The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-26
COAMERCIAL MATTERS. Etc

COMMERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.
n,, = New York correspondent writes tha+ y.
~ ,0.sion In full Of Duncan. Shermar
faal 80 eu'ors Is making good manv peonl
an avo.,s ol t awkward who have been giving a
that q .ha ,or me non payment Of their debt
ST. as tney were depositors with Dnn.on s
s SHERMAN and lost all they had there rrh !"
oasent 20 which these pleas have hsan nushn.
cn,iS 'ae failure would be SURPRISING if {;
ecu 70 known. Almost everv hroka,'
MI me- an the street has an instance n raJsta
a. appearance Of names of this cloo. T.
oh ~: sGoeoule is now adroitly met with th1
!oo!lon mat the list is imperfect.
naa.sn 1 U rom the Third Assistant Post
mar, :. announces that the Depart
eas Us prepared to commence the ;oSne ~
postal cards Of the new design. Postn n,av =
VIII not, under any circumstance 10 10.
iIeeu 70 redeem or exchange postal cords =,
tue ola style or cards that NAV ha m;sa;~aas.S y
spoiled IN printing, or otherwise ranSasai
unnt ior use, in the hands of nrivata boida.S
- VIII also De useless to apply to the Denart.
=. .us suen exchange or redemption.
IL me National Assembly Of France. inst
Pol % lts recent adjournment, money vote
pasSed, not without sharp discussion and
1S6OO,OOO1 was demanded for the nav nno.a
mouse IN Paris 1t was declared. and MT A..
nled, tnat the cost of the building had alreadv
announced to forty-two millions ls8 400 mn
wnicn the additional sum wonld -o;Se ~
SS,OoOOOO, and that this would not bo OIL
one member objected to the salt tax which
PRESSES heavily on the poor, being Increased
2. .ne very Tune when public money was thus
largely iavlsned on the amusements of the
OpWont ana indolent 10 this it was retorted.
.,ia.:N pa,. oi tne government, that the com.
Aeit ny the Empire, and that it had been i'm.
possible to foresee the total expense.
FINALLY, the 5000, 600 francs tins demand
~ were granted by large majority. Under
tAe Empire the sum Of $500, 600 was annnailv
voted by the Legislature towards the sunnort
OF some OF the principal theaters. and the
efection OF the new Opera House, solely at
me expense OF the State, was begun some
C.Ae oeIoIe tne French-German war of 1870
HUontlary 20 general expectations, the Repub-
lie has continued this practice Of the Emn;ra
towards the theaters Of Paris. It is consid.
cred remarkable that such play-going popu-
latlon as Paris can not keep the theaters omen
without ensloning them on the public treas
ury 1t would be equally just for the State to
contribute towards the maintenance of hotels
and dry goods stores.
imprisonment for Debt.
Imprisonment for debt is su opposed to be
abolished in Great Britain. Nevertheless we
see 1t stated that nearly 20, 600 persons were
arrested in the course of 1873, fourth of
whom went to prison rather than satisfy the
demands OF their creditors. The explanation
is, that these persons were committed. not for
their inability to pay their debts, but for
their unwillingness to do SO; in other words
they were committed for contempt of court.
The case of poor Smallbone shows that
man may occasionally be sent to jail without
any legal justification, but we are quite will
ing to believe that such instances are extrem.
~ rare.
If the number of actual committals in the
course OF year seems large; it is only fair to
observe that it does not appear SO when COM
pared with the whole number of cases dis
posed of by the County Court judges. There |
were about half a million verdicts in favor of
Plaintiffs as to more than 100, 600 of which it |
was deemed necessary to issue judgment sum-
monses. The mere threat of taking this step |
brought many Of the defendants to terms, and |
only in about al, 900 cases were warrants actu-
ally issued. Further compromises resulted, |
sndo the 1906 persons actually arrested, |
three-fourths paid up on the spot, about |
thousand paid after being certain period in |
Jail, while 1854 served their full time in |
prison.
An OverdOne Fruit Trade.
The glut Of the peach market has sur
feited every branch OF this trade. The Balh-
more Sun tells us that shipments have ceased
to the West, because freights are too high and
fruit too cheap. Four thousand boxes out Of
twenty thousand boxes of peaches brought to
that city on Tuesday, could not be sold, and
were returned to the growers to rot. The
packing houses are canning millions of
peaches for the future. Thus far the i'm
mense crop of fruit has proved more disastrous
to the growers than the failure of the crop
last year, when SO few peaches were raised
that the demand was not satisfied, and prices
kept up. Now, grower is fortunate to find
for the cost of shipping them to market.
There is one thing to be said Of the crop,
however, from which growers may take a
hint for the future. The peaches so far sent
TO market are generally small, owing, no
doubt, to the great fecundity Of the trees. If
The crop had been thinned out early in the
season, the remaining fruit would have been
Of better grade, and worth more intrinsi.
,ally, and besides, there would not have been
| glut so great as to make the fruit entirely
worthless, as at present. Il would have been
s nipped the buds" and destroyed the
,rops," as reported early in the spring. The
merchants Of Baltimore engaged ]
n the trade, resolved not to receive or sell
my more inferior fruit, charging the whole
disaster that has overtaken the traffic to the
BAD quality which the growers have sent to
narket-M r. Bulletin, 21st inst
The Spanish Vino Trade.
The Spanish export trade in wines OF late {
ears has assumed such proportions as to
xert decided influence on the commerce OF
he principal ports Of that country. Its total I
xports Of wine Of all kinds during 1854 were
IS, 672 658 litres, or about SO. go 600 gallons,
alued at loo, O2S, 1862 francs. From that
,eriod to the end of 1868 the amount was in
reased to $50, S27, 636 itres, or about Al, 2OO.-
90 gallons, valued at 95, $50, 089 francs. From
be latter year up to the present the trade has
acreased in as great ratio as during the Pc
;od named. but actual returns have not been
,ade public
The average annual yield Of the Spanish
inc regions is estimated at 81, GOO, OOO htres,
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