Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-05-28
RigUMOND ENQUIRER.
s.T1ixD,Y morning. MAY 20. 1850.
,nopTS ar pRrADSTUFFS.

Britain and Ireland have fallen oil within elst hoh's IL
less than hall the amount exported IN the corresponding Pc
Id e lao, ,e,r And from the following table, cut from
rho New York Shipping List it will appear that Indian corn
b,s become regular article of export from our large export
inc ,owns This important fact well considered ny
yiroinan Ii adds another leading item to hef export pro-
,7ons Tobacco -four and corn though not equal 10 cot
ian ar and rice articles for domestic and foreign en-
mar, ore nevertheless of sufficient consequence In e mar
, ., ,ba world and extensively enough produced IN IT.
o; - sunoort respectable mercantile marine And, we
b.leve il il admitted all hands, both Norm ana oou
,ba, nothing wanted 10 make the good Ola common
wealth quite commercial State, but 10 hro" OH ue s''sh
,o,o - which we have been reduced by Yankee skill
and Yankee ckcry. We have ample means 10 carry on
direct trade with Britain and maintain our own line
OF packets by steam wind if had but the independence
and the will 10 do H.
rho manufactures of Northern neighhors and with SO
much success 10 hc that they have 80 far gotten the advan-
f NO ,I,, they now manufacture every thing we want
iran, r coats 10 collars; they make candies and che
mc, our beer and bread and is confidently predc'ec
thai after the they will feed our chickens anu
mil the ows-al they ask in is the entire sur
nina If our crops of tobacco wheat and corn the proceeds
of rho sale OF all the slaves 10 the Southern markets.
md few disaec,ed who may be picked up and IN
suced 10 run away nothing more but their KIND hanks
accompanicd with few abolition pamphlets or school BOOKS
fo Tho ed6caton of the dear children Never from The
DAYS of Tyre Sidon did people prey with more cor
moan appetite upon other than the Northern nave upon
rho Southern Like Phaoah's lean kine they have devour-
ID ~, the rich productions of the South but unlike those,
bev have fateDed and waved strong IN the lana More
like ,warms OF ocuss they have spread over all the poduc
ve parts the country and taken to themselves The fc-
est substances with which, sagacious as the bee OF me
Ant they return make comfortable the inhospaee coun-
rv from whence they came mpoverishng both land and
peope through the of their knowing TINS
from childhood-from the early days oil wooden nut
meps md Yankee peddars vet cursed with morbi-
dry of appetite which nothing short of northern SH6uoS
or Yankee frbelors can possibly saae WELL "a long as
this disease xss they have much right to make lawful
prze of all we have as quack doctors who administer
their universal nosfrums unparalleled low prices TO old
customers dstempeed magnatlons, occasoned oy
sleeping with full somachs. The remedy against eo'h
about the ian empty stomach an unciad oacR ana
no more money! having most powerful capacity pro-
duce wakefuness to clear the misty diseases OF the
Imagination and reduce plethora in all its forms.
had enough of the disease which has hung
over us like deadly midew for half century, in
fair way in few years catch sufficient Of the
remedy produce OF wakeuness and probably
little more clearness vision We might well appeal To
our fair counrywomen to stir up their husbands with the
poker and they would do il too if could only be made
fashionable 10 eschcw everything Northern everything
that could MAKE al home, do without purchase from
abroad They would do 1t; yes, that they would But
how can il be made fashionable THAT the question Sup
pose we appeal to the industry the ugay and general
economy of the ladies' which know exist among them
high degree. WE'LL ladies, these things fashionable
nj the North Take for example, the business Of making
straw hats and bonnets, NOW coming into for the
son. and will BE- By the last reports, that
capital 81 4j5 300 then vested in il; that in 1870 the
value of the manufactures in this branch amounted 10
= 70i 3i2 more than FIVE times the value Of all the flour
ported from Richmond in year
1t ascertained few years ago that although some
portion this branch of business carried in other
of the United States, yet than fire thousand per-
sons chiefly ,romen and children North and East of New
York were pro!taby engaged in it, Thus, when we pur
chase straw hats and bonnes for children should
feel reproached that even in these little articles
bu,ng the mpoverishmen Of country and our fam
lies and enrich those who have already contributed seve-
raj millions OF dollars for the preparation and circulation o.!
abolition and incenday documents and for the protection
md support runaway slaves This know is fash
onabe Now appeal 10 the ladies 10 change these bad
fashions rapidly circumstances will admit In the dead
hours OF the night when deaths half brother heny
Is upon every limb and when the weary hours betoken
new aggression if could but hear the npous prayers
heaven from the bcnnenaking tribes, for lighting mp the
torch the midst Of sacred homeseads there would be
dream which would from its socket woman's mos,
tender eye penetrate that than midnight darkness
which vershadcws our downward course.
EXPORT OF BREAD STUFFS,
From the L. States 10 Great Britain and Irelnd since