THE ACCEPTED TIME.
There will never be q more prOpitious time
for the establishment of commercial relations
between this and other countries than The
present. Crops are bountiful and the whole
| land is suffering-so say political econo-
mists-from over-production; and what can
confer greater blessing than an enterprise
that will convert the surplus production into
money? The jetties, it is true, are not COM
pleted, but they afford channel sufficient for
And it will not require the largest sized veg
sells for this trade. Men familiar with ocean
transportation have expressed the opinion
that steamers of medium capacity will an
swer the purpose better than larger vessels.
There is no lack OF desire for this trade
| among the business men, and they very read
lily admit that the movement ought to be in
augurated now, but rather than take the lead
they remain idle and hug to their bosoms the
delusion that next month or next year will do
| just as well. Now
THE ALL IMPORTANT QUESTION IS,
Who will take the lead while everything is
ripe for the work? Capital and cooperation
can be obtained in st. Louis, and among the
| commercial men Of the Crescent City, which
| was always noted for it's enterprise and Iiber-
ality, are there not some with the pluck and
the administrative ability to place themselves
at the head of the project and work it out to
a most glorious consummation?
| THE BARATARIA CANAL
| or,f 1f,bY, (ftuJ hoc bn,.o gorr
days endeavoring to work up an interest in
| the Barataria Ship Canal, of which he is
superintendent. He went before the Board of
Trade, explained the purpose of the canal,
and asked that q committee be appointed to
visit and examine it. He exhibited a map
showing the canal, it's route and. depth etc,
and claimed for it all that is wanted as q
channel to the Gulf. He stated that the Bara-
taria Canal Company, chartered by the Legis-
lature of Louisiana, has ample funds to
complete the work, and only asks from the
national government permission to carry out
their plan as designed; that the canal already
contains an average depth Of five feet, and Is
nayigable for small steamers, and only re-
quires to be enlarged and deepened to give
passage TO the largest vessels that if the gen.
eral government will grant the privileges ask
ed the company will begin operations imme-
dately and pledge themselves to si1pplv n
channel twenty-four feet deep in one years s
time. No subsidy or aid Of any character, he
said, is asked from Congress-simply per-
mission to proceed with the work.
| A resolution was unanimously adopted by
the board instructing the president to appoint
| q committee of five to visit and examine the
canal, and report the result Of their observa-
| tions.
Capt. Cowden will visit Cincinnati and
| Louisville during the next few days, and re-
| quest the commercial bodies of those cities to
| appoint delegates TO make tols of obserya-
| tion to the canal, and on or about the 25th
instant steamer of the st. Louis and New
| Orleans packet line will leave Memphis, carry
| ing the committees from different cities to
| the canal free of charge.
THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION
| is in full blast and the display is truly mag
| nifcent. The merchants have even exceeded
their promises to make creditable show.
| and the Exposition taken as whole, is far
ahead OF anything OF the hee, character ever got
| tending over one hundred acres, are literally
covered with attractions. Every department
is full, and the exhibitors entered into rivaly
with each Other, in getting up their displays
geological garden which belongs to the Fair
Association, and Is situated on the grounds
| forms another attraction, and one that is not
elsewhere found accompanying an in
anticipated, but that can hardly be
construed into diseouraging sign. The
show is to continue for a month, and people,
with all that time before them, naturally hold
back few days until all the work of prepara-
tion is done and the entire. display Is in com
plete order. The price of admission to the
grounds, including exposition and geological
garden, is fifty cents, the same that has
always been exacted for the annual fairs. On
account of the attendance not coming up to
expectations the essees of booths and the ex-
hibitors have ioined in a petition asking the
Fair Association to reduce the price of ad-
mission to twenty-five cents. So far the asso-
tixlV, h,ry
on the ground that they would be forced to
keep the price down to quarter for future
fairs, as the people would demand 1t. The
association has the management of the expo
sition, and will no doubt maintain the old
price. And they are right. Anybody that
will not pay fifty cents to see the magnificent
exhibition of all the arts and industries of the
West. with the privilege of relieving the mo-
notony by studying the finest collection of
animals in the country, would not invest q
quarter for that purpose.
PERSONAL.
Col. John r. Purvis, formerly of New Or
leans, has received the appointment of deputy
commissioner of supplies, under the city gov
ernment. Col. Purvis was for many years a
resident of the Crescent City, and his friends
q warm affection for his old home, and looks
forward with happy anticipation to the time
when he can return and again establish him
self there. Col Purvis is a high-toned, chiv-
hIEOuS RoHtleIu1ll, anu Oh course al unSW6fV-
ing Democrat and it is refreshing to see such
a man appointed to public Office
BROUGHT TO TIME.
The treasurer of the late county Of st.
Louis, which embraced the city found him
self indebted to the latter, by the terms of
separation and division of property, in the
sum Of S191, 900. He delayed paying up, and
when pressed by the mayor put his honor off
with promises Finally suit was about to be
commenced and the treasurer capitulated.
Yesterday he walked up to the treasury and
paid 100000 in cash, and the balance in GER
tificate Of deposit in the State National Bank
MORE SUITS AGAINST M'KEE.
Poor old Billy Mckee! It seems that he
will never free himself from his entangle-
ment in the wreck of the old whisky ring.
Some time ago the government brought suit
against him for about S2,250,000 money out
OF which it was alleged the government was
defrauded through his Vaccinations, and
yesterday two more civil suits were filed
against the ex-deacon. VIM. H. Hatch, Of
Hannibal, Mo, one of Mr.. McKees counsel in
his defense, sues for $3.50, balance of the