The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-11-01

greater III fdluc' anu LHb tnlIh hpoub
equal, to the sales Of last season.
The prices of dry goods are rom 25
to 33 per cent. less than at this time
last year. Thus we have in quantity
Of goods gain for 1866 of more than
twenty five per cent in this depart
ment. .
From six of the largest Grocery
Houses we have this exhibit for Sep
TENDER and October. Three of the
houses report a decided increase
in value of sales, one about an equal
amount, one a considerable falling off,
accounted for by one Of the proprie-
tors, Conservative from altogeth-
er different causes than the C6Wrter's),
and the sixth slight decrease. The
decline in prices has been nearly ten
per cent; the quantity of goods sold
being fully equal to thesame period in
1865.
-Four Boot aud Shoe Houses make
the following exhibit for September
and October: Two houses decided
gain in the amount of sales, one fully
equal, and one reported decrease of
nearly twenty-five per cent. The de-
cline in prices has been fully ten per
cent; making the quantity Of goods
at least as large as in the same period
in 1865.
The Hardware houses seen report
ed fully as large sales as last year.
n The two old Queensware houses
show a gain over the two months of
1865; prices about the same
M The wholesale druggists, Zone ex-
cepted,) report a decrease in sales,
which they attribute entirely. to the
UNUSUALLY healthy condition Of the
country tributary TO Evansville.
The manufacturers visited, say their
sales show large increase over last
year, and that their orders are iu ,ad-
vance of their capacity TO turn out
the work. One of our largest manu-
featuring houses says its trade has
largely increased the current year in
the late Slave States, from sections
where itlneger had orders before; and
that they hear nothing from their Gus
toners about political matters.
& We were not able, of course, to see
all our wholesale merchants, but we
have visited a sufficient number, with
out regard to the political proclivities
of the proprietors, to give very cor
rect exhibit of the trade of the city.
The Cairo Packet Company have
three boats regularly in the trade;
last year they had only two. The
amount of business doing is greater
than last year, even with no produce
to New Orleans yet.
The Courier charges that Ey- |
ansville is losing the Tennes-
see River trade, and attempts to
prove it by instancing the trips
of the Louisville packet, Ber-
muda, which it says always goes up
loaded. Our own Tennessee River
packet is fully as we'll sustained as
the one from Louisville, and makes
two trips while the other makes one.
Notwithstanding the great efforts
which the merchants Of Louisville
have this season put forth for that
trade, there has been very little, if
any, decrease in the amount coming
TO this city q DH@ Ne4 et
There has been some falling off in
the Green River trade this season,
which Louisville has obtained by the
most persistent drumming and by of
ering inducements, which our mer-
,hants did not in the present state of
commercial affairs deem themselves
'afe in extending. But Evansville
las lost very little of that trade
which is considered valuable. Our
packets. up that river are doing good
business; and when tobacco moves
more freely they will have all they
IAN do.
1t is really humiliating to be driven
o the necessity of defending the bust
hess and interests of our city from the
nsidious attacks of journal in our
'wn midst; but it was thought best that
We should notice the falsehoods, to
counterfeit any effect they may have
abroad, Doubtless they will be
eagerly used by the merchants and
papers of rival cities to our injury.
The Courier has by this single article,
which is a tissue of misrepresenta- T
ions and perversion of known facts,