Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-01-21
P1cEENs COURT HOUSE, s. c. SATURDAY, JANUARY al 1860
Direct Trade in Charleston.

merchants. a sound patriotism and discrim
mating Judgment has peryadcd all the ttices
that have met our eye. An earnest desire
seems to be sincerely entertained to sustain
the merchants of Charleston in their endea-
vors to place our Queen City in her proper
station ns leading seaport Of the world
But we detect, in some, indications of an idea
that no direct importations arc made in Char
lesion, and hatbettcr terms can be obtained
OF jobbers in New York. To combat this cr-
ror, and in some degree to convey more ac-
curatc nformatOn we propose few words
At the outset let us premise, that to no
great extent do jobbcrs, in any market, i'm
port the goods they sell Aud the retailer
who buys his stock in New York, thinking
that he is buying of the importer, grossly de-
cevcs himself. Importing is II business of
itself, which completely absorbs the capital or
dinarily commanded by mercantile tirms-
The importer sells by the case to the iobber,
and the iobber, by the piece or pieces, to the
retailer, who sells to the consumer by the pat
of modern trade The simple question nut
to the interior retailer is, Will YOU sustain
the Charleston jobbcr or will you sustain the
New York jobbcr who arc equal competitors
for your custom?
The Charleston and New York bbcr alike
purchase OF the importer, who is mainly an
agent in New York of foreign or domestic
man utacturerS. The manufacturers no matter
what his goods may be, sends them to New
ork for market, through local agent in
that city, and he will send them to Charleston
IN the same manner If sufficient market for
goods be created here. For the very reason
that there are no manufacturers agents in
! Charleston, our jobbers importmore often than
the New y ork jobbcrs, who can obtain any
desired article, by sending n few streets or
! blocks Here are no large Stocks exclusive
| to certain departments of trades, sold only by
the BALE case, or other measures of bulk
! We select ut random tho following direct inn
portations of last Thursday, in evidence of
the variety of such importatiors made at this
port:
Per ship Caroline, arrived from Liverpool
! December 20. Salt, to James Welsman ;
bark Ncthcrand, arrived from Rottcrdam
Hay, to G. o. White; ship Othcllo, from
| Liverpool, Hardware, to Williams d Price ;
Coal, to John Schnicrle; Mdse, to 4. & II.
B. Mckenzie; Earthenware, Potatoes, Oat
Meal, to j. bones Rum and Wine, to Xii
nick, Wickonberg 4 Co.; Ale, to Rcvcnel &
Co.. Cotton Thread, to j. Il s. p. Rcvcncl :;
Nails Hardware, Chains, to Courtney, Ten
ncnt u Co.; Saddlcry, to Love and Wicngcs
Pots, Camp Ovens, Covers, Chimney Backs
to Nj. Ogivic; Iron, to S. N. Hart & Co. ;
Hardware, to Graveley & Pringe; Iron Pots,
Camp Ovens, Covers, Buiscuit Ovens, Skill
cts, Spiders, Hardware, Hollowarc, Ovel Iron
Sheet Iron and Bar Iron, to j. f.. Adgc- a.
Co; Hardware, to Hyde Gregg g. Day ;
Mdse, and Hardware, to Hyatt, McBurnoy d
Co.; Bottled Ale, to r. b. Chapman Earth
cnware, to Webb u Sage; Bags, to r. r.
Walker; Hardware, Chains, Nails, Pans to
III. i. Strohcckcr Mdse, to Crane, Boyston
u Co.. Stationery and Books to Gourdin
Mattlhesscn Co.. Bagging, to j. Fraser Il
Co.; Nldsc, to q. a. Trenholm; Machinery,
to ). q. Railroad Co; Earthcnware, to Brown
u Palma: Hcrrings and Whisky, to Gibbs &
20. Mdse, to Johnston, Crews & Brawley );
Hardware, to w. H. Morton.
A large class of goods, in common usc
throughout the South are of Northern man
ufacture whose dcpots are located in New
York, as for example; clothing, boots and
shoes, hats, and the thousand-and-onc small
convcniences of every day life. large amounts
of capital are there devoted to their mannfac-
turc, and so long as the interior retailer at the
South will sell such goods, there will exist cs-
adjustments in Charleston for their supply
Charleston merchants are like merchants eve
rywhere, they will keep what people will buy
and it is perfectly, utterly idle to expect any
different condition.
The pertinent suggestion to all is, shall a
leading market be built upin Chareston?-
Shall our jobbcrs double their business and
manifold their numbers? When they do, i'm
porting houses, agents of foreign and domcs-
tic manufactures will be established here, and
bounded warehouses will rise on East Bay
Foreign manufacturers have no intrinsic in
terest in New York. They will establish
branch of their houses in Charleston wheney-
er the market will warrant Trade is scnsi-
tiye--it gravitates, railways will Markets
create merchants, but merchants do not create
markets
The question, then simply recurs upon
how shall our jobbing- houses be sustained and
strengthened Manifestly only by interior
merchants seeking market here This can
not be done in a day Or a season but the
| commencement may be made at any timc.--
The extent of country naturally seeking a
supply market here, is large enough and rich
enough to create all the trade that Charleston
can conduct Should this trade concentrate
here--shoud our jobbers find their stocks
readily eXhausted-the manufactures will
directly establish agencies here, and we shall
possess an original market limited only by
the amount and extent of its custom. Our
harbor is ample, and all original facilities pro-
vide literally by nature Charleston Mcrcl,, y.
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