The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1854-10-04


The FALL TRADr.--For some two weeks
past, the Fan trade ofthis city has been very
active and increasing. The scene On Pearl
street especially. Is one full Of animation -
The sidewalks are lined with boxes, packed
: I'd labelled, and the process Of shipment is
constantly going on with great energy. The
fipe stores Of that street are sightto crafty
every friend Of Richmond. every well wisher
for her prosperity. They win compare with
the Wholesale concerns Of any Of the North
ern ,sities, and their occupants are kept indus
tricusly employed by their country custom
ers. a# e
While this scene Of activity prevails in
Pearl street, there b general hustle and stir
among wholesale houses of every kind, in al
| the other business streets In no former year,
as we learn from the best authorities, has the
| Fall trade of this city been SO heavy. The
very best and most extensive merchants OF
the interior are buying all their groceries
here, and large stocks Of dry goods. Among
/ them are merchants who have been hereto
1 fore buying at the North. Men have visited
the North, and returned to make large bills,
finding out that they saved nothing by buy
| ing at the North, land preferring to avoid the
trouble of shipment from New York. Be
sides, they have less difficulty, finding that
the stocks here are peculiarly adapted to the
Virginia and North Carolina trade, and that
their wants are more readily supplied; i. e.,
their stocks of goods, suited to their peculiar
trade, can here be procured with less hunting
and knocking about in search of them
while the terms are Just as good as those in
the large cities.
One advantage the country merchant has
in buying here, is that he is nearer the men
he buys from, knows them better and can
the easier visit upon them the consequences
of any Misrepresentation of the quality Of
their goods or fraud in selling them, than
| when trading with northern merchants. And
every man who has dealt at the North un-
derstands that the ethics of Commerce there
authorize the seller to do the best he can
With him there are two sides to the con-
tract, he having only one of them to look af-
ter, and he does the best he can for that, leav
ing the other to take care of ITSELF
These considerations are having their ef
feet. Our Merchants have as good stocks as
can be desired, of both foreign and Domestic
goods, and the people ofthe country are find
ing it out, while no man goes through Rich
mond to buy his groceries. The improve
ment in our commerce is most manifest and
argurs admirably for the future.
| TELEGRAPH-Mr. Amos KENDALL, in q let
ter to the Editors of the Enquirer, states that
| the following rule has been established to
| govern communications with Richmond at the
Washington station of the Washington and
New Orleans Telegraph line:
| Whenever both wires not working, the send
ing of through messages will be suspended at ele
| ven o'clock A. NJ, Washington time, not exceed.
ing ono hour and hall, and for the period at
four o'clock, P. M and the Line will be devoted ex.
/ clusively to the business of Richmond and other
places on the way-wire; provid ed that If in any
| shorter period such business shall be exhausted
the sending of through BUSINESS shall be immediate
i ly resumed
This will be some advantage gained to
Richmond, which has been most sadly used
by the Telegraph. But sill it will be subject
to great disadvantage; for noimportant news
that reaches Washington after half past FIVE
will be sent on to Richmond. The press, and
through it, the public here, will suffer seri.
ously even under this improved condition of
the communication with Washington,
| Mr. Kendall intimates that it is designed to
build a new line to run along the Central and
| Alexandria Railroad. This new line is to be
built by the old company. For ourselves we
would much prefer new company, so that
our people would have the protection the
best in the world of competition. We trust
our citizens will have an eye to this matter,
and endeavor to secure the construction of
a Telegraph line by new company. 1t
would stir up the old one-increase prompt
ness and certainty in the transmission of mes.
sages and would increase business and bene
fit the people and the Telegraph companies.
THE CRoPs.-A New London fOhio) cor.
respondent of the New York Herald, saws
that the following is probably not far from
correct estimate of the damage to the various
crops in Ohio by the drought: II
Wheat (by drought and insect 40 per cent
: Corn ---.----.-....--.--.-..66
OAs- III TO II
Hay. than AVERAGE cro,
ffaft-- --..-----.-.---.--.20 per cent
The Iowa correspondent of the Herald es.
Inmates the deficit of corn in that State at
thirty per cent. Potatoes will fall short some
| twenty or twenty five per cent ssi,