The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-23
COIIERCIAL nxFTERs. Etc.

CUAAEkC1AL LETTERS. Etc.
The Chief q the Bureau Of Statistics fur.
nishes . statement Of the exports Of pro-
visions from the month of February, from
which 1t appears that the total exports from
Philadelphia 81, 015, $50, New York $5,24l,.
600, and New Orleans $43, O73.
The business Of the railroads for the month
OF February shows q gratifying increase over
snas OF the corresponding month last year.
keturns from seventeen Of the principal West
ern lines show the aggregate receipts to have
been 81 4O8, 637, against So 46l, 1922 during
the corresponding season last year-an in.
crease of $946, $685. The gross earnings of the
same roads for January and February amount-
Cd to $7.357 73l, against 5000, O64 same
time last year-increase $l,327,O67. These
returns, it is proper to say, do not include
any of the great trunk lines.
The number Of cattle slaughtered and
packed at Chicago during the past season is
tho largest reported in eleven years.
The tunnel under the English Channel will
be sixteen miles long and two hundred and
hfty feet below the bed of the sea, when
built "-'A
The Tobacco Leaf says that it is q generally
edmltted fact that the new crop OF Havs ma
sooacco Is the worst that has been raised for
many years.
It has been decided by Judge Lowell. in
the Eastern District of Massach usetts. that
neither victualler nor builder who buiIds
houses tor sale is brakeman in the meaning
o. the Bankrupt act, which forbids a dis.
cnarge to trader who has not kept sufficient
books OF account
The committee of three authorized by the
United States House of REPRESENTATIVES to
visit New Orleans and other places on the
Mlssiseippi, in order to investigate the condi.
non OF the levees and report upon plans for
construction and preservation, will start on
their trip on the 25th inst
The Supreme Court of Tennessee at last
November term, in J. w. Gosline vs. T. g.
Griffin. overruled the decision in vatterlien
Va Howell, Sneed, AL, and held that paw
ment Of note before maturity to the original
payee is not good against an assignee who has
given value for its payment
IheJ present poverty of South Carolina is
not due to lack of resources, but to the man
ner in which these resources are employed.
The industrial returns of the year 1875 fur
nish the proofs on this point. There were
produced in that twelve-month 5,421, 1862 gal
Ions Of turpentine and 343. LAG bbls of resin.
l36. 939, 458 pounds of short staple cotton,
corn, 662, 9l2 bushels Of VIII at, Is, 772 bushels
ofEye, 772, $50 bushels Of oats, 466 $50 bushels
Of peas and beans, 1865. 5S3 bushels Of pota-
toes and 1915 tons of hay.
The freedmen show good industrial record
IN these crop statistics, exclusive Of what they
raised on shares. They produced LIT, 1872
pounds, or more than half of all the long
staple cotton raised, and over ~, 600, 600
pounds Of the short staple cotton, with corn,
wheat, oats, ETC., to correspond. The pro-
ducts Of the State are grouped in no less
than twenty.six departments, and it is no
wonder that notorious United States Senator
from that Commonwealth has declared to his
political friends that there are !" Eve years Of
good stealing in the State yet"
Where We Get Our Tobacco.
Looking into the manufacture Of tobacco,
il is found, says the st. Louis Globe, that Vir-
ginia makes the most plug, but of black plug
New York and Brooklyn make as much as the
whole OF Virginia. Before the war no plug
was manufactured in the North
Kentucky is, or was q few years ago; the
lsrgest leaf-growing State, raising as high as
$4,000 hhds per annum. Virginia comes
next, with sc, 600 hhds. then come Missouri,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Tennessee, North Car
olina, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, IN the
order given above According to the statis-
tics Of the Internal Revenue Department in
1869 (the latest at my disposaD find that
New York led in the manufacture of cigars,
281, 182, 600; then comes Pennsylvania with
199. 514, 900; Maryland, IS 1854, 900; Msssachu-
setts, over AZ 600. 900; Missouri. % 600, 600;
isiana, "a, 600, O0O, and 80 to the end, Virginia
being the smallest, with 2.6O7, 600 as her fig
ure for that year.
The Agricultural Wealth of Texas.
IN. Y. Bulletin.]
In looking over our exchanges paragraphs
are daily found Of unusual interest relative to
the favorable progress of agriculture in varl-
Gus sections of Texas. For some time past
there has been large influx Of immigrants
into the State, attracted thither by ths salu-
brity Of the climate, richness of soil, and the
easy terms on which farming lands can be OBJ
tained In the main the settlers have been of
the thrifty sort, possessed Of little capital
but good amount d enterprise. They APP
pear to have readily taken advantage of the
natural inducements offered, and as result
their prospects are very encouraging.
Az illustrating the good effects Of this i'm
migration and the progressive prosperity of
tho State it may be stated that the popu alton
OF Texas has more than doubled since the
var. In its northeast portion. not far from
about Marshall, Austin and Dallas. which in
1865 81 we're worth OILY 50 SO per acre, can
not be bought now for s25 OF $50 per acre,
according to proximity to the growing city.
Touching the growth of small towns, it may
be eaid building ia hardly keeping pace with
the influx of population. The farming in
terest is increasing at surprisingly rapid
rate. The area in cultivation this year in
eome counties will exceed that Of last year BY
over 200 per cent
A correspondent writing from Guadalupe
county gives the following glowing picture Of
the situation in that quarter: Hill, dale,
woodland and prairie succeed each other in
the view, and herds Of cattle, horses and
sheep are seen in all directions. Nearly one.
fourth Of the country is timbered. Hogs are