The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-03-20
Evansville as Wholesale Market.


command large wholesale trade in groceries
and dry goods. We have the advantage of
three important channels of distribution, the
river canal and railroad while great regions OF
country are reached by our Green river and
Wabash packets. These availabilities for the
quick and cheap transportation home of goods
purchased here, have already built up a large
and rapidly increasing wholesale trade in Ev-
ansville. This season our Dry Goods and Gro
cery market will offer additional inducements
to those dealers who have been in the habit of
patronizing this market There have never
been so extensive stocks of Dry Goods opened
IN Evansville, as there will be this season.
There is no necessity now, if there ever was
before, for merchants going to far distant cities
to find large stocks And as for prices, there
is enough competition to keep them in healthy
state for the country merchant. We presume
any ordinary Cincinnati bill can be duplicated
here. We have already noticed some arrivals
of spring goods for iobbing, and the market
will soon be full We invite the attention Of
country merchants to our jobbing establish
ments, and we think after one trial ofthis mar
ket, they will save the expense Of visiting far
distant cities, and much heavier freights on
their goods than they will have to pay if they
purchase at this point. Our merchants, who
ship from the east hundreds Of tons. can make
freight arrangements from ten to twenty per
cent. cheaper than those who only receive a
few boxes a season. Freights from the East
Z to Evansville are but very little higher than to
Cincinnati. Rents, living, clerk hire, &C., are
cheaper in this city than in Cincinnati, which
give our jobbers an advantage. We say moth
ing of the long delays occasoned by visiting
the East and up river cities. as that will strike
every dealers mind without further sugges-
ton. Our Dry Goods trade is increasing every
year, and new jobbing establishments are
starting, Offering wider field for the exami
nation Of dealers. Merchants from the Wa
bash, White river, and Green river valleys,
annually visit this city 20 purchase Dry Goods
and Groceries, and among them are men who
!, have had long experience in purchasing at dis
tant markets. and who give Evansville the
preference. We advise country dealers who
have never tried this market, to make US visit
for the purchase offspring and summer goods,
by way of comparison. Those who have pur-
chased here, need only to be assured that they
will find larger stocks and moro complete than
ever before.
AS a grocery market, Evansville has become
widely and hvorably known. We were as
sured last fall by Vincennes merchant who
had just visited nearly every wholesale gro
Gerry house in st. Louis, that all the staple ar
ticles ofgroceries could be bought incomparably
cheaper at Evansville than in that city. II
we can offer advantages over St Louis, there
is certainly no reason why we may not sell
cheaper than Cincinnati, when her heavy gro
ceries have to pass Evansville, and the most
difficult part of the lower Ohio navigation, to
reach that point. For months in the year
when Cincinnati is actually cut off from the
Southern markets, navigation is good to Ev-
ansville-so that our merchants are rarely
without full stocks of fresh groceries, wher
the markets above are about bare, and conse
quently all articles in which there is def
cheney, are above the market, or what the mar
ket should be- Our merchants are now wei
supplied with fresh stocks. They offer every
inducement to the country dealer. There il
no department of business in Evansville which
has been marked the last year by heavier in
crease than our grocery trade. This is simply
because the advantages of this market are be
coming more widely knownand more generally
appreciated, for there have been no additiona
avenues Of distribution created within tina
time. 1t is noted fact, that sections during
the last year have traded with this city, anC
promised to continue doing SO, that never pur
chased here before. Doubtless this year w
. shall have visitors from parts Of the country
that never till lately turned its eyes toward
this place as a wholesale market. Its to sucl
j, we are now addressing ourselves, for It's unne
cessary to speak of the advantages Of our gro
Gerry market to those who are accustomed t.
dealing here. We ask these others to give ouI
Evansville merchants CALL and see for them
selves, whether they cannot buy to more ad
vantage here than elsewhere.
- THE IRIsHMEN AHEAD-The German Dem
ocrats have received another rebuke, which
they are expected to swallow At the la
ward meeting of the Democracy, held las
Monday evening, Councilman Mentzer, an Oh