The independent press. (Abbeville C.H., S.C.) 1853-1860, 1860-03-30
SOUTHERN TRADE.

Domestic Industry" we make the following
extract:
To these acqantcd with the nature and com.
rlicatcd operations of commerce, it is plain
enough to be seen that Charleston can under
sell New York, even il the goods be first landed
there, and pay duty to1he New York Custom
! House. Goods are either imported by large
dealers, or sent out by foreigners to agents, to
sell 10y the case or large quantity. These i'm
| porting houses, or agents. are bound to the
! JobblnS trnde not to break packages. or sell in
| such small quantities rs to interfere with their
who violates this rule, must expect to lose the
custom of the jobhing trade, not only Of New
York, but of Charleston Chicago, Cincinnati
ST, Louis, Louisville, Nashville, and other iobb.
ing cities and towns scattered over vast country
Now, We wis our readers to understand the
ground work: That imported goods first come
| into hands that are bound by the strongest ties
to tho wholesale dealer, morc commonly termed
Jcbbing merchant, who purchases by the pack
! nge and retails out TO merchants n class of
smaller dealers located III towns. villages and
country places; this class rf men sell immcdia-
tcly to the customer. The ji"bhing in turn, is
bound 20 this latter class Of merchants not to
interfere with their customers, hy selling small
quantities.
We will now try to illustrate the subject hy
following Southern merchant to New York
where he may desire to purchase an assorted
~
or fifty thousand dollars even The last named
sum will not procure him admission into an
importing or agents stock. ! f ne insists on
buying flom such houses, the price will be tx
ed at much higher rates than the jobbing mcr
chant pays, and the custom Of not break nr
packages will almost invariably rule him ont
and he is, of necessity thrown into the hands
Of the jobbing merchants of New York the
keenest md most alroit dealers known in the
world--men who live by their wits, and who
cannot sustain themselves except hy exorbitant
profits. just for moment look nt things rs
they really are. johbing merchant in New
York, pay ing from fifteen to thirty thousand
dollars u year for store rent clerk hire, from
one to six thousand dollars n year; having two
or three partners IN the concern each living
in palaces at the most rrinccly expenditure
compare this picture with the same class Of
merchants in Charleston, where the most com
mo'lious and best located stores rent from fif-
iecn hundred TO two thousand dollars, and
where clerks arc now begging, for situations
willing to pay their own board, work, and re-
ccivc no pay for the first Year or two, while
the most expert receives FOR their services but
from five hundred To two thousand dollar n
year Can you not see that the Char!t
j"hber is able 10 sell Cheaper than the
Iorkers2
Merchants of the city. town, village and
not been trea'ling unpr"iitable paths, and, if
persevcred in. will Eot ultm atcly lead your
country to rain. Your notions Of mercantile
thriitnre warrc.l by errors Elaiing as those
by which Abolition fanaticism is urged on at
the North The Charleston Wholesale mer-
chaIt3 a. n class, have as good credit rs any
in the world They purchase largely, and pro-
cure their stocks at the lowest rates
The trade of New York is Of 4 different class
altogether; one hal! ana probably three .fourLhs
of them live from hand to mouth, under cx-
orhitant and extraordinary expenses, they buy
Today and sell TO o-I::orrow aic in many instances
reckless Of character, and pay higher prices
for their goods tlan good reliable merchants
do. ii they cheat man this year who lives
fifteen hundred miles of. and lose his custom
what 10 they cnrcl-the next Year brings two
IN his place. So great are the profits made
by merchants in New York, that every six or
eight years uf tai" sailing and undisturbed
commercial prosperity. transforms n large nrm-
her OF those men of straw-jobbing me rcl,ants
into millionaires. But when n monetary crisis
overlakea them. they nre swept of into bnnk
ruptcy by the hundreds.
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THE EXCITING NEWS FROM MEXICO.
The dispatches from New Orleans show that
the intervention of the United State. in the
civil wars Of Mexico: so long deemed inevitable
has Mt length become fixed fact
1t appears that General Mramon commeno.
cd active Operations on the city of Vera Cruz
on the 5th That on the evening of the 7th m
attaekswas made, in force that this attack
was repulsed by tho Liberals tha. the steam.
ers Gen. Miramon and Marquee, in the service
OF the Church party. were captured by the
United States navy forces, and have arrived
at New Orleans, rs American prizes, in charge
Of Lieut.. Minor.
Vera Cruz ranks as the fourth port the Mex.
lean Confcd Grafton ; Acapulco Mazatlan. and
San Bias, surprising it in commercial inporta n
ee. Its castle which completed commands IL
was taken by the French, in 1926. It was next
bombarded and taken by the United States
forces under command Of General Scott, in 1884,
Al. lis population in 1854 was little over g.
900, having dwindled to that poiat within q
quatter ofa century from 10000 principally
off by the more healthy and rising town Of
Tampico, 2l5 miles north-northwcst of Vera
Cruz, on the lake Of tho same name.
MIramon, it appears, approached Vera Cruz
on tho Goth ult with 5000 men and numer-
GUS train of artillery and ammunition stores
and encamped four miles from the city. His
headquarters were at Mcdelin. Miramon had
surveyed the city several times from sand
hills. His principal generals Robles and
Negrete. All the inhabitants fled ut his ap-
rroach. The city was in tho best state of de-
fence. The garrizon numbered from 5000 to
1000 men, and was we'll supplied in every res
pect. General Ig!cspa Twas in command, with
AmPudla rs chief of the artillery force Col
Lane, an Englishman commanded the new sand
fort recently erected near the city, mouting
sixty eight four-pounders.
On the the 1Gth Colonel Rivaldo, who COM
manded one of the principal forts on the
southern side, wns detected in a conspiracy to
blow up the fort OIL Miramon's approach, and
the latter was to enter the city on that side.
Thirty of the conspirators were banished from
the city, and Colonel Rivaldo was condemned
to four years imprisonment.
Marinis Havana expedition had raisedsfhe
MeXcnD mt nf ha Hay harI rIor
AS far as was known, the plan was to lnud on
the coast at or near NJ delin river. aud thence
communicate with Mrnmon. The steamers
had on.board large quantity Of ammunition
and stores. and twelve twcnty.four Founders.
Sc veraI other vessels had sailed from Havana
on the same mission. A we'll laden schooner
was known to have sailed on the 16th A bat
terry had been planted at the north of the
Medelin river, and six or seven schooners rig
ged as gunboats, mounting sixty -four Founders,
wers, were stationed along til coast to intercept
this expedition, which was however rendered
lun hxyf ha ofi nf fho al