The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-07-09
COMMERCIAL MATTERS.

arrived at CadIx on the 10th ult. The ShlI
Doherty, from this port arrived at Liverpoo
on the 21st ult.
Iron beds and furniture, artistically worked
and by new system of painting Initiating
perfectly rosewood, are to be one Of the chic
contributions of Italy at the Centennial Fair
1t is estimated that the two thousand Co
operative societies in England are transactlne
an annual business of $3.50 900, 600 upon 3
per cent profit. In view of their contem-
plated alliance for purposes of direct trade
with the Changers of this country, who num-
Der some 1000 600 members, this matter is
attracting much attention on both sides OF
the Atlantic by all classes.
The San Francisco Call, of the 21st ult, says:
The steamer which sails for Australia to-day
will take out IL, 600 cigars and five cases Of
smoking tobacco, consigned to q Sydney
house, from the Glroy Tobacco Company Of
this State. favorable opinion has already
been expressed concerning our wines in the
British colonies, and we shall expect to hear
good report of our cigars and tobacco.
One of the proprietors of the alpaca factory
in Chautauqua county, New York, having
been presented with fine pair of Angora
goats, attempted, it is said, the remarkable
feat of taking the heeces from their backs and
making fashionable dress of the wool be-
tween sun and sun. Operations were com:
menced at sunrise, and at an early hour in the
afternoon the goods were ready for the dress
makers. -Four ladies then made the dress,
complete in every particular, and ready for
wearing at sunset.
American manufacturers are now disturb
ing the equanimity OF British paddock makers,
and more than ever the peace Of their makers
of currycombs. A Pittsburg firm in particu.
Lar has much to answer for in this respect.
Not only are they making goods which at one
time were made almost exclusively in VOL
verhampton and Walsall, but with true Ameri-
can dispatch they are executing the orders
they receive with promptness with which
their British rivals can not compete.
The Birmingham button-makers have as
sured the Royal Commissioners that owing to
the restrictions already imposed by the Fac
tories and Workshops Acts, instead Of Birm-
ingham supplying Austria. France and other
countries, as it formerly did, those countries
were now supplying Birmingham. Nine
tenths of the buttons now on sale in Birming-
ham, it is said, were OF foreign manufacture
The Birmingham button-makers stoutly.
therefore, oppose the proposition to extend
the age at which boys should be allowed to
begin work from - to Ia.
Texas Oats for New Orleans.
We learn from the railroad agent that there
will be down from Dallas, the first of the
week, three cars loaded with oats for reship-
ment at this point for New Orleans. This is
the first shipment of the kind ever made by
Dallas for New Orleans. She had previously
stocked this market with oats and run the
prices down below New Orleans figures
Shreveport Times, 4th inst.
The Tennessee and Tombigbee Canal.
Captain Robinson, of the United States
Engineer Corps, has recently completed the
survey made in accordance with an act of the
last Congress of route for canal to con-
meet the waters Of the Tennessee with the
of the Tombigbee River. The
result of this instrumental survey, it is said,
demonstrates the feasibility of the project,
but only at an expense which, in the opinion |
of the well.informed, would be altogether |
to the benefit anticipated.
The Mobile Register, however, takes diff
always looked upon the Coosa route as the |
only feasible way of connecting the waters of |
Mobile with the Tennessee; still, if we can
reach the Tennessee by way of the Tombig- |
bee at no greater cost than two millions of /
dollars-as estimated-the scheme is by no
means visionary or uncertain one"
Decreased Commerce of Buffalo.
Returns to July 1st show large falling of
IN the commerce of Buffalo for the first six
months of 1875, as compared with 1874, as
we'll as for the month of June This is no.
,onfned to one branch OF trade, although it is
he most marked in breadstuffs, but it extends
70 all, and an important deficit is shown that
{ will scarcely be possible to recover this sea-
ION. Receipts of tolls also show very marked
.eduction. The exports by canal for the month
If June show movement to tidewater and
Interior points of 1886 3l9 bushels of wheat,
,2l4, O32 bushels of corn, 4l0, 449 bushels Of
,ats, 90 O73 bushels of barley malt, and 1850
,arrels of -four. Also, IA, 265 996 feet Of lum-
yer, 5,86S, 600 shingles and IL, 426, 156 pounds
# staves-showipg very large decrease in
IL the articles named as compared with the
hipments of 1874, excepting in shingles, ,
which increased 3. 223,000. It
The shipments by railroad from the ele-
ators of that city from January to June 80
segregated 3, 573, Alb bushels Of grain of all
inds; showing decrease from 1874 of l, 1856.
80 bushels the shipments for the same
eriod that year being 4,795, 1875 bushels.
The amounts collec; ed for tolls at the canal
flee for the month of June aggregated $685.
81 33 in 1874, and 1928. 495 % in 1875; show
~ decrease of $104, 1892 IL on the month.
he falling off in the receipts of tolls from
ne opening of navigation to July LIST this
ear as compared with 1874 is S2lS 59S S5. {
he number Of boats cleared is 1856 from {
Law Is to date; same time in 1874, 2412 de-
rease, 1865 boats.
The Commercial Failures in London.
London June 1917 Correspondence of the New
York Times.
There have this week been some more CON-
lercial failures, and it is feared that the
cries of disasters is not yet exhausted. The
,lapse of the bill-broking firm of Sanderscn
Co.. fortnight since, involved also that of
70 Welsh mining companies and Of some
linor firms; but then the mischief seemed =
, stop, and there was comparatively little 6
peasiness on the subject This feeling Of \
,curity, however, has been somewhat serious
disturbed by the stoppage of the import
1t Manchester house, Collie & Co., engaged
! the East Indian trade, end which has tean
flowed by the downfall of Westhead & Co.,
i'd, in the natural course of things, by the
lin of various dependents of the great firm p
For some years past the Indian trade has
ben very bad, the markets baing glutted, -.
Id, with few exceptions, the houses in this
ne of business have been able to do little
ore than barely keep things going. Some of b
em have consequently been tempted into :
her speculations, and this seems to have g
zen the case with Collie & Co., who have =
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