Litchfield enquirer., 1876-06-08
THE DRY GOODS SALES.

place in this city is vayiously commented on Many members of trade refuse to consider it practical success. It is true. they say, that purchasers have been found for vast stock of goods. But these same goods. which were offered at private sale at prices below the cost of production, have now been sold at still lower prices, and cannot be reproduced for the sums obtained. The goods sold, it Is also re- marked, will not count for immediate con- sumption, as the spring trade is over, and, even in the retail business, the spring and summer purchases have been largely made; bus they will be transferred om large to small store-rooms, ,and will antici- pate demand which would otherwise come regularly in the autumn. Those who take this view refuse to see any hope full sign an the mere fact that a large amount of goods can be sold, holding that purchasers can be found for anything if price is disregarded.
 Bnt there IS more encouraging side than this. In the first place, the sales, even if low prices have been obtained, have shown that there is a demand aud a confidence which Nill dispose of an inn mense amount of dry goods. If the prices were low it may be said that the heavy stock offered might have made them low CT, and the point which is now reached may safely be looked upon as a starting place from which future calculations may he m"de The manufacturers throughout the country now know what they may ex- pect A large am punt of capital has been furnished by the sale to assist in tiding over the months immediately in advance, and, if careful calculations show that the mills cannot be run without loss during Rhz .f kha af ~ill be good thing to have this under stood at once in order that future losses may be avoided. There is reason, too, to expect that these sales will stimulate pur- chases throughout the whole country. The retail buyer is a great searcher for bargains The report of these sales will have wide circulation, and thousands of placards will be posted from Maine to Texas, by the beginning of another week. announcing Bargains from the great New York sales " These will attract thousands of buyers who would otherwise have delayed their purchases, and this activity will be transmitted to other branches of trade.
 Without, then, rushing to any. hasty conclusion that these sales mark an ab- rupt change from dulness to prosperous activity, or that they surely portend a business reaction in the near future, it is safe to expect from them some good re- suit. and to hope that the opening of the sluice-gate, if not followed by constant torrent, will find a gay for a steady and an increasing stream.
 There is one point in connection with these sales which we hope no manufac- turer and no Representative in Congress will lose sight of. The sales have proved hok in thn A11I1O ok amount of goods can be sold; the manu- facturers have only to complain of the prices, and their future success will de- pend only on the question, Can we so re- duce the cost of production as to replace these goods for the money received? Just here comes up their old ally, the tariff, on which they have depended, to perplex them. With heavy taxes on machinery, with heavy taxes on all imported raw ma- terial, and with heavy taxes on dyes, many of their sources of retreuchment are cut of, and the workman, who has been taught that he must look to the tariff as his only defence against competition, finds, when the day of diversity comes, that his wa ges are almost the only avenue open for a reduced cost of production. Again, the mill-owner who manufactures for a pro- tected market has only the home market on which to draw for customers. "Had these goods" said merchant on Wednes- day, ''been sold in foreign parts, then our coast would have been clear, and profits on future manufactures, and a demand for them, would have been certain" But they were American goods" made under the. American system" and to America aloAe they must look for their customers.
 The Chinaman, it is said, pays his phy- oSNia ha Scrv tx,.k k% do so as soon as he becomes sick. We have been paying high prlce to the boast ed physician Protection during the days of our prosperity. But, now that evil times have come and his skill only adds to the disease, we can find safety only in fol lowing the Chinese example, and giving him his discharge. Y. EUenSnq Post.
 THE MUSTANG AT HoMR.-The Sacra- mento Union seems to think that sympa- thy for the California mustang is So much sentiment wasted. It says: 1t is poss1. ble, indeed probable, that MT. Bergh has no intimate acquaintance with the Cali fornia mustang, or he would know that his tender consideration was thrown away upon the beast. It has been justly, though accidentally, observed, that the sympathy of Mir. Bergh would have been much more consistently placed upon the unfortunate rider of these mustangs. This is the sim pie truth. The man who undertakes to ride thirty five California mustangs, jump. ing from saddle to saddle, must be either professional vaquero or. petrified post. boy of the olden time. But when we con template the mustang as an object of com passion and humanity, it is impossible tc repress sardonic grln. The army mule is a perfect Chesterfield of an animal ir comparison with the native California mustang. It was the mustang that invent. ed the noble art of bucking.. We are aware that the army mule has experiment. ed in that direction, but no other animal but the California mustang ever caused his rider to describe parabolic curve oi the same extent. Nor can the man who has not been bucked by California mus tang. at all conceive the process. The vic tim. while undergoing it, would infinitel, prefer being delivered to an Hyrcaniai tiger or Lerpian hydra, or a NumidiaI lion for immediate mastieation, and wher the operation is completed, and by a mer ciful dispensation of,fate he is landed up cd the crown of his head ip the neares pile of road metal, with dislocated spina column and pang in every nerve, mus cle, sinew and bone, he regards the au b4sA OA AAo WOCc WAIu V uOEEOE 6Qu Oe testation far surpassing the emotion tha would be evoked by contemplation of tn, most antediluvian Saurian Professor Owe, ever revived for the satisfaction of tn, curious. If Mir. Bergh had taken it int. his benevolent noddle to espouse tn, cause of the persecuted grizzly or tho friendless rattlesnake. we could have des cried some gleam of reason in his conduct but the humanitarian who gets out of hi, way to protect the California mustang ii 50 hopeless an illustration of human de pravity that we find it perfectly impossi ble to do the subject justice"
 Ths first straw hat of the season appear ed on Main street, Monday afternoon. I
 was in the middle of the street, It wa
 moving along on its ear, with every indi
 cation of safe and speedy trip. A ma
 was about five yards in the rear of the hat
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