The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
The TariR...New Orleans and the
Northwests

Since the establishment Of the Sout bern
Confederacy there have been good many
manifestations Of its progress as an inde-
pendent government; the latest, however,
being the adoption OF the clearance system
in the New Orleans Custom House for the
river steamers running on the Mississippi to
ports in the States which have not entered
the new confederation. Thus we find among
the New Orleans clearances for Saturday,
March 9, the following steamboats,, bound
to cities in the non-seceded States Of Ar
kansas, Tennessee, Missouri and Kentucky:
Steamboat Jas. johnson, for Nashville, Tenn.
B. Dufield.
Steamboat Era No. 2, Moore, for Camden,
Ark.--Master. - ~ '"-
Steamboat Hannibal, Lee, for St. Louis, Mo.
81. D. Fulkerson.
Steamboat Ferd Kennett. Briefly, for st.
st. Louis, MOI. D. Fulkers0n.
Steamboat T. C. Twichell, Phelps, for st.
Louis, Mol. D. Fulkerson.
Steamboat Peytona, Leyden, for Louisville,
Ky.-B. A. Bell & Co.
This is the first time that river steamers
on Western waters were obliged to obtain
clearances; but as these boats are now
looked upon in the light of vessels sailing
for "foreign" ports. of course such an obi.
cation is considered necessary, and it is
very significant of the change which has
already taken place in the relations between
the two sections of the country.
The New York Herald, remarking upon
the above facts, predicts that European
imports arriving at New Orleans, or any
other city within the limits of the South
ern Confederacy, and paying the low duty
prescribed by the Southern tariff, will
unquestionably be shipped by these Mis-
sissippi river boats to all points in the
Northwestern and the Border States, with.
out any regard for the exorbitant provi.
sions of the Northern MORRILL, tariff, which
takes effect on the first of next month.
This MoRRELL tariff imposes burdensome
tax upon iron, cotton goods, woolens, and
all those necessary articles of which such
immense quantities are consumed in the
Northwest, while the Southern tariff is
that of 1857, now in force, but which is to
be still farther reduced by the Southern
Congress. A direct trade will Immediately
spring up between Europe and the South,
and we would not be surprised if the mer-
chants in the Mississippi Valley, within a
very short time, would make their purchases
at New Orleans. The Herald predicts that
the Southern trade, under this impetus, will
extend I" as far north as St. Paul, Mime.
sofa, and as far east as Pittsburgh" to the
exclusion of the eastern markets.
The N. Y. Evening Post is fearful Of the
same state of affairs on the Atlantic coast.
1t says:
We happen to know that there are import.
ing houses at this moment preparing to take
advantage of this opening for an unencumber-
| ed trade. They are getting ready to convey
| their cargoes to Charleston or Savannah; the
| goods will be landed there, and then brought
coastwise to New York, where, being import
aCOnS from D port WNnin tne Ohlon, Ihey VIII
| be subject to no duty. The new tariff, with its
| strange formalities and ingeniously devised de-
| lays, forms an additional inducement with
| them to take this course.
What remedy is there for this incongru-
Gus state of affairs? The only one prac-
ticable, that we can see, is to acknowledge
the independence of the Southern Confede-
racy, and then enter into treaty of COM
merce, to prevent evasions of the revenue
| laws,