Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-04

IOtal. al............................ S0Jl, ,U99, ,O5S
Excess in 1869 of imports over
exports ts.......................... $50, 215, 100
Showing an apparent Improvement in
1870 of $74, SOC, 224.
Value of goods in bond July l, 1868,
$47, 725, 566.
Value of goods in bond June 80, 1869,
S62, 457, 436.
Excess of bonded goods at the close of
the fiscal year 1869, S14, ,731 $40.
Value of goods in bond July l, 1869,
$62, 457, ,436.
Value of goods in bond June 80, 1870,
$50. S91, ,473.
The balance withdrawn from the ware
house and added to the consumption for
the fiscal year 1870, $5, 565, 963.
The following comparative statement |
of foreign trade for the respective fiscal |
years 1869 and 1870 exhibits the true ad- |
verse balances:
1869.
Excess ofimports over exports. $50, 215, 19o |
Deduct as per warehouse state
ment....,.................. ....... IA, 13l, $40
Balance. $71, ,4S3, 1928
1870.
Excess of imports over exports. 81, 40S, ,974 |
Add as per warehouse state
ment...................... ....... 5,565, S63 |
True adverse SIG, 974 ,937 |
Trueimprovemento over 1863, 54,5OS, ,391 |
Returned,
Col. RobertM. Douglas, the Presidents |
private secretary, who went to North |
Carolina to help elect the Republican |
ticket, but signally failed in his mission,
has returned and resumed his duties at
the Executive mansion.
Black Mail.
The Republican Campaign Committee
is determined to raise money among the
Government employees by some means or
other. The department clerks having re-
fused to subscribe voluntarily, the som-
mittee has directed its attention TO en-
pIovees in other branches of the Govern
ment, and wherever it can be done the
assessment is deducted on the pay-rolls.
This course was pursued toward the capi
tai EMPLOYEES, who, on last pay day,
found that one per cent had been de- !
Quoted from their annual salaries for cam |
paign purposes, aud the checks for the |
balance were ready made out.
Chinese Laborers for the South.
Information received here is to the |
effect that the contractors on several of |
the railroads and other public works in
the South. satisfied with the character |
and amount of the work performed by |
the Chinese already brought from San |
Francisco, and at work in that section, |
nave decided to employ Chinese almost |
exclusively on their works. The latest |
arrival noted in the South is that of about |
two hundred, who reached Selma, Ala,
having been sent from San Francisco by !
Koopmanschaap & Co., they are to be |
empioyed as laborers in the construction |
of the Selma and Gulf Railroad, and have |
contracted 10 work for tn period of three |
wears The interpreter is to receive $75 |
a month, and the four fOremen $40 per |
month each. The lsborers are to receive |
SIG per month in gold, free board, lodg- |
ings and fuel. Ii is stipulated in the con- |
tract that the working hours shall be ten |
hours per day, six days in the week; that |
there shall be five cooks; that sufficient |
quantity of rice, pork, fish, beef and |
vegetables, shall be furnished; that in the |
case of sickness q labOrer shall receive |
his board, but no wages. Free ruturn to |
San Francisco upon the expiration of
the term of service is especially guaran-
teed.
The Fishery Troubles Looming Up
again.
The impending conflict between the
American and Canadian or Dominion fish
ermen has again been brought before the
attention of our government in shape
which Will call for some official action or
opinion. The rigid rules enforced by the
Dominion authorities, shutting out our
fishermen from Canadian waters, and even
forbidding American vessels engaged IN
the business from entering ports of the
Dominion to obtain supplies or to store
their fish previous to shipping them to
Boston, have not only dissatisfied our own
country, but likewise Occasioned distress
In certain parts of the Dominion. Before
the enforcement of these rigid regula-
tions American fishermen enjO yed pretty
much the same freedom as the Cana
dians. They were allowed ais to bring
their fish to Charlottetown, Prince Ed
ward Island, where they were permitted
TO store it under bond not to offer il for
sale in that market. Now that is all
changed. British cruisers forbid even
the entering of American fishing vessels
into Charlott etown, and the consequence
is that not only are the Bostonians losers,
but the people of Prince Edward Island
also complain that their own business is
injured. Several of the Boston people
engaged in the traffic have addressed let
ter 10 Secretary Boutwell, complaing bit
terly of these stringent prOhibitory regu-