Republican ledger, and Portsmouth price current — Portsmouth, N.H., 1802-08-24 00:00:00, page 1

, FOREIGN BILLS.
Bills on London : 30 days, : (For Cajh) pat
do. do/ : : : to days, : : do. : 1 pr. cent. dis.
„ do. do. : : : 90 days, : : do. ; i| do.
Bills on Hamburg, payable in London, at 60 days, : : 2 do. do.
do. oa Amsterdam, payable in do. 60 days, : • do, do. do.
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C
ASHES, Pot, iftfat, T. 90 0 105 0
, Pearl -- 110 0 0 0
Allum, C. 8 0 9 0
Anchors, lb. 011 12 0
Bread, Ship C. 450 7 0
Butter lb 0 12 013
Beef, common B. 9 0 12 0
mess -- 13 0 13 50
Beans, white bu. 1 12 1 16
Brandy, Spanifa 4/^,,. G. 150 156
, Naples 4/bpr. -- 150 0 c
Barley none, bu. 0 0 0 0
Brimitone, C. 250 4 0
Brimstone, Roll C. 450 5 0
Corn, Indian — 0 75 080
Rye — 095 1 0
Caflia ft, obo 065
Cloves — 1 33 0 0
Coffee — 0 20 0 22
Cheefe,American -- 0 6 014
Cotton, foreign scarce — 040 0 c
• American — 0 24 0 0
Cordage, American C. 14 0 Q 0
, Foreign, -- 12 0 13 0
Chocolate, common fb 920 0 0
, belt iV,.2 &I -- 028 032
Candles, mould -- 018 019
, dipt — 016 0 0
Coals, foreign Ch. 14 0 0 0
, American, -- '7 0 18 0
Copperas, C. 350 4 0
Cloth, Tow yd. 0 16 0 17
Duck, Russia, ifqual. Bt. 16 0 17 o|
From the Aurora.
MANUFACTURES.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION REVIVED.
CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST.
I T is an important consideration,
in favor of adopting the American
cotton manufacture, that it will
create and maintain a very confid
erab^ coasting trade ; because the
production ofthe raw material will
be in the southern division of the
United States, and much of the
manufacture of it, if not strangely
neglected, will be in the northern
and eastern States. The import
ance of our cherishing the coasting
trade and fifheries, as nurseries for
seamen, is perfectly well under
flood, because foreign laws cannot
restrain or annihilate them ; and
because we can give to our own
veflels, the monopoly of the coast
ing and fifhing trades, to the com
plete exclusion of foreigners. The
transportation of manufactured
.goods from the northern and eas
tern States to our southern markets,
will also benefit the coating trade.'
We need not dispute about the
bringing of manufactures from Eu
rope" if we can make goods at
home, and transport them ourselves
from State to State.
The transportation of cotton, by
inland navigation and by our own
teams, will retain to our watermen,
and waggoners, and owners of ca
nal and turnpike flocks, the profits
NUMBER SZ. VOL. III.]
PORTSMOUTH PRICE CURRENT.
PORTSMOUTH, (NEW-HAMPSHIRE) PRINTED BY S. NUTTING, PRINTER OF THE LA WS OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Republican Ledger,
Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Duck, Ravens — 10 50 11 50
Flaxseed, rough bu. 10 1 5
Fish, Merchant, C. 4 0 425
,W. India mark. — 325 350
Scale ' — 2 25 2 33
Salmon none B. 10 0 0 0
Mackerel — 75° ^ 0
Flour, super. frefh — 75° 0 0
, fine -- 650 0 0
, middlings -- 6 0 0 0
, country C. 375 4 0
Fuftick T. 45 0 0 0
. / Bristol cr. toby 8, bx. 15 50 i 5 0
gby g,— 14 0 0 0
Bby 6, -- 11 0 11 50
ty /Hamburg ioby 8, -- 13 0 13 50
=' 7byg, -- 12 0 12 50
Gun Powder ft, 050 0
Geneva, Holland r/?/r G. 1 5 0 0
, Americanize -- 090 0 4
Hoops, hhd. 12 ft. M. 20 0 0 0
Hogs Lard ffi 012 0 10
Iron, Philadelphia T. 130 0 0 0
, Russia — 115 0 120 0
1 , Swedes .-125 0 13° °
Logwood T. 40 0 - 45 °
Lead, white, gr. in oil C. 16 0 0 0
, dry -- 15 0 0 0
, red -- 866 9 °
, fh^ef --> a 9 - ~
Lumber, boards clear M. 46 o 17 0
, , merch. — 9 0 9 °
shingles -1 50 2502
©DoUfale prices Current, at portfmoutb, ^eto-pampfyice,
CAREFULLY REVISED AND CORRECTED, ON SATURDAYS.
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now given to the fame descriptions
of persons in Europe.
It is obvious that the continu
ance of the cultivation of cotton,
which materially depends upon the
provision of a manufacturing de
mand for it at home, will occasion
the happy diffufion of a certain
dangerous description of our labor
ing inhabitants over a greater ex
tent of country, so as to be mixed
with and checked by the white
people. The manufacturing of
cotton will be morea southern man
ufacture than any other we tan es
tablish, because the southern States
alone raise cotton-wool, and it will
have the highly desirable tendency
of attracting and condensing white
population in those States, to the
preservation of internal order and
tranquility—an object of primary
interest to policy and humanity.
There are many icarous IV ox
peCt that the consumption of cot
ton manufactures in the world at
large, will far exceed the piece
and clothing goods, made of all
other raw materials. As this coun
try is taking the lead in the pro
duction of the raw material, it is
our interest and duty, to endeavor
to participate in so extensive a man
ufacuture. Shall we manufacture
goods, as we have shewn to the a
mount of fifty millions of dollars
in ayear, with very little aid from
labor-laving machines and mills,
and in many intances, out of for
eign raw materials ? And diall we
TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1802.
