The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-09-30 00:00:00

TRADE WITH CHICAGO

A new road, opened from the richest corn-producing
future
re
ao
tf the world
importance,
oe
et, to our
and
ofEtnogol b o markets,oh promise
of
aomhfuutnonotdraignes ce, to be passed by without attracting special
attention. At the extremity of the great chain of lakes
.stretching between Canada and the United States far into
the heart of the North American continent, are the town
and port of Chicago, a great depot for the produce of the
North Western States of America. From this plaoe a vessel
has just arrived direct, having made the entire voyage to
Liverpool in sixty days. The Dean Richmond is the name
of the vessel that has accomplished this feat, which is likely
,to be a memorable one in its consequences. She is described
as a schooner of 380 tons burthen. Her freight was taken on
:board at Chicago, and she succeeded in passing through the
canals,,reaching he Si, Lawrence, and, after passing over
2,400.mi1es of inland waters, completing her voyage across
the Atlantie in the 'time we hivre,etated, with only the trait-,
shipment of a small part ;of hen cargo, order to lighten,
her draught of,. water to nine feet for passing through the
'Welland Canal. The cull importance of this event, which
establishes the practicability of a direct ship conveyance from
the North American grain-growing districts to our own
shores, may be inferred from the fact that the voyage from
Galatz, in the Black Sea, occupies from 70 'to 100 day
Corn is to be purchased on better terms at Chicago than
the Black Sea ports; and, by the opening of

direct conveyance, our market will be relic

influence which has been hitherto exercise

Greek merchants, who have had the control o
Sea trade. The oorn which has heretofore bee
our markets from Chicago, has c

passing through some three or four cl.ift'r,

hands t

that Art, anCl_aocurn..ulating eomn

change. --- ..:e. en!rges at
each sow, from the shiptneut at Ci
neede but the one
charge for ships' freight, to cover
arrival of the cargo at Liverpool,
all expenses.
The supply that is thus made av,jebnses.
1 a le to the Mitish
consumer is so vast, that it must have'
preventing prices in future fromreaching
marked effect in
high range of the last two years. Thr the excessively.i
work by which the corn is conveyed frome
e areall r
,a 1 ir
two OTtlLt
North Western States to this entrepot at Chicago--a name,
perhaps, that is there b-. cago to tl,e
now beard of for the first time by thousands
of our countrymen. In that port there is warehouse room
is a, immeinse export trade from the
for storing half a million of quarters, and such a ship as tho
corn sent away eastward,
grieultuuraat.produce, such as barrelled
ion of the town amounts to
iDne
four
r hours. Richmond
The
aregu athotlidty, coafn b e loaded from alongside
from Chicago, in 1855, was 2,200,000 quarters, thich is
stated to be the greatest quantity shipped from any port in
same
owpolraldoe.,
oTfhoetrheer a
100,000 persons. Amongst the producers of the vast stor
of commodities, to the trade in which this great town owes.
beef, pork, &c., and
.the PoP I.
its existence, there must naturally be found an eager demand
for the manufactures of Great Britain. They are the men
of our own race, who are accumulating
wealth by the culti.
_ration of the rich soils of the "far west" of the States, and
our colonial fellow subjects of Upper Canada. The same
route that brings their corn to our ports without change of
conveyance on the transit, will take our manufactures to
them at the same cheap rate and saving of intermediate
profits. It is a good prospect for both sides, and whilst
giving us another security against the recurrence of the
high prices of former years, and their concomitant com-
mercial disturbances, it indicates a source of increase to our
export trade that may serve for years to come to main-
tain that astonishing rate of augmentation which use been
lately attained.