The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-28
LOUISVILLE.
THE PROPOSED co mMBHCHAL CONvEN-
TEON AT NEW ORLEANS WE'LL RE-
CEEVED BY THE RIVER CITIES.

Strike.
Especial Correspondence Of the Democrat
LOUISVILLE, July "a, 1873.
1t is impossible for the New Orleans people
to over-estmate the importance Of
THE PROPOSED COMMERCIAL CONVENTION
in next November. The magnitude OF the In
terests to be discussed, the various aspects OF
trade and commerce involved, Interstate re-
Iations, river trade and inland transportation,
the subject of comfy between the cities Of the
OF the Mississippi valley and the neglected
Texas Pacific Railroad and levee bills, all
these and many more are subjects Of vital in
teregt to New Orleans. And it is gratifying
to notice the alaerity with which the conven-
ton Is taken up and the unanimity among the
river cities in urging its Importance. 1t will
help to cement the bowels of friendship be-
tween the South and the West and encourage
reciprocity of traffic and exchange OF goods
and manufactures. With the help of the
West our steamship lines to South America
and the islands can be sustained without
subsidy from Congress, whose members
have been too timid to do aught
that would seem to be treading on
the toes OF the East. Let st. Louis, Chicago,
Kansas City, Lou isville and Cincinnati, unite
to send their flour, meat, plOughs, starch,
soap and q thousand other things, via New
Orleans, then our steamship lines to South
and Central America, Mexico and the islands
would be sef-sustaining, and the South and
West would escape the humiliation of forever
knocking at the doors OF Congress for AID and
relief, which Is 50 begrudgingly and stlngliy
given If given at all. It will be the golden
era of the South and West when they will
manage their own business without let or
hindrance from the North and East. Their
interests are not the same as yours; III pro-
portion as your trade is lesSened and Grip
pied, theirs is benefited. And in the recent
past of Radical supremacy in New Orleans,
when our trade and commerce were SO much
embarrassed, when taxation and plundering
made property an encumbranGe, now many
other cities really sympalhtzed with US?
None lifted a hand to help; but
on the other hand they ridicnled us and
made our local discussions and chickering's q
general laughing stock. Cities have no
charity for each other, and now it behOOves
New Orleans to graphic with the future and
build her own trade aud invite others to come
in and take part OF the profits. That the
convention will be the big thing Of the season
Is evident; and as sort OF slde-shoW, Com;
Will s. Hays suggests in the C0oTter~jOu7'dt,
to invite all
THE RIVER CRAFTS OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND
and their tributaries to visit New Orleans
during the convention and get up q grand
naval review and proceed to the jetttes in
company with ocean steamers with whistles
screaming, bells ring, sails bellying and flut-
tering and with bands of music, flags and
banners waving, and make the biggest show
In the world.
Apart from the river and inland transporta-
tion,
KENTUCKY
Ia valuable neighbor to the Southern States.
She Is identified with us politically, socially
and commercially. The manufactures OF
Louisville are on @ large scale and should be
encouraged throughout the South Her plows
are the best, and the sugar-cured hams and
breakfast bacon of Shallcross, Menefee d Go.
are the best in the world, outside OF the Vir-
ginia home-cured meats. The shoe interests
Of Louisville are looking up and demand at
tention, a1leI wili ere long, eat as big hole in
the Massachusetts shoe business, as the
Southern cotton mills have done in the North
ern. "Patronize home industry" is as good d
motto as "home rule.
THE CATTLE INTERESTS OF KENTUCKY
are enormous. | paid several visits to the
stock farm of Mr. f. A. Byers, at Simpson
vile. KY, and found him rural prince
among his thoroughbred sheep. Plenty and
prosperity activity and industry were seen
everywhere about his beautiful farm, saw
his fine Cottswold sheep, whose wool Is long,
wavy and soft as Silk, worth torty-five to
ket These are a fine breed OF sheep, large,
tall and active. They cross well with the
common scrub sheep of the South, and i'm
prove the quality of the wool. But the Ia
nous Southdown sheep are beauties IN every
sense of the word. They are not so tall as
the Cottswold and the mixed breeds, put
they are more compact, square built, SquAtty
and muscular. They are very deceptive a9 to
weight, and very often. you see year ar
old Southern sheep, weighing 124 to 175
pounds The two aud three year ODDS weigh
much heavier. The pure breeds are, very
beautiful. They have brown faces and brown
legs with broad, heavy quarters ana plump,
full bodies solid and muscular | saw an i'm
ported buck, with brown face, hair as soft and
silky and wavy as seal fur, legs trim and
clean, with the same glossy brown. He was q
splendid fellow and worth big pile OF money.
His descendants from imported dams OF pure
breeds are the sheep that Mr.. Byers is selling
to parties down South. He is reliable and
honest and has sold hundreds of hdownS
to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and the far
West. His stock of sheep are known to be
ma good and as thoroughbred as those Of any
man in Kentucky. 1t was from his stock Of
choice Southdowns that select lot was re-
Gently shipped to MT, Ed. J. Gay, Of New Or
leans. ,,- ,,,,4
he is an amateur; he has keen eye LOT .
fancy sheep and treats them as tenderly ana
carefully as II they we're part OF ms Ire;
And II you could sit down to his well-flied
home table and enjoy roast OF Southdown,
fat and juicy, his spring chickens. his apple
Dies ana money, dHu IICi GLtdLly OAaI = o00
milk. YOU would be proud to claim him as
your friend and sing the praises OF his South
downs. can honestly recommend Mr.. f. A
Byers to all fanciers Of
FINE SHEEP,
especially Southdowns or Cottswold. l will
here mention that all pure Southdowns have
bro1cn faces and legs and not black. Ihe
blackfaced sheep are mixed with the Ayre'
shires. These sheep will do well on the sandy
soil of Lake Pontchartrain parishes They
will thrive on the common white clover (sheep
clover that grows everywhere in Louisiana
and even in neglected places in New Orleans,
The Southdown is hardy sheep and mikes
or crosses well with the scrub sheep.
In my next will give you an account OF
THE BOURBON STOCK YARD IN LOUISVILLE
and the Bourbon Hotel for cattle men, where
you can get o glass of real Bourbon whisky
Everything there looks Bourbonlsh, ana mos
of the men you see there are Bourbons ano
mean what they say.
Louisville is not at all alarmed at
THE REPORT OF THE CONTEMPLATED STRIKE
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