The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-14

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United States.
In 1876 Portland, Me-, imported goods valued at
$454, 226, and in 1866 s14 100000
In 1868 the Pennsylvania Railroad carried 3,747,-
us passengers al average of 50 54-lOO miles.
The average daily emigration from Great Britain
is 29l, equal to l42 900 per annum.
California has 5000 quartz mills, Nevada l6s,
Oregon 81, Idaho AS, and Montana COL.
Hong Kong has a population of $4,000, Of
whom q, 600 are Europeans and Americans.
Over fifty peppermint distilleries are to be built
this spring in Wayne county, N. Y.
Birmingham, England, employs 1000 people in
making bird cages.
In 1888 Chicago shipped rs bushels Of wheat.
In 1868 she shipped 40, 900 bushels.
There are five steel manufactures in the United
States using the Bessemer process.
The crop of champagne, for 1868, amounts to
800 0o0 hectolitres.
A nsnufsctory in New York city works up two
tons of paper per week into collars and cuffs.
There are several alum wells in LincolntOn
North Carolina.
Franklin, Kentucky, sends 1000 dozen eggs to
Louisville every week.
During January and February there were l4,e0o
dozen eggs shipped from Lexington, Ky.
1t is estimated that $40 900 600 Of United States
bonds have been sent TO Europe since LIST February
The brewers of the West have imported 10000
bushels of barley from England this season.
During the last three months over $40, 900 worth
of veiocipedes have been made in New Bedford.
The paper box factories in New York city EN-.
ploy 1900 women.
The value of real estate in Lynchburg, Va, is
$2,505, OeO.
A Boston firm has filed an order from China for
600 cases of boots and shoes.
The cotton crop of South Carolina, for 1868, is
about $50, 900 bales, valued at SIS, 100000.
The police of Philadelphia made 1853 arrestsin
the month of February.
There are 1900 distinct fire departments in the
United States, with force of 100000 members.
From 1904 to 1868. North Carolina wines
yielded about 50, 800, 600 in gold.
A Thousand stationary steam engines are re-
quired to run the manufactures in Philadelphia.
The importation of tin from England amounts to
over IS, oOOO 900 annually.
About 900 women are employed as clerks in
the various departments at Washington.
Philadelphia has 439 miles of water pipes and
1O9l5s water takers.
Philadelphia has $50 carpet manufactures, EN-.
ploying nearly 5000 operatives.
The value OF wool manufactures in the United
States was sl21, SOS, 600 In 1865.
The manufactures of the United States use
2252 900 pounds of wool per week, sixty per cent.
of which is domestic wool.
| During the last year, Sc 600 of the Remington"
breechoading rifles have been sent to foreign
| countries.
Over 81, 200 600 worth of stolen property were
/ &ha nj in YarE
during 1868.
| duced 90, 052 900 pounds of cotton; in 1868, the
crop was only 81, $4,000 pounds.
The ore from the tin mines in Missouri yield -four
per cent. of metal while those of Cornwall, Eng.
land, yield only two per cent.
One establishment in Baltimore employs SOC
men and women. who fill, seal and pack 20, O0C
cans of oysters per day.
| The Philadelphia Commercial Exchange Asso
citation have just completed their new hall at 8
cost of $500 900.
A factory for making helves, and handles fol
hoes rakes, shovels, SPACES, etc., has been estab
lished at Augusta, Ga.
A farmer in Fayette county KY, last year cul
tivated az acres of hemp, which yielded ar
average of 1856 pounds to the acre.
There are in Illinois 1873 wooden manufactures
with 2l5 sets of machinery, and l35 sets Of Gus
tom cards, employing 345O operatives.
The consumption of cotton in Europe ant
America in 1S67-s was $40, 600 bales. The est
mated consumption for 1859 is 5,445 900 bales
There are 80 manufactures on the line Of tn,
Hoosac river, employing capital Of 81 900, 900 Il
$40, 900, 900, and from 5000 to 1000 operatives.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works are to be en-
larged to the capacity of twenty locomotives pc
month.
There are now about 1900 negroes in New
York city. Their numbers have decreased
twenty five per cent in the last six years.
A company is being organized at Versailles
KY, to engage in the artificial propagation o
fish.
wooden factory has just been completed nea
Marietta, Ca, which employs 80 operatives, run
80 looms and 600 spindles.
From the LIST November, 1868, to the end of Feb
ruary, New York received $3.50 hhds. and 20, 20
packages of tobacco.
The average total of French commerce for tn
past three years has been nearly 81 600, 000. 90
gold.
Texas has 5O7 900 horses, S,s53,OOO cattle an
1928 900 sheep, of the aggregate value o
s37, 10000. ...-.....
At the end of February the Manchester spinner
had at their mills $4,000 bales of cotton, sgains
1877 900 bales same time last year.
Within sixty miles of Pittsburg, on the Monon
gahela river, there are eighty coal works with a
average daily capacity of 5000 bushels.
The import duty on salt is only l23 per cent, o.
sulphur 42S per cent. and on chalk SAT per cent
So says the Free Trader.
A cubic foot of gold weighs 1900 pounds, silve
$50 pounds, iron $50 pounds and aluminium onl
l6s pounds.
Naturalists say there are five hundred differen
species of wasps found within the limits of tb
United States.
Aluminium bronze, of which watch cases, watc
chains and Imitation jeweiry made, ia con
posed of ten parts of aluminium and ninety par
Of copper.
The actual loss of sll maritime nations is sboI
40 vessels and 81 600 daily. An average