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BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-10-28

tomando por aforo Ell precio medic
de ounce pesetas ell quintal que es
ell que rige, rebajando tambien en-
igual proportion elcafe y mantenien-
do en- vigor las Reales Ordenes Vi
gentes que disponen no Sc cierre el
mercado cubano al tabaco de esta
provincial.
ST asf 10 acuerda ell Ministerio de
que es V. E. digno miembro, este
pats debera al actual Gabinete su sal
vacion Sc la deberan igualmente la
marina, ell comercio y la industria pc
ninsulares y la historic conservara
en- paginas de orc ell acto de mas
notoria justicia que habra hecho d
esta provincial espanola el gobierno
de S. NJ. desde que a principles del
siglo Sc declararon abiertos los puer-
tos americanos al comercio universal,
resolution acertada de la cual arran-
ca la relativa prosperidad de las An
tillas. l." FL dilema, como dicen nues-
tros hermanos de Barcelona, entire un
interes particular un bien general
no puede ser dudoso para la ilustra-
cion y rectitud de V. e., y el pals Sc
promote, por consiguiente, las medi-
das que solicita como un acto de JUS
ticia.'
Puerto-Rico, "A de Octubre de
1S77.-Ercnao. .Sr.-EL PREsIDENTE,
Marques de la .fspera"za.-EL SE-
CpETApIo 1,fOll'0 R1ferO
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-10-28
6,4e2 1.166,63o

IOTAL DE HUF
ouRs salidos con ToFAL DE
carga. ,....... $3.50 ToNELAnAs l.. .231 ,728
NOTA. Estaa cifras estan sacadas do la
Estadistica del Oomercio exterior de Puer-
to-Rico, publicada por la Intendencia.
No sc incluye ell movimiento del Deposito
Mercantil por su insigniticancia,
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-10-28

Ell emperador y la emperatriz del
Brasil han sido citados por escribano
para que comparezcan ante ell tribunal
De. Roma para percibir 100000 frances.
Yes que doila Maria Cristina peltenece
q la familia de los Borbones de Napoles;
y en- este concepto tiene una pension hi
potecada sobre una hacienda llamada
Lsela Jiraaecse en- la campina de Roma
Los marqueses Gayetano, Felipe y Ale
iandro Ferraioli quieren hberar de esta
hipoteca dicha possession, obligando a
S.aM. & cobrar los 100000 frances va
depositados. Para ell primer martes
dar 1878 estan citados los emperadores
del Brasil para este asunto.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-10-28

En- la tarde del jueves Sc embarco el
Excmo. Sr. Teniente General d. Segun-
do de Ia Portilla en- ell Smtander con
direction 4 la Habana, de donde regre-
sara q la Metr6poli por el primer correo.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-10-28

De La Correspoadcncia de Espdaa to-
mamos 10 siguiente:
LA function consagrada en- el tea
tro Espanol 4 la memoria del malo-
grado Narciso Sierra, fue una verdadera
solemnidad artfstica. En- la ejecucion del
drama Perdonar nos mandd Dios y el sal
nete Il Ia puerta del c,tartel, ambas obras
de Sierra, fueron muy aplaudidos todos
los artistas, especialmente ell Sr. Yalero,
qusestuyo inimitable en- el drama y la
senofita Fernandez en- Ell sainete.
En- ufo de los intsrmedios las senoras
Disz, Oairony Contreras y los Sres vi
CO, Zamora, Parreno y Rodriguez, leye-
ron sentidas poesias de Echegaray, Cano,
Marco. Santisteban, Pedrosa Chacel y
Medina (don Emilio). Tambien leyeron
sus poesias el distinguido autor D. Luis
Cuenca J 81 popular actor Mariana Fer
nandez.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-10-28

Sc ha hecho cargo de la direction y
administration de nuestro colega FL
Agente su actual propietario el Sr. Don
Federico Asenjo.
LIE deseamos toda clase de prosperi-
dades.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1877-10-28
NUMERO 4.

