New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-04-09
COMMERCIAL NOTES.

Port Royal, s. c.. claims to be the natural
Castle Garden Of the United States" Ab, no! No city
this country Is the natural anything III Is What INC
energy OF its people makeslt
The American Steamship line from Phladcl
phia to Liverpool made money during 1870 lis total
receipts were 81 O6j,Oi3 It's ordinary operating ex-
penses 5l6, and the clear prOnt Oi inc year
Sl44 014. Nothing blue In that picture.
Southern planters who went to Brazil in such
numbers Just after the civil war struggling back
home again. The ruling idea is to educate their children
in their own land II will be interesting to notice
whether recent political do bring back great
many more.
The panic of 1873 has brought priceless
compensation to the people 1t has afflicted 1t has taught
economy at home and enormously enlarged the sale OF
llcm gooSb has oav The papic of 1873 is making the
United States rcl
New-York has substantially captured the
foreign cotton trade There is not foreign buyer
in Boston, while there many, and the exports
effort also for the trade in wool, aud now imports as
much as her New-Engand neighbor Formerly she I'M
ported less than half as much
The English spnners are startled by the dis
covery that the managed cotton factories III England
cannot produce No 81 at less than 321 per pound
while in France they produce ii for less than 81 per
pound why is the fact that IN france the
nneratiyes work GO hours week, whlle north OF inc
Emanuel they work 90 hours week III l. lTuPoscu W
meet this state of facts on the preemhthy Iisn pan
and missionaries TO agliate among tio T e ,}
France fo reduction OF the hours or LABOR 10 90 weeh
Whenever Germany sells of some OF her Sill
or tbere Is sure 70 be fuctuation in the market The
Economist calls attention the fact that silver has fallen
10 per cent within past few weeks, owing TO the cause
reerred TO- In January the price was % 4d whlle zen
dovs ago il was only 532d This is similar fuctuation
o thai of last year. when the price fell from Sod TO 32
once dipping 10 47dJ The cause OF the present
u the fact that Germany has been exporting IaIse
Cnonty OF her silver TO China India anh Japan the
amount exported during J0nuaIy ana feDruiry nasinS
been 81 3l7 600. specially acuFe business 49,
S0ne Outing the last three weeks !he Ec"oH,S thlhhs
the phenomenon OF last year, Ia succeec" u! iSe'
IS to be repeated , -. -.
The building for the South African eXhibi-
49,. .. f,ne Town was built in London, and has been set
~ . ,or,,o omen snaCe near the House of Assembly OF
.to oIonv the contents OF the building come princi-
uv rom the Mother Country, too which seems to nave
tken a decided interest in making the ahar success
s yorld's exhibition away OF III the uiteInosl part
of the South j., however, Iel3 ,n cc,,ntries are
ronco Austria italy, and other European M
reserted I'm H. and the ambitious colours W nVu'l
f,ica make good show themselves Ihs Is tIo 1ii IN
of the interesting grand oNllDions Mi Ian these
!, nrs dne more 10 cement the world III lteig anu
in fact and quicken the minds VI siubssh n"'o' '"
all the treaties ID existence
II is said that Secretary Evarts lhtehoS 10
r,pse little more vigor into the consular system anu
urn IL 70 the better advantage OF this country lis iuea
"a to aupont copsus from among the ranks OF praccai
usines men and constitute them an actual corps OF oD-
seryation ON the picket line Of commerce ihey are 10
no the agency for informing the manufacturers OF .no
United States, by samples anu one. a. hch ihev
exoct practical needs OF the districts III winch noy
serve and pouf ont the clearly Tor an eAtcnsIoo
American commerce. The idea II worthy Oh 1 AZ ey
and Is eminently practical snd nroc now need
It Hts drst sample OF the quality OF hr EvnFts ~
Cabinet officer DO an indication Of what Is 10 DC expeceu