The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-03-17
COunERCIAL uATTER0. Etc.

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The mildness 81 the winter il the city u
New York has LETT the distributors Of coal foI
! 10 poor win 1000 bushels Of surplus fuel on
hand.
The Liverpool Mercury Is publishing some
strongly written articles on State and Church,
and begins one Of them BY the following terse
statement: The sale and purchase OF commits
aons has been abolished in the British army,
but the sale and purchase Of ivings is still
vigorously carried on in what assumes to be
the British National Church.
The Anti-compulsory Pilotage bill agreed
upon BY the House Committee on Commerce
provides that no owner, agent, master or
Consignee Of any ship or vessel, duly en-.
rolled and licensed and engaged in the coast.
ing trade or fishery, shall, BY virtue Of the
laws Of any State, be compelled to take, en-.
ploy or Pay pilot not voluntarily employed
On entering OF departing from any port or
harboT, CT entering, passing through or leav-
ing anyoshannel, passage or strait within the
waters Of the United States.
The exports Of cotton goods from New
York during the week ending last Saturday
have amounted id value to upwards Of quar-:
tor Of . million dollars. The Boston Aduer.
5isr says that should such rate !, continued
during the year the total exports from that
port alone would exceed $13, OOO, 900, which
Il larger value by So OOO, 900 than that re.
ported for the year when the business was
most prosperous, namely, 1860. For begin.
ming this is not bad. The export trade in
ootton goods has been entirely inactive for
the past fifteen years. Now, all ct once, we
start it up afresh, and find the conditions %
favorable that We dispose of larger amount
than We could sell at the time when We were
in active competition with the rest of the
world.
It may be said that it is unfair to reason
from the value Of goods sent out in q single
week to the exports Of Q whole year. But it
Il true that the amount is on the increase.
and that the expectations raised BY the re-.
turns Of the week are likely to be much more
than realized. Included in the exports from
New York, to which We have referred, were
0onsignments to England, Scotland, France,
Germany, the West Indies, Brazil, Africa.
China and Japan, showing that the market is
not confined to any country or to any part Of
tho world. The shipments from Boston
during the week ending last Friday were also
very large, reaching the sum of size, 900.
The New York Egg Market.
(American Grocer, March Ill
The course OF the egg market this season
has been something very surprising to all con.
Oesned in the business, and MANY engaged in
It have suffered heavy. losses owing to ,he sud.
dem and unexpected changes that have occur.
rcd. At this season of the year there is usu.
ally an active trade and values are generally
pretty high, but ht present the reverse is the
case. The principal cause seems to be hard
times and the great economy practiced among
the poorer Glasses, who use eggs largely. The
receipts, too, have been very large, due to the
mild winter. Last winter being very severe
the supply was small, but the hotels, restau-
rants and wealthier people, who use this pro
duct ct ell times, took about all that came
into the market, 80 that no difficulty was
experienced in obtaining the high figures Of
last year. At the present writing prices are
down to leo and Ito for the freshest and best
stock, making eggs one of the cheapest, if moi
the cheapest, articles Of food in the market.
Tho Massachusetts Shoe Manufacture.
[Shoe and Leather Reporter.]
The rate Of production of boots and shoes
In Massachusetts, is probably greater at this
time tnan it has been for several years past.
This is mot 80 much due to an increase in the
seasons trade a. to the cautious manner in
which orders we're placed early in the year,
and the recent pressure to fill duplicate
orders. Shipments from the principal points
have for several weeks past been much larger
than for the corresponding weeks Of past
Comparative Rates Of Wager.