The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-04
COMMERCIAL MATTERS.

COMMERCIAL MAIIEho'
The Boston market is literally supplied
with fresh salmon from Cailtornia' WHICH aro
selling at 4Oc per pound. An luz iiesn
salmon on this sids of the conunenI n1le'o-
fore have been brought mere !rom ~. 'on nn,
n. az the "down East rivers are more
OF les icebound, particularly the PenooScot'
the best salmon river in Maine.
On the Dist ,1lt twelve Car loads OF silver
co a ore were received at the st. LOUIS ne,
duct.on and Refining Works, from ga
M.xico From a single locality IN southern
Neg Mexico there comes to or through 81.
LOUIS nearly $50, 900 month IN silver Dull
lion.
1ncre were 227l vessels built in the United
STATE, in 1873: and in 1874, 2l47. The highest
,r,,,hAr nrevio11s to the war was 2047 in 1855.
As regards steamers, the highest number
bnilt IN any wear before the war was PSI, in
ISL while last year the number was 40i.
tciacared as to tonnage, the shipping built
in 1853 was l5C, Col tons; in 1874, 432, 10.
~ Baileys ship-yard, Toledo, the largest
sailing craft on the lakes was recently launch
ed she is built for the grain trade OF Buffalo,
aud will cost not far from 100000 Her
dimensions are: Length OF keel 235 feet;
deck, $50 feet; breadth of upper deck, ~ feet;
3D. e. betweeE upper and lower decks, II; be-
taee. lower deck and hold, feet. She is to
,e four-master. Three Of her spars will be
lG2 feet long, and the fourth one 1O5 feet.
Her ,iraught when trimmed and rugged, 1t IS
thought, will be about six feet. Her capacity
will De 80 900 burhels Of corn.
The stormy weather of the past month
seems to have extended over a vast area OF
both sea and land. The New York Maritime
Echaaye reports the arrival, on the 29th ult.,
OF the bark Mendoza, which had been kept by
=. 49, fhor USfh h
III 500 miles of New York for the previous six
teen days. She crossed the line March 22d, and
subsequently encountered strong gales and
l. ayy seas that washed the decks Of every
thing movable.
business Prospect ut the Southwest.
Things seem to be looking up in Arkansas
The following extract from recently received
business letter from New England man, long
a resident Of that State, is certainly cheering
and give reason to hope that good times are
vet III store for the distracted South :
Men, women and children are really at
work black and white and are at peace
now, and on tine best of terms. The mer-
chants in st. Louis and in New Orleans are
extending every accommodation to their cor
respondents here, to enable them to buy pro-
visions to advance the farmers, and thus
Bird ye them over and SO aid them in making
their crops. The weather thus far has been
favorable. Wheat, corn, oats and our gar
dens are looking well, so that in two or three
weeks man and beast can commence eating
OF. the new harvest but there will b moth
Ing to bring rs much ready cash until our
cotton comes into market, or is assured
enough to be advanced on. The past hard
times have given us severe lessons IN economy
and industry, and now that our political
troubles are over, they are looked upon as for
our ultimate good, and SO all our people are
more hopeful than at leas: for years past.
PecuIiarities Of Southern Trade.
1t is claimed by the Savannah papers that
one great cause of the noticeable falling off
in the freight business between that port and
New Orleans with New York is that much of
the cotton which used to come here is shipped
directly from these ports to Europe; also,
that sailing vessels have cut up this traffic so
badly by reason Of low rates that steamers
cannot make more than running expenses,
and tew Of them even that. This throws
more light upon the recent withdrawal Of all
but one Southern line of steamers from this
city to New Orleans. To this must be added
another clement as to New Orleans, namely:
the unsettled political status of Louisiana,
affecting its public and private credit to such
an extent that trade is partially paralyzed-a
fact which accounts for the absence of return
cargoas from New York.-Ne,c York Bulletin.
Duty on Sugar and Molasses.
NEW ORDER BY THE SPANISH AUTHORITIES.
Tke order recently issued in Havana and
promulgated by the authorities in Washington
tor the information of our merchants, gives
the following as the new rates Of duties i'm
posed on sugar and molasses exported from
the Island Of Cuba:
Sugars in hogsheads. up to $40 Kilograms
weight, will pay S. As; in boxes, up to 1874
Kilograms, 50 so; in bags, up to 81 kilograms,
81 il. Parcels weighing more than the above