Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-09-21
RUTLAND HERALD.
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1865.


The city papers have much to say Of
the extraordinary commercial activity
which has characterized the opening OF
The Fall season. The merchants of New
York have never enjoyed so active a
FAN trade, and their customers repre-
sent all sections OF the country, "from
Maine 10 Texas and from Minnesota TO
Florida While the West comes TO
market with liberal orders for the more
costly articles of foreign goods, the
South and South West demand chiefly
the "necessaries" and the implements
required for the prosecution of industrial
enterprises. Buyers from the latter
sections represent Richmond, Peters
burgh, Norfolk, Wheeling, Bethany,
Cameron, Charlestown, Maulden, Nor
gantown, Moundsville, Virginia Will
mington, Newbern, Beaufort, Raleigh,
Goldsboro Charlotte, Warsaw and Mag
nolia, North Carolina Charleston,
Beaufort, Port Royal and Columbia,
South Carolina Savannah, Augusta,
Macon, Kingston, Greensboro and other
less important points in Georgia Key
West, Apalachicola, Jacksonville, Pen
sacola Newport and st, Marks, Florida
Mobile, Selma, Montgomery, Franklin,
Berwick, Athens and other LOCALITIES in
Alabama New Orleans, Baton Rouge,
Franklin, Waterloo and other places in
Louisiana Galveston, Brownsville, In
dianola, Lavacca, Houston and other
points in Texas Vicksburg, Natchez
and a few other Localities in Mississippi
and all the distributing markets of Ten
nessee. Kentucky and Missouri. a
majority of these buyers are old Gus
toners, and come not only prepared to
purchase. and pay for goods they want,
but also to pay large percentage OF
their debts contracted before the
war. 1t is stated, for example, that
Augusta, Ga, will pay dollar for
dollar of her old Indebtedness
that New Orleans and Savannah
will pay at least seventy-tive cents
on the dollar; Mobile and Montgomery
about the same Charleston and Pen
sacola from forty to fifty cents, etc.
and it is estimated that the average
throughout the West and South West
will We over fifty cents. Considering
what :bese sections have suffered in the
last our years, this is certainly very
respectable exhibit, and indicates that the
Southern merchants knew how to take
care Of their funds in spite of the rebel
government. A considerable amount Of
"hard cash." boarded during the war,
is coming to light. And cotton is now
arriving at New York in large quanti-
ties During the year ending on the 1st
inst, the weekly receipts of cotton at
the port Of New York averaged only
100 bales. Since the 1st. inst, the
weekly average has increased to about
q, 900 bales.
Importations of foreign goods are
heavy, bringing in large customs re-
venue to the government, while domes-
tic manufactures are greatly stimulated,
the New England mills running far be-
hind the demands of their patrons. In
deed the great difficulty the wholesale
merchants of New York experience at
present is to supply the goods rapidly
enough to meet the wants Of pur-
caasers.
Not to speak of the other benefits re-
sulting from this remarkable resumption
OF business between the North and the
South, there is nothing else, aside from
the destruction Of slavery, that will tend
80 rapidly and eflectually to bury the
animosities engendered during the war.