The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-06
COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

pace c0lle0 1AVefStOcK. IL Is mace OF new
linen or cotton, and a note will support SO
pounds before being sized, while if it is of the
right size it will support man for years.
A clergyman lately called upon jeweler in
Biddleford, Me-, and handed him SIS, saying
that twelve years ago the merchant, in making
change with him, had given him $40 bill in
stend of two, and that his conscience had
troubled him ever since He doesn't appear
to have said anything about interest, either
simple or compound But still more re-
markable case of conscience has occurred at
Newport, r. l., where man from the coun-
try, who has supplied grocer with eggs for
several years, confessed that he had cheated
him out of So by giving short measure. In
order to make everything square, the grocer
then confessed that he had paid the egg man
a bad $40 bill. So it seemed to be pretty
even thing all around.
Leather Betting.
The United States is constantly adding to
the list of its manufactures which are finding
market in Great Britain. Among the most
recent additions is that of leather betting, the
first invoice of which was shipped last week
by Messrs. Stephen Lollard & Co., Harper's
Building, Pearl street. New York This firm
uses over 10000 hides per annum in their
Brooklyn works. This shipment was upon
the order OF Sir William Armstrong, the great
gun manufacturer Of England. In this order
were included two belts of unusual dimen-
sions, one being two feet eight inches wide
and ninety-four feet long, and the other
eighteen inches wide and one hundred and
twenty-three feet long, and of double thick
ness.
The Hog Crop.
The September report of the Agricultural
Department says
In the great hog producing States north of
the Ohio River and west of the Mississippi,
there is very considerable reduction-ih
Ohio and Indiana Is per cent, Michigan per
cent, illinois Is per cent, Wisconsin and Min
nesota per cent, Iowa 10 per cent, Missouri
81 per cent, Kansas AZ per cent, and Nebras-
ka "a per cent The destruction of feed
crops by grasshoppers caused heavy export
of hogs from the last two States, and the
same influence was considerably felt in Mis-
souri,. In regard to weight, the States north
Of the Ohio River show a reduction from
-fper cent in Ohio to per cent in Wisconsin;
the States west of the Mississippi River a re-
duticon from per cent in Minnesota to 10 per
cent in Kansas.
Is 1t True That Business Is Impr0vfnge
New York Grocer, I'd inst.l
Assuming that the leading journals of the
country afford fair reflex of the popular
sentiment in its different phases, we may say
that our business classes especially, and
almost all others in fact, are possessed at this
moment with one anxiety.
For our own part we see nothing to modify
the views recently expressed in this tper
with regard to substantial improvement in
business generally. Had this widespread i'm
preston been mere idea, fathered by wish, it
would have already shal ed the fate Of previous
revivals that existed only in Imagination; but
in all part of the country we find it resolutely
persisted in.
From sections the most remote from each
other the accounts reach u.s. and they all
agree While Savannah reports general an
imation and liberal buyers, Chicago speaks of
increased business throughout the West and
Northwest st. Louis says trade is good, and
Boston, the least hopeful, nevertheless speaks
of improvement. The opinions of the most
prominent men in almost every department Of
trade have of late been most actively can
vassed, with view Of getting at the real con-
dition of things in this city, and though they
are not unanimous, by far the majority re-
port gratifying increase of business, while
if we are to credit some, they have really
more than they can properly attend to.
But then it is commended that these transac-
tons are no at profit, and even at positive loss
in some cases. This has, however, been
fatty contradicted, as in the case of Messrs.
FL. B. Clafln & Co., respecting whom it was
said that their recent sale of 1000 cases of
prints, at prices lower than ever before known
in the country, was but the precursor Of the
close of the manufacturers establishment.
The version which the Messrs Cahin give of
the affair, viz, that though these goods did
not bring great profit, seasonable productions
from the same works sold readily at regular
prices, is certainly different one. There
has been a marked decline in domestic goods,
especially such as are "off color, and the fol-
lowing may be taken as an approximately
correct estimate fthe shrinkage in the whole
sale market: Cotton goods, 10 to 124 per cent;
wooden dress goods, Is to 20; brown goods, 5
to u; bleached goods, 10 to 12t; flannel
goods, 10 to 124; blankets, etc., u to 8. The
decline in the retail market can not be esti-
mated, as it is more varied. One of the most
promising features presented to our manufac.
turers is, that with the improved quality of
their goods if by the general leveling down
throughout tie country the cost of production |
can be diminished, they have wide field |
opening for the sale of their articles, especially
in China and India, where their competition |
is already being sensibly felt by the English. |
With regard to other branches Of business |
those engaged speak favorably, and the tale |
is different from what it has ever been before |
since the panic. Our best wholesale grocery |
houses report business to be better than for
o long time past, and, as we recently stated, |
there is some improvement in most depart
ments of trade, and generally the volume is
up to the expectations of the more moderate |
and better advised class of authorities. Last
ly, the characteristics of the mode of pur-
chasing this fall, which We recently described.
the observed caution and sscrutiny as to quail.
ity and price, and the tendency to hand-to-
mouth system Of buying, everywhere OBJ
served and everywhere commented on, indi-
cate most positively q change of some kind,
and this immense amount of talk about the
times would not have arisen had things been
going on in quite the old way.
Il is but reasonable to conclude, allowing |
for exaggerated reports and, we fear, for will
full Misrepresentation also, prepared, as has
been limited, under the pressure of stock
market influence, that a crisis of some kind
has been passed, and in the face of the down.
right assurances from SO many quarters of
revived prospects, Of splendid crops and Of
depleted stocks Of the articles that the people
of this country, be their circumstances what
they may, can not do without, there must be