The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-06
COMMERCIAL MATTERS. Etc.

hogs, 500. 900 sheep and SOC, OOO cattle; the
600.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has made
an assessment of sl25,OOO against Charles
Jost, Grove Adams, jerome b. Fargo and
Charles Werner, for unpaid duties on spirits
made in 1868 and 1869.
The catch of Goldfish on the coast of Nova
Scotia and New Brunswick last season was
one-third short of the usual quantity taken,
owing, the fishermen say, to scarcity of
bait, neither caplin nor sqaids having made
their appearance at the customary time or in
the usual quantity. Many Of the fishermen
will be ruined by their failure to catch, az a
much destitutiOn is anticipated.
The Toronto Monetary Times says: "Fe-
male trade drummers have made their appear.
ance in some places. They are piquant, au-
dacous and fascinating, and business men
are not returning to their families as early il
the evening as usual, as they have to inspect
the sam Piles.
A New York Times Washington special SAYS
that late intelligence from Matanzas, Cuba
STATES tnat the new crop Of sugar and molasses
are already beginning to come in from the
Plantations the estates generally being in full
operation. Few are producing clayed sugars,
other kinds being deemed more profitable
10 December l7there bad been received about
5OO boxes new crop clayed and 400 hhds. new
crop muscOvado sugars and 600 hhds. new
crop molasses
There was general impression among aeri-
cuiturlsts ID the southeastern portion OF Ms
sour early IN the season that cotton could be
successfully and probably grown in that re-
glon. These anticipations however, do not
appear to have been fully realized, at least we
Judge SO by the statement in the Stoddard
county Messenger, giving the cost of cult
vatlng twelve acres of cotton in that district,
thus: Labor of one man for tour months
with board, 500; horse and feed, $40; rent
OF ground, $40; picking 1900 pounds per
acre, at one cent per pound, $216-total
cost, 1896. The product, it says, will be one
halt bale to the acre, or six bales to the twelve
acres. Estimating 500 pounds to the BALE at
eleven cents pound, the proceeds will be
$3.50, or $66 less than cost
The amount of receipts of this Government
from customs and internal revenue for the
year 1875, exclusive of the last two DAYS,
show decrease or about 81 800 900, and The
internal revenue an increase OF $1,000, 600.
Cotton Goods T. ade Of New York.
The financial condition of the trade at the
close OF the year Is generally satisfactory.
The lessons of the panic were not forgotten
by sensible merchants and never before in
the history of the trade was business con-
Quoted on more conservative principles.
There was not vestige Of speculation during
the year, and in buying goods hand to- |
mouth policy was pursued by jobbers and re-
tallers, which enabled them to anticipate |
their payments to an unusual degree. The |
credit OF the dry goods trade stood very high |
in Wall street. and dry goods paper was ne
gotlable throughout the year at unusually low |
rates. There were few failures in the trade, |
but none of such importance as occurred in |
Cher branches of business, and the general |
condition of the trade may be regarded s.
financially sound.-N 7. Bulletin
Liverpool Cotton Market Report.
From the weekly cotton report of Messrs.
weyextract the following:
he Position, dc.-On Wednesday last,
18th inst, q telegraphic summary of the De-
cember report Of the National Cotton Ex-
change of the United States WAS received
here. 1t represents the condition, on the
whole, to be some per cent worse than the
previous report, and is variously construed
here to indicate total yield this season Of
062, 600 to LOG, 900 bales On Saturday
last the Cotton Brokers Association of this
town received telegram from the New York
Cotton Exchange as follows g The chief sta
tistican OF the Agricultural Bureau at Wash
ngton-infOrms the New York Exchange that
the report issued to-day is unauthorized. He
hints about per cent. greater yield than the
November report indicated ; no deliberate es-
innate yet. December report promised in
for Knight"
The November report Of the bureau indi-
Gated crop of 1892 900 bales, as shown in
our issue under date of the 10Th ult. If the
December report should, as limited ain the
foregoing telegram. indicate an increase of
per cent it would point to otal yield of /
about ,OS7, 600 bales, or very nearly the sane
as the average Of the estimates based on the
report of the National Cotton Exchange, and ,
only 1000 bales less than the average of the
6S estimates collected here, to which we re-
ferred in our last report. Notwithstanding
this seeming concurrence in estimates Of
about 4, loo, 900 bales, there are very many in
the trade both on this side and in America,
who seem to believe in crop of 25O, 600 or
upwards; or, at any rate, who deem it advisa- a
BILE to base their operations on the p1obabii !
ties Of such yield, and the large receipts 1T 7
the ports this week have tended to support
and strengthen their opinions. *
At Alexandria the receipts for the past fort
hight have been unusually large; the ia ling 4
,tf in receipts at the interior ports, men /
Toned in our report Of the 81 instant, seems h
o have been very temporary. The receipts n
o date, since LIST of October last, are some -
Loo, 600 cantars (about 16 600 bales) in excess t.
If last season to date, and very nearly as o
arge as two years ago. The impression there
ore gains ground tina. the Egyptian crop of n n
his season will be about 400, 600 bales, per-
laps rather more, against 347, 900 last season,
nd 1000 in 1872 3. Up to the 4lh instant
he shipments from Alexandria were 10, 600
,ales less to Great Britain and %, 600 more to
he Continent than in the corresponding pc
iod last year.
The general impression here, SO far as we .
IAN learn, seems to be that the crop of West St
IN India will this season be about the same a
8 last, but that owing to the increasing con- !,
umption in Bombay, where new mills are t
eing erected, and the low scale Of prices, that
be shipments to Europe are likely to be
omewhat less in 1876 than in 1876. There
owever, seems no longer any reason to doubt
hat the shipments from Eastern India (Cal-
utia. Rangoon. ETC. } will next year be unu-
ualy light to Europe, perhaps not more than y
ne-half as large as this year, a, nearly all s