Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1865-09-21
Attest,

From Harpers Weekly OF September 10.
We are in September, and it is now safe to say
that the fall trade OF the city of New York will be
the largest ever Town. The country is buyn &
goods in unprecedented quantities, at prices not
far below those OF the period when gold was at
$50. Payment is being general made in cash;
where credits given they are short. Western
men, from every State, arrive in the city with
wallets stuffed with greenbacks and national cur
rency. OF the latter such large amounts have
been brought to town that the banks incon-
venienced, and are packing it up in bundles and
sending it west for redemption. There 10 hardly
a branch of general trade that is not unusually
active and prosperous. The dry goods and hard
ware dealers can not keep any stock on hand,
though the importations and the product of the
factories are unprecedented the produce men are
as busy bees; the grocers can sell all the teas,
coffees, sugars, ard spices that can be pushed
through the custom house, without once going to
look for purchaser. Not even in the height OF
the war, when any thing was deemed better than
money! was the trade of New York city more
active or more profitable.
Nor is the South far behind the West in our
markets. Notwithstanding all that has been said
about the poverty OF the South, pu chasers from
that section are arriving here in droves, and al
seem able to pay for what they want VI course
merchants not over-anxous to sell on credit
10 the men who made the rebellion an excuse for
cheating their Northern creditors. But every one
is willing to sell for cash; and this, or cotton,
which amounts ~ the same thing, Southern buyers
seem 10 possess to an amount entirely unexpected.
Even to places which were overrun by Sherman, in
/ his great march, goods have been sold for cash
within the past months tor hundreds OF thousands
of dollars, and the money paid in greenb icks
One little store at Wilmington, north Carolina,
established by Northern men. Is seliins S,VUo VI
goods a day-all for cash cotton.
/ A curious Illustration of the effect Of the war Is
afforded by the nature of the purchases which arc
being made tor the South. Before the war the
chief commodities required for the South were
Injuries, such as Silks aces, wines Jewels etc., on
the one hand and the coarsest kind OF dry goods
and farm implements the other. Now the
South is taking no Jewels, no silks or wines, and
but small quantities of the class OF dry goods
formerly used tor the of slaves; but there is
no limit 10 the Southern demand for 4 fair qutiity
of iry goods such as North ,rn mechanics use, for
groceries, and for every description of tools and
machinery. The white trash, for the first time in
history, are making themselves elt in the market,
rice planter and slave ramosed.
When we last spoke of the probable quantity of
cotton to come forward from the South. We NEIL
toned that the best informed men estimated the
stock on hand at 500, 900 bales. Ii is now clear
that this estimate fell considerably short of the
truth. But il was so geIerally received that the
price has been maintained; and i! the South have
Only 2,0000OO bales, this quantity will net its
owners more money than ever before realized
/ for a single crop. bale of cotton will now buy
fifteen barrels of flour instead of five as formerly;
FIVE barrels of sugar instead Of twice as much
dry goods and thrice much hard or tin ware as
/ II used.
! No one is drawing attention to the emigration
| from the North to the South. Yet it is very
remarkable feature of the times. Before the war
the Charleston and Savannah steamers charged
SIS and $40 for cabin pas ages, and did light
business. Now. the charge is $50 for cabin and
S25 for Storage, and the steamers sail 40 fall that
to secure passage application must be made
several days beforehand. similar increase OF
business is reported the railroads running south
through Ohio and Kentucky.
Nor 10 this at all to be wondered at. A COM
pstent neutrality-suspicious., brcklayer, carpenter,
mason, engineer, weaver, shoemaker, tailor,
baker, blacksmith, tinsmth, or miller-can now
command wages in the South more than double
the average OF past years. We risk nothing in
saying that competent carpenters, shpwrights,
blacksmiths, masons, and millers can obtain
steady employment in many Southern States at
not less ihau $40 day. Common day laborers
are not wanted. Negroes abound to do work
which requires no preliminary education. But
skilled labor is in such demand that the laborers
can dictate terms. Every railroad bridge, Gull
vert, and station the South requires rebuilding
Many towns are in the same condition. And the
people stand in need of every thing which skilled
labor can produce; and have the means, in the
shape Of cotton, to pay for what they want.