The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-16

kxcoss OF imports over exports .... 81 ORC 31O
Iae Uade among importers and jobbers OF dry goods
may De considered for the season The large
auctpn houses have also closed sales until the opening
oil tn mii trade Accounts from England and France
spcal Of higher rates being demanded by manufacturers
for s0pse articles, and especially for cotton woollen
fabric which, ifcorrect will tend to check undue i'm
portatsns Tor the autumn trade. good many i'm.
porters have already sent out their ORDERS said 10 be
given with more discrimination while others have agents
empoyd abroad TO make selections Them taking the
best opportunities for favorable purchases The Chief
busnessono during the past week has been in the OK
port Of heavy domestic cotton goods including purchases
fr China, Africa, Australia and Mexico The exports
embraced a value $7a1o7 and the packages 1907
making total since January l, 1885, Of 20 157
packages. Fashion has much influence over the
consumption Of certain descriptions OF goods, espe-
ciaily those Of fancy character For many years
aces were almost dropped from use by ladies' when
the trade \ Nottingham, England, town devoted
TO the manufacture Of lace greatly langushed and which
caused muchdcpression in labor and in the business Of
the town. Within the last two three years the fash
ions have agin changed Ladies' now use immense qua.
titles Of aceyoods It appears their sleeves, skirts
and in the form Of capes, bonnets, collars. &c. The
weather es paronize the hand made thread lace Of
the Contnet while the humber classes and by far the
SuoeVhASt",
lsh machine made and Irish worked cotton lace goods
and SO cheaiy and well made are they supplied espe-
ciay Of the liner figured work. that at few PAGES of
the eye Of he unntated cannot detect from thread
lace. The ctton lace, it from the looms Of
Nottingham, 3 passed rapidly over tube placed at a
right angle 70 the web this tube is pierced with fine
holes hrougt which gas escapes and which being gnt
ed, burns OF he spcul@ "fuz' Of the lace threads
as the whob revolves through the fame. By this
process the thread becomes round, hard and CON-
pact closely resembling linen thread lace. II
is said that for some time after this new
invention camelnto use large quantities Of Nottingham
lace were sold, both on the Continent and in the United
Saes as pure dread lace The trade has now revived
and is carried toward on an immense scale. We heve
several large hoses in New York exclusively devoted,
the trade Cotto by the ingenuity Of machinery, Aab
insnuated itself tito almost every species of goods We
find 1t combined With silk and wool in great variety of
forms, and SO connected in its combinations as in mea
sure to escape detection. It is now almost impossible TO
obtain flannel good blankets silk vestngs reason
able prices, which not mixed with cotton 1t also APP
pears in hats where II is made to pass muster for fur and
SILK Bombaznes, which formerly made OF wool and
silk, are now largely made Of cotton and wool. cotton
thread in drawing out is given certain twist, which
gives It complete surrounding coat Of wool, and
the exact appearance of Q pure woollen thread
This universal deterioration OF woollen and silk
goods by cotton admixture in a cold climate,
very deeternns IN health There nothing so healthy
with children persons of feeble health or impaired con-
ttutons pure light fannes worn next the skin and
especially in a cold and variable climate like this; and
hence to cheat such people by selling them cotton mix
lures for the pure article not only dishonest but des
ructive to health and life During the past week drills
in good demand, at cents for browns brown and
blcached sheetngs and shrtngs also in steady de-
mand at unchanged prices. Duck was also steady at
prices about the same. The changes in other articles
not Of sufficient importance to justify notice in de-
tail In foreign goods there sufficient doing to
require any extended notice. while the market was very