The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1867-01-25
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From the Meso York Day Book.
New England's Prospects,.

The howl Of despair is now going up
from New England, Long since her
ship.buiding interest gave up the ghost,
and to-day we hear the wall of agony from
the great shoe manufacturing lines
Failures are taking place weekly; hun
drcds, nay, thousands of workmen are
thrown out of employ, and, distracted BY
the dark picture which looms up in the
future, they are leaving their homes and
vending their way to the West, in search
of new prospects and fresh spots wherein
to make another start in life The curses
which New England for the past thirty
years has visited upon the South, are
coming back upon her, and fearful will
be the penalty she will have to pay. To,
day, she is wringing her blood stained
hands and crying wuelully over her wool
trade; bat the present is bright sun
shine compared WITH the darkness which
is to enveop her ere Eve years pass over.
With cotton, and sugar, and rice, and
tobacco, and manufactures almost COM
pletely wiped out, docs New England sup
pose she can sell her annual $50, 900, 900
to the section that raised those products,
as of old? Her boot and shoe trade,
which is now so rapidly declining was,
prior to the war, S3O,0O0,O00 per year
with the slave States Her dry goods
went South, many millions per year, and
second only 10 quantity to leather manu-.
features. New England sold her fish
South to the extent of $3,O00,O00 per
year. Her furniture went there to the
extent of Sl,0Q0,0o0 yearly; and her
ship building was stimulated by Southern
products to many thousands of tons per
annum. New England, as q whole, sold
to the South, of manufactures, one. half
tho aggregate that the census indicated as
the sales of Northern manufactures TO that
section. New Englaud built per year,
tonnage to the amount Of $25, 900, 600 to
$4,000, 900, mainly employed in carry
lug the products we have alluded to.
What did New England buy oil the
South ? Boston alone, in 1859, received
Of cotton, So, 100000; vol, $1,000.
600; hides, 100000 lumber, ST.
100000; -four, $500, 900; corn, ST..
100000; rice, 100000; tobacco, 81
100000. Hero are eight articles only Of
consumption, all from the South, footing
up S31 200, 000 in value arriving at Bos-
ton yearly. Allowing for the receipts
from the South at other New Englapd
cities, Providence, New Haven, Hartford,
&c, and the value also Of molasses, naval
stores, beef, pork, lard, other animal pro-
duce; hemp, carly vegetables, oysters,
and other shell fish, game, etc, which ar
rive yearly at New England, We may be
allowed to foot up her aunul receipt
from the South at $50,000,000. Iu
1859, one third Of all the -four sold in
Boston was from the commercial ports OF
the South, aud in the same year five
seventies of all the corn sold in that city
was received direct f,om Delaware, Mary
land and Virginia. Is there any mystic
ry regarding the decline Of New England
trade, 10 the cost Of her ocean feights,
the dying out of her commerce, the fail
ules If her manufactures Look at the
South AS she was when New England
sold her manufactured goods and took az
ricultural products in Exchange to the