Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1859-11-08
Inland Moyamaut of Cotton.

1t is gratifying to find that very active
movement OF cotton northward and eastward
by inland routes has begun. Not only is
carriage more cheaply secured but an mpor-
tant stimulus to manufactures in the very
quarter where manufactures are most needed
is given. The south can do better than to send
its vast cotton crop wholly to Liverpool Or
wholly away by sea even to the manufactur
ing cities of the Atlantic coast. The con-
sumption of cotton goods in the interior in
crc;lses in geometrica ratio, almost with every
year of peaceful extension of population,
and even when fierce war is wased by the
administrators of the government upon the
independence Of It's industry, we gain some
thing by the dead embargo which falls upon
business. In 1853 the interior was as effectu
ally cut off from the purchase OF foreign
cloths, from simple poverty, as our ancestors
were under Jetferson's embargo by compul-
sorry prohibition of imports. With a half
blind perception of the truth of the former
case, these interior States now struggle to
develope resources at their own doors, after 4
fashion, and perhaps many of them will ul-
timately come 10 see that If 4 thousand bales
of Tennessee cotton could be simply carried
up the Mississippi instead of down that
river, and could be woven by hands in Hi
nois and Iowa, not only would the cloth
come more cheapy 10 the consumers than
BY way of Liverpool and Germany, but that
some OF the wasted grain of that fruitful re
glon would be taken by the workers. When
will the sensible men of the upper Mississip-
pi valley look II this question with even ordl-
nary sagaclty?
During the year ending August 3lst last,
the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce report
states that there was received at Cincinnati,
1876 bales of cotton-the highest quantity
in any previous year being 10000 in 1856.
OF the first named quantity, 500 bales
were shipped up the Ohio river and 80, 400
bales were sent BY canals and railways
northward. Philadel pha received in 1888
$4,000 bales of cotton by railroad from the
west, but for 1859, we are unable to say
what quantity has 50 come II will probably
90 above 10000 bales. But the largest re-
ceipt of cotton for the northern interior is
now over the Illinois Central railroad. IL
is stated that torty-one cars were loaded at
Cairo with cotton in single day of last
week, and 1000 bales were sent over the
whole line of the road during October. for
the factories of western New York The
record of transactions in cotton is not cur
rently given at st. Louis, or Cincinnati, as
it should be, and still more important is the
existing neglect to note the direction ship
ments take from Memphis, which is the
the great cotton mart for the production Of
Tennessee and part of Arkansas. The ship
menis from Memphis for the week ending
Oct. 22i are definitely given, however, and
they stand 1T 1889 bales 10 New Orleans, To
44oI sent northward by river, of which 1919
bales went 10 ST. Louis, and 211jS to the Ohio
river and Cincinnati Whether there are
other shipping ports from which cotton goes
northward we are not aware, nor whether
the Kentucky railroads carry it. Probably
100000 bales will so reach the manufactur-
ing establishments of this city, and the coun-
try west and north Of Us from the crop of
1859. since 10000 bales of last years crop
came to Cincinnati alone. The western
commercial interests will oblise US by max
ing note of this new trade, and by pushing
it with vigor.-Philaielphia y. american.