Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-01-02

DS- We publish lsasday eur yearly "'o' VI
from this point, con pairing those OF tue year Ju''
closed with th9re OF the year last preceding lhe
table is carefully compiled from our weekly ana quar-
terly reports and is nearly accurate as such
can be made although We have lille doubt that the
aggregate falls below the actual amount. Or course
our merchants are the best judges of their own ons
ness and it is with them to give or withhold m"on
of the information upon which such tables must ne
based but il to US that the press IN getting up
such tables in the general interest oil trade has some
claims for cooperation from those whose interests
are connected with such matters single Hem III
our table has been the main cause OF our making
these remarks We allude TO the exports OF wheat.
70 32 bushels is the whole amount OF exports which
our reporter has been able to obtain, although We
know from the business Of the Wilmington and We'll
don Railroad, that much larger amount-more than
twice as much we think three times as much
arrived here, the greater portion of which has been
shpped STILL as we have remarked, our reporter
must base his tables upon such facts as the mercan-
tile community choose to impar, and therefore the
amount stands as stated. We again call the atten-
tention of our merchants this matter. 1t is their
business and their interest," more than ours, that
full exhibit of the business of the port should ap
pear.
Upon the whole, it is pleasure to us to say that
the export busness of 1856 has been better than that
of 1855. The export of Spirits of Turpentine, Rice,
Cotton and Timber and Lumber somewhat in adj
vance of the previous year and at average rates
rather higher than those ruling in that yeaE. AS we
have said before, things must eventually find their
level The peculiar of this section have been
depressed for unusual length of time, and pres
sure and embarrassment has been the consequence
extending to all branches of business. The fact that
the production of cotton has afforded and still af-
fords remunera.ive mode OF employing la
Dor ard capital, must tend to restrain the diffusion
of the naval store business al the South thus bring
ing the supply within the denard, and of course,
restoring the equilibrium of prices, from which
will result the establishment Of rates equally
remunerative with those generally ruling in other
branches We are therefore in lDpes of gradual
improvement in business and The return of better
times, which are certainly needed here as much as
any where. We look hopefully the future.
We trust that the Legislature in session will
revise portions, at least of the Revenue Laws
of the last. There is section which We know
operates detmentay to the trade of Wilmington, in
common with the other towns of the Safe. We al
Jude to that imposing tax of five pc: cent. upon
liquors, Wines cordials, etc. The direct operation
of this law is to place the North Carolina merchants
at precisely that disadvantage compared with those
outside of the State, thus driving off business not
y in the articles referred 10, but in others, which,
with them, 60 to make up stock Of goods, especial
Iy groceries, and which are generally purchased to-
gether, that the trader from the interior, who is
driven to Petersburg, Norfolk or Charleston, Tor his
liquors. is very apt to purchase therci also other
goods, which, under different circumstances, he would
have obtained in Wilmington some other North
Carolina market