The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-11-12
Revenue FROM CusroMs. We ha7

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should occupy in her commercial relation to L,
balance of the Union. the vast disparity between
our exports and imports Let us look at the
figures, and they will furnish abundant cause
for humiliation The received maxim in polit-
ical economy is, that a country IS prospering,
when she exports more when she imports, but
this is upon the supposition that her people are
making more money than they expend. Such
! is not the case with the south. The south is a
producing and consuming, but not a manufac-
turing country. She consumes to the amount
Of her exports; but the exchangeable values
she receives in return, are either manufactured
in the north or in Europe, and received through
the medium of northern commission houses and
agents and by northern ships. The articles of
necessity and use purchased in Europe by our
cotton, sugar, tobacco and rice, are brought
back to us, not to New Orleans, Mobile, Sayan-
nah and Charleston, the ports from whence
those products are shipped, but to northern
ports, to Boston, New York and Philadelphia
The operation is a common one, but TO the
southern consumer rather an expensive one, for
he is the one that eventually foots the BILL
The northern jobber or distributor buys from
the importer, paying him, of course, his profits
and the for acredit Of four or six MONTHS
the jobber in turn sells to the southern mer-
chant, receives his superadded profit and inter
est for eight or twelve months. The producer,
who is also the consumer, pays the shop for
this complicated and expensive operation.
Let US look to the operation of the production
and export of the single article of cotton. The
value of cotton grown in the southern States in
1856, the 1927, 345 bales, at S45 per bale,
amounted to S158, 763,O95. Of this, we send
over to Europe 2,946, 291 bales, amounting to
the.sum of 1888, 585,O95. The balance or diff
ference between the crop and the amount ex-
ported, is manufactured mainly at the north.
The exports of southern products during the
past year may be set down as follows: =
Tobacco, ESTIMATED to be the same
as last Year, IA 600 GOO
Rice and naval stores lumber and slaves, 100000
Total :. 1888. ls3. o95
Of this sum, the north, it is estimated, have
received clear profit of not less than thirty
per cent. Some fix the amountas high as thirty
three per cent; but take the former sum, and it
will give for one year alone profit to the north
ofS45, OO0,O OO of which sum 81 900 900 was
paid in freight alone. >g..~.. .
Ut the cotton sent coastwise to the north, We
take from Massachusetts alone; in return, in the
shape of fabrics for wear, near $50, 200, 900.
We besides get from the north, or through the
north, our shoes, our hats, and every other ar
ticle of clothing. Then again, we look to them
for our plantation tools, ploughs, shoves, spades,
hoes, saw and grlst mills, cotton gins and sugar
grinding and sugar making machinery.
The total exports Of the north, for the past
year were, in round numbers, $4,000, 600.
including the re-shipment of Southern products
against the sl53, $500 900 exports of southern
products, making difference in favor Of the
south Of 1913, $780, 900 of exports. 49,.
Now, to equase truly our relative positions,
here should be corresponding difference in
our imports, IN s'ayor of the south But how
stands the case? We have the official returns
before u.s. For the last four months-June.
July, August and September revenue re-
'e1ved from customs at the six principal ports
the Union-New York, Boston, PHILADELPHIA
New Orleans, Baltimore and Charleston-l
mounted to s21, 682, 600; the three northern ,
lttes receiving of this S2O,51O,O0O; and the '
hree southern cities S1,372,OOO The ex-
ess for 1856 over the same period in 1855 is r
"a, 625, OOO There was collected the present c
ear over four hfths of the entire revenue at the il
ort of New York, and last year something
yer three-fourths c. c.
Therecelpts ofthe customhouse in New York, OF
n the above four months, were Is, 348 600: Il
Boston, 81. 529, 900, and at PHILADELPHIA, e'
!, 459, 900; while at New Orleans they were n
100000. And yet Ne~ Orleans exports more m
an New York, and more than the other cities III
mbned. Such are the inequalities in the az
rrents of trade [Bulletin d.
The LABOR MARkEr.-The real condition of DE-
lngs IN this community, with regard to the de
lations of supply and demand in the labor It
arket, is vastly different from what it was two Sc Sc
airs ago. We no longer hear of furnishing w.
cling girls, able bodied persons vainly seek, on
: employment, and throngs q people de- TIL
ndent on soup kitchens for they daily susie h hs
nee There is now decided Scarcity of la GU
r. Openings for employment with liberal nc
npensatlon, are offered on every hand, for
N and women. The laboring population, as ma ma
lass, are independent and need ask no ia mi rn'
rs. Even servant girls deport themselves an
n unwonted dignity. They must have isl
use up town, or down town, as pleases them ..,.
It; and without water in almost every sto- on,
and all the "modern conyeniences ," fh4v is
mot acceptof a situation, except as special cal
Or At the Labor exchange of the com x xo
'sloners OF emigration, where it's customa- at
to receive applications from the country for 7
1cultural hands, also from railway contrac- Alt
5, ETC., the demand exceeds by MANY times o Of,
ability to supply, but it is likely when the the
season sets in, the case will be reversed nur
ome extent. The demand for female helm err'
'ever, and other occupations suitable for al
men is so general that no surplus is antici- fou
ed, certainly for many months to come Ma
Shirt Sewers Union established few the
RS ago in aid of an oppressed class of girls, l rn
ar from extending assistance is now glad to Ma.
eve It, but experiences difficulty in procur- T
sewers, at increased wages. A wholesale on on
1ufacturer of clothing, who three years ago nj
'Ioyed fifty persons exclusively in cutSne mot
ments, now finds much greater difficulty in dies
ing his work made up, with half that num- ~ Il
OF cutters though wages are TWENTY-FIVE r ,e.,.
cent IN ad vance of the rates current at The ISL
ner period. of I
n explanation is found in the general pros am ann
ty OF the various branches Of labor: but r reh
rn0ff