Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-08-26

NASHVILLE AS A POINT OF 1RApg-WHOLE-
SALE JoBBING BUsINEss.-It is questionable if
there is city in the Union, the trade OF
which has increased so largely within the past
two years as that OF the "City Of Rocks" II
exceeds, by far the widest visions of the most
extravagsnt commercial dreamer, and yet We
may say that as a wholesale point Nashville is
but in its infancy. During the past week, We
have taken occasion TO visit most of the whole
sale establishments IN the city and We find that
there is double the smoJnt Of goods in market
this season than has been known here at any
previous time. Aud yet our commercial men
are of the opinion that the supply will scarce
" be adequate to the demsnd. We have en-
tire confidence in their judgment; for O body
of business men more penetrating, shrewd or
correct 10 their estimates and calculations,
would be difficult TO find. They have given
the subject close investigation, and their
course is the result of col, calm and safe de-
liberation.
Il would be 8 work of supererogatiOn to
point out all the reasons which conspire to
make Nashville a place of great commercial
prominence. Suffice it that she is the metro
polls of a great and growing State whose re-
sources, agricultural, mechanical aud mineral
have scarcely began to be developed. Her To-.
cation is central from which rsdiates many
avenues of communication, which, when all
complete, will penetrate nearly every part of
the vast area of Tennessee as well as portions
of that of neighboring States. Her merchants,
buying as they do 10 immense quantities not
only from the importer, but in some instances
from foreign countries, can afford to sell their
goods at a cheaper rate TO the retail merchant
than the cost aud transportation of the same
goods purchased in the seabOard narts of the
Union. IL should not be forgotten also that by
purchasing here, the expensive delays, the in
jures from careless carriers, a heavy rate Of
insurance, and in fact the many perls and an
noying evils which attend 4 long shipment OF
goods, are avoided. The purchase of an excel
lent stock Of goods almost at home, and the
advantages which it cOnfers to all parties by
so doing should not be lost sight Of A saving
10 the citizens of the State OF a vast amount of
money, which would otherwise go to enrich
ing the Golfers of merchant princes and corpo-
ratious elsewhere, aud the building up of
common interest among our own people, ought
not to fail of eliciting the attention OF interior
merchants. And we are aware that many,
very many of them do fully appreciate these
things The fact is evident from the immense
and still Increasing trade of this city-the du-
pcated stocks of the older firms, and the adj
dition of several establishments TO the whole
sale houses in our midst. In behalf of the in
teresis of more of our country merchants as
we'll as the interests of all Others affected, we
invite dealers from the interior aud from ad-
jacent States who buy their goods elsewhere
TO give our city a trial. II cannot possibly
harm them to look at the goods in this market,
while it may be of great advantage for them %
do so.