The New Orleans bulletin., 1876-03-15
COHHERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

COHlERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.
Fifteen million brooms are annually manu-
fActured in the United States
Eight pin factories in the United States
turn out Al, ,0O0, 600 pins daily. It is quite
problem what becomes of all the pins.
London is now supplied with dried eggs.
The meat OF the egg is reduced to powder.
and can be wet up and used for cooking at
any time.
Dry goods were never cheaper than they
are ct present Merchants in the business
half century say they never knew q time
when all sorts Of wooden ard cotton fabrics
were as low az they are to-day.
Atchison county, Kansas, has an apiary
that yielded 367O pounds Of honey and $50
pounds Of comb-an average Of $50 pounds
70 the swarm.
The steamship Santiago cleared from Bos-
ton on Friday. In the cargo was 1884, 338
yards of domestic dry gcods-the largest
amount ever shipped from that port The
invoice value was about 5000, 600.
The Meriden Britannia Company have just
finished silver-plating pillow, which is to be
exhibited at the Centennial by an enterprising
Michigan firm.
Nea-Resident Traders-Importnnt Decision.
A case was decided recently by Judge Gill
NOR in the Criminal Court, Baltimore, of
great interest to business men. Mr.. W. @.
1cCarty, travelling agent Of Henry Mayo &
Co., Of Boston, was charged with selling
goods without a license. The fact that Nc
Oarty has no license was admitted by the de-
fense. Mr.. Knott, in the course of his argu-
ment for the prosecution, referred to the de-
cision Of the United States Supreme Court in
the case Of Ward Va. Maryland, which de-
clared unconstitutional that portion Of the
law of this State which imposed license of
$500 on nonresident traders, while from resi-
dent traders licenses Of from $l2 to $50,
graduated according to the amount of stock
on hand, were required.
This decision was based on the ground that
the law was in contravention of article 4, Sec
ton of the Constitution of the United States,
which says "The citizens of each State shall
beentitled to all privileges and immunities Of
citizens in the several States" Mr.. Knott
c0ntended that the Supreme Court had not
decided that nonresident traders could come
here and sell goods without taking any license,
but simply that the statute discrimination In
favor of resident as against Nonresident tra
ders was unconstitutional WHY should not
the latter be required to pay license fees, grad
uated in the same manner as those Of home ira
ders? It was an unjust discrimination against
the merchants of this city to force them to
pay license, while those of other cities could
come in person or send their agents here and
sell goods without getting license.
II was claimed by the counsel for the de-
fense that nonresident traders were not re-
quired to pay any license. II this operated as
. discrimination against home traders. it was
the fault of the Legislature. Section 81, OF
Article Sc, of the Code of Public General
Laws, under which non. resident traders had
been compelled to pay license, had been
declared to be unconstitutional II additional
legislation had not since been consummated
requiring n n-resident traders to pay the
same license as home traders, the fault was
with the Ger eral Assembly.
Judge Gilmor, in rendering his decision.
referred to the case Of Ward vs. Maryland.
Ward had been convicted in the Criminal
Court of selling goods without license, and
sentenced to pay fine. The decision was sus-
tained by the Supreme Bench Of Baltimore
city and the Court of Appeals Of Maryland;
on an appeal, however, to the Supreme Court
OF the United States, the provisions of the
Maryland Code under which Ward was con-
victed, were declared to be unconstitutional.
McCarty, the accused party in the present
and was now sought to hold him under the
General Traders License Act
The Court thought that the forty. first sec
ton of article fifty, Public General Laws,
quoted by the States Attorney, rendered non
resident and resident traders alike liable to
nav license It seemed to the Court that Nc
Carty was placed upon the same footing with
resident traders, whether he is residing here
temporarily or permanently. 1t certainly was
mot the intention Of the Supreme Court to in
terfere with the right Of State to impose the
same regulations on nonresident traders.
Judge Gilmor, in conclusion, said that the
alleged violation of the law by McCarty had,
in the opinion Of the Court, been sustained
by the proof. As it was the first time the
Court had been called upon to construe the law
in question, it would impose the smallest fine,
$2O.-BdkimOre American.
Liverpool Cotton Report.
From Messrs. w. G. Watts & Co.'s weekly
Liverpool circular Of the 25th of February
We take the following:
II may be taken for granted that at any.
thing like present prices American cotton will
be rapidly absorbed. The decline in manu-
factured articles has not been SO severe as in
the raw material eand as producers are nov
making good profits, we can easily realize the
temptation to keep all available machinery
going. So far as Europe is concerned, we
NAV therefore assume that consumption is
likely to keep in full swing for some time to
come, and the capacity of the world to take
of the production will, at prices now ruling,
be very elastic
The disturbance Of the ordinary current of
business in Manchester for the great Eastern
markets by the depreciation in exchange is no
doubt important, and . serious matter to
those having large transactions pending with
those markets, but values there will have to
adjust themselves to the altered condition Of
things, and We suppose India will, as hereto
fore, have to offer fair paying rates for her
Manchester goods.
We An already see evidence OF the rapldlty |