Southern telegraph. (Rodney, Miss.) 1834-1838, 1837-08-29

chants with European markets. He adsls |
IS tho establishment of Ports af Entry al
important points alpnr the Missis 'ippi, AMI
The preparation of cotton presses at each
uf those places, AMI every necessary ficil
i,y for exporting the great staple of the State,
and importing foreign merchanlise direct
to our own wharfs. the scheme is prac-
tcable, and We have NJ doubt of il, the adj |
vantages that would result from its opera
ton, must be obvious to the most superb.
cial observer We are free TO believe that
many places on the river, now compare
lively ''littlc aud unknown" will, at no
very distlnt period, have their regular
steamships successfully trading with Ets-
tern and foreign ports, and discharging their
cargpes at our own doo-s nearly as cheap
rs can be done in the great Southwestern
emporium-and thus avoiding the damage
frequently sustained by repeated handling
Of articles susceptible of injury from such
cause.
BY the way, we would express hope
that those amongst us who have at heart
their true intercss, MS well as that Of their
neighbors, will justly appreciate the val
ue Of such proposition, AMI bestow up
on the matter that attention which its mag
nitude deserves. Situated as Rodney is,
she has it in her power to lay the founda-
ton Of considerable numerical Importance,
and vie with any village of equal natural
advantages ON the Mississippi viii she
do it?
After calculating the present crop, from
last years reports and existing prospects,
at four hundred thousand bales, and the
contingent expenses of transportation and
preparing it for market, at 81 per bale, the
writer in the Register says
"The average class Of merchant vessels
will carry $50 tons, or 1850 bales each, and
on examination you will find that the cost
of ship2iug cotton from this to New Orleans
by steamboats, is SLIPS on one ship load.
The usual price of shipping cotton from
Orleans to Liverpool, is three eig'hs Of
cent per H.; which amounts on the ship
load to precisely the same SUN as is paid
from this to Orleans; and it is confidently
believed that with the additional sum of
two thousand dollars more Zone thousand
of which it would cost to be lowed from the
B llize and back again) the freight would
be readily taken from our wharves to Liv-
erpool BY locating oar presses convon-
lent to the landing, all the dravage expens-
es may be dispensed with; but if not con
venient, it would furnish business fr $50
draws for five months in the year, at S. s. per
month each--the rates already paid to New
Orleans. 1t will be seen also that it will
employ l45 vessels. and the money which
they must necessarily expend among us for
provisions, clothing, rigging and repairs,
would greatly Increase the business of our
ports, and furnish source of living and
profit TO hundreds of our dealers and me-
chahics which is now expended in Orleans
merchants have been in the |
habit of going to the Eastern cities for the
purchase of all their dry gods; for which
they pay an average of IL per cent. higher
than European prices; then their travelling '
bill, package aud box bills, drayage, ship
pingto Orleans--;hen wharfage, drayage,
storage, commission, and re-shipping with a
steamboat charge within trhe as much as
they charge from Ofelns to Louisville, or
St. Louis, and taking the aggregate amount
of merchandise at eight millions, they cost
our merchants more than one million of dol
lars more than they would purchased at
Liverpool, and delivered at our wharves.
BIT there is another view to be taken on the
subject. Our producers, after having eve
ry corner of their bales bit off by the land
sharks at New Orleans, to fit them for ship
ping, have had it sold TO spectators at an
average price of three per cent per pound
less than the Liverpool price, which rating
The Liverpool price at only l3 cents ID. |
md it subtracts the Cnorm MS sum from the |
pockets of our people of S4,S09,000! Thus
we see, that by the present method of doing
our State is actually losing more
han six millions of dJllars annlllly, besi.lcs |
he incaIculable advantage that woald be
derived from trade direct to Europe"
MEXICAN MERCHANTS. We take the fol- |
living article relative to the character of
he Mexican merchants from n late New |
orleans American. II is striking com
neetary upon the honesty aud integrity Of
hat degenetated people:
Robbery Ertraortiinary.-Thc schooner
Vim. A. Turner, hence to Brasos, St. Jago,
as Just returned, and the following is the
INSTANCE of robbery committed upon the
'aptain, the particulars of which will here
fier be published. The captain, James
on his arrival at the Brasos,
lving business at Mltamoras, 80 miles
eyond, went there on horseback, with I
'rvani, furnished by the American consul, ,
ho was the consignee Of the vessel. The
aptain, on his return, had with him Sl450 {