, 1865-09-20

Tic New York Times devotcs three mortal
columna to an article headed, sensationally,
So The Fall TTade"-@ EXTRAORDINARY Com
merc1al Activity ~" Who Are Our Custom-
crs ~" Southern Purchasera in Our NayI<4 ~
t-"Wlat They Buy md How They Pay
For 1t"-"T1cir Payment Of Old Debts.''
The contents are mass of donghtaceism In
tended to say to every New York +saerchaat,
"Vote for Andrew Johnson's reconstruction
policy II you want to sell goods to Southern
customers"
While 1t Is . well known nct that In the
palmiest days Of Southern trade, it's total
value to New York was not more than oue-
twentieth that OF tile Eastern, Middle, and
Western States, yet, By solne infatuatIop, ces-
tain Of the New York journals were always
willing, before the war, to snub the Eastern.
Middle, and Western States, whose trade
creates and sustains New York, and toady to
the Southern States 10 catch the stray cop
pers Of the niger drivers. The T<mes, By
some strange mctamorphosis, finds 1t
In the line OF lis present duty
10 make such 3 low bow to the South as
causes It to present very shocking atti-
tudc toward the North. We give a sample
OF the manner IN which the 1Ines writes up
the South, evidently purely from imagination,
and dissolyin:. thimble-fuu Of facts into a
Like Superior Of fine words.
:" TIE purchasers hall from every state, city and
considerable town cast Of the Rocky Mountains,
ihc West and BotRAscEst sasdang hitler kas nsoa nu-
mespts dnd treahy host whose purchases oi foreign
merchandise ire unaiuly in The line Of the more
costly arsicaes, especially Of drces goods. The
South cotnts into naa7kd tokh more cont2yehesir.
oFass, 11ntrla2 ott Of kse totI kra1tGioa Of ss0-
1ases tn tie md,ksss Of The Aues lately In re3et4o,
d1ufsA N!e 4fdaoaal amhofity."
Sensible merchants will be astonished 10
learn that the " "c=hanstion'' Of the South
causes "a most numerous and wealthy host"
to send Ia t'more comprehensive ordcrsr than
came from the Western States. We had al
ways supposed that customcr'e orders IN
creased with lis wealth md diminished with
his poverty. Tbencw convert to dougllfacism
continues
.1he Southern buyers arc, iu majority Of in
ttances. The ante-sar customers Of our mcrchants,
though many arr fete eN IN Lti& Ns1rk principally
Northern and Western t1aaeE1, who have scttlrd II
The sonsh. stnce de national power as.erted its
lug to bet1cr their fortunes"
We here learn that Northern and Western
"tradecs" arc unknown as j clcss In the New
York market until forsooth they remove to
the 6ouih ut which time they appear as "new
mcn1' in the market Of New York!
The 7imes then cnumerates about all the
towns 1t can find on the map in the Southern
States, amounting 10 lfty, nil Of which it says
these buyers represent" We stake our
reracity against that OF the Times that from
thirty out ofthe lltly no buyers haye get yls-
tied New Iork, and limit OF the remaining
twenty the writer in tic Ti,aes speaks Who'll.
1tr Yr{fh 1-nnJv1nHro nd frr lar
feet, to defeat tue universal suffrage cause In
New York. The Time. continues:
A'Strangc as II nny appear, it ts neyertsele.s 4
1ao t!at southern b1yeft coc into market Us fnl.
y prepared ~tth ready money. to pay for their sup
ads ssa,ns r 1 sss e ~ our
carfaulation Of Incidents within taeis own exps-
have ~ ihc money needed b. them to spsy tneir
ierestcd paruas.~ - |
We think it not at NIL strange that II any
Southern buyer has come to New York be
should bring tho +scaeh.' Alter the whole
sale rcpuoiat3on Of their debts, By which every
Doughtacc merchant In New York rms ruined, |
four years ago, 1t would be the subllnnity Of |
impudenoe for them to ask for credit
Here Is q particular appeal to tho pocket
nerve Of tic New York Republicans:
A respectable amount OF .:liard cash" boarded |
during tie z also coming 10 Hight, and heng
marketed ai premium m.t1a u deUatd BY A<fu.ly
otoaes an ait0ntsiangtr A1esat sa7as95e ef Pn9M
Eey suggestive 3n tha connection ts the assurance
thai comes from the business mco OF the Southern
States, that ka<unft- ttS Uu Ge H91dt goo1 to
slegfsf 5af ssuT1stiRg 1k 1nIEPntoHf Gfstaa Mf
most As49aEAs OF on EseftAdak n year Or two a9o
1t would hare been deemed incredible shat The
5onth under the most favorable condition Of things,
could nay more ths1 20 or 25 pcr cent. tits old
fn1cbiodness. Nor Hia: are found TO be tho Stacts
ol the catef" I1ypasany Of fGas southern e!fts d17
fosoms so pay dollar far dollar If LtetT ancient ot*a-
gat.osss, snch ne AEusa, Ga, where the fecupe.a.
,eS dsnes o. tae people hase surprised even the
uthere were word Of truth in the above
statements, the TImes would have given US
names, dates and amounts showing the facts,
instead Of its glittering falset.oods. Next fol-
lows mass OF figures which could not be NJ
rayed ut with the accuracy with which they
purPort to be given, and which moments
reflection will satiafy any candid reader. are
intended simply 10 carry ont at. W.'s'' nro,
cramme Of coeTcsng the Republican party Of
New York into oppcs'ng negro suttngc or dc.
fsatine 1t altogether
..Neu Orleans and Sayanuah niu pay at Ieakt n
cr,,ts on he doIlar of their old dcbsa Noble md
Eh1rIestou, 4oQs0 CENTS on the dollar, resnaeois,
40N5O c1Dts on the dollar W!icA uN he the average
Frfnrn ~ err H&Ftnnd, from F1n4td1, Misdtadipp
nnd tSxutt, .Q4fo!iun. The Interior Traders away |
nom the dc. 0lated tracl9 Of the EItat armies s0
ness man of lie whole south, right through. U il
1u Mtntyitaetal TINT The general average return