Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-02-26
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the. e.Ne,O York Journal Of Commerce.
THE TAX OF PROTECTION.


obtained from an importer a sample OF
yard wide bleached cotton shirting, pur-
chased by him in Manchester, at seven and
quarter cents yard including exchange
at len per cent. and that in quality the ar.
licle was equal to line New York Mills
shirtings Of the same width, which the
manufacturers were aelling at fourteen
cents yard. We also slated that SAM
Piles of these goods might be seen, side by
side, al our Office, together with sample
Of American co'tohs costing eight cents, or
about the same price with The English
These three samples have been compared
by great number of manufacturers and
merchants. The circumstance has elici-
ted much debate, AMI good many care
less and evenR harsh assertions from the
Tariffpapers. Without enumeraling these,
we will simpIylay before our readers a
statement Of The facts.
Fist, Then, n,,there is neither on our part,
nor OH that Of iheinporter, any deception
or false appearance in any Particular
The goods purchased in Manchester were
purchasedin the regular course of mercan.
tile business. They were moi refuse goods;
nor old goods, nor an odd lot. They were
not made Of India cotton and pulverized
SPAR nor had they anything about them
peculiar. They were ordered and made
in the usual way. and al the usual price,
and any further quantities of them can be
procured at the.sam price. By the glass
they count so threads by &c..
Secondly The importation of these
goods at SO loY price. is no new thing.
They have intact been imported all along.
costing. until recently, only 9s. to los.
piece, instead of lbs. 3D., which was paid
for these. The present importer has been
in the practice Of buying them here at
l5 CTS. and selling them at II | 2 cts.-
The advance in England was such dis to,
make them cost just Is els. laid down
here, which caused the former importers
to abandon them, and the jobber was oblig-
ed 10 import them for himself.
Thirdly. The goods were not bough,iu
England with any reference TO this devel-
opemenf, nor with any reference, TO any
thing but the prof, of the business. The
developement is the result Of casual con-
ien.aelprs. -,
Fowthiy. The COTTON Of which the New
York Mills goods are made. is Z" fully fair
New Orleans or "MobiIe," and the raw
material of the English article is .appa-
rently the same. The raw material for
neither of them, at present prices, costs
more than two cents yard, as a pound
of the cotton costs but eight cents, and
makes four yards of The cloth. Cavillers
may perhaps say that the raw material
costs two and half cents yard. Let il
be deemed and taken " 10 be so.
Fitfhly. The weight of the two kinds of
goods is very exactly the same, bo! b weigh.
ing within two ounces of 90 l-2 lbs. the
100 yards.
SirthIy. The English article is as good
for wear as the American, for we know
gentlemen who have worn both.
Serenthly. We are now prepared to say
that the English article, taking its quail
ties in the aggregate, is better than the
American, and gaius in The comparison by
washing. This is proved by the opinion
Of dozens ofjudges, including manufaclu-
rers and Tariff men in large numbers.
who, when the washed samples have been
put into their hands, have pronounced al:
most unanimously in favor of the Man
chester sample, declaring that fhe best
The fact that The English article has sold
and is now selling al IL l-2 cents in COM
petition with New York Mills goods at
IA 2 cents side by side, is proof enough
Of their superiority for all mercantile pur-
poses.
Upon these seven declarations OF facts,
we beg our readers who are disposed or
even willingtu admit simple truth, to mark
it down in their minds that the regular
manufactures price for fine cotton fabrics
in England is not more than half the price
which is paid to American manufacturers,
for goods ofequal quality. -
There are some other facts intimately
connected with these things, which are
worth fixing in mind.
I. The manufacturers in Manchester
are making money very rapidly, a, the
prices which they now obtain. A gentle
man Of New York, or great experience,
and an earues, defender Of the tariff when
at home, wrote letter TO his friend in
this country BY the last steamer, in which,
speaking Of the prosperous condition of
the Manufacturers, he says !"there are
more than an hundred establishments in
Manchester which are clearing twenty-five
thousand pounds each (Sl20,0OO) year."
We read the letter ourselves. This fact,
and another, that the .Englishmen. are
building new factories and enlarging their
opera,ions,is proved by the following ar
licle whichwe cut from Wilmer & Smiths
Liverpool Times Of September 4,h.
"sTArs OF TRADE IN MANCHESTER.
We extract the following from Messrs.
M'Nair, Greenhow, aud Irvins's circular
The excitement, attended by an impor-
,ant advance upon some Of The articles, so
general al the date Of our last Circular. is
passing away; and The goods in question,
as you will learn from the details, are re-
ceding fast 10 the rates current previous
to The last movement Our conviction,
some time ago expressed, that high prices