The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-10-22

lands of the continent. Their capacity varies
from 200, 600 bushels to 100000 The entire
cost of the eighteen elevators now In opera
ton was about five million dollars, exclusive
of the cost OF the grounds on which they
stand.
The Rice Crop.
The crops of 1875 are estimated as follows,
compared with those of last year:
1875. 1874
Louisiana, bbls .175OOO 115 600
Carolina, tierces. ......... $4,000 SO GOO
Total packages. ......... .24s,OOQ 1s4,OuO
Dry Goods Sales.
A writer in the Sun thus discourses of the
different markets
As rule New York prices are about 40 per
cent higher than those of Paris and about so
per cent higher than those of London.
dress of say $500 at any of the large Broad
way stores could be obtained for about 900
francs and ESQ respectively at the best estab-
lishments OF Paris and London. Before the
war the cheapest hands for common work in
Paris workshops were Germans. but these can
no longer get employment in France and
this has given new impulse to the m antle-
making and dress-making industry IN their
own country. Many an American lady who
thinks the dress or wrapper she bought at u
large Broadway store to be French, is 10
reality in possession of Berlin article
The pay and treatment of the employed
here is in every way belo what it is either in
England or France. For ten hours work,
without the right of ever taking seat, the
pay of Sc or 81 week is miserably low. The
stand.up rule is particularly trying for
women, and very much in consequence of its
enforcement but few of the saleswomen enjoy
good health. Thirty shillings or 35 francs
week would be considered good pay in Eu-
rope, but then the living there costs only
half of what it costs here.
Eng! ish Railways.
An exchange says of railroad development
in Great Britain:
The English Board of Trade has issued
summary of railway returns for the last TWEEN
ty years, showing the remarkable progress
made in that time: Ia 1854 there we're in the
United Kingdom 8053 miles of railway open
for traffic, and at the end of 1874 there were
16, 449 miles, or more than double the former
number. The increase has been greatest in
"single lines" These increased from 1850
miles in 1854 to 700 miles in 1874, but the
lines which are double or more advanced only
from 6I03 to S749 miles. The capital paid up
has more than doubled in twenty years, hav-
increased from" 1885, O68,7 94 in 1854 to
e609, S95, 93l in 1874, so that throughout
the twenty years were sunk above Gl6, OOO, 600
per an1um, or spent on an average, in max
ing railways in the United Kingdom. The
ordinary stock has only risen from EGG, 03O,-
500 in 1854 to e24S, 52S, 241 in 1874, the in
crease of capital having been chiefly in that
which has fixed rate of interest The re-
ceipts from traffic have risen from ego, 215, TIA
in 1854 to ESQ 500, 1913 in 1874, or adding
rents tolls, navigation, etc, $50, 255, 7l5
The working expenditure constituted but 479o
on the receipts in 1860, and there was The
same in 1871; but prices have risen, and in
1872 the expenses reached 499o, in 1873 $50,
and in 1874 they were $50. Still the net
receipts, which were but 4.l9oo on the paid
up capital in 1860, reached 1870 in 1874
Losses by shipwreck.
IN. Y. Bulletin
We have before us the British Wreclc Regis
ter and Chart for the past year. 1t is a dismal
chronicle and brings home to one the power
lessness ct man over at least one Of the great
forces of nature, notwithstanding the poets
claim that he has made the sea, as well as
earth and air, the vassal of his will.
Though the period under review only deals
directly with the twelvemonth ending June
80, 1874, the statistics of marine disasters run
back long series of years. The whole num-
Der of wrecks casualties and collisions in the
year foot up 1803-a decrease of 40l compared
with the year preceding which is accounted
for by the comparatively mild weather pre-
vailing in 1874.
There are many curious facts bound up in
these grim statistics. One of the most striking
of these is that, as a rule, the disasters of
one year bear numerically close relation to
those of another. Thus, from 1856 up to
1859 the number is almost stationary, varying
from l14I to ITO. In the latter year they
reached 1416, and fuctuated little above
and little below that average until 1866. |
when they amounted to 1860; and then, as if
in O ratio equal to the increase of the mer-
chant marine, they seem to have steadily
increased until 1873 4, when, as above stated,
they receded below the average Of 1860.
Daring the past twenty years the total num-
Der OF British vessels wrecked was 81, l6S, in
volving destruction of property estimated
at ei6OOO, 600, closing with a loss of 14,457
lives. These are app fling aggregates, and it
is not surprising that the contemplation OF
them should stimulate humanitarian senti-
ment and self-interest alike to the considera-
ton Of whatever modern science or more
careful methods can do with view as far as
possible to q less forbidding record for the
future.
Another striking fact is that, as regards the
past year, though the wrecks and collisions
are set down az the figure given above, 1903,
the actual number damaged or destroyed was
~AoA, aAo uiucftuCc UtIuS uuucrstOOu VIE
1t is borne In mind that single collision fire.
que n,ly involves the loss of two vessels.
The Register, in dealing with the causes Of
disas ers, demonstrates clearly enough that |
a formidable percentage is traceable directly
to carelessness or neglect. Credited to this
account are no fewer than ninety-three YES
sells as totally lost, and one hundred and
eighty badly crippled. To unseaworthiness,
or detects in the ships equipment, is attrib-
uted the loss outright OF thirty vessels and
the serious damaging of ninety -one others
Five hundred lives were lost during the year.
Packages for Louisiana Rice.
writer in the New York Shipping List al
luding to the adoption of second hand flour
barrels for rice by the Louisiana planters, be-
fore that State attained prominence in the
growth Of that product, suggests the adoption
Of neatly shaved package, made from cy-
pres lumbez. sliehtly different u shape from