EiS1,ADO que demuestra Ell nalmero
de 6uQases maercantes que entraron
cargados dauante dicho qtinque,aio,
con expression de los nacionales q to-
neladas qae msdleron.
ExtranjerOs EspanOles
ERTRADOS. ENTRADOS.
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Self-reliance, coujoined with prompti-
tude in the execution Of our undertakings,
is indispensable to success. And yet null
titudes live life of yacillhtion and con
sequeut failure, because they remain un-
determined what to do, or, having decided
that, have no confidence in themselves.
Such persons need to be assured; but this
assurance can be obtained 10 no otherway
than by their own successes in whatever
they may attempt for themselves. If they
lean upon Others, they not only become
dissatisfied with what they achieve, but
the success of one achievement, in which
they are entitled to but partial credit, is
no guaranty to them that, unaided, they
will not fail in their very next experiment.
For want Of self-relianee and decision
OF character, thousands are submerged in
their first essays to make the voyage Of
life. Disappointed aud chagrined AZ this,
they underestimate their own capacities,
and thenceforward, relying on others, they
take and keep subordinate position, from
which they rise, when they rise at all, with
the utmost difficulty When a young man
attains his majority, it is better for him,
as q general rule, to take some indepen-
dent position of his own, even though the
present remuneration be less than he would
obtain in the service of Others. When at
work for himself, in business which re-
quires and demands foresight, economy
aud industry, he will naturally develop the
strong points of his character, aud become
self-reliant.
A glance at the business men of any
community will show who have aud who
have not improved the opportunities of
their earlier days. The former transact
their business with ease, promptitude, aud
profit. They rely upon themselves, and
execute what they have to do with energy
and dispatch. But those who shirked ev-
crything in their youth are compelled to
rely on their clerks aud statesmen for ad-
vice, and are never ready to act when
occasion Of profit arise. Many parents
commit lamentable error in this respect.
They lead their children to believe that
they can do nothing without the constant
assistance of their superiors, and after
awhile the child becomes impressed with
that idea. Fortunate win it be for him
when he cmcrges from the parental roof
if he can at once acquire the self-reliance
which has been kept down at home-oth
erwise he must necessarily fail in whatever
independent enterprise he undertakes; and
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The special commission appointed by
the President to consider the subject Of
communication by canal between the At
lantic and Pacific, across or near the 18th
mus connecting North and South America,
have reported, as some time ago foreshad-
owed, 10 favor of the Nicaraguau route.
The length Of this route is 1871 miles, of
which on the Atlantic slope 63 miles are
by slack water navigation, and 454 by
canal; the summit level comprising 56l
miles by Lake Nicaragua, and the Pacific
slope 16l miles by canal. The total cost
is estimated at 'at least sl00, 900, 600, u
to which it may be safe to add, we might
venture to say, some s50,O00,000 more
The State Department has already been in
communication with the leading CONNER.
cial and maritime nations Of Europe, in.
viting their attention TO the satisfactory
character of these surveys. These gov
ernments have transmitted replies, expires
sing themselves favorable to an early com.
mencement of the enterprise. They are
also understood to be in favor of making
Iit NOGh lultIudllO udl III It's Gn1IdCltI Dl
an equal participation Of the great com
mercial powers in its construction, and
the maintenance for it Of an inviolate neu-
trality. The President is sabout to submit
these replies in special message to Con
gress, in which he will also urge that the
United States take steps necessary to be-
ginning the work at once. Whether in
the present state Of the national finances
the federal treasury can sustain any con-
siderable drain, even for so important a
work, will remain. for Congress to decide
1t would seem that the United States has
done her proper share for the present in
obtaining for the benefit of the world the
elaborate surveys, the results Of which
have been made known. The real work
it is well suggested, to be done well must
be done by private capital and enterprise,
thus at once escaping the scandal of be-
coming huge government. job, and Of
costing two or three times as much as il
should, with the addition of being but an
indifferent job of last.
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Something to Do.

