The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-22
Advance In QueensWare.

Queensware has advanced East already
| twenty-five per cent, and may go TO one
hundred.-Sh Louis Democrat, 10th.
| II may well be asked what Is the cause OF
this large advance, when the general ten
dency of prices is downward. The expla-
1 nation IL partly contained in the Gable dis
| patch OF Saturday, that the laborers In the
English potteries had struck for higher
wages and that the manufacturers had
closed up their works. How long this state
OF things win continue we can not now
tell. The particulars by steamer may
throw some further light ON the matter.
But that large and permanent advance
will be maintained for a considerable pc
Rod, there can be no doubt. This staple
commodity, the product OF Stanordshire.
O single district in England which sup
plies not only nine-tenths OF the stock for
the United States, but the great bulk
that IN used throughout the world,
seems destined to remain scarce, and con-
sequently high, regardless OF the ups and
downs OF gold. Since the close OF the war
every mandatory has been pushed TO the
utmost To supply the demand, and the or
ders have accumulated from the United
States, Mexico, South America, Australia,
and other points. In this condition of the
trade this strike has taken place and the
potteries have ceased work, 10 Is stated
that the Potters' Union (the iaborers' asso-
ciatiop) has n large fund on hand, and are.
prepared for a long Siege. There Is but a
small amount OF ware manufactured In
this country, and that of an inferior quail
ty. The suspension of the English pot
teries may lead 10 greater perfection and
extension In the United States; II SO, II
will result in substantial benefit 10 u.s. 4
While the general rule Is that the price
OF imported goods is affected by the rise and
fail ofgoid, The line OF Queensware muE1 in
a great measure, be the exception, in view
of the present strike on the part of the
woikmen, the large orders untitled, which
are 1fteen months behind. and the light
stock now in this country. Being inform.
ed OF this state OF the market, we took a
took In upon our Qpeensware houses yes
terday 10 ascertain the stocks on hand and
the feeling OF our merchants as 10 advanc-
Ing prices We were gratified to learn that
they were all in possession of full stocks,
and well assorted We have heretofore
noticed the addition OF another wholesale
house to this line of trade In this city the
past season, and that no department OF our
wholesale business was better sustained
than this. We alluded yesterday
TO the receipt of a large invoice,
q direct importation from Liverpool
The same house has ats sale
rooms and warehouse crowded with goods
Another OF our most enterprising firms
has oyer four hundred crates and pack
ages now In store In this city, and have re-
ceived invoices of one hundred and twen-
ty-five already In the ocean; and their or
ders have been accepted and nlled for three
hundred and eighty crates In addition,
which will be shipped by the LIST of jan
uary making q total by one house alone
OF over nine hundred packages. We think
there are few houses In the West who can
make a better showing of stock. Our mer-
chants have not advanced their quota
tions, and are busily engaged in filling or
ders at the old prices. Their trade now
embraces not only Southwestern Indiana
and Illinois and Western Kentucky, but IL
reaches into Tennessee, Mississippi, and
Alabama. Western and Southern mer-
chants will find, upon visiting our queens
ware houses, that in this department
Evansville can compete, not only with
any city In the West, but In any part of the
country IA