Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1860-09-07
1.s,tser from Now York.
[ Correspondence Of the Richmond Enquirer
New YoRK, Sept 4.

The Black Republican organs seek 70 ouny
the South on account OF her aimihisheu coth
crops, and the probable decrease IN Inc
present years yield Of cotton: Ihey ooast Oh
her supposed entire dependence upon inc
Northwestern free States Tor gram; anu that,
in fear Of a famine, they dare not be TOO oold
in the assertion Of their rights. This is moon
shine. The South, ever since cotton has be-
come its chief staple product, has, in prefer
ence to raising all its grain and provisions
been a large customer to the free States Oh the
West for its supplies, the loss OF which would
be as seriously felt by the latter, as would the
Eastern free States feel the loss OF their market
for their manufactured goods.
Were the necessity forced upon the South to
divide her labor, she could as easily raise her
brcadstufEs and provisions as her cotton. len.
nessc and Kentucky supply large amounts OF
corn and provisions to the cotton districts Oh
the South. And in the New York market TO,
day, Kentucky white wheat commands 81 og
per bushel, which is above the market price OF
any other wheat sold in this market Inc
money article of the "World, ~onlu nave US
believe that the South bought goous oeyohu
its depth, the past year or so, ana t'at II Is now
unable or unwilling to pay lor lhem' anu tla'
adventures from the South SUCCEEDED III get
ting credit for goods below cost: 1t states t'iat
"some Of these adventures from the ooutn
obtained large quantities oil goous from 'eaa,
ing Broadway jobbers, on the security OF iand
warrants, Texas lands and patent rights. Ihese
parties had been attracted to the New YORK
markets by the newspaper reports, laudatory
of the South, its wealth, credit and stability.
The opportunity seemed to them favorable 10
,...t - 1Lo o,ol,l;tr of Tho North
What ridiculous twaddle!
tits a well established fact, based on the plain.
est and most irrcfragible figures that, it it had
not been for the Southern trade, during the
past two years, resting on two oil the largest
cotton crops ever grown in the country,
the panic of 1857, at the North, would nave
ended in widespread if not universal bankrupt
cy. During the two years referred TO- Inc
Western trade was measurably SUSPENDED, WIN
debts hanging over its merchants and people, OF
S31, 600, 600, including Missouri, the trade OF
which, is entirely confined to the Tree otaeeS
and Territories, to the North and West OF st.
Louis, while the South proper, has a deot OF
only SIS, 600, 600, and the Middle States one OF
SlSs, 600, 900, and New England SOL, ooo, ooo.
The idea Of the "World's" money article,
that Southern merchants traded on LEXIS
lands and patent rights" to New YORK Iier-
chants for goods, is certainly quite novel,
The World intended to astonlsh the outsloe
world, by the brilliancy Of its money articles,
and, to give them more interest, Their author
seems to be as completely secluded from pub
lie knowledge, as the author OF the "Juhius
Letters" Yet everybody knows that they are
written by an amiable English gentleman, oy
the name Of Grierson, who, like many other
worthy countrymen Of his, is not without ms
prciudiccS against the South. lie formerly
wrote the money articles for the Evening
Post" and, at the present time, writes Tue
dry goods report Of Becchcr's Black RePubll'
can campaign paper, the independent.
The fashionable churches we're re-opencd
last Sunday, and were, as a general thing, well
filled. Beecher held forth at his tabernacle,
known as Plymouth Church. He has grown
moderate and more conservative oil late. ouo-
scriptions are wanted for his new church, pro-
iected on a very expensive scale. conservative
men do not come forward as willingly rs ue'
sirable. This may tend to modify his extreme
radicalism, which now is confined pretty much
to his campaign (Lincoln) organ.
With the view of making polltica! capital,
the "Tribune" and Post" have made them
selves very busy Of late, in trying to detect
vessels fitting out at this port as slaVers. Inc
| former has announced one or more vessels as
being about to engage in the slave trade, on
grounds, which their owners denouncc as ut-
terly false. We learn that the result is that IN
one case the owners or agents OF q vessel thus
assailed, have taken measures to prosecute inc
Tribune" in the United States District Court,
for libel, and have laid their damages for a large
amount. They state that these attacks on
their shipping is calculated to lnJure Their
trade, destroy the reputation Of their vessels
and dishonor their personal reputation. 1hey
say that if these groundless suspicious and
malicious attacks continue to be made against
all engaged in the Legitimate African trade,
they will tend to destroy it and to leave it
entirely in the hands Of the English, who have
already monopolized the Lions share.
Owing to distractions thrown in our way by
British cruisers on the coast of Africa, our
trade during the past nine years has, on an
average, been nearly stationary; within the
past five years-as will be seen by the follow
ing table-shows very little alteration:
Exports to Imports to Total.
1851. 81, sO4, 97o $l,3SG,5Go S1,l9l,532
1853, 1'G7s,a5o l,54s,7ll 1921, oGO
While our trade with Africa has been in 1
cripplcd and stationary condition, that between
England and Africa has been largely augment
cd as will be shown by the following table:
Exports. Imports. Total.
1850. Sc, i97, l45 S3,O24, $50 s6,22l, 935
1854. 4,744,o45 4,51s,17o 9,2G2,2l5
This trade is Independent Of the British Colo.
MES of Sierra Leone, the trade Of which in
1854 amounted to sl,42l,sG5 and oil the Brl-
fish Possessions, on the gold coast, and the
d. FN...I., or,o,Ss1~ 4 n z I hIT OSI moro
aud those Of the Cape Of Good Hope and in
South Africa, swelling the amount to $50 900
more, making, in all, an aggregate of over
s23, DOC, 900 for the Western coast of Africa
entire.
Since 1854 her trade has been greatly aug
mented, and while she has established regular
lines of steamers which ply along the West
coast as fur South rs the Cape of Good Hope,
she has since then, largely increased her
trade with the East side of Africa, and at this
time, the whole value Of her trade probably
reaches between &c, and 10000, 600 annually,
Our tables of exports and imports Tor both
this country and England, are for Africa, ex-
| elusive of Egypt. What our shipping mer-
chants in that trade complain Of is, hat no
sooner is it known that they have a vessel up
for Africa, however legitimate their purposes
OF trade, than she lmnleuiateiy l"iiS 'i'u Lax
surveillance of the abolition organs and their
pimps. Their captains and owners are sub.
jected to every kind Of annoyance, in the way
Of frivolous and impertinent questions from
their reporters, which, if not promptly an
swered, whether injurious to their private bust.
ness or not, straightway they see themselves or
their vessel alluded to in anonymous letters, or
in editorials, as being under the suspicion of
being about to engage in tile slave trade, to the
serious damageoof their vessels, and the char
acter of their houses. They declare that they
are compelled to defend themselves in our
courts, or to abandon the trade. While our
merchants are subjected to this nuisance in our
ports, English traders, without the slightest
rnalactntion con clenr in ENGLISH nnrlS with Biz.