The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-02-03
IFrom the Richmond Examiner, Jan. % !
The Wants CT the Rebels.

From the Richmond Examiner, Jan. %
+ The Wants CT the Rebels.
PROPOSED TAXA GOVERNMENTAL SNUG
CLING ASSOCIATIONS FIFTY MILLIONS CAPT
. TAL-How THEY PROPOSE TO DO 1T.
1t is high time that our government, rail
road companies manufacturers and mer
chants were devising some plan of import
ing such articles into the South as ar,
j required by the public wants. The goDeTn
heeHt needs arms and many of the naateriok
and substances employed IN the arts. On
railroad companies use many things which
cannot be manufaetured in the South, OF
even at the North, and which can only be
obtained abroad. The case is the same
with manufactures. We are establishing
new factories of various sorts, which are I'M
able to 60 into effective operations on ac-
count Of the scarcity of many of the materi-
ais used in the arts which can only be
procured from Europe. And it would be
much more satisfactory to our people if the
merchants of the South acre employing their
! enterprise m rus7i7sg European goods through
| the 6lock0ds, rather than smuggling Northern
goods across the border
| he risk of obtaining these much-desired
| articles and substances is too great to be
| left to private and individual effort. The
cargo of single vessel costs the fortune of
an ordinary man, and it must not be ex-
pected of individuals to run extraordinary
risks. The work can only be undertaken
by strong combinations, embracing several
and large interest, among whom the risk
may be divided. IF the government were
10 enter with the railroad and manufactur-
ing companies of the South, and the i'm
portakt merchants into combination to i'm
port % the extent Of tsoenty o.. .ffty millions
Of dollars so0rth Of assorted carqoes, and if
fourth, or even a bali, of the vessels making
the importation should be captured, still
the enterprise would be successful, as a
profit OF a hundred per cent on the goods
coming in safe would make up the loss.
If, besides such a combination of capital
as we have mentioned on this side, a cor
responding combination of firms were form
ed on the other side of the ocean, for ex.
porting to US the same articles and wares.
then the risk of capture would be still fur
ther divided, AID profit of a hundred per
cent on goods safely brought in would adj
NIT OF very heavy loss of vessels without
entaiiing loss on the enterprise. 1t would |
be simply the application of the principle |
OF mutual insurance on a large scale to the |
running or the blockade, an operation in |
which ordinary insurance will take no
risks
Besides supplying many kinds of goods |
and merchandise OF which we are in much |
need, besides furnishing an organized |
scheme for fitting out our Southern forces |
with improved arms besides contributing |
many facilities 10 the success of our young /
and growing manufactures, and greatly |
assisting our rail- roads ia conducting their |
important operations, the organization OF |
such system would be attended by perma-
nent advantages to the commerce of the !
South. Our merchants will have been I'M
tiated, by this means, into the business of
direct trade with Europe. Correspondence
would be established and acquaintance
formed that would open vast business be-
tween the two countries. Trade would
find its way into channels which it had not
known before, and have established itself
IN settled courses before the peace would be
declared. 1t would be of incalculable sad-
vantage TO the South if peace should find
Us with a direct trade already organized |
and in full operation with Europe The
tendency Of our merchants, on the close of
the scar, aeiU be at once to rush off 30 NeIo
York and 10 TeAe10 TIE old system OF transac-
tons broken up 6y lie qear, and nothing can
prevent this recurrence to that system ex-
eept an already organized and digested sys-
TEN OF direct trade with Europe in actual
operation.
LOU vi iAAitA-CNl1tC tAeeuS present Tue most
urgent Inducements to the early organiza-
ton Of asystem of combined importations
from Europe on the mutual insurance plan.
The ether benefits of the system are Incl
dental. So far as the com bination on the
other side ofthe ocean is concerned, we are
IN formed, and believe, that no difficulty ex-
lists. The only desideratum is the eombin-
alton here. When European merchants
furnish the cargoes, supply the ships and
run the blockade, they want to find an
equally strong combination on this side to
take charge of the cargoes and assume the
control of sales. They desire, moreover, to
furnish such merchandise as is most urgent
" needed here, aud will pay the largest
prices and profits. They wish to ell orders
from this side, and not to labor under the
Of eenjecturing the things
which will have with us the most ready
sale. If left to their own con lectures. they
may fall into the error of sending Goals to
Newcastle and to run a blockade in doing
that thing would beneed less pains indeed.
We trust that some combined steps will
speedily. be taken in this direction for oar
necessity fer some Of the substances enpLo4ed
IN the arts is greater than Il aoostEd be agreed
bic to confess, and the proposition il one
which presents large advantages, not only
during the tendency of the war, but for
long time afterwards.
5 GEN. LANE AND GEN. HuNTER.--The pub
Tic mind has been thrown into much con-
fusion bv The late order of Cen Huntar in |