The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-04-16
THE NEW ORLEANS Blu LLET1N, FRIDAY, APRIL 16 1875

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tobacco for smoking purposes, weight OF pack
aces was limited to sixteen ounces. 1t is
charged that manufacturers are passing on
smoking tobacco as fine-cut chewing, and by
using the large packages or pals, are gaining
an advantage of about three cents per package
over those who strictly comply with the law.
It ia reported that he has ordered all such
packages seized.
The Draft and Bill Of Lading.
In the fall of 1866, T. w. Griffen \ Co., of
Brooklyn, sent an order to Darlington a
Casey to purchase schooner-load OF wheat
at Toledo, Ohio, and draw on them for the
amount. Darlington 4 Casey bought the
wheat and drew for S14, 900, and the draft
with the bill of lading was handed to the
First National Bank of Toledo, which ad-
vanced the money. The bank sent the wheat
to Kidd, Pierce L. Co., their agents in New
York, who were to get the draft paid and
hand over the wheat. Instead Of this Griften
& Co. were allowed to get possession OF the
cargo without paying the draft, put It INTO
Shaw j. Co. s warehouse, and then borrowed
money on the warehouse receipt from the
New York Guaranty and Indemnity ComPa-
nv. On learning this the Bank OF loiedo re-
plevied the wheat, and began an acooh
against Shaw l. Co. and the Guaranty and In
demnity Company, the main question oeing
whether the latter company, who made the
advance without notice, were TO 1850 tee
money. or the Bank of Toledo. The case
was tried some time ago in the Circuit Court
in BROOKLYN, and resulted in verdict for the
defendants. The general term affirmed the
Judgment, but the Court of Appeals reversed
it. and set the case tor new trial. 1t was on
trial in the Circuit Court before Justice Pratt
and jury on Monday and Tuesday, and
ended in the courts directing verdict Tor
the plaintiff.
Storage Rights in New York.
The following is from the Journal Of CON-
| nerce:
A party sends us an article, say cheese, to
| sell on commission, we being commission
merchants. We sell a few, and get an offer
for the balance, and so far as we can learn 1t
is the full market price. Instead OF accepting
| it. however, as it is for the balance and main
! portion of the lot, we submit it to the owner
or consignor, who declines to sell at the price
named. He then proposes to take the goods
out of our hands, paying us simply aud only
commissions on what we havo sold, wltE
| freight advanced, storage, labor, etc. Must
we give them up on such terms, or are we en-
titled to commission in whole or in part,
| or not At all, on the goods unsold
Yours respectfully, E. W..
REpLY-Under the rules adopted by the
! Chamber of Commerce, and supposed 10 gov
ern here in the absence of an agreem. MT, the
commission merchant who thus surrenders
| a consignment unsold is entitled to full COM
| mission to the extent of his advances, and to
half commits sion on the value Of the re-
| na;nder.
Communicated
Manufactures and TaxatiOn.
| EEtOr Bulletin The article which appeared
| in your last Sunday edition, entitled Home
| Enterprise, has the true ring and it gladdens
our heart to perceive that your influential
paper is awake to the growing necessity OF
Giving within ourselves.
New Orleans possesses all the advantages
needed for the manufacture ct almost every
article which enters into the wants OF daily
life. That every match with which you light
your fragrant Havana, (now, fortunately, made
in Frenchtown), should DO brought from
some remote town in Connecticut, is simply
absurd. We have the best timber in the
world for making our wooden ware that ever
| was heard Of, from a we'll bucket to a child s
rattle, and right here in this good city OF New
| Orleans should they be made and thence
distributed throughout the Mississippi Valley.
| After the year 1875, we hope never again
to see on sale in this city tubs, buckets,
| brooms, wash boards, ETC., which have been
made for the use OF our families by kind
friends some thousands of miles away.
The writer is told that better steam engine
can be made in this city, and sold just as
cheap as one brought here from Ohio or else
where at heavy cost for freight. Then why
not make them here?
Our people are willing to work, and are
quite as apt at learning trades as any on
earth; all they ask is an opportunity. Give
them that, and instead of "ten thousand per
sons in this city being in want Of food
we hear-they should and could be employed
in making the thousand and one articles
brought here for our daily consumption from
North, East and West.
Now that our Legislature is in session, they
should not lose the golden opportunity OF
giving new life to industry by passing an act
exempting all manufacturers from taxation
for period of ten years. Or, If that conflicts
with the Constitution of the State, which may
provide that all taxation shall be equal, then
| impose minimum tax on industry
| Georgia had the forecast to do that, and
she has drawn within her borders an enor.
nous amount Of capital to be invested in
manufacturing.
| just as the ants will come from some hid
den corner to q lump of sugar, so will the
manufacturer and mechanic come to that
point where he can ply his calling with the
least burden from taxation. Once start the
wheels going, and the requirements Of one
trade will support the other. No manufac
turer makes the raw material he uses. The
shoemaker uses leather which is now tanned
at the North or West. thread woven in Mas
sachusetts, pegs made in Connecticut and
sold here at 81 Is per bushel-a pretty high
price for wood Don't you think, Mr.
Editor, it would profit us to tan our owr
hides, spin our own thread, and make oul
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