The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-12-07
COMMERCIAL MATTERS. Etc.

COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.
Many of the farmers in the vicinity of Som
mervllle, Ga, say they intend to plant less
cotton and more grain for the ensuing year.
The largest Touring mill in America il
owned by Hon. c. G. Washburne, of Mime
appolis, Mimi: It is seven stories high, emo
each story is filed with machinery. Its cos
was 100000, has forty run of burrs, and
turns out 1000 barrels of flour per day.
The pearl fisheries of the Gulf OF California
threaten to be entirely ruined unless the 90,
ernment shuts down on the wholesale use O,
submarine armor; last year they yielded about
100000 worth of pearls and S2O9, 900 worth
OF shells, while this years operations will
hardly pay expenses.
Steamboats, are going to have good sea-
son in Cumberland River. Il has been usual
for boats to transport from the Upper Cum.
berland from 5000 TO 10000 hogsheads of to.
bacco every season. Last year the trade
reached only about 5000 hogsheads. This
year it is estimated Is, 900 hogs heads will be
shipped, besides large amount of grain now
awaiting conveyance to market
Prince Edward Island oysters are sent to
England packed in oatmeal, and by the time
they reach London they are plump and whole
some, commanding about sixty cents dozen.
Fast Wall Train to the South.
The Piedmont Air Line, via Richmond,
Greensboro, Charlotte and Atlanta, has put on
a fast train to the South similar to the fast
newspaper train to the West The train
leaves New York at P. NJ, and accomplishes
the distance between New York and Atlanta
In AZ hours, Montgomery in so hours, Mobile
IN 30 hours, New Orleans in &c hours and
Galveston in 80 hours.
Retailing Leaf Tobacco
The Secretary OF the Treasury will have to
contend with a severe element from his own
State this year in regard to the retailing OF
leaf tobacco. 1t appears that the Kentucky
members of Congress are determined to press
the matter of not only allowing the producer
of tobacco to sell leaf tobacco to anybody he
likes without license, but also to permit
the country storekeeper to sell leaf tobacco to
his customers. The argument they make is
that the internal revenue laws require the
use, by everybody, of manufactured tobacco
Debtor and Creditor.
Creditors are frequently blamed by unfor
tunate debtors for being harsh and severe in
their treatment. This charge uinly can
not apply to a recent meeting of the creditors
OF Montreal leather firm. TIE Toronto
Monetary Times tells the story in this way :
The insoivent stated few months before his
failure that he had Surplus Of about $685.
600, but at this meeting the statement sub
mitted showed assets, S74, coo, and liabilities,
S1O3, 900. The deficiency in the statements
was alleged to be an error III bookkeeping.
The insolvent purchased fine property at a
cost of S14, 600, but he asserted that this was
bought with the money of his children. Not
withstanding this, the creditors cheertully ac-
cepted fifty cents on the dollar. payments
extended over period of fifteen months.
The Backbone of France.
The French vintage is of enormous value.
No less than 8, 000 600 of acres are planted in
vines, yielding $4,000, 900 tons of grapes, and
atfording employment to 5000, 900 persons.
The money product of the wine crop will
astonish cotton planters. 1t is $500. 600, 000
The difference in profit also, as compared
with cotton, is enormously on the side Of the
French. A correspondent of the London
Times, writing OF this wine region, aptly says
that France has in her vineyards treasures far
more vast and enduring than the gold mines
of California or Observation-Disclosures beside
the value of which the five miards OF the
German indemnity sink into insigniic canoe.
Facts about Tobacco.
The total receipts to the United States
Treasury the Secretary of the Internal Reve-
nue. Office tells us, from tobacco were S37 $685.
46l, showing an increase, rs compared with
the year ended June 80, 1874, of $4,000, $50,
and an increase over any previous fiscal year
Of $2,9l7, SIS There were engaged in the
mandatory of tobacco snuff and Gig ars, dur
ing the last fiscal year, 125, 49S persons, and
in the sale and distribution of the same, 324,-
941 persons or firms, making an aggregate of
$50, 439 persons or firms directly engaged in
this branch of national industry. Surprising
the population of the entire country at the
present time to be A, 100000, and that two
thirds of the male population are in the daily
habit OF using tobacco, we have s, 6OO,O 900 con-
sumers.
OF this number probably SOC, 900, consist
ing of the growers or producers OF tobacco
and the laborers employed in raising the
same the manufacturers and their employ
ees, consume tobacco, raw or manufactured,
for which the government reserves no reve-
nue.. Dividing the 1l9, 435 S74 pounds of
manufactured tobacco and the 1867, $50, 662
cigars, etc., on which taxes were collected
during the last fiscal year, equally among
5000, 900 consumers, and they will receive a
small fraction about an ounce) less than
fifteen pounds of tobacco per capita, and
with it 24S cigars and cigarettes
The total amount OF taxes collected on to-
bacco and snuff from September l. 1862, to
June 80, 1875, is 1925 356, 2l9 49, The total
collections on cigars, cheroots and cigarettes
for the same period is SIS, 233, Philadel-
pl,ia Commercial.
Grading Sugars.
The circular of the Secretary of the Treasury
in regard to grading sugars proposes an abso-
lutte change in the method Of grading for
purposes OF taxation in the interests OF the
government and to prevent errors and frauds.
The proposed substitute for the Dutch
standard in color is polarization This method
is one looking to the ascertainment OF the true
amount of saccharine matter in any given i'm
portation of sugar. 1t is, at best, very deli
cate process, and would consume much
greater time in arriving at the result than by
the present method. This method OF po-
lariz alton was not without its advocates before
the Committee of Ways and Means in 1870,
but the advantages possessed by the process
of grading in color. even with its attending
disadvantages, induced the committee to
reject ii. The case is one, happily, which
cannot be determined by mere Treasury
order or decision. II the law is to be changed
at all, as our correspondent shows it must be
by an act of Congress, which insures for the