The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1877-10-14

1876, while for the year ending Aug. 81,
1877, the consumption reached tue highest
point ever attained In this country, $50
600 bales. Meantime the Valne of orr cot
ton fabrics exported has increased from 3d.
900 600 for the fiscal year ending June ~,
1875, t0 $40, $50 900 for the fscal year ending
June 30, lS77-certainly q phenomenal 10
crease during the short space of two years.
The appearance of American locomotives
on Australian railways has also greatly as
turbed English mechanical frms, already
none too pleased with the Introduction Oh
Baldwin engines in Brazil. Heretofore
Australia has relied almost entirely upon
England for such locomotives % she Iequir-
ed. A Baldwin bogie engine has gone to
one of the British settlements ia Anstralla,
properly go called, and tue New ealand
Government is also disposed To give the
Baldwin engine q trial. lt remains Tor
American mechanical firms 10 follow up
their advantage by furnishing cheap, durs-
BILE, and practical locomotives. A ooSle
engine will run with safety upon rougher
road bed, and will overcome sharper curves
than an engine with an inaexible frame oil
the ordinary English type. lite, therefore,
Just the engine for Australia, Brat, tstt
other new Countries.
Our, manufacturers and merchants are
awakening to the importance Of the South
American trade. Nine teutIs OF what
South America imports-food, clothing,
machinery, furniture, jeweiTy, building
materials-is shipped from European cites,
l GOO to 5 COO miles further away from
Spanish America than our United States
ports. With the exception Of wooiea ana
linen fabric, al classes OF goods "ftteh BeI
TO SoDth America and Mexico il any great
quantity eau row be bought as cheap!S IN
tue United States as any where IN t 10 world,
and generally ours are N better quality'
The resuit of the Efforts CT the tAi RlVer
fa
American markets t. American cotton has
been eminentiy satisfactory. Last year the
writing and printing paper manufacturing
obtained valuable hint 1T the Centennial
Exhibition. :heY sent agents 10 South
America aud to Europe. Bctl have met
with signal success. Neither the cotton
nor tue paper Industry wou have secured
rhe increased expectation of the present
except for these efforts.
The reaction taking ptace IN. SSuth
America against Eogi!sh goods works
strongly 10 our favor. Euglaud having
virtually the monopoly of that trade, and,
finding no trouble in marketing her goods
in the Southern hemisphere, has made no
effort to adapt them to the peculiar wants
OF her customers. In too many cases her
styles are unsuitable, Der goods coarse, her
hardware clumsy. They appear to decided
disadvantage when placed side by side with
goods of American and French make. Bos-
ton SHIPS TO v AipdTdSO VI uaEO"dIc diouO,
some $S0, 900 in value per month. During
the months of July and August ISIS. 9S5
worth of home man ufactures, embracing
wide range of articles, were exported from
Philadelphia. Passenger cars were sent to
Brazil and Cuba, coal to the West Indies
and South America, hardware 10 Liv-
erpool and the West Indies, car wheels
to Brazil and Antwerp, machinery to Bra
zil and elsewhere, nails to Rio, Peru,
and the West Indies, iron pipes to Cuba,
butter and lard and leather to Liver
pool and Antwerp, paper to the West
Indies, petroleum, soap, and large amount
of other articles. This trade In many
branches is marked by steady increase.
though We have not yes sent locals to
Newcastle" We have sent cotton goods to
Manchester.
There reigns in England at present a
great fear that the United States may
speedily achieve Industrial Independence,
aud thus emaocipa itself entirely and
forever from the system described more
than u century since by Joshua Gee Hhen
assuring his countIymeu ''that more than
three fourths Of the products of the colo
MES were absorbed by British traders, aud
that the share allowed to the coioDists
scarcely sutfi ced 10 purchase clothing for
their families aud themselves" 1t seems
that the United States, the chief cotton
producing country of tue world, and the
second in rank among cotton manufacturing
countries, ought to develop much greater
ability To supply the waurs of non manu-
facturipg nations than we have hitherto
attained.