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nome market Tor southern pIouuoo. ii gard to the article of flour, it shows the start ling fact, that the shipment of Virginia flour to New England has tallea of under the oP- eration of the tariff Butno comment of ours can elucidate the clear and cogent views and facts of our worthy correspondent. Weagain ask the attention of the public to the interest," ing contents of the letter below. Ihls ''home marketn is one of the great strings on when the whigs are continually harplng. The sledge hammer of our corresrondent will snap 1t in two.

 BosToN, Sept, 30, 1S44.

 DEAR SIRs-At the earliest hour possible, hasten to answer the inquiries made in your letter of the 18th, relative to the flour trade of Virginia

 ''First, you ask, "How much Virginia flour is shipped to Massachusetts i" The number of barrels received here in the year lS43, was 94,05O; 1942, 78, ,323; 184l, 85,5S7; lS4O, 1O7, 7,589; 1889, 118,617 do not deem 1t necessary to go farther back, as the imports of these years are sufficient to show that the quantity of Virginia flour taken by Massachu- sets is not increased by the high tariff A longer series of years, however, would ex- hibit the matter in clearer light, as l find that, as far back as 1921, the number of bar rels received here from Virginia was l49,4o4 -55, ,434 barrels more than in l943

 Secondly, you say it is important to know, sswhether the Virginia flour received here IS for consumption or reshipment" It IS i'm possible to state with strict accuracy the amount consumed in New England, and It can only be inferred from. comparison of the whole amount received here with the amount of the shipments to foreign ports.- There arrived here from the ports of Virginia during the year ending 3lst December, 1o42, 94,05O bbls.; from ports in New ork, Penn sylvania, and elsewhere, by sea, 4O5,3l9 bar rels; by the Western Railroad, between Bos- ton and Albany 11l,595; total, 6lO,964 barrels. There were shipped, in the lst quar- ter of the same year, to foreign ports, 9,379 bbls.; 2d quarter, 22,799; Sd quarter, 33, 127; 4th quarter, 12,S59; total export to foreign countries in 1843, 78.164 bbls. If we sup pose that the proportion of Virginia flour shipped to foreign countries was equal to the proportion of the whole amount received here, which is certainly not beyond the truth,

 

 Virginia flour thus shipped-the balance, 82,- 0lS bbls being left in New England for con sumption.

 It is not to be wondered at, that i'll tEe southern agricultural States, the advocates of high tariff, attribute to 1t great extension of the home market, when even among us, where the matter ought 10 De better understood, the same fallacy IS every day repeated. But a little investigation is required, however, to make the deceit apparent, and to render evi- dent the fact, that with d low tariff. almost 10 the same extent as with high one, the peo- l pie of the New England States must be the consumers of the surplus agricultural pro- ducts of the South and West With us, a soil comparatively sterile, and especially unadapt- ed to the growth of wheat, forces large pro- portion of the population into other than az ricultural pursuits. In the States blessed with fertile soil, nature indicates agriculture as the leading occupation of the people; and, oi course, while the natural channels of trade remain unobstructed, what we produce that IS necessary for you, must be exchanged for such of the products of your industry as are necessary to us Circumstances which exist. independent of tariff laws, have driven the people of New England into manufactures of various kinds, and into tie growth of peculiar agricultural products, so that they are, to d great extent, dependant upon other States for their breadstutfs. glance at the table en- closed, will more fully illustrate this fact But there cannot be greater error than the belief, which interested parties are industri- ously endeavoring to disseminate, that this demand for foreign breadsuf1s is materially affected by the tariff. fall the girls and other operatives that protected capitalists collected at Lowell, were at once allowed to return to their homes in Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire, there is not the least reason to suppose that the quantity of wheat, pro- duced by those States, would be senslbly in- creased; or the demand for foreign flour les sened.

 Before closing, it may be necessary to guard against the inference, that all the flour receiv- cd here, and not shipped to foreign ports, is consumed Tn Massachusetts. It finds its way. in large quantities, by railroad and otherwise into the remotest parts of Maine, New Hamp- shire and Vermont, where the sound of a power loom or spinning machine was never heard, and where 1t Is exchanged for wool, butter, cheese, neat cattle, sheep swine, and other products of hilly and rocky soil, and an almost innumerable variety of domestic manufactures. The quantity exported to for eign countries in lS44, judging from present indications, will be double the export of l843. In the two first quarters of that year, there were exported 32, IFS barrels in the two corresponding quarters of the present year, 62, ,497 barrels, of which 18,647 barrels were carried to the British Possessions, in British vessels.

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