The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1886-01-30
OUR NEW ORLEANS LETTER.

! The Exposition is now about ripe for
! your readers to obtain full conception of
lis extraordinary benefits to our Southern
country, and any one who fails to spend two
or three days taking glimpse at the treas
ures of this great continent Of ours, will
miss what they may never have within a
lifetime another chance to see. Whoever
sees it once will preserve lifelong rernem-
brance of the beauties of exhibits collected
| From pole to pole,
From Pacitic's gentle swell to Atlanticss cease
less roll.
| We miss a few Of our more tropical sis
tiers i'll the present grand display, and by
some mistake the land Of the laughing
| waters has so far failed in an appearance.
Nevertheless, we were we'll pleased with cur
visit and feel constrained to SO again and
| again. A walk through its aisles has re
markable effect in wearing away the hum
drum Of daily life, and then the gratifica-
ton of knowing that we are within the pre-
! cincts of perhaps the greatest fair the world
has ever seen, contributes spice which in
| creases the enchantment of the visit
Washington Territory and Alaska come
out in bold relief, and it would take an en-
tire day to get even an linking into the
hidden wealth of those distant climes. 70
look at the enormous:collections Of mineral
| one might beliese that there were no other
productions to speak of. but the samples of
beet root sugar, for instance, amply prove
the contrary. The sugar from this valu-
able plant can be produced at low cost, it
is claimed, and the average yield is put
down at 1000 pounds per acre according to
the report for 1854 Of Gov. w. G. Squire of
Washington Territory The fanna Flora
and fnny tribe are well represented and
show That there is no lack Of food-pro-
dGcing material in those distant w:lds.
These Territories will at an early day sup
ply the world with sulphur, potash and
nearly all the salts necessary for art and
medicine.
Indiana sends the largest steer i'll the
world, weighing 1850 lbs. He is twelve feet
high and eighteen feet from tip to tip, and
is we'll worth seeing. In contrast also can
be seen the smallest COW in the world, i'm
ported from Scotland, from the famous
Teaswater stock, weighing $50 lbs, thirty
four inches i'll height ana giving three gal
Ions of milk daily on an average Her
cream has produced ten pounds Of butter
per week.
Indiana, Massachusetts and Vermont are
particularly we'll represented, but we must
refrain from further reference to exhibits
until cur next.
Before leaving the Exposition we viewed
the most majestic spectacle it has ever been
our lot to see. and we earnestly recommend
all to come aud see the Last Days OF
Pompel.' Circumstances compel US to
defer Il description of this remarkable ex-
hibiticn.
Business i'll general is -comparativelv de- !
pressed, but it is not Il depression which
Eespeahs hard tunes. Il appears rather TO
be disturbance Of the equilibrium of the |
methods of its transaction. From tabu,ated |
statistics the showing for 1Se:, is greater |
as to the amount of exports and imports |
shipped and received a: this port than in |
some years past, but the trade has grada- |
ally, in the handling and reEundliny. been /
bringing tue producer and consumer nearer |
together. The middle man. the broker /
and the runner are being constantly left |
oat IN the cold, and il will not be astoniSl !
ing II the factors clerk in Il few years rides /
through the cotton districts and purchases
tie crop first hand while yet the stable is |
upon the ground. The import trade is Of a |
shipments in bond of unbroken carsoes in
one handling pass through this city from
the vessel to the train or steamboat, leaving
here but in lntnitesiinai ann unit Of money
and that chiefly i'll the shape Of port dues
and charges OF that kind, Of 10 benefit to
the people at large. Besides this, The rapid
i;y witt! which the railroads centering here
get rid Of their incoming freight is some
thing astonishing. Their yards seen,
always to be full, yet always empty The
income of night will be disposed of be
fore mid day, to The vessel or other wise, at
half the expense it would have
taken i'll former years to move such vast
CT freight. We believe that
We are is we'll off rs most Of cur sister
cities III a business point OF view, and if
the great railroad generations in coniunc-
ton with the jetties have been a means of
bringing the consumer and producer nearer
together. in hut & short while the eouili-
Erium will be reached and a more solid
will follow. We venture the as
scrtion that this parish has increased in
population during the past three or four
J ears fully 10000, mostly of the industrial
classes, and the large number of bricklay
ing permits issued and structures raised
refute the stereotyred complaint
Of the croakers that the Crescent City is on
the down grade.
The weather hes been very bad here late
", further DEPRESSING business, but cur
people are hopeful, and with the new grass
we expect the long looked for boom.
Yours truly, DICK ROE.
No Boon that Science has Conferred
Has been frausht with greater blessings than
that which has accrued to the inhabitants Of
nlalarlal ridden portions of the United States
and the Iru ,lcs from the of llostettar's
Stomach. Bitters. The experience Of many
years has but too clearly demonstrated the eff
c:ercs of quinine and other drugs to et1ectually
combat the progress OF intermittent congas-
tive alit! billions re,nittent fevcrs, while on the
other hand. it has been no less clearly shown
that the of the Btters, d medicine congo
NAL to the frailest constitution, and derived