Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-09-18
[Rroln the Anzlo.saxoni Sept. 12.l

/ INTERESTS OF TUE u. S.. is THE EAST INDIA
TRADE.-Weffnd by the published reports of
the Boston Board of Trade, that the money
value of articles imported into Boston last year,
/ from Calcutta alone, amounted to Sc. 9s2, 5B6,
\ employing a fleet of seventy weight ships; and;
| that up to the LIST August of the the present
year, no fewer than one hundred and nine YES
sells were expected to arrive in the port of l{os-
ton from the EnSt indies All idea Of tho vast
increase of this trade may be lladwhen we state
TINT twenty-five years ago, some half dozen
small vessels, averaging from 200 to 300 tons
shficed for its purposes, whilst now the ships
| engaged in it are frequently capable:of loading
two thousand tons. This increase in size of the!
vessels engaged in the American trade with the
East, was necessitatcd by the bulky nature of
the articles shipped, and has led to the estab-
| lishmeut of a new shipping port, Ellengunge,
4 twcnty-seyen miles southeast from Calcutta,
and fifty miles nearer to the mouth of theriYer
than that port z=2.s 5ss8i $3.50
Itwould be clearly impossible within our
limits to enumefate the various rticles of dnily
fuse and prime necessity which this tradc@snp-
lplies; amongst them may be mentioned jmte,
sugar, rice, castoroil, shellnc India rubber &c;
amongst the more important, and those, which
may be said to form the staple articles, arc salt
/ pGtre, indigo, hides of various kinds, gunny
cloth and bags, and linseed. The cost of those
five products alone amounts to the sum OF So
i0T0 lTS. The import lastyear ofasaltpetre, fig
/ place Of shipment, Ss90,9T4 The increase of
! the growth of corn in the Western STATES, and
IHe use OF gu1Hy- D1gS IN IT'S transportation MS
being the strongest and Oh eapest material pro.
curable for the purpose, has led to their innnr-
tation IN vast quantity. In 1902 over seven
millions of these bags were imported into Bos-
ton. Gunny cloth was found to answer for bal
| ing cotton about MS well rs the Kentucky bag
cling, and at a much cheaper rate; ithas cone
/ qnently become an Important article of import,
over fifteen millions six hundred thousand yards
having been imported into this port last year.
| Tho manufacture of linsced oilshas greatly in
creased in this quarter within few years and
irecourse has been had to the Calcutta market
| for the supply of seed, and its importation
thence now amounts to thousands of tons an
fnually. The quantity of the linseed nowsyearly
received Mt tho port of Boston from Calcutta
astonishing as it may seem-amountsv very near
| IL tosthe quantity of Indian corn received dur
ing the same period the seventy ships that
arrived at Boston, in 1855, having brought for
lty-siX thousand two hundred shipping tons of
linseed-say ono million three lidndred and
lcighty-seven thousand nine hundred and forty
four bushels, being over five hundred and ninety
tons average for each slip. is= AL ss zSszS5=.
1 Bills of exchange are now drawn upon Lon
4don for the grain, gold and cotton forwarded
! from the United States, andsin liquidation of
these bills American vessels receive their car
j goes of eastern PrCdncein Calcutta. Within
dia in the hands of the natives, this trade would
i of necessity languish and ultimately perish.
Inthe hands Of any other power protective and
selfish restrictions on tile Intercourse of foreign
I flags, would be attended with the same result,
and the merchants would be forced to turn their
eyes in search of other employment for their
ships.