Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-10-04
The Fall Trade.

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The Fall Trade.
The opening of new stores, the improve.
ment of old ones, the boxes piled up before
all, the temperance Of merchants who have
been absent in quest of goods, indicate that
Charleston is prepared for the opening of
the Fall trade. These are the outside signs
apparent to every one who walks the streets.
The country merchant, intent on business,
who goes behind the curtain and sees things
as they really are, will soon discover that
these signs but family indicate the thorough
and extensive preparation which has been
made by the wholesale men of Charleston
to meet the large demands which they have
reason to expect will be made upon them
this season. In every branch of trade,-
dry goods, fancy goods, boots and shoes,
hats and caps, groceries, hardware, drugs,
millinery, crockery, &c., &c., large, valu.
able and we'll selected stocks have been re-
ceived.
To the merchants of the interior of this
State, and to those of Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, and States further West, Charles
ton now offers inducements for business
which they would do well to consider be-
fore spending both time and money in go,
ing further. 1t is common for country
merchants to fall into the grievous error of
imagining they are only paying a per Gen.
tage to the Charleston merchants for his
trouble in selecting from the New York
market, and that they bad just as we'll 60
there themselves and save that per cent
Before jumping at so wrong conclusion
they should consider the advantageous cir.
cumstances under which the Charleston
merchant enters the Northern market
With large capital and we'll sustained
credit to back him, he can transact his bu-
sDess directly with importers and manufac.
turers, and obtain goods at prices much be-
low what smaller dealer, compelled to buy
from jobbers and at auctions, would be
obliged to give. Supposing even that a
Charleston merchant and country mer-
chant go North with the same amount of
capital, say $4,000; the former would be
able to lay it out at one house for one class
of goods, as hardware, dry goods, boots and
shoes, &c., for instance, whereas the latter
would be obliged to fritter his away in
small bills for all sorts of goods. The effect
on the prices which each would have to
give is too plain to be stated.
Such would be the advantages possessed
by Charleston merchants, if, as is erroneous
ly supposed by many of their customers,
they dealt exclusively with the North
That, however, is by no means the case. We
have been shown during the last week
large invoices of iron direct from Stock
holm, and of hardware, dry goods, boots and
shoes direct from England and France, and
even the Northern goods sold in this mark
ct are bought for the most part from the
New England manufacturers, and not from
New York houses.
The two great obstacles under which our
city has been laboriDg for some time past,
high freights and broken bone fever, are fast
disappearing. The railroads have at last
listened to reason, and have reduced their
rates within endurable limits. No doubt
more might still be done in that direction,
but enough has been done at present to ena,
BILE Charleston to compete more faVorably
with Northern cities. Tho feuer has neuer
been at all fatal, and is noaO fast disappear.
ing. People will talk about yellow fever,
but zoe have good medical authority for
saying that there has not been single case
of that disease IN this city during the sum.
mer The conduct of certain parties in the
country in spreading false rumors in regard
to the health of our city is malicious and
reprehensible, and, as our mortality reports
will show, entirely without cause.
In conclusion, we would impress upon
the merchants of our State and of other
sections, who have formerly bought their
goods here. that they have all the advanta.
ges here which they formerly had. In
stating this we say nothing but the truth
we are only sincerely desirous to disabuse
the public mind from erroneous Impressions
which have gone abroad.
Already our merchants are doing fair
business; our hotels are filling up with visit.
ors, and our streets are beginning to wear
the aspects of former days. Of course we
do not anticipate any rush of business until
the cotton crops are delivered, but then,
from all accounts, lively trade will be
done. If it is not, it will not be the fault
of the merchants of Charleston.