Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-07-06
HIGHLY INTEREsTiNG FACTS

Boston June ia gen leman informs us
thar Tho brig lars, VINE sii ed r5m this port
Oh Monday last Tor Calcutta. carried ont seven
" bales OF domestic cotions for the ca cuna
market
tisa fact universally notorious, that pier
vious 10 The late war co irse c0ituns we're impo.
ted IN great abundaucefrom Calcutta, for " hich
specie was Sent IN payment and it was then
h matter OF surprise that they could be impor-
ed at so cheap n rate.
Ills fact susceptible OF the clesrest proc I
tina, the price oil India cottuns before the late
war, was more than double the present price
of American cotions, leaving the qualities OF
the respective kinds of goods entirely out of
thr question. India colions Of a width suitable
for sheeting, we've sold twenty years ago, for
thirty five, forty, and sometimes a. high as ff.
~ cents the yard they were erceedingl,
coarse and thin, and could as easily be seen
through as a ladder. American cottons, of the
same dtn, oil fine, substantial, durable tex
ture may be bought for seventeen, aud those
Of extra 6neness for twenty FIVE cents the
yard
Just previous TO the late war (lS0S to 1872
an article for shtrfing was imported TO cou.
siderable exient called British coitln, the
most Indifferent Of which sold for fifty cents,
and the better qualities from seventy five cents
In dollar yard. American shiriings have
driven this article entirely from the market
tor those equal in durability, as well as ia del
Icacy OF texture and finish, can be purchases
for less than half the money.
The investigation might be pursued with re-
spect TO calieoes, ginghams and other goods
manufactured from cotton, and the same m.
doubted and indubitable facts exhibi ed by the
parallel.
So in regard TO many articles manufactured
from wool. Broadcloths aud cassimercs, Ohe
former especially are from fifty to hundred
per cent. lower than they were previous 10 The
wal, man may now get two coats far what
one then cost, aud perhaps have change p.
rough left to buy a handkerchief and pair
of stockings, or even a silk waiscoat Its no
refu alton of these facts, or the inferepces to
be drawn from them, to say that the period OF
which We speak was one when goods of all de-
scrirtions were high in conse quence Of the EN-.
barge and non.intercourse acts there never
was time from the settlement OF the country
| TO the close otthe war in 1915, when five do.
lars would purchase more than half the cotton
aud wooden goods which il will purchase at the
| present time.
| Neither will il avail any thing TO say that la
| bor and agricultural productions produce more
money or higher compensation twenty ysnr,
ago than they do now, ifany one should be
fool hardy enough to make The remark. The
prices of labor in some branches of mechanic,
may have eprecialed-hou,erghI and ship
wIighs, for instsuce-,hough we :are not a
ware that trnges are much fanv, lower now
than in the most busy times. In many trades
the price OF labor has constantly been rising
and has long been at SO high a rate, that he
who employed on daily or weekly wages, max,
more M nry than his employer, without sniri,
ing any ofthe trouble or hazard which invari
ably accompaniestheo operations of the prioci
pal. Courier.