The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1866-04-24


THE TRADE OF New YoRK.-One would
| suppose that when people, like the Northern
people, are prospecting and fourishng las the
green bay tree that they would not be disposed
to exercise revengeful feelings and Cypress 9TH
ers But the conduct of the Representatives of
the North shows that they have more charity
or magnanimity IN their composition than a tur-
nip has blood-they little hearted and mar
minded, influenced by passion and prejudice;
and while they ready and anxious to receive
the trade of the South, they also as anxious
to degrade and Cypress Southern people. These
reflections suggested reading the follow
ing remarks of the New York News in regard to
the prosperity of New York merchants
Few people have any just conception of the
immense business that is done in this city. We
take district (the Fourth) for the purpose of
illustration. In list of one hundred mercantile
houses i'll this district, we find only three whose
sales within the last ten months, that have been
reported, amount to less than one million of dol
lars; twelve sold from three million to four mill
lion dollars worth of goods each twelve others
from four to eight million; George A. Wicks q
Co. sold ten million; Anthony q Hall. ten mil
lion three hundred and seventy three thousand.
At the head of the list of wholesale merchants
stands the house of Fl. b. Clahin & Co. whose
the enormous amount of $40. 506.7I5; while A.
T. Stewart & Co. report the amount of their
wholesale business within the same period at
1891 ,G63 THIS last sum does not embrace a
large package business done by this house in
Philade phia, and which amounts to several mil
lion dollars, upon which the revenue tax is paid
in that city; the business of their great retail
establishment Broadway and Tenth street
where they sell many millions worth of goods
every year, the aggregate transactions at all OF
which swell the sales of A. T. Stewart u GO.
above those of any other dry goods house in this
county,
RELEASE OF Hon. C. c. CLAY.-The follow
ing announcement will be received with 6 ratif
cation by Southern people everywhere.
FORTRESS MONROE, April 15.-Ion. G.. c.
CLAY, late Confederate States Senator from the
State of Alabama, and heretofore confined here
with Mr. Davis, was released on parole this morn:
ing.
A Washington correspondent of the Richmond
Times, speaking of Mr. Clay's release, says:
AT late hour last night Mrs. c. c.. Clay OBJ
tanned from the President order for the release
of her husband from Imprisonment in Fortress
Monroe. 1t midnight before Mrs. Clay
obtained the order in form from General Town
send. The order releasing Mr. Clay is a simple
parole, releasing him upon condition that he re-
the United States only when absolutely necessa-
ry. and respond, when required, to answer any
charges that may be preferred against him. Also
that he fake the oath Of allegiance.
The letters accompanying the application for
Mr. Clay's parole are numerous. give you the
substance of four of them:
Lirutenant General Grant recommends the
lease of Clay because he thinks he may safely be
left at large parole or by amnesty. The man
ner of Clay's surrender is sufficient guarantee of
his observance of any parole that might be taken
by him to appear when called for. He recon-
mends his release on parole not to leave the linn
its of his State without permission, and to
surrender himself to the civil authorities for trial
when called upon.
Hon. Henry Wilson, Senator from Massachu
sets. has no hesitation in recommending the re-
lease of Clay upon parole. and has no doubt that
he will be forthcoming when his presence is re-
quircd by the Government.
Hon. Thaddeus Stevens says he would treat
Clay as a begerent. unless he was i'll the conspi
racy to assas>inate Mr. Lincoln, which he does
not believe. Would confscate his property and
let him 60.
Hon II. j. Walker has known Clay many years
and pronounces him incapable of the crime of Mr.
Lincoln's assassination, and when he escaped was
certain he surrendered himself in hopes of secu
ring Il trial.