The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-24
AUCTION SALES THIS DAY.
Il. n - ,. ]. Montgomery ell Household Furni.
tcra, Carpets, Mirrors, Mattresses, ETC., 81 Camp
street.
COMMERCIAL MATTERS. Etc.

though not yet complete, will probably show
That Boston has population of 335, 900, Wor.
cester 30, 900, Lowell 4SO0o Fall River, from
$1,000 to $1,000, and Cambridge somewha,
more than Fall River. All the cities of the
state, save Newburyport and Salem, have in.
letin.
The Tobacco Market.
The New York Tobacco Leaf of last Wed
nesday, after stating that the damage to the
crop is variously estimated as high as one
third and as low as one-fourth, says:
SO long as the amount of real loss de-
ponds upon no better data than conjecture.
diversity of opinion will prevsil upon the
subject, and business will be retarded, be-
cause neither buyer nor seller is disposed, in
the present condition of trade, to relegate his
enterprises to the guidance Of chance.
1t makes considerable difference to both
parties whether we are going to have an aver.
age crop in quantity or one much below an
average, and until this point is more nearly
determined than has yet been possible in the
midst Of varying rumors as to both acreage
and damage, the views Of buyers and sellers
may be expected to be divergent as we now
find them. Once it is reasonably we'll settled
how much may be anticipated from what is
left Of the years planting, a brisker movement
may be looked for, whether the quantity be
A0SoS
is not now, q basis for calculation. and, con-
sequently, for agreement" In New Orleans
our factors are quite willing to relegate the
whole matter, not to chance, but to the law OF
supply and demand. The Louisville Courier
Journal of Saturday reports the better grades
active and firm, but the common qualities
dull.
America and Australia.
IN. Y. Bulletin.l
The American element largely pervade1
Australia and New Zealand. Now it is partly
to this the colonies owe their progress. In
1885 there was only q population of ninety
it exceeds 100000. Melbourne has public
institutions that will compare favorably with
those Of much larger European and American
cities, viz: its public library, charitable in
stitutions public bathing institutions, train
ing ships, compulsory educational laws and
public schools, the department for the ana
1ysis of food and drink, etc. Her system of
municipal government, including police and
police magistrates, can scarcely be excelle6.
There is large exchar sc trade between
Victoria, Australia and California Besides
innumerable sailing vessels constantly run
ming between Australian ports, there is regu-
lar monthly steam communication between
San Francisco New Zealand and Australia
mail line subsidized by the New Zealand and
Australian governments. The class Of
vehicle adopted throughout Australia and
New Zealand is entirely American. and the
means of transit in the large cities, and the
interior where there are no railroads, is pro-
vided by American omnibus and stage COM
panies
Most of the agricultural machinery used in
the colony of Victoria comes from Rochester
in this State. Australians are surprisingly
we'll acquainted with American institutions,
politics, heroes, statesmen and literature, and
are eager to be correspondingly we'll known
and appreciated. The colonies are taking q
great interest in the American Centennial,
and the indications are that they will be well
represented there.
The Rio Coffee Market for 1S74-1S75.
Messrs Edward Johnston & Co. 8 annual
circular. dated July l, gives the following
synopsis of the coffee trade at Rio Janeiro
during the past fiscal year:
Prices fuctuated considerably during the
first three months of the crop year, in which
the extremes of 1880 and $500 for first
good were touched, but since then they have
ruled steadier than for some years past, re-
suit due, in great measure to our being now
in immediate telegraphic communication
with consuming countries.
Early in the season, however. the trade
formed the opinion that our supplies, though
large, would not be in excess of the require
ments of consumption, and that no heavy
drop in coffee prices was to be feared, and
thew have since operated with q confidence
which was not to be shaken by unfavorable
advices from abroad, by the prospect of the
renewal of the import duty in the United
States, or by q tight money market, and, sub
seuuently, financial troubles here.
An effort was lately made las mentioned in
our Market Report of the 23d ult. to estab-
lish the practice of selling coffee by the Is
kilos, which the bulk of the shippers and
dealers considered to be more convenient than
the present one, but it proved unsuccessful in
consequence of the strenuous opposition OF
the planters agents and some of the dealers.
The quantity of old coffee now remaining
in the interior is generally estimated at ,OOO,-
600 bags, which would make the 1874. rs crop
4. 200, 900 bags, or about 500, 600 bags in
excess Of the figures we gave year ago; it is,
however. possible that this estimate may
prove a rather liberal one. AS regards the
new crop of 1856, which was estimated in
December last at 1900, 900 to 2, 500, 900 bags,
it has now been found necessary to consider
ably reduce these figures on account of the
exceptionally unfavorably weather IN the hrst
few months Of this year; an and 1T the highest
Taking liberal view of our prospective
supplies. it would appear that the extreme
quantity available for the season OF 1875,
taking old and new coffee together, will be
5000 200 bags, whilst it is not probable that
the whole Of this will be shipped during the
crop year, as the planters will have great ia
cilities for keeping back supplies, especially
in the latter months of the season.
Under these circumstances, and with the
prospect of short supply from Santos, Java
and Ceylon, there appears every probability
Of prices Of coffee being fully maintained,
and eventually advancing, during the pres
en- season. We have to add that the new
crop, of which only few thousand bags have
no lar come to market in trifing lots, prom
Uses to turn out decidedly superior to the old
in quality. Free supplies of new coffee can
only be looked for, as usual, from September
onward.
The actual, in tons, is gwen as follows:
1874 rs. 1874. 1928. 1s11-2.
Tons Tons. Tons Tons.
rr;.oa Stetes 271 IS 500 913s4 76 40
$3.50 70 162 80 743 1888 80 $50
T.,,s ~ Cood Hope 49, 1904 2075 1855 2s2o
River Plate and sundry 80 $40, oee d, %