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THE COST TO NEW ORLEANS. The Locke law has without doubt stopped horse racing in the Crescent City, hut it has1 also, been a means of injuring the business interests of the city, which profited by the Influx of visitors attracted by the races erery winter. There are less visitors to New Orleans this winter than ever before, according to a New Orleans man who is spending some time in New York, and the retail trade of the city seems to be falling away to nothing. The theaters are almost empty, except on Sunday, the lig hotels and lodging houses are doing little; business, while the restaurants and the retail stores feel the loss of the large crowd of visitors of former years. The register of the St. Charles Hotel is a mute witness to the decrease in the number of visitors this year as compared to that of other years. On Thanksgiving Dav. 1007. the number or guests at the St. Charles Hotel was S552, while on the same day this year the register shows only 104. Other prominent hotels ami places of business furnish correspondingly startling evidence of the dullness in New Orleans this winter.
