The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1857-08-29
The Trade with Canada.

intercourse with Canada, has become as
free and unrestrained as between the
States Canada as q commercial field,
now belongs to US almost as much as i'll
il were annexed. In all our plans for |
the extension of our commerce it may be |
embraced as If it were already part of
our country. Canada West is advancing
IN wealth and population with steps al
most as rapid as any of the Western
states, and this prosperity has been ere
ated in a good degree by the free inter
course and the equal right to the enjoy
ment Of our works Of internal improve
mentS, and our markets with our own
citizens, which were secured to them by
the late treaty; Of this we have daily
Illustrations A company have recently
erected a large cotton factory at Thorold,
near Toronto in Canada, and one Of the
partners writing to the Toronto papers,
says the establishment will gointo opera
tion about the first Of September that
their first supply of cotton was purchased
at Memphis on the 18th Of August -
that it was shipped up the Ohio to Gin
cinnati, thence to Cleveland, and thence
by p:opellers to Toronto. The whole
cost of freight by this route is stated at
IS cents per 100 lbs. The cost Of freight
by sea and up the st. Lawrence
river-which would have been the route
it would have been compelled to take un-
der the old system of intercourse-would
be So per 100 lbs, thus saving to the
Canadian manufacturer, pa cents per
pound transportation.
The Canadians are now buying not
only their cotton, but taeir tobacco, their
sugar and molasses in our Southern
markets, and Transporting them through
our territory and over our canals and
railroads to their homes.
If the advantages in freight on our
fINcTc anu iOdQS 10 ~ III uSn eiCoeCi Shoh
by the river st. Lawrance, is it notprob-
able that many imported articles, such as
sugar from Cuba, coffee from Rio, and
other tropical productons-which would
be entitled to debenture If carried into
Cauada--may hereafter be purchased IN
New Orleans, and brought up our own
river and sent over our own canals and
railroads to Canada.
One of the advantages proposed to
themselves by the proprietors Of the
ThOrold factory, is that they can pur-
chase their cotton as they want it, at all
seasons-and in winter when the st.
Lawrance is closed by ice. their supplies
can be brought through the States on
railroad to Detroit and Buffalo and cross
ing the rivers at those points, can be
brought to the doors of the factory by
the Canadian Railroads. Their daily OF
weekly supplies can be purchased a,
Memphis, New Orleans, and Mobile, and
sent forward daily to the point Of con-
sumption with the facility. and with but
small enhanced cost, that q factory on
the Ohio river would enjoy.
This is but an illustration Of the future
course Of the Canadian commerce Will
the South-a trade that is to increas,
yearly with the rapid advance of tn,
Provinces. In contemplating it, ever
one must be impressed with the advan.
tages of our position to share in it. w,
are four hundred miles nearer the cotton
tobacco and sugar plantations than Gin
cinnati. We are but a little further
from the Lake Shore. We have di
rect line Of canal to Toledo, and ma,
have with little effort direct and con
tinuous line Of railroad to the sam
point, and connecting there with all tn
lines uniting with the Canada roads,
When the Henderson and Nashville roa
shall be completed, we shall have
direct communication by rail with a
the points at the South from which a
these supplies for the North will com
and we are at the nearest crossing poir
and on the most direct route. Shall W
permit this important trade to pass ou
doors, and go four hundred miles up tn
river to take railroad or canal Will
our own is lacking support. The owner
of the mill at Thorold, in enurneratin
the various routes by which they can OF
tain their supplies from the cotton field
do not appear to have heard of the Wa
bash AMI Erie Canal. or any Of the raj
roads leading from this point, or Of Ii
city of Evansville. 1t will be the dut
of our Board OF Trade to spread SON
light in that direction in regard to OF
means Of transportation, and local az
vantages for business.
KANsAs.-The st. Louis Democr,
has intelligence from Kansas, but up
what date, We are not informed. II