The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1874-09-05
Signs of Reviving Business.

There are abundant signs everywhere
that the summer holiday is nearly over.
Railway trains have more than their
usual number of through passengers, I"
and those which have their terminal
points at or near the populous summer
resorts find q great deal more travel
from those points then towards them.
The currents of travel are all tending
either hOmeward or toward the centres
of business. Looking to the reg listers
OF the hotels of the atlantic cities we
find them growing fuller, and the differ
ence is made up By those who are 60
ing back to work and business after the
dull season" vacation, or by those who
are taking look about them to fore
cast the probabilities Oft the "fall trade"
Many business places are beginning
once more to put on their business as
pect. Bales, boxes and other packages
are moving about, and some of the
folks who complain occasionally of the
obstruction of the sidewalks by mer-
chandise in course of transit are writ
ing to the Ledger to that effect, forget
full of the fact that these temporary i'm
pediments to easy passage along the
pavements are nearly always indications
of lively traffic, and are annoyances
to be borne with a tolerant philosophy
for the sake of trade. Our New York
letter tells of the presence of country
mer chants in that city, aud of the ami
mated appearance which is being as
sumed there by some of the jobbing
houses and auction rooms. Unusually
large quantities of grain and Western
produce are coming eastward over the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Three hun.
dred and fifty thousand bushels were
shipped to Europe from Philadelphia
by the streamers of the Pennsylvania line
during the last month; and on one day
of that month there were sixteen hun
dred cars loaded with Western bread
stuffs and produce on the tracks in
West Philadelphia at one time. If these
Cars had full loads, as we presume
they had, their freights were equal to
five hundred thousand bushels of grain.
At ten tons to car; their aggrega e
load amounted to sixteen thousand ms,
or sufficient to furnish full cargoes for
sixteen large sailing ships of one thous-
and tons burden each, If those six
teen hundred cars had been made up
into continuous trains, the procession
would have been nearly, if not fully,
five miles long. This is what is meant
by the movements of the crops, -
which newspaper readers occasionally
find mentioned in the money and market
reports in the seasons when business is
resumlng its activity.
There are numerous other signs that
the lethargy of the duh season is over,
and we trust that they are all the fore
runners of wholesome activity in all
kinds of useful industry, manufactures,
commerce and trade. We are now with
in a few days of the anniversary of
that unfortunate September day, one
year ago, which saw the beginning Of
what is popularity termed the "panic. -
Since that time there has been a sus-
pension of overtradlng, or at least a
great check upon that crying evil OF
the past. Manufacturing of nearly all
descriptions, during the greater part of
the past twelve months, has been very
far short of what it had been in any
equal period Of time for at least ten
years. The only stocks which have been
attempted to be kept up to the fullest
measure are the products Of the farm,