1t is an old trick of despots, and good
one, to employ their subjects. Why? Tc
keep them out of mischief Employed
men are most contented. There is nc
conspiracy. Men do not sit down and
coolly proceed to concoct iniquity so long
as there is plenty OF pleasant and profta-
BILE employment for body and mind. Work
drives off discomfort, provided there is
compensation in proportion to the amount
Of labor performed. There must be a
stimulant God never intended man
should sweat without eating of the fruits
Of his labor-reaping reward-more than
he intended the idle man should revel in
plenty and grow gouty on luxuries. In,
dustry is a great peacemaker--a mind
your-own-business citizen. Something to
do renders the despairing good -natured
and hopeful-stops the cry OF the hungry,
and promotes all virtue The best men
are the most industrious; the most wealthy
work the hardest. They always find some
thing to do. Do you ever wonder that
men of wealth do not 'retire" and enjoy
their substance We know some young
men who look forward with anticipation to
the time Of ''retiring" 1t is doubtful il
man should ever retire from business as
long as he lives, We think We know
men who, were they to abandon business,
would be ruined, not pecuniarily, but mem
tally--tbeir lives would be shortened.
God never intended mans mind should
become dormant. Il is governed by fixed
laws. Those laws are imperative in their
exactions.
Something to do "0h, if Ihad some
thing to do" There are young men who
sigh for it, yet one thing they can do
that is, seek for job, Once found, pro
vided it is an honest one, do not hesitate
to perform it, even il it does not pay as
well as YOU expected. --.ScieatiifcAn,ericaa
/
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spOnging for a Living.


A correspondent of the New Haven
Comm Register tells how they fish for
sponges 10 the Bahamas. He says
When a vessel arrives at the fishing
ground il is anchored, and the men in
small boats proceed to look for sponges in
the waters below The water is beauti-
ful light blue in color, and so clear that
sixpence can easily be seen on the white
sand bottom in thirty-fye aud forty feet
Of water. OF course, when there is no
wind, the surface Of the water still, the
spongcs are easily seen, but when gentle
breeze is blowing sea glass is used.
A sea g lass consists Of pine box about
twelve inches in length, with pane Of
glass about ten by twelve inches placed in
one end water.tight. To use it the glass
end is thrust into the water, and the face
Of the operator is placed close to the other.
by this means the wave motions of the
wnter are overcome, and the bottom read
lily seen. Sponges, when seen on the
bottom attached to the coral rocks,
look like a big black bunch. They are
pulled off their natural beds by forked
hooks which are run down under the
sponge which is formed like the head of
cabbage, and the roots pulled from the
rocks.
When brought 70 the surface it is a
mass of soft, glulinous stuff which to the
touch feels like soft soap or thick Jelly.
When small boat load is obtained
they are taken upon the shore, where
crawl is built in which they are placed to
die, 50 that the jelly substance will readily
separate from the firm fibre of the sponge.
These crawls are built by sticking pieces
Of brush into the sand out of the water,
large enough to contain the catch. It
takes from FIVE to six days for the insect to
die, when the spongcs are beaten with small
sticks, and the black, glutinous substance
falls off, leaving the sponge, after thor
ough washing, ready for market. To the
fishermen generally the business is
lucrative one | am told that the wages
will hardly average three dollars per week,
besides board There is but little diving
for sponges, except for particular iine
bunch, which cannot easily be got with
the hook. The sponge is formed by small
insects and is the hive in which they live.
Different qualities are found growing side
by side, although in certain regions the
finer and more valuable sponges are found.
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People Us. Politicians.

One of our prominent clergymen last
Sunday denounced the politicians. The
politician is held up as the most fla.
grant exemplifcation of human deprayity.
Other men may be at zero in wickedness,
but he falls below them. He is made re.
sponsiblc for the country troubles, This
argument needs dissection, The politician
is Of the people and comes from the peo-
pie. Good bad, and Indifferent, he pos
sesses the average goodness Of the people.
Like father, like son like people, like
politician. It is doubtful that any one
particular calling corrupts man more
than another A proportionate average
of ministers fall yearly. 1t should not be
so, but it as so. 1t proves that depravity
is sowed broadcast in human nature
The man who adulterates milk, gives short
weight, makes and sell coats and trousers
whose buttons fly off the first day Of wear
ing as if by electrical repulsion; the man
who puts the best fruit on top of the bas
ket, who never has any strong butter,
who conscientiously sells frozen potatoes
this man, when chosen as representa-
tive of the people, from roadmaster up to
President, will cheat at politics. The
leaven runs right up through the mass.
When We ask to be delivered from the
politician We might with equal propriety
ask to be delivered from ourselves. The
direction of public affairs is business
and somebody must do it. 1t is, besides,
trade, and somebody must learn it. A
trade giving no opportunity for cheating
is yet to be classed with the north pole
1t hasn't been reached When we make
clean our own platters others may be en-
couraged to clean theirs Sometimes we
haven't the least idea that We live in glass
houses ourselves. We fling stones in
every direction, and when our own frames
come smashing about us we can neither
see nor hear them. 1t is sign of certain
death in trespasses and sins when any one
believes himself the only righteous man in
Sodom. Like man drunk through and
through, he thinks every one drunk save
himself. The nation will go where the
people not the politicians carry it. The
politicians are but samples of the people
neither better nor worse.--NnW York
Graphic.
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palitital affairs.
FRAUD AND v1ILAINY TRIUMPH
Decision in the Florida Case.

