The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-19

sresrcad stores, whore small country merchants
~,st up" IN business, cash under the patronage Of
some wealthy planter, sells Ct retail fAe merchan-
Daubtless in many instances, M. Sullivan says,
nc planners, Uh0 JeeI sensitive on the subject OF
sdoeyy at this time, toiH induce their prot0ges to
20 70 ne Scxthern cities 10 buy sohaf they scGrt
@ ye @cs, s wat WI bs the effect Of Inc
ana the country merchants, instead of buying them
person at the North, will purchase Of the South
ern Jobbers, who have themselves purchased Of the
aspects Of t. question Mr. Sullivan thinks IT pro-
bable that neither to the South TO the West aoiU
as many goods be sent this year as usual. In the
West there ID nolmoney; and in the South, because
nsss has ssso gsDSS and 1'r s:a ns
will regulate the market, as they have al
ways done; and the political excitement,
while it may cause trade to flow in different chan
pels, cannot affect reduction OF the quantity of
goods sold, divert from Northern cities the influx
Of lucre occasioned by the sale. Generally the
Southern clothiers buy clothes ready made in
Northern cities, or buy the cloth here and have
Southern jobbers will buy their cloth here, and
haze the goods made up in the Southern cities and
there sold to the retail dealers. This, of course,
,ciu be 70 the disadvantage Of the ,oholesaie dealers
IN ready made clothing at the North
]. R Jahray 4 Sons, importers of laces. No. $50
Broadway, have received no intimation from their
Southern customers Of any estrangement growing
ont Of the public excitement with regard to slavery
Their business with the South Is extensive, and has
been for fifty years past Probably they would be the
last to feel any evil effects from the present condition
Of national Affairs for the firm has dtcays stood sceu
scith The Southern merchants. Its agents, most Of
them Southern men, ore travelling in the Southern
States, and none Of them have yet met with let or
hindrance. Orders are received daily from the
South, and the Southern merchants in their com.
Municatons, do not breach the subject of politics.
They do not hold back their remittances, and are
purchasing az many goods as is their wont at this
season OF the year. One Of the members Of the
firm expressed the belief that those houses ,ohich
abolition doctrines soiu lose much Of their South
srn custom IN the present crisis, and that those
which have not permitted themselves to be mixed
up in politics will sell more goods to the Southern
J.&A. Petrie l. Co., No. A Park place and No.
80 Barclay street, importers of silks, ribbons and
trimmings, sell great many goods to the jobbers
Of the argO cities of the South. Mr. Petrie says
between the transactions Of the present year and
the last The representatives Of the more ex-
tensive Southern houses are in town, and are
looking about them with q view to making
haze been made, though business is quite as
brisk now % It was last year at this time He how.
ever, anticipates that the Southern business Of his
own firm, and Of other importers, viii be increased
nent It is the country merchants at the South,
doing business in little places back Of the seaboard
he says, who probably will be compelled by their
customers to buy their goods at the South, instead
times done. But the result will be merely that
the jobbers in Charleston, Nashville, St Louis
and the other large Southern cities, viii pur.
chase more goods, at the North, in order to
seek must come from the North-and II the
Southern merchants take this course, the New
York Jobbers, who commonly buy from the I'm
lorters here, and sell sgain TO purchasers from
goods this year, and the New York importers
will sell more. The trade with the South win
be quite as large as ever, but 1t may flow through
different chapnels; While our reporter was con-
q Charleston jobbing merchant in the store, ex-
aiming goods with q view to purchasing them,
who minated that he should have to buy more
than usual this year. In order to supply the country
Dexter, Lambert & Co., No. $40 Pearl street,
manufacturers of silk fringes and trimmings, have
houses in New York, Boston and Philadelphia, and
deal largely with merchants from all parts Of the
country. They have no anticipations Of falling
off in their Southern trade. Although their winter
business with the South has not fairly commenced,
yet they have sold more goods to Bouthem mer-
up to this time last year. Mr.. Lambert holds to
the belief that politics have nothing to do with
trade, and he thinks the Southern merchants are Of
the same opinion. He has his own political creed,
and does not hesitate to express it, and will not re-
press It for the sake of dollars and cents He il
willing that all who buy Of him should have theirs;
but he ccnceives that merchant DESTROYS Of pur-
than the price and the quality of what he seeks to
Affect him, as far as the mere business transaction
h concerned. Mr.. Ivan Tailof, q Russian gentle
man connected with this house, travelled in many
many orders for goods. He says he was every.
where treated with cvility, and politics, in connec-
ton with matters of business, was never once
preached to him.
No. 254 Canal street, importers of embroideries
and white goods, say their scattering trade with
the South during the past season has been quite
large as 1t was during the same period in the year
q prompt with their remttances as ever. But the
regular Southern trade of the season has not COM
menced with them, and does not generally begin
before Feb l. Their dealings are principally with
They seen, inclined to belieue that unless the
public excitement 10Th regard to the sla-
uery question is speedily Guayed, the South
ern trade .cA suffer. One of the firm,
through the South and West, says that two months
ago, when he left the South there were NO intima-
dons there that business with the North would
be at all interrupted, but he thought that euery day
nat the excitement ,cdS continued the chances for
q brisk business rith that section diminished.
The merchants at the South had enough stock on
hand to carry them through year. He denounced
the course Of the HERALD, which. by predicting
evil, was bringing it upon rs, and Doomed the
eeetion, without delay, Of Speaker insthe House
olRepresentatives, far a. the prosperity Of the
commercial relations Of the two sections of the
country was concerned, q sine qua non. It was net
ht merchants who had brought this state of things
np!n the country; they had no interest 10 raising
political tempest-quite the reverse. II was the po-
lititians who thrived by such agitatioas, and who
lxGted themselves TO foment them. Charles Scott
kOo. have large Southern trade. About twenty-five
per cent Of their business is with the South. The
irn has high reputation at the South. A rumor
which was current that one Of its travelling clerks
lad been tarred and feathered In Georgia and sent
lone s not strictly true though Il Is founded in
act. The clerk had in his possession one Of Henry
Ward Beechers sermons, which he had picked up
It Macon, Ga, and which was deemed an incen-
liay document by the people Of Columbus, in the
anne State. He soGs, therefore, tnoited to leaue
be latter place, and he accepted the limitation.
mt he not dressed in coat of tar and feathers.
Rne of the members Of this firm said he had heard
stated that there toere Southern merchants at
be ST. Nicholas Hotel soho had come North to buy
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