The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-01-08


Boomerang-A Noble Fellow, etc.
INDIANA TRADE WITH ST.. LoUIs-The fol- |
lowing article is from the Washington, Davies
County, Telegraph, published within fifty
miles Of Evansville, within our own State:
Have our citizens reflected a moment, and seen that
the completion of the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad 10
is place has placed in the very suburbs, as were,
Of this great commercial emporium Of the West? Itis
even so. We can now start from home, and be IN ~.
Louis in less time than it took former occasions to
ge to V.ncennes. This Oeing the case, we would beg
leave 20 call the attention of business men 10 st.
Louis trading point. Heretofore they have done
their trading Cnci matt and louisville but now we
feel confident they viii change it to St. Louis, because i!
is undoubtedly their interest to do so.
1t It's true there some articles of ira le which may
be had lower al Cincinnati than at St. Louis These
certain kinds of dry goods and other articles that
brought from the East but when it groceries
favorable nace ST which to buy Them They come from
the South, and if you buy them Louisville CineH
Iat you have to pay the expense Of taking them up
and then bringing them down again, whereas if get
them at ST. Louis you only have to pay shipment.
We believe the freight cargOcs the road have not
vet been Dermaneutjy established but II ia slrposcd
that the charges to Washir gton will be about fort! ccis
on the hundred. Cur merchants have heretofore been
pa lug from onedollarO dollar and twenty cents
the hundred from Louisville Then suppose that gro
ceres to be had at ST. Louis the terms at
Louisville, and you sc very nice tIa saving. How
ever we have doubt but groceries sell much lower
at ST. Louis than at any point further North,
These remarks have thrown in merely To call the
attention of our citizens to their Own interests.
With merchants it is not necessary to at
tempt to refute the many errors Of fact in the
above paragraph, for they will see that all the
premises Of the article are false. Evansville
can under sell st. Louis in all the articles
enumerated, more than the whole cost Of
in this State; and Evansville can and does
supply the country within sight Of the smoke
of ST. Louis, and upon the railroads which
she has made heavy sacrifices to build in
order to gain the trade which some Of our
enterprising houses are taking from her,
Our active and intelligent friend Dexter, from
one of our largest and most energetic
houses, is pushing his incursions for trade
into the very suburbs Of the great city, and
if they don't look out, he will get within
their walls. And all the circumstances and
course of trade favor him. All groceries do
not come from the South; none but molas-
ses and sugar legitimately come from n. Or
leans. Numerous pondeYous and bulky arti-
cles come from Pittsburg and points up the
river; the freights and insurance on these are
double to st. Louis what they are TO this
place. Those that come via New Orleans are
brought to this point for ten to twenty per
cent less freight and insurance than they are
carried to St. Louis. The rents and costs
business in ST. Louis are ten fold whatthey are
here, and consequently larger profits are nee
essary to sustain them. St. Louis has no
banking facilities; the cost Of exchange to
her in the purchase of goods is a material
charge; her currency is reduced to gold and
silver, and every merchant from this region
who goes there to trade must submit to a
shave of one to three per cent. on his cur
rency. But fact that should have weight
with every citizen Of another State, is the tax
levied by Missouri upon her trade, for the
support Of her State government. All goods
sold in St. Louis-if we are not in error
pay tax Of one per cent to the State, and
citizen Of this State. buying $1,000 worti
of goods in St. Louis, pays a tribute Of ter
dollars to the Treasury Of Missouri. ART
there any citizens of Dayiess- county SO bind
ed by local jeaIouses, that they will pass
by city of their own State, which can seryt
them BETTER and become the voluntary trbu
taries to the exactions Of another. State
Communities of the same district are bounl
by common interest. The interior canno
prosper or decline without affectiagits natura
commercial points; the cities of trade canno
prosper without the advantages OF their gain
being extended to the country around them. !
part of the capital Evansville may accumulate
she will naturally expend in improving til
facilities Of her intercourse with the country,b b,
which, the country would be as much benefit
ted as herself, and in which the country vii
receive back all the benefits it had bestowed
by its trade upon the city,
We will venture to offer in the name OF GU
merchants, that every bill Of general grocerie
bought in St. Louis, shall be duplicated il
Evansville, with saving in exchange and ex
penses Of one or two per cent. to the pur
chaser. It can be done, and then leave GU
merchants a larger profit than can be mad
by the dealers in st. Louis. These mistakes
efforts to divert our trade may have som
temporary effect, but selfinterest AID tn
natural course Of events will bring it back.
or Mr.. Toombs, in his letter to the South
ern Convention, proposes as the best mode c
reaching Northern abolitionists, and promo
ting Southern manufactures to levy d!Scrirn