Course of exchange, at Lofton,
HD^^ra —
INLAND RILLS.
Bil!son Baltimore, 30 days fight, (For Cash) 1 per cent dis.
d^l Philadelphia, ; : do. : do. do. do.
do. New-York, : : do. : do. do. do.
db. Philadelphia, or) , ,
New-York, ) 6 ° da y s > : do# 2 do.
}N. B Bills at Shorter fight, prapartionably higher.
< Current prices of per from to
D. C. D. C.
Lemons fre/b bx. io o iro
Lime, half hhd. I 75 2 0
Leather, Soal, dried, ft) 020 0 0
Molasses G. 040 044
Nutmegs lb 5 ° 55°
Nail Rods scarce C. 750 8 0
f^lcut " °H 0 0
^|6df°" f - 066 0,0
^ I 6d, wrought — 117 0 0
< I rod, do. infpe£led -- 175 180
Z I 2od, do. do. -- 245 250
(Sheathing, cut C. 0 0 11 50
^f Liver none B. 14 0 0 0
Q^Linfeed G. 112 1° 20
Pepper lb 02 8 0 0
Pork, best pieces B. 20 0 0 0
, commoh -- 14 0 15 °
Peas bu. 1 25 1 50
Pimento lb 0 20 0 0
Pitch, B. 6 0 0 0
Paper, Sheathing C. 375 4 °
Redwood T° 55 ° 60 0
Raisins /r^ cask 850 9 0
Rum, Jamaica G. 1 0 0 0
, Windward 3d pr.— 080 0 c
Rice scarce C. 6 0 0 c
Rofinfazrec B. 450 o c
Soap, white ft, 014 oic
, brown -- 010 016
J , castle, -- ,6 17 0 2
Sugar, Havannah C. >, 2 _ .
, East-India -- 12 0 0 0
, Weft-India — 9 o r l2. 0
neglect cotton, a native raw mate
rial, a material peculiarly adapted
to labor-saving machines, over
flowing our land, as it were, want
ing new markets, and fit for every
necessary purpose of clothing and
furniture, to which piece-goods
c an bp applied ?
It is certainly in the power of
the people'of the United States, by
means of cotton to reduce the an
nual expences of clothing, to all
our people. Our efforts to estab
lish the cotton manufacture, by
means of our own unlimited pro
duction, and by means of labor
saving machinery, will naturally
excite in our European supplies of
manufactured goods, an expecta
tion, that we may interfere with
them, unless they shall reduce the
prices of manufactured goods.---
Any one, who knows the prices at,
which we imported from 1787 to
1795, will be assured of this real
and interesting truth. Our form
er efforts to manufacture, like those
of the Irilh, at Prosperous, produc
ed efforts to flop them, by glutting
our markets at reduced prices.—
The American consumers profit by
such attempts ; revenue will be e
ven increased, but our cotton man
ufacture cannot be prevented. The
saving of four or five cents per lb.
which are the charges of /hipping
—storing and felling it in the ports
of Europe, amount to ^5 per cent,
upon its present value, and may be
considered at thirty per cent, upon
[I DOL. 50 CTS. PER ANNUM.
The Chinese nation, the most
numerous by far in the world,
finds silk clothing the cheapest for
the people, considering the prices
of the raw material there, the uni
versality of the production, apd
the extent- of the manufacture.---
Wooden soles and silken vamps &
quarters to shoes, are seen there on
laboring people. Yet they do not
manufacture silk by means of la
bor-saving machines. When we
reflect with what profufion and
ease cotton is raised in America, &
with what extent it can be manu
factured by the vast powers of
modern machinery, we may ex
pect to fee the citizens of America
clothing themselves and contribu
ting to clothe other nations in cot
ton manufactures. Whenever dis
orders or arrangements among the
fuppliegs of our foreign goods
might raise the price upon us, our
own cotton manufacture might
come in happily to relieve, and
furnifh substitutes for the goods,
of which foreign diflradions might
prevent the requisite supply. This
has been exemplified in the case of
these Irish linens and of the French
Current prices of per fa m f ,
D. C D.C
Starch, Poland lb 017 o' o
, American o 12, 0
Sugar-Loaf lb 025 p 0
Salt, St. Übes scarce H. 6 0 0 0
',Turk's Island .- 6 0 6 0
• Liverpool — 450 5 o
, Rock — 70 0 0
Steel, German lb 014 o o
, English — 016 018
Salt Petre, refined -- 025 0 0
Shot Patent, C. 11 0 0 0
fW.O. hhd. M. 24 0 26 0
| do. do. heading — 26 0 28 o
>I W. O. bbl. -- 10 0 12 co
<] R. O. hhd. -- 10 0 xi 7g
ba 1 do. Shooks 0 66 0 0
[W. O. do, 120 igo
Tin in Iheets bx. 18 0 2o 0
Tar B. 325 o 0
Turpentine -- 4 0 450
Tea, Hyfon lb. 110 0 0
, Souchong -- 065 0 0
, Bohea — 0 32 0 33
Tobacco, Jamesßiver C. 7 0 0 0
• Georgia — 550 6 0
Twine,Jewing doz, 5 0 550
, feint — 50 55°
m ^Madeira G. 217 283
I Lisbon Jrarre, — 140 0 0
Z < Sherry, — 117 120
r j Malaga scarce q.c. 32 0 0 0
[Red Port — % % 40
the average American prices ofthe
neat prices. This saving on the
raw material, and the saving of
thirty-five per cent, in the charges
of importation, cannot but attract:
the attention of those in Europe &
in America, who think of estab
lishing manufactures in these
States.