Year: 1861

Lstrs Begin to Eoonomizs in Esals'

 If this war and blockade. continue, the country win soon be ill want of variety of articles, the presen; stock being exhaust ed and the source of supply cut off. The stocks of leather, wearing fabrics and va rious other articles of necessary use will soon run out, and the people will be greatly troubled by their lack-more.se seriously and disastrously troubled than they can have any idea, until they can experience. But every one of the articles may be considered staples of necessity, and can be produced in amply supply in our own country, and will be, if the war and blockade continue, and ought properly to be so produced, whether the war continue or not.

 The production of such articles will be commenced-but when? We know well enough when it will be- It will be when we are obliged to do it, by the most urgent and painful necessities of want. It will be when our soldiers are compelled to march barefooted, with bleeding feet, be- cause of lack of leather in the country. and of manufacturing establishments to work it up into shoes. It will be when our sol diers march in tattered garb, which will not keep the weather out, our poorer citi- zens are in rags and our negroes half naked. :. When the present stocks in stores are ex- hausted, where do merchants expect to re- plenish? When the last shoe and the last coat are worn out, where will the wearer get more.

 Soon we shall begin to hear from all parts> of the country that there are no leather, shoes, cloths or wearing apparel to be had. Soon hundred and fifty or two hundred thousand soldiers, and several mil lions of people will have to be relitted with clothing and shoe leather-their old clothes and old shoes having done their very last service. Where will they be supplied?- The commodities are not in the country, and from what other country will they be obtained, supposing the blockade is con tinued? They could not be obtained, and then we should commence in hot and ner vous haste, and with il-digested method to produce them ourselves from the abund ant raw material which ve have; and be- fore we could manufacture much, the army and people would suffer much, and great extortions might be practiced by those con- trolling the scanty supplies for which the public would bid.

 The sooner we go to work the better and WE should have begun before this. Let capitalists, who since the suspension of bu- siness. antl affairs became unsettled have locked up their money, loose no time ln putting it into manufacturing enterprises. Let tanneries and shoe making concerns be established. Let spinning and weaving ma chinery be set up and pnt to work on sta pie Gabrcs-,jeans, linseys and cottons. A jeans coat will keep citizen millionaire, as comfortable as it will patriot soldier. Let the country people get out their old hand looms and trust to them as of old, instead of '' store clothes" The general necessities of mankind are food and cloth. ing. The people have rallied to their work in season to insure an abundant supply of the former, and it is quite time to look ont for the latter There are many branches of manufacture of importance which should be taken hold of at oace. Hat factories should be established, mills for making newspaper, saddlery, etc, all of which would abundantly reward capital. A num- Der of newspapers in different parts of the .urvr1vr r,outu nave aIreauy sUEpended or account of the scarcity and high price oi paper. It is not safe to rely that the block ade will soon be raised. It may not be, and we should provide for that contingency Let us begin in time and not wait on com | pulsion