New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-11

In our statement of yesterday of the amount of
foreign merchandise that passed through the Mobile
able goods. To this is to be added the sum of $685.
SIS Of free goods, making the total imports as fol-
lows:
Dutable goods. .......................s s524l95
Total ........,......$ $75s,O70
The amount might be, and ought to be, greatly
augmented. and there obvious modes of doing it.
First, to let it be universally known among Southern
country merchants that there ample imported
stocks in Mobile to buy FROM witout going to New
York and Boston and this it is the business of the
importing houses to do by advertising and second,
as WE'LL and as good terms to price and tme in
Mobile, as they can in New York. BY this means the
interests of the public, the patriotic object of deve
opng Southern trade and Southern independence,
and the private interests of the trade, are all sub
served and promoted. The subject is worthy of the
consideration of all immediate parties to it, and by
the Southern public at large 1t is in the hands of
the people in the interior, and especially of the
country merchants. If the latter will only show a
disposition to buy their imported goods in Mobile,
instead of going to the North, there will be no lack
of stocks out of which to supply themselves And if
the people in the country planters and other buyers
will give preference in their custom to those mer
chants who lay in their stocks in Southern port,
those who buy at the North, the effect will
be manitesty apparent in the growth of the Southern
direct trade with foreign countries
to New Orleans and the country customers of New
alton of both. The North enjoys all the advantages
which flow from the possession of the import trade
almost exclusively, yet those imports are paid for
almost exclusively by the expectation of Southern,
slave-grown products. But for these products, the
North could not import at all, comparatively speak
ing.
is ftobl cto fa of
things-has continued altogether too long-and
should not be allowed to continue much longer. We
believe that all the country merchants of Louisiana,
Texas and the surrounding States, would, if they
gave the experiment fair trial. find it to their inter-
est to lay in their supplies in New Orleans instead
of repairing to the Northern cities Several country
merchants, to our knowledge have done so, and this
is the manner in which their custom transferred
from New York, Boston and Philadelphia to New
Orleans: They came here, on their way North, and
were induced to examine stocks, prices, terms, etc.,
of our importers, obbers and merchants generally,
went on North, examined stocks prices, terms, ETC.,
there, purchased very little, returned to New Orleans
and laid in their principal supplies saying that they
could do better here. Should this practice so auspi-
ciously begun, enlarge and become universal the
consequence will be that the imports Of New Orleans
will soon be on a scale commensurate with her ex-
ports. All hands, and the country and city gene
rally, would be largely advantaged by such consum-
nation.
| Rocky ToMB-A number of hnman bones were
recently found near Louisville, embedded in solid
rock. They were found by some laborers who were
engaged making excavation, at the site of the pro-
posed Water Works. From the fact that the rock
also contained fragments of pottery, stone arrow
heads, and bones, the Louisville Courier infers that
the spot where they were found was formerly al In.
dian sepnlchre.
| CATERPIILARs.-The Minden CIa,) Monitor of the
| Sd inst says:
The caterpars are making their appearance much
earlier than usual this spring. Many Of our shade
| and forest trees are already covered with them
aud 1T is presumed that we may prepare ourselves to
| be annoyed by them during the entire summer.