The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-21
COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

ducing annually 81. 00O, 900 worth of paper.
The census of Charleston, just completed,
shows Sc. $40 souls, against AZ. y56 in 1870, an
increase of 1884 in five years. The colored
population is 1902, and the white "a, 528,
the increase of the former having been much
the greatest.
The total catch Of mackerel at Prince Ed
wards Island this year is not above two
thirds that of last year, but the quality is su-
perior.
The Cincinnati district is now reported to
be producing $50 bbls highwines per day,
Chicago $50 TO 600, and Peoria 500 bbls per
day, or rather per twenty-four hours, for not
few of the distillers are running by night as
we'll as during daylight
Gloucester, Mass, which in 1908 owned
but six vessels of about five tons each, en-
ployed in the fishing business, now has 357,
with an aggregate measurement of about
80, 600 tons, or 10000 more than the fleets OF
Newburypors, Marblehead, Salem and Beverly
combined.
Rival Western Cotton Marts.
The Memphis Avalanche announces that it
has "coEe to the conclusion that st. Louis
is too far from Memphis to ever become cot
ton market, and might as well throw up the
sponge at once" But the st. Louis Trade
Journal retorts: "Inasmuch as the cotton
business of Memphis for the year 1915 ex-
hibits falling off of over 107, 900 bales in re-
ceipts, as conn AIRED with the preceding year,
it may not seem strange that our neighbor Is
trife sore over it. We would advise Mem
phis to carefully study the following: In
crease at st. Louis in 1874 5. 80 per cent; de-
crease ct Memphis in 1915, rs per cent"
The Cuban Forced Loan.
IN. Y. Bulletin, 18th inst.l
Latest advices from Havana state that the
Governor-G General, having received but few
voluntary responses to his call for loan to
help defray the expenses of the fresh military
reinforcements about to be dispatched from
Spain for the subjugation of the island, is
now making compulsory levy upon mer-
chants and other classes of reputed wealth of
twenty-five per cent Of their fortunes, and
that any demurrer thereto is treated as man
Hesitation of disloyalty, punishable by a Sc
questration of their estates and Punishment
to Spain.
This, it seems, ia not q threat nor an
admonition meualy, but fact, several we'll
known merchHgs having already been pro
robbery of course can have but one effect,
and that is to compel the merchants, the
bankers and the wealthy classes to sympatize,
If only from self-interest, with the party of
Independence It is of but little use for the
Madrid government to send new recruits to
subdue q people whom it is thus absolutely
forcing into the ranks of the insurgents.
Men can never be made loyal by robbery.
Moreover, as q source of revenue, Cuba,
under these forced loans will soon be of but
little value to the government at Madrid.
jected to periodical spoliation, will soon cease
to DO of any account It will not "pay :"
them to hold their island by bayonets, and
when that time comes it is morally certain
its independence will have to be, er necessitdte
conceded. Captain General Valmessda as a
blind instrument to that end, meanwhile, is
about the best ally the insurgents could have
Important Sugar Suits.
Probably the most important sugar suits
ever determined in this country were decided
recently in the United States Circuit Court at
San Francisco. The facts are simply as fol-
lows: In March, 1874, Faulkner, Bell & Co.
commenced the importation of concentrated
melado from Formosa and Cebu, Philippine
Islands, and entered it at the Custom. House
a. concentrated melado, the duty upon which
is Ii cents per pound. The Collector, how
ever. imposed upon it the Dutch standard
sugar duty of 1902 cents per pound.
In this manner eleven cargoes were landed
at San Francisco at diff rent times, all of
which were subjected to the same process of
contending valuations. Theimporters, through
their legal adviser, @. A. McNulty, solicitor
in customs cases, duly protested and appealed
to the Secretary of the Treasury from the
Collectors decision. The Secretary sustained
the Collector, and Faulkner, Bell & Co. then
brought suit to recover the difference in du.
accrued interest of nearly 5000. The con-
test was vigorously carried on by both
PARTIES, the Governments counsellor
having obtained dispositions bearing on
the matter in every important com.
merciaL city in the Union, while plaintiffs
attorneys procured the evidence Of experts
from India, the Sandwich Islands, Central
America and other Pacific sugar-producing
countries. As the eleven cases were similar,
it was agleed that the decision in one should
be equally applicable to the rest. A large
number OF prominent merchants were placed
upon the stand and the trial lasted four days.
In charging the jury, his Honor, Judge Saw
yer, remarked that it was merely . question Of
fact, and it was the jury's province to decide
whether the imported articles was concen-
trated melado, subject to duty of Ii cents
the pound, or sugar, liable to duty Ct 13(92
cents the pound. The jury rendered YER
dict for the plaintiffs in the sum of S62, 115.
with accrued interest at nearly $4,000 more.
Commerce Of Charleston.
As cotton port, Charleston, as We see by
the annual statistics now in course OF publ
cation by the Ne,os and Courier, maintains
and improves its position. The receipts for
1874 5 are somewhat less than the receipts
of last year, but the loss is less than Charles
tons proportion of the decrease In the entire
crop. In the following table is given the per
centage Of the entire crop received in each
year since 1865:
1865 c. per cent 500 1S70-7l. per cent co
1866-67.. ......... 500 1871-72.. ........ 10 90
1867-6S. .......... 1000 1872 h. 9s2
l868-69 ........ 500 1884 ........ 1914
l869-7O.. ......... 500 1S74-75 .......... 1898
This shows, by an unfaiing test, the steady
progress of the port. Charleston ranks now
as the third cotton port, and is gaining on
Savannah, which is still second.
Proposed Punishment for Breach of Trust.
The Board of Trade of Baltimore is in-
augurating measures to provide for the pun
ishment Of breaches of trust as larcenies. The
committee appointed to take charge of the
subject are considering the propriety Of send
inn = netition to the State Lepislature asking