The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-09-18
NonwIcH AND woscr.rrR RAIL RoAD.
..$22,S29 n


increase August 1886. .........$2,s4 9 10
These receipts are exclusive of those of the boats of
the company. The aggregate gain in the gross income
in 1876 to the LIST of September compared withthe
responding period in ls45, was $l0,79s SO.
Since the Reorganization of the steamboat line this
route, which was made about the middle Of August the
receipts have been unusually large; and the aggregate
income from the business of the road and of the boats for
this month"; Septembe will be larger than any one pre-
vious since the opening of the line We officially
informed that the net profits of the two boats of this
company have since the Atlantic and Worcester COM
menced running, averaged one thousand dollars per
night The Atlantic appears to have produced COM
plee revolution in the business Of this company From
five hundred to thousand passengers
and from this city every trip; and the Worcester doing
business nearly large and profitable The boats of
the company doing a more profitable business than
the road and will aid materially in improving the nan
cial condition of the corporation.
dividend of three per cent will be declared on the
LIST of January ls47 from the net earnings of the prev
six months which will leave surplus for contn-
gent expenses and for the required appropriation to the
snkngfund The increased receipts of the road alone
this year. will amount to at least per on the
tire capital of the company.
The sugar crop Of this country is very important and
interesting natter in which the people generally
deeply interested and every thing in relation to
extent &c. cannot but be valuable. here is perhaps
product in the United States uncertain the sugar
crop. The most favorable and fattering appearance of
things in relation to the cultivation of sugar. may almost
in moment be changed and the crop which bid fair
day Of being full average may tomorrow be almost
utterly destroyed The annexed statement in relation
the growing crop of sugar. and the of trade in
the raw material during the past year, extract from
the "New Orleans Commercial Times
season onaned with warn Aattor;r0
for an abundant crop Of sugar and generally con-
coded that with favorable weather during the fall the
great increase in cultivation justified these expectations
which would have been fully realized, had not an early
frost cut short the production to the extent of
coo 10000 hhds. According to the statement of Mt
p A. Champomier, who has furnished, in pamphlet the
product Of each plantation in Louisiana the of the
mated as being equal to 207 900 h. This includes
the cern bottoms which have been generally re.boled
sent TO five per Of the actual yield The crop of
last was put down 900 hhds thus showing an
excess OF ID $50 hhds over the present one.
During the month Of September last year. the market
almost bare of stock and prices accordingly ruled
@ On strictly the ps hs ssns
hhds OF the new crop came to hand being day later
than the earliest receipts during the season previous
These were followed on the l4th by arrival OF FIVE
hhds which disposed of at 64c per ID, but shortly
after the crop began to forward freely and
towards the end of November 3 a54c per ID for ex
IRENE qualities, the quotation for fair being Az 5,s per
Il commencement DeCemDer
began to exhibit symptoms of Improvement snd during
the whole Of the month demand on an extensive
scale, mpartng great hrmness to prices which showed
advance of q Hc, the closing figures tor fair being
from ga 55sc. per ID. The market characterised
by great s,eadness in January February, and March,
North and West, resulting in further improvement in
prices. whic3Rwere quoted at A 61s cente for
decline Of &c ensued in April but the operations we're
again quite extensive. and mainly participated in by
Western buyers The rapid advance in freighs during
Tho ont af Tho Aov
together with the enhanced rate of Insurance. had very
Injurious effect upon the market and prices gave way
&c per Ii, fair having receded to AZ But this
depression was only Of short duration, during the
month of June the market began to very speed
y and at the close holders had succeeded in establish
ing advance on the lowest point Of &c. per lb Re-
duced stocks, in connection with good demand, were
followed by further Improvement in July and August
and the closing rates from ne per ID for
middng to strictly prime qualities the supplies of the
lower grades being entirely exhausted The total
stock remaining in the State is estimated at 1900
hhds
The stock on hand at the LIST of September, last year.
was estimated at 500 hhds which, added to the crop OF
1876 $50 hhds furnished total supply for the past
of $50 $50 hhds This amount has been disposed Of in
the following manner Exports to the North including
those from Attakapas 900 hhds consumption of the
city and immediate ncghborhood, and quantity taken by
refners 10000 hhds; stock on hand in the State
1900 hhds leaving the amount taken for the Western
States 81 $50 hhds; which shows increase over last
year of IL hhds The latter estimates are ofcourse
conecural but we have endeavored to render them
correct possible and satisfied that they approx
mste very nearly to the actual result
The prospects for the growing crop not considered
favorable as they were at the time last ear and
when is borne In mind that the yield then promised 10
exceed that Of any former whilst the result shows
virtual dehcit OF $4,000 hhds, as compared with the
nature Of the cultivation in this climate In
Of the cold and wet spring, accompanied by Continued
rains in the early part Of August the plant is actna
backward and is thus exposed to the influence ~
early frost but the increased quantity of new lands
placed uxder cultivation, win compensate as is
conceded for any deficiency arising from that score
whilst with late and favorable season. the crop NAV
of Lastly he lie had
yield poorly, whilst the plant cane more especially in
Auskapas, is represented unusually good. We sub.
join statement OF the crops for the last sixteen years
Crop of ls!5 Is1 900 hhds Crop of 1897. 65coo hhds