, 1874-09-15


oven Senator Carpenter said, year ago, has
beon "trodden bonoath tho foot OF Federal
judge"
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THE 30BBIN1 TRADE OF NEW T0RK AND
CHICAGO.
Three OF four weeks ago tho Now York Bulle-
tin stated. among other reasous. why tho iobbing
trado thore was falling below tho expectations
OF nseEchants TINT 1t as steadily sstt'ing In tho
tntcsloE, and for tho Northwest "notab!1 At
Chtoago>" Then tito Graphic Ind very aug
gestive cartoon, IN which Father Kutokerbookor
was represented as s1oring while his children
mero Rteaifug away lia trado, On thoao adn1ia-
sions Of wo1l-known facts TIE TulnuNE had
something to say, aud gavo aundry 'roaaons to
illustrate thofr truth. Among othors wo men,
toned tho oppressive tolls Oh tho Eric Caoal;
tho permanent tax On tho business Of
New Yolk to pay t4o interest On tho im-
menBo debt caused by the stupendons
frauds OF Taeed and his asBociatoa
tho atoalinga Of tho Custom-H House gang,-all Of
actions mado upon the business OF that city.
As evidence that those things arc woll undor-
atood in tile Metropolis Of Amoricn, We now have
boforo ua au elaborate two-columa article III tho
Now York Express to prove that the importing
trade Of Now York exceeds 100000 900, aud
that 1t has increased immensely in the last
twenty-five yoars This nobody doubts.
To giyo tho oxact figures Of tho Express, thu
dry goods imported at New York in ls49 amount
od to S44'435,57l, and i'll 1871 to $l14,l8o,ao ,ao5.-
tint is. uoarly throo times as many goods woro
imported lost year a. iu ls49. While New York
las mado auch croditahto prosross, tho tohhiug
trade of Chicago las increased from nothing as
iate aatwenty yonrs ago to its present VeEy conad
srablo proportions. Wo have no meaus of de-
tsrhiaing tho figures OF the joboing and tho
retail trade; but our boas-iutormod merchants
estimate tho entire dEy-EoodB busineHa of tho
city AZ FoarY TO Fon1Y-FirE MtLL1oNs or DOE
LARS. 1ndoou they know 1t, Tor tue Sales OF
three or fonr houses alone viii nearly reach
tLesa Asurcs. 1t ID therefore certaiu that Chi
cago sells Oh many dry goods as New York
imported Twenty-Five yeasa ago.
Tho Express makes much Of tue fact that tho
loading Chicago houses Lave buyers constantly
III NoW 1ofk' Certainly; but they are there to
buy domestic goods, which they got from tho
cssoly on tho same terms ~ tho Now York Nor
chants AL manufacturers IN Now England aud
olso"horo IN thls country aend thclr goods to
New YORK commission houses, and honco buyers
from all tile country congrcgata thore, but Now
York 1obbors get no bostor terms than Chicago
1obbota. III addition to this, our leading hotses
have their agouts III England, FRANCO, aud
elsewhere. alongsldo those OF MeHnrs. btoN~
art, Clahin, and other No" York merchants,
who buy from first hands at precisely tho Same
figures as tue New Yorkers. Our orders arc
givon, and sotno Of thom paid for. months
ahead, as arc those OF tue Now York merchants.
Goods ordered for our fall tsade were paid for
III July. They come to our custom-aouao direct,
aud arc placod in bond precisely as they aro In
Now York, our merchants withdrawing them as
they aro required to ho put on the market. Tho
difference III tho custom-Houae exactiona in tho
TWO olsies' 1t IL Rafe to eay, will nearly pay tho
freight On goods from tho seaboasd. Add fol-
| chcaper rents and chcaper modea of conducting
husineaa' aud 1t Ia easy to SEQ why Chicago
IL now. anu must continue to DO, as cheap
market Tor dry goods as Now York.
! As An instance; tue carriage IN New York On III
invoice Of goods OH conalgnmont to this city, but
intended fos Rockford, WAS $40; it was switch
| od hero aud passed OIL to its destination for "a
Arrangements are making III baltimore to pass
cora and. M ANN M TIM railroad IN oomnfotod to
that CITY Now York will m,as hor cartupa md
many otbor umi,or axact;ona. soma ~ M,