The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-07
CO4kRCIAL MATTERS, Etc.

CO14ERCIAL MATTERS, Etc.
Southern vegetables and fruits have made
their appearance in the New York market.
On the LIST inst cucumbers we're sold there ai
S696 - dozen, lettuce ct 50@75c. ~ dozen.
ana strawberries At $4@5 u quart
There Are 136. 600 tons Of coal on the wharvea
ct Richmond
The French line of steamships will touch q,
Philadelphia during the Centennial
Philadelphia lumber merchant is putting
up in Georgetown county, S. C., three ma.
chimes that will each turn out 10 600 cypress
shingles daily.
The Scientific American says Of the Great
Britain, one Of the first made iron vessels.
and one Of the earliest to ply regularly be.
tween New York and Liverpool, that she has
recently arrived ct Liverpool and completed
her thirty sixth trip around the world. Tha
Great Britain was built at Bristol Eno,and
and in July, 1845, made her maiden vovao
from Liverpool to New York in IA days
Hince 1852, independently Of her emplovm ent
In the Orimea during 1854 and 1855 she has
sailed over one million nautical miles and
when recently surveyed she was pronounced
one OF the strongest vessels in the mercantile
Is-ains Silver Coin.
n the Secretary of the Treasury shall de-
cades g he probably will in q few DAYS. to is-
sue silver coin, he has about SIS, OOO, 600 in
coAeo pieces and bullion to commence
0Pefstions with. The minis are in such con-
olaon that they can coin the money as fast AS
MS wanted. The price Of silver is now SO
sow tnat It takes II g. 10 ounces of pure silver
20 MAKE IN value one ounce of pure gold, and
silver is in value 6. 10 less than the green
back. The Secretary Of the Treasury and the
Director of the mint are both satisfied that
0iver can be kept in circulation, for gold
would have to 60 to 12O before silver coins
would go into the melting pot Washington
Correspondence.
Sugar Culture in louisiana.
IN. Y. Bulletin
When Louisiana again raises AGO, 900 hogs.
heads, as in 1861, we shall not be obliged to
import SO largely as we do now from Cuba.
Last years imports from there reached the
aggregate Of 1854, 3O6, 354 pounds at all
American ports (melado not included). One
important circumstance in connection with
this increase of the sugar culture in Louis
lana is the fact that that State is gradually
EeRaining more and more of its old-.ime trade
with the West. Before the war this was very
large. The introduction of foreign refined
sugar was at best but slow process.
The quality Of the last crop was unusually
good, and, being much cheaper than West
India refaed sugar, it competed successfully
with our city refners for the Western trade.
In fact SO successful in this respect were New
Orleans merchants for awhile, that our trade
with the West began to dwindle down to
very insignificant proportions But as prices
Of the Louisiana product began to advance as
the supply decreased, New York sugar was
again pushed West; and, as matters now
stand, the merchants of the Crescent City can |
only compete with any considerable success |
with New York during comparatively short |
period each year.
Should the Louisiana crop ever again reach |
the magnitude Of that of the ante-war period, |
land there is no reason why it should not), |
important changes in the trade, foreign and |
domestic, must inevitably result One of the |
most serious drawbacks to the recovery of |
this industry has been the arrangement of |
the labor system; another has been the exces-
sive exactions imposed on the planter by I'M
wise legislation; but the State is now begin
ming 70 see its way out from these, and ere
long therefore, there is good reason for ex-
pecting that the sugar planter as we'll as other
interests in Louisiana will have fair play.
Fires During January.
The Chronicle (insurance) publishes de-
tailed statement Of fires in the United States
and Canada during January. From this it
appears that the total losses by fire amount to
- 547. 800 rs against STAFF, 14O in January,
1875; total loss to insurance companies was
1856. 500 as against So. Gil, $50; aggregate
losses BY specials So, 733 100. against S., O92,-
15O, Of which 81, 498, 800 and 50, 427, 100 re-
spectively fell upon insurance companies
The losses are distributed as follows:
United States. Canada.
Total losses. .......... 81, az, 900 1914, 800
Total losses to ms Co.'s. 2's9O,2OO 1880
Losses @:ss: by d specials Ina o 2SSS
The Chronicle says: "The total for the
month was only about 60 y cent Of the loss
believe that the continuous mild weather, the
frequent rain, and the absence of severe wind
storms, accounts, to no small degree, for the
falling of both in the number and destruc-
tiveness of fires. Among the specials burned,
hotels keep their place ct the front, burning,
- usual, ct the rate Of nearly one day. It Z,
= mistake to suppose, as many do, that
these are all country hotels. About 80 y
cent are city hotels, and this relation holds
good nearly all the time. Restaurants end
liquor stores and country groceries comes :
next in the order of combus.ibility. Wood
working establishments contribute their full
share to the general loss, and churches and
drug stores, which never burn yon know,
somehow contrived to get burned with .
frequency.
Color and Qnality Of Coaee.
Java coffee il known to the trade as TO-
ows, according to its relative qualities: Man
1heling, Ankoa, Ayer-Bangies and Interior
he first being the highest grade; the initial
ettes NJ, A., A. b B., l., being marked on
he mats to designate the quality. The initial
etter Of the importer, or any letter designated
y him IL also always marked over the letter
designating the quality Of the coffee. There
ore the top letter is the importers mark and
he bottom letter describes the quality of the
o6tee. Neither the vessels name nor the
lumber Of mats in the invoice is marked. As
cargo may contain ell these descriptions, 7.
be different buyers will not necessarily get
be same quality; neither will the buyers of 2,
ny one description out Of the same cargo y
get the same quality, although it OF
! N marka6. and for this reason: Fl
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