New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-06-22
DIRECT TRADE.

W. ...;,ss -, ,,ssiss 10, the arrival at Nor
fo,k Virginia of the ship Lone Star direct from
Horssennx. sFTasieS Wltn an assorted cargo q
ais vessel was dispatched to Nor
IN. ~ q, ;slliFsnf and sagacous French gentleS
,s,, X racouture, who designed II ~ the pioneer
r. ! IN, * vessels 10 be established for the paf
sf conducting direct trade between France
ana Virginia,
We are Elad u BID shle ~ announce the snccess
HI tbs venture The cargo of the Lone Star was
sold il auction III Norfolk The sale being attended
NV merchants from AL portions of Virginia and
North and The articles brought very salts
Factory Hill i've prices. Before the sale
was conefnied, d retsEn csEgo was engaged, CON
sistng of cotton grain, tobacco, lumber, etc.; and
tho ship starts on her retarn trip with every pros
pect Of its being profitable speculation both
ways.
All that was needed was for some one to inaugu
rate she enterprise and the feasibility Of direct
trade Was at once established. Common sense,
indeed would teach the people Of the Southern
Atlantic States that It'll needless waste Of money
to export and import through New York city,
when they have, themselves, greater facilities for
Thu business. @
Actual experiment. as IN the case Of the Lone
sense, we may look forward to the day when not
Virginia only, but all Of the Atlantic and Gull
States Of the South will establish, far a. pos
sble, their commercial Independence and export
and import altogether for themselves. y is AZ
once the interest and the duty Of the South to do
tlis her interest," because she WIN thereby save to
herself large sums of money now annually paid to
Northern shil-o#ners, factors, brokers and job
bers and her duty in view Of the sirrepressible
conflct,, between free and slave labor, which, we
are told ii ID be continued until gives place to
the other And yet il is not spirit Of retaliation
for wrongs either suffered Or anticipated, that the
South proposes to sever her commercial depend
ence upon the North but in the interest Of her
prosperity and power, and in justice to her an-
rivaled capacities for the attainment Of q glorious
and commanding position among the commercial
al well as the agricultural Communities Of the
earth.
It ii sometimes asserted and there Is force in
the assertion that commercial and manufacturing
pursuits are neglected at the South because agri-
culture is more profitable that # IS cheaper to
exchange cotton and grain for manufactured ar
tcres than to manufacture or import for ourselves
This is true in regard to many articles of manufac
ture but not all of them. But it is not true in re-
gard to foreign commerce. If the Federal Gov
ernment viii give US equality and justice repeal
the navigation laws-and let there be " free
fight,' and fair competition among the merchant
vessels of all nations, the South can have her COM
nerce conducted at less cost than ut present.
Certainly, there is no valid reason why she may
not save, at least the bonus which is now paid in
the shape of commissions and factorage, to those
| Who while reveling Id wealth procured indirectly
fronl the agrieulturalists of our section, omit no
| opportunity to abuse and defame that section on
account of its peculiar kind of labor.
| That New Orleans, as the entrepot of the valley
Of the Mississippi and its numerous tributaries, is
peculiarly fitted for profitable foreign commerce.
no one will deny. That this commerce is growing
greater every year, We have the evidence of our
own senses, besides the indisputable proof furnish
cd by official figures. Yet, tile import business of
this city does not bear its Just proportion to its ex
ports. We export from our own Wharges; but onr
imports, too many Of them, come to us by way of
New York and The Northern cities. This ought
not SO to be, and will not continue so long. Every
year will exhibit steady and gradual increase in
our imports which will be felt in its influence upon
the general prosperity If we send off every year
one hundred millions worth Of agricultural pro
ductions to foreign countries, we ought to have
something like that figure in correiative imports
When this is done-as II will be done In course Of
time ifs favorable influence upon the commercial
| interests Of New Orleans will be sensibly felt