Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-09-14
New York Alarmed About Its Ex-
port Trade.
GALVESTON NelUs,


The Ne,os special from New York,
published this morning, lntimates that
the advance in Southern cotton freight
rates is exciting increased attention in
that city, the action generally being re-
garded as another discrimination against
New York and her commerce, and in
favor of the South, as cotton will go
from Western routes TO New Orleans and
Galveston, and thence to Europe, in
stead of from New York. An Associa-
ted Press dispatch, under date of the 9th
instant, stated that the following rates on
dncompressed cotton had been estab-
lished by the joint executive committee
of general freight agents. in connection
with Southern lines. Uncompressed,
with privilege to carrier of COMPRISING,
originating at points named, to New
York, with usual differences to other
seaboard cities, the rates named being
per 100 pounds all rail:
Memphis, Tenn, 70 cents; st. Louis
aud Hannibal, Mo-, Ga cents; East st.
Louis and East Hannibal, ILL.,, 60 cents;
Cairo, 60 cents; Evansville, Ind, 20
cents; Louisville, KY, 68 cents; Jeffer-
sonville, Ind, IS cents; New Albany,
Ind, IS cents; Cincinnati, o., SO cents.
NOTE.-The rates from Memphis via
river to be three cents less than via all
rail. On compressed cotton reaching the
following points via river, under through
bills of lading on steamers of the lines
working under agreed through rates
from Memphis, the proportion of rail
rates to New York from depOts will be
per hundred pounds, as follows:
East st. Louis, H., Al cents; Cairo,
ILL.,, A cents; Evansville, Ind, "A cents;
Louisville, KY, Al cents; Jeffersonville,
Ind, Al cents; New Albany, Ind, Al
cents; Cincinnati, o., 80 cents.
New York will feel yet more distinctly
the loss in its export trade when South
ern ports are in position to better en-
courage the import business. This latter
contingency must eventually come about.
The whole South is yearly gathering
wealth from the resources of her soil,
which wealth will find employment in
the development of Southern commerce.
The hue and cry raised by the Eastern
press, and more especially by the press
of New York, against the river and
harbor bill passed at the last session OF
Congress, was doubtless less on account
of the small stealages that crept into that
measure ludu DCCduHC VI luG dDpIOpIld-
tions of the improvement of Southern
harbors and kindred subjects of Southern
development. The South will soon be
out of leading strings, her trade resources
and advantages being constantly made
more manifest. There is no material
reason obvious why the Gulf and South
Atlantic ports should not accommodate
the export trade arising from Southern
staples. Neither are there good reasons
apparent why cheap tonnage should not
he attracted TO these latter ports through
development of the import business.
The ACQUISITION of wealth at the South
will have the tendency to establish the
import trade upon an extensive scale,
and to better the condition of the section
in all directions. If Southern ports can
establish equal maritime facilities with
their Northern and Eastern neighbors, the
trade currents of the country will soon
show remarkable change. The Gulf
potts, for variety of the products OF
the South and Southwest, and even
the PacisScs coast, present decided advan-
tages over ENrts on the Atlantic seaboard.