Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1860-09-19


he DOstos 7sss~ seys she commerce Of
=, diverted. ssd nov the 0alcutts and India
Wsds = folio usog. More ohsn one hundred
lsss ships thss last ysas. shicb vas not more
than an average ons.) have arrived this eeasou
or since January let, 1t the port Of Boston A
large portion Of this lose 10 10 the Southern
trade, vi ich the Tyesslsy thinks 10 owing to
lack Of facilities fos prosecuting il, the bussssss
| now being done from other cities BY means Of
coasting steamers Other causes given are
that her msnufsctu. ere purchased great sup
ply Of cotton during 1860 which has hardly
been consumed yet. SECOND, 267, 900 barres
Of -four were received last year from New Or
leans, against 23.OOO this year. or less than
one-sleventh in amount Third, lees pork lard
hams. sugar, bides. hemp. de-. have been re-
csivsd this year in consequence of purchaser,
being severely caught" lsst year. In the
Southern markets this sea- on the purchases OF
Boston have been light, and great caution has
been practised.
The same paper goes OE TO say: Let the
Wes, and the North wsssern States have .
sssson Of prosperity again, 70 that they can
buy freely OF our msDufacturss and imports.
(which they have been hardly able to do at al
t>r three year, aud you would zee the trad.
Of Boston double itself In . few years. It makee
q vast difference to Boeton whether the pros
porous AMI money making State 10 Iowa or
Alabama. The former. If prospering. with
sbuudart harvssts and good prices. buys her
thousands where the other State buys hundreds
and ffties.
How very complimentary our East
crn neighbors are getting since large
crop has been raised ont here, and pros
porous times have once more set in
Almost every Eastern paper we pick up
now contains such unmistakeable marks
of attention towards our modest little
Iowa, that we are almost inclined to
think that those old fogy Eastern States
entertain strong ideas Of making her
matrimonial propositions. Don't Iowa
remember how that one year ago, when
she was a little out of sorts-just bit
indi.posed, that those Eastern chaps said
all manner Of bad things about her! We
rather think that she does, and we also
think that before any advances are toler-
ated some positive evidence of repent
ance should be produced, together with
sufficient guaranty against future i'm
prophecies.
The reason why Boston is becoming
so much ignored BY Southern merchants
is too plain to admit of being covered
up by pretences. Those commercial
relations which for years and years have
existed between the city Of Boston and the
South, and which afforded Boston much
gain, is dropping of and dying out, for
no other reason than that the unfriendly
acts of Abolition citizens of that place,
have made it impossible for Southern
men to do business there. Boston mer-
chants those whose wealth was
derived directly from their intercourse
with the South, subscr bed largely to the
Kansas fund, and even assi.ted in fur
nishing John Brown means with which
to institute his Virginia raid. 1t is such
uufriendly acts as these that are Grip.
ping the commerce of Boston, and we
are glad to know that many of her CON-
mercial men are finding it out, and are
sounding the alarm. 1t would have
been well for them had they discovered
their error and applied this corrective
years ago.