The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1882-12-09
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER
Items Of Interest from tho Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondent.
NEW ORLEANS, November 90, 1882.

Items Of Interest from tho Crescent City
by Our Regular Correspondent.
NEW ORLEANS, November %, 1882.
EDITOR CHIEF:
J In few days from now the valeiic-
tory Congress of the Republican party
as q war party-will meet, aud grave
and stirring questions Of national inn
port will como before it which perhaps
may bring out from the dying cmbers a
fow living Goals of brilliant intellectual
worth, which henceforth will he ell
aearel to Louisiana for all time to come.
Fortunately or unfortunately for Louisi-
sixteen States or more, and is thereby
allied to an interest far reaching, but
not thoroughly comprelcnded ~ yet by
the citizens Of oar State, who in the old
sing-song fashion of free trade IDEAS OK
listing before the war have allowed the
sceptrc of the empire centering at orr
metropolis to lie confiscatetl by Northern
astnteness and transferred to Now York
The Democracy of our own and sister
States, certainly can not grunlble any
longer, although they arc now put upon
their met;.l. The free trade, non-protec-
tive system has Il chance of being sue
ccssf,il, but II very destructive success IL
1ke industries Of tho Mississippi, Valley
it IL likely to prove, and we look for :,
grand flop over of all the interested
Democratic press to the protective TART.
theory. They have been growing 81
',nHch about Republican excuses and in
tavcr of free trade that it became monot-
0nous, SD i'll it's wisdom tue nation has
granted their request. As far us this
port goes it will be interesting to note
what use they will make ot it. Perhaps
as large crops of sugar aud cotton have
been made this year as in any ono of our
history, yet there is a scarcity of money
III mercantile circles that has no paral-
lei, and hundreds of bales of cotton arc
to-day awaiting shipment without the
sight Of ship or steamer to carry them
away. Tho great trouble of the hour is.
that outside OF New Orleans Louisiana
is hardly able to grapple with these
questions, although the governing power
Is in the rural districts, and to-day our
city is in the contro! of men as ruthless
:'s were ever Watt Tyler or Jack Cade.
When ono State has to decide the for
sisn policy of sixteen or more of it's ill.,
land sisters, craftsmanship should be at
premium in tire Southern metropolis,
hut SD farl,isto,y has not repeated itself,
with respect to- circumstances making
thc hero" Tho circumstances exist that
should produce 'pofitical Moses or Chr
cinnatus, hut if such one is forthcom-
Ing he must be in an embryotic state as
yet, for II" signs of him are visibl. thus
far. - - e..rss.,- ,
We are now undergoing an epidemic
o. ievers OF the low and nnalarial types,
and siace' the late cold spell ouite =
number of cases of pneumonia developed
themselves, $" it is probable that the
aeatl' rate will be slightly augmented
Tor the present month";
4t'e san'tarians have again bee, al
work among the miikmen and tic
bakers, aud have discovered that ii yre,,
many Hse IMPURE water for was!,in.. am,
'eee'hs purposes. notwithstanding s.s
erai Suggestions from tia,c IL Time ,o.,h.
CONTRARY. II ~ nusy ,he Intention Of In,