An honest man, Joseph Pulitzer, of N q.
York city, thus manifests his opinion r.
The whole opposition of Morton and Gar
field to the passage of the bill was based
upon the idea that the Commission had
the right to go behind the returns and re-
ceiye unlimited evidence and testimony.
The trainers and advocates Of the bill
openly aud emphatically admitted this,
and an amendment offered in the Senate
BY Mr.. Dawes, which sought to abridge
this right of the Commission, was rejected.
Every member of the Commission took
and subscribed to the following oath:
| soemuy swear that will impartially ex.
anime and consider all questions submitted to
the Commission, of which am a member,
and q true Judgment give thereon agreeably
to the Constitution and the laws. So help
me God.
Yet eight Of the fifteen members who
had taken this oath voted for the following
ORDER
Ordered that no evidence will be received
or considered by the Commission which was
not submitted TO the joint convention of the
two Houses by the President Of the Senate
with the different certificates.
Was there ever a palmer. violation Of
law Z Was there ever clearer prostitu.
tion of the forms Of justice? Was it not
perjury?
Every one of the eight who voted for
that order committed perjury. No one
can read the law creating the Commission
and escape this conclusion. No one can
familiarize himself with all the facts, with.
out seeing this conclusion form into firm
conviction in his mind.
A court refusing evidence in the trial Of
horse thief would be considered infam.
GUS But hess is court expressly created
to "impartially examine into" and decide
the gravest aud greatest questions that
have occurred since the existence of the
republic, expressly vested with all the
powers of"both Houses of Congress" fol
that very purpose, that deliberately refuses
to hear any evidence; and orders ave
wish to hear neither facts nor truth, mol
law nor logic; We wish before this question
is 'Judicially and impartially examined
into no information, intelligence or in
struetion whatever. We will decide this
question without light and without truth
and against law and logic and oath and
honor -
Oh! "forms of law" how many out
RACES are committed in thy name
Oh how much more perjury must rist
to heaven before Hayes can get into the
White House?
Oh justice, how much more degraded
aud Knocked, how much lower can you sinh
under the political partisan touch of Nor
ton, Miller Bradley, and Strong?
| JOSEPH PULITZER.
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ANECDoTE OF WAsHINGToN.- has
often been remarked of Washington, that
no one was ever in his presence without
being strongly impressed by reverence for
his dignity. But its seems by the follow
ing anecdote, that at least there was one
exception
"When the President was procuring the
ground for the city which was to be the
seat of government, he had but little diff
Guilty in obtaining the necessary releases,
except in one instance Mr.. James Byrnes
was the owner of lot or tract, which it
was advisable should be included in the
plan. The General had various conferen-
ces with Mr. b., who was very obstinate,
and resisted all the reasoning and persua-
sions Of the great man. Indignant at
being thus opposed Washington turned
upon him with indignation, and said With
great severity, "Mr. james Byrnes, What
would your land have been worth if had
not placed this city on the Potomac ?"
Byrnes was undismayed, and cody turned
to MIN and said, "George Washington,
what would yqa have been worth j you
had not married The Wiloto Custis f.,'Ef
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POLITICAL HISTORY.
The Old System Of Presidential Nomination,


