The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-02-13
COMMERCIAL MATTERS.


row to New Orleans via the St. L., l. NJ. and
S. r. W. to Belmont, which mode of ship.
ment to that point the frozen river obliges
The new rates will be Coo per Dbl. on flour
Doc per Id. on grain and soc on pork per Dbl.
| During the last year there was exported
from the United States 31S, O97 SO4 pounds Of
native tobacco, valued at $50 399, 1S1. The
total value of the imports of tobacco in the
leaf and in stem amounted for that period to
So, 1872, 548. The cigar imports are valued al
So, 030, 628 in addition.
| Several citizens of Sacramento, Cal, have
formed an association to ship California fruits
to London. The first shipment is now en-
route via Wells, Fargo & Co. S express to New
| York.
The American whale fishery for 1874 al
| though nothing to brag Of, was yet better than
| for 1873, and the whale fishermen are actually
! reported as viewing the present prospect with
cheerfulness. Such report has not come
from New Bedford for at least half-dozen years
past. On Jan. /, 1875, the American whaling
fleet was 1913 vessels, with 81, 1873 tonnage,
compared with III vessels Of Al, 191 tonnage
year ago.
The San Francisco Bulletin, speaking of the
reaction there in the market for mining spec
| ulative stocks, says: "The break is one of the
worst we have had in three years, but is not
SO bad as it might be, and as we fear it will be
before values reach their normal level. 1t
must be remembered that prices were inflated
in an unparalleled manner. and there need be
no surprise if the contraction be in CORE
spending ratio
The seasons sugar crop of the Sandwich
Islands promises well. A correspondent
writing from Honolulu, Jan. TO- says: ''The
planters are all taking off their crops, and
sugars will come in freely for the next four
months, or until the crop is off. We have
several plantations that will turn out one
thousand tons each. I am of the opinion that
this crop will reach 5000 TONS"
The production of beet su gar in Europe
was in the season 1874 %, 500, 900 cwt,
against % S74, $40 cwt in 1928; II, 465, 600
cwt in 1912 and Is, S51, $50 cwt in 1901.
Last season France produced 1880, 900 cwt
Germany, 5, 700, 900 cwt; Austrian Hungary,
3 100000 cwt; Russia, 5000, 900 cwt; Belgium,
l, $50, 900 cwt; Holland and other countries,
1000 cwt.
Duties of Public Carriers.
lRichmond Dispatch, Feb. g.
In the Circuit Court OF Richmond yester-
day the case Of FINER and others VS.. The
Powhatan Steamboat Company was tried.
The plaintiffs demanded OF the steamboat
company $500, the value Of hogshead Of
tobacco, shipped in 1871 by G. r. Rarksdale,
Of this city, to them in Louisville, Ky. The
court gave the jury the following instruc-
tons:
If the jury believe from the evidence in
this case that the defendants were common
carriers Of freight between Richmond and
Baltimore only, neither owning nor controll
ing any means Of public transportation be-
yond Baltimore; that in the course of their
business as such carriers and in accordance
with the established usages in such business
they received the tobacco in the declaration
mentioned at Richmond, under contract to
transport it to their wharf in Baltimore, to be
there delivered to j. Brandt, Jr., to be for
warded to the plaintiffs at Louisville KY ;
that the said tobacco was accordingly safely
transported and delivered as aforesaid in Bal
timore. and there forwarded by safe delivery
to the proper agents of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, to be by that COM
pany transported and forwarded to the plain
tiffs at Louisville, KY, then the jury are in
structed that the responsibility of the defend
ants for the safe transportation or delivery of
the said tobacco terminated upon their deliv-
cry thereof as aforesaid to the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company, and the jury must
find for the defendants.
Notwithstanding these Instructions the jury
found tor the plaintiffs in the sum of S239 80.
The court set aside the verdict.
Win IoIcIeuco W tuO respective ylelu VI
sugar this Sc ason, James Cook l. Co, of Lon
don state, on the 22d ult: The probable
yield of the crop becomes larger each month,
and is now estimated at 440, 900 tons. the
quantity manufactured being already $4,000
tons in excess Of 1874; favorable feature,
however, is the large export and consump-
tion owing to which stocks of beet are some
II 900 tons smaller than last year. while in
cane sugar there is also falling off of prob.
ably 10, 900 to II, 900 TONS"
Respecting the probable growth of coffee
this season in Brazil, an authority at Rio
Janeiro places the Rio yield at about 3, $780,
600 bags, about half of which will have been
sent into that market by the end of this
year. The Santos crop, it is expected, will
fall short Of previous seasons.
Tho Tax Question.
IN. Y Daily Bulletin, 9th inst.l
Later advces confirm the impression that
extensive notifications in the revenue laws
istration has accustomed the country to sur
prises and ambuscades, it is impossible to act
or abstain from acting on them without incur
ring risk. It is Obvious that additional taxes
will be levied, though the beneficial results OF
the new burdens are more than doubtful.
In reducing the revenue taxes in 1872 the
treasury officials estimated that the rate of
taxation then lnaugurated on whisky and
tobatco would result in reduction of Sc, 49,
900 in the revenues. The whisky tax went
into operation in August, 1872, and the to-
bacco tax on July l, 1872. We compile the
following table from our files, showing the
revenue from those sources two years before
and two years subsequent to the change, in
Guiding under the title of whisky all spirits
made from other sources than fruits The
frsttwo columns show the receipts from the
20 cent direct tax on tobacco, and the 70 cent
tax on whisky, the last two columns showing
the total Weld Of these two interests, in
cludiug license fees, ETC., for the fiscal years
ending June 80, in the years stated:
Whisky Tobacco Total Total
direct direct. whisky: tobacco
,s-, 500 05I Os s24 $50 538 SAC PSI s4s 1913 9g7
1s12 3257294O 2i.073.603 49.4i5,5l6 81. l36, l.0
1s13 H'1is7u 233l5,so9 52,U99,37l 34,3.6, 3Os
ia 43277234 10000, 500 49,4i4,0s9 80 342,s7o
Adding together the receipts on whisky and
tobacco in the two years preceding the reduc-
ton. and in the two years subsequent thereto