New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-09-12

before the report of large jobbing house In the
Southern trade, stating their experience
The total sales of goods in eighteen months from the
lst Of July, 1853 to the 3lst Of December, 1881,
amounted to s5s7 75s of which the LIST of January
1885, So y cent had collected but tho rates DIFF
fered exceedingly to the parts from which the coec-
tons were To come
In the cotton Slave States, the collections were
Northern Slave states.
Western Free cent.
Average. .............................sa p cent
The result of twenty years experience Of the house
in question has been that its ultimate losses by bsd
debts have always been, in the cotton States, about
four to one in the other States.
Collections continue on the whole, satisfactory, and
are improving. There is great readiness to forward
produce 10 market; and this circumstance has
special effect in increasing facilities for the collection
Of debts
The following is our weekly report Of failures, as
signments, &c:
4. {. Thsyer Co., Boston, Mass, failed.
David Andrews Providence r. L. suspended and assigned
k;as R Re-. kas.'GI r. L. failed failed offer, IS per cent,
on time liabilie. said to be about $4,000.
p Draper q Eldridse, New,Yo q city, assigned
M,0V 5 Rp,se syLae n: H. t'Eged to lame.
Ell Chaplin, Clyde. n. Y, suspended.
Lex Kirkpstrck. Philadelphia, Penn, suspended.
T. UBren Philadelphia, PENN Penn, failed offers % per
Elder Cowden, Newcastle Penn, assigned to Johnston
j. C. Boyd Endey Mansfield Ohio assigned O. F. Car
W. Vincent, Lapeer, Mich. assigned,
Geo. Rippon, Sheboygan, Wis, failed.
The advices by the Fulton are favorable for Bread
stufs. Cotton remains steady and in fair demand
Consols had fallen off / p cent, but recovered and
closed at the quotations by the previous steamer
Money was rather easier The Times says:
Money is in good supply in the Stock Exchange at
~ y cent and in the discount market the demand is
only moderate. An instament of 900 on the last
loan falls due the day after tomorrow. payment of
81 600 the 18th of September s all that will re-
main to be made"
The weather was rather unfavorable for the harvest
which had caused an advance in Breadstutfs. There
had been considerable receipts of Gold but it had been
nearly all taken for the Continent mostly for the pur-
chase Of Silver. The accounts from the manufacturing
districts were satisfactory The advices from France
are as follows:
1.-THE shopkeepers of Paris are now renewing their
stock of goods and their orders have impaired con-
siderable activity to the provincial manufacturers par
ticuarly at Rouen Elb9uf Roubsx, and Lyons. The
fall in the price Of grain, which had made additional
progress during the first days OF the week has been
Of -four and the wants of the bakers for their current
consumption. Flour sells at this moment at prices
comparatively higher than wheat. because OF the
drouh which for the last month has prevented mills
from working and considerably reduced the supply.
Prices accordingly BECAME rmer and on Saturday the
frst quality Of -four fetched as high as 96f. and some
even 9Sf, y sack Of Isl kilogrammes. The price Of
wheat at the Halle is merely nominal but the fall is
general in the markets Of the departments The down.
ward movement extends according as the results OF the
crops better appreciated and the deficiency IN the
South Is made up by the arrivals at Marseilles which
since the LIST Of August have amounted to 9O0 wv hec
tolres. There is change either in the cattle or
wine markets."
The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have had the
Honduras Interoceanic Railroad project before Them
The annexed proceedings were had on the 18th ut
After the reading of the semi-annual report, Mr.. c.
Holland, Chairman, said:
There was question of Importance referred to in
the rcpor-that the question of an nter-oceanic
railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific over the ter
ritory of Honduras Mr.. Brown, the excellent men,
Der for South Lancashire, had advanced very cogent
reasons to the Council why il should ake an interest
on the subject and the meeting would hear from Mr.
Brown himself the reasons which had influenced him in
thinking so He the Chairman thought it was fair
subject for the Chamber of Commerce to take up with
independently Of this view, it had certain bearings
upon the settlement of question in which they were
America involving az It did, 80 many elements of dis
cord between England and the United States. Hear,
hearl.
MI. Brown. NJ. p, moved that "the President be
requested to act member of any provisional COM
"mittee that may be formed for promoting the Hondu
'ras InterOceanc Railway, with view to investigate
1.-The merits of the undertaking, and if approved, to
recommend it to the support Of the Chamber and the
public" The honorable gentleman entered at some
length into history Of the project and gave detailed
statement of the advantages expenses, &c. The length
Of the proposed line is l6l miles, and its course
through the Republic of Honduras from Puerto Cabel-
10 to the Boy Of Fonseca-
A charter was obtained from the Government of Hon.
duras, which ratified by the Legislative Chambers
Of the State, April ~ 1855 and at the time pro-
claimed by the President of that Republic az law of
the land The charter provided that the ports at both
extremities, shall be free pors-that all property in
transitu shall be free of dutyand that no passports
shall be required Of passengers In all other respects
1t is equally liberal and enlightened. In the way of
material aid, the State gives the company an amount
of land equal 10 about 800 square miles, 500 900
acres Al
The State also comedies bounty Of rs acres of
land to each aborer entering the service of the compa
n.y. and exemption from public service to such citizens
as may be in its employ. The protection both Of the
United States and Great Britain is extended to this IN
with the other sthmus routes by the terms of
the 9Th article 1 the Convention between those powers
of July S. 1885,
signed to establish adequate and permanent route
Of Transit for passengers and freight between the At
autic and Pacific Oceans, primarily, for the accommo-
dations Of the California and Australian trade, and
secondsrily for that Of the Western States Of the
American continent, the Pacific Islands, and the
cepters Of Oriental commerce in India, China and
japan. -
Such route is demanded first, by all existing rave
between the Atlantic and Pacific ports Of the United
States of not lees than 80 600 passengers per annum
secondly for the rapid transmission of the public
mails and of treasure the latter equaling $50 900
5000. COO) annually and thirdly, for the accom-
mediation of large and increasing general commerce
To these considerations may be added the probable
ouirtpens of Australian trade and travel, amounting
in treasure 1854 to e43, $50 900 fS770 000l; passen