The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-28
WONDERFUL CHdNGES,

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WONDERFUL CHANGES.
"Tho Shifting of Commercial Ccntrcs nnd
Transfer of Profitable Trades"
Augusta Chronicle and Constttutlonalist.
When Liverpool was marsh, Vcnice
was queen of the waters and Of COM
mcrcc. No Dogc Of that day over
dreamed that tho royalty Of the
worlds traffic by merchant marine
would ever be transferred from the
Adriatic to the Mcrsev. But such in-
deed came TO pass, and DER the sunkcn
glory of Venice there is " cloud la
ment along the sweeping sea-" a few
years ago, what now constitutes the
magnificent city of San Francisco was
q sand-spit that might have been pur-
chased for q chew Of tobacco or its
equivalent. The discovery of gold in
California made a magical transiorma-
ton, and now Rothschild could not
purchase what was so yalucless be-
fore.
The bar-kccpcrs and miners oc 40
arc millionaire princes of 1880. Il
Galcna tanner has been twice Prpsi-
dent, in the front rank of military con-
qucrOrs, and The associate Of the
worlds most royal state. There will
be just as startling changes in the fu-
turc as in the past. Already there are
signs of revolution in our country that
will match The prodigics gone be-
fore.
NEW ORLEANS IS FRIGHTENING
New York, with her increasing COM
mcrcc drawn from the tccming grana-
RIGS of the West. The canals to be
built across the isthmus will make
this competition more tremendous, not
to speak Of the rapidly approaching
Pacific Railway that is TO pour its
Oriental riches at her feet. st. Louis
menaces Chicago with the same rod
that New Orleans thrcatcns New
York. The grain trade Of Chicago is
being tapped and drawn to the Mis-
souri, metropolis. The JournN Of
Commerce, that first raised a note Of
warning and is now clamoring for re-
lief, perceives it all and points it out.
1t says: "Making allowance for cx-
nggcration, we can sec that drain
upon Chicago has been established
which may have serious consequences
for that city. The barge business on
the Mississippi is working a rcvolu-
ton in the grain trade, specially Of
Iowa and Nebraska. 1t is mentioned
as fact that Chicago merchant who
had bought six hundred and thirty
thousand bushels Of corn in Iowa
found it cheaper to ship it to Europe
via st. Louis and the Mississippi than
by his own city. In other words, he
t9loWed at tqS dj9ta9H Hf hjs ow ig
Chat nc mates st. Louis less, but he
loves his profits the more. The only
obstacle to the development Of the
Iowa shipments to st. Louis by rail
is the impossibilty of finding cars
enough for the work. but these will
be supplied in due time. More branch
railroads will be- needed to connect
with the St. Louis system. But these
will also be furnished in the form of
cheap narrow gauges. In Nebraska
the
SHIPMENTS OF GRAIN TO ST. LOUIS
arc equally lively. 1t is claimed for
that State that she can Law wheat and
corn in 81. Louis for three cents less
per bushcl than in Chicago. If this
is true, and if it is also true that grain
can be shipped from st. Louis to New
Orleans for six to eight cents per
bushcl by bargcs, then Chicago must
look to her laurcls as the "chamDion
grain handler Of the West"
The magician who has waved his
wand and chilled New York and
Chicago, while warming the arteries
and veins Of New Orleans and st.
Louis, is Jay Gould. lie sits at ST.
Louis, not in New York, as the spider
in his web, and by rail and water
diycrts traffic from East and West,
from North to South.
What Chicago and New York can
ITO to countcract this master-mind and
his projects, we know not. That they
Will make an earnest and powerful
effort to save their threatened COM
merce is matter Of course. Certain
it's, however, that nothing is more
frequent than what the New York
paper calls ''thc shifting of CONNER
clal centres aud transfer of profitable
trades" While these stupcndous
achievements are going on, poor Don
Cameron, with his stomach full of
champagne and his mouth full Of his
sccrctary's rhetorical abuse Of the
South, rises in the Senate and makes
an ass OF himself for tho second or third
| time this session.
W hat Jay Gould is doing for NORTH
west and Southwest, some other
mighty executive intellect may accom-
| pllsli for tho South Atlantic States.
" hat has happened to New York aud
'hlcago may hnppcn. in comparative
degree, to Atlanta. What has occurred
for st. Louis and New Orleans NAV be
initiated 10y Augusta. The manufac-
tuilng and railway centres will Shift
here and stay here. Before another
| decade this city NAV claim lhc Gnycr-