Our Presidents and Vice Presidents
were at first nominated by caucuses COM
posed of the senators and members of the
House Of Representatives belonging to
each party This caucus system, although
we often see it decried by English writers
and papers, was really derived BY our
early politicians from England Itbecame
the habit Of che Parliamentary leaders Of
the Wings and Tories, soon after the rev.
rolution Of 1858, to meet at taverns or
club houses in order to provide discipline
for the party ranks, to discuss and decide
on measures, and even on special votes,
and to designate the personnel Of new
ministries. Many an entertaining story
fthese conclayes, which often partook Of
festive and literary as we'll as delibera.
tive character, has come down to us in the
writings Of Addison, Steele, Heryey, and
Horace Walpole and although they were
not known as ''caucuses, they were such
in form and in purpose.
Even before the Revolution, American
politics had taken a distinct party shape
and what were virtually caucuses werI
held in the quaint old inns Of Boston, Ney
York, and Philadelphia, ON the part botl
Of the Tories and patriots. 1t was oftcl
decided in these conferences who shoul
be sent to the General Court, who shoul
be made colonel qf the militia, who shoul
be delegated 10 the Continental Congress
At the Screen Drngon,n in Boston, nots
BILE conferences Of the caucus order wei
wont to be held, in which HancocI
Adams, Otis, and Warren were leadin
and inspiring spirits.
For the FIRST three Presidential election
however, there were no nominating cal
cuses Of Congressman, for the reason tbs
the candidates were very clearly design
, ted by the events Of the Reyolutionar
and Constitution-forming period.
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The Blue Glass Discovery,

Gen, A. J Peasonton has written n
long letter to the Chicago TiJttat on the
wonders Of blue glass The glass which
he1lses is of a dark blue, the color being
derived from preparation Of calbat which
Is fused In the pot with the other ingre
dients. 1t is imported from France, and
costs four times as much as American win
dow glass. He gives in this letter his
personal experience as 10 the curative
powers Of blue and sun light baths. In
October last he met with very serious
accident in alighting from a wagon in
Philadelphia. His physician said that
there had been no fracture Of the ribs or
bones, but that he would suffer long time
from the effects Of the shock and fall
Liniments and plasters afforded no relief
He resolved to try blue glass. ain my
bathroom he says, 81 have window
with southern exposure, arranged with
alternate panes Of blue and plain transpa-
rent glass. Uncoyering my back, sat
with my back to the blue and sun lights
which were streaming through the window
into the bathroom As soon as these
lights began to fall upon my back the
pains began to diminish, and at the end
of half an hour they had ceased altogether
Towards evening the pains returned, but
they were much less than they had been
before had taken the blue light bath,
and during the night | was easier than
had been previously The next day
took another bath OF blue and suu,lights
which effeetually relieved me Of every pain,
and since then, now about three months,
| have not had the slightest pain or sen.
sitiyeness in the parts affected-thrce CON
seeutTc sun and blue.light having com
pletely removed every i'll effect of my most
serious accident" The Scientific dmeri.
can exposes the blue glass theory Of Gen.
Pleas5ntou, and shows that there is moth.
ing in it.
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nearly reached the top | perceived, to my
horror, imbedded in projecting mass Of
ice directly over my head, boulder weigh
ing about two hundred pounds, now about
two,tliirds melted out. All the way up
there had been constant rain Of small
pebbles on my head, for the day was at It's
warmest point But as saw this boulder
/ hesitated a moment, knowing that its
fall while we were in the passage involved
inevitable destruction Fortunately it did
not fall while We were 10 the chimney,
but when we returned from the summit
We looked anxiously for it, and it was no
longer there" The summit was reached
at p. N. They returned to camp after
months absence. HfHFN F''"'-
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How TO KEEP BoUouErs FaEsH.-
There are various recipes for Keeping
bouquets fresh, Some people stick them
in moist sand some salt the water in the
vases, and others warm it; Others, again,
use few drops of ammonia, My rule is,
to cool he .foloers thoroughly at night
When the long day of furnace heat has
made the roses droop and their stems limp
aud llfeless, l clip them little, and set
them to float in a marble basin full Of very
cold water. In the morning they come
out made over into crisp beauty, as fresh
and blooming as if just gathered. All
flowers, however, will not stand this water
cure. Heliotrope blackeus and falls to
pieces under it; azaleas drop from their
stems, aud mignpnette soaks away its
fragrance. For these ] use dry, cold air.
| wrap them in cotton wool, and set them
on a shelf in the ice-chest