New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1845-09-02
The Prices of Goods.

A gentleman " no passed the last winter in Paris
has shown US specimen of piece of fine Cotton
sbirting he bought there last winter paying - cents
award. Wider and better American Shirtings are
sold By the Commission Houses in this city at -
cents yard. and probably by the piece at retail
unite as low az T. cents. a gentleman who re-
Gently purchased plain Co,tons at retail In London
informs US that he thinks the prices OF such goods
range as low in New York as in London, though
some descriptions are probably higher.
The Morning News recently made parade Of a
specimen Of Manchester Ginghams, costing 10
cents yard at wholesale at the English factory
while il is sold in this city at 90 cents The impress
sion sou gh TO be given that this latter is the
price of an American article-that American facto
ries are running side by side with British, and
charging more than double the British price But
the truth is that very few Ginghams have yet been
manufactured in this country, and those on a small
scale in this City, Philadelphia &c.-none that We
can hear of at our great Manufacturing Districts
The American manufacture being thus feeble and
carried on at disadvantage. the British Ginghams
control the market and being just now scarce and
ia great demand are sold at exorbiant prices The
20 cents paradcd by the the News is not the price
of any American but Of the British article on which
the importers are now realizing enormous profits
The highest american Ginghams could find Ia
the Commission Stores is for sale at IS cents per
ward British Ginghams good as those now sell
ing for % cents have been sold for Is within year
and doubtless will be again. As yet, American
Ginghams are not article to brag on for quality
and cheapness But let ii be settled that the Tariff
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the best stamp turning out iirstra,e goods at low
price and then our people will no longer pay
cents mercantile charges and profit on the yard a.
we are now doing on Manchester q inghams 9TH,
first cost being 10 cents duty the square yard, 30
inches wide Il cents jobbers price % cents
mercantile charges aud profits before the good.
reach the retailes cents yard At this moment
apart from the duty, the American consumer OF
British Ginghams pays in the average twenty cent,
for every yard of the goods for which the maker
gets but ten. There will be very few such enor
NOUS dlspsries when the production of GInghans
II thoroughly nsturalizcd among us, and the produ
Ger buys his potatoes and cabbagcs OF the consumer
VERuoNr-Thc Green Mountain State holds her
Annual Election today. very congepia coalition
has been formed between Loco Focoism and Rum
under the firm of National Periidy and Blue RUN
which is expected to rebound to the signal advan
tage Of the parties. They will probably succeed
with the sinister aid of Birneyisn, in defeating the
reelection of Gov Sladc by the People, but We trust
they won't succeed in procuring the repeal of the
Excise Law That law authorizes the People OF
each County to decide whether they will or Will not
license selling; and, as about hall the Counties
have decided that they won't the Dcnocr0ct
of those Counties insists ON subvering the fairly eN
pressed popular will and in trying 10 toll liquor
loving Wings into the support of Independent
IL Lualsn EAcAIsnl " /.