The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-11-04
Commercial and Financial Matters,

Tho ground rent Of the New York EcenHg
Post building Is $4,000 year.
Riondin now performing in London, is rap
idly retrieving the fortune he lost In the WINE
trade.
An exchange says Gen. Joe Johnston Is. con-
snoa thnt The commercial condition Of the
south il better than It was before the war.
The gross earnings of the Missouri. KANSAS
md 1'sxaa Railway during the third week in
October lsn mere ya sRs last ~ ys agnS'
Fourteen million bushels Of grain have en-
tered Buffalo baibor during October, again t
exactly half that amount during October. lHI6.
turing the present season Of navigation the
Buffalo receipts have footed up 81 900 bushels
an increase. by comparison with last year, OF
10 900 900 bushels.
According to the New York papers Of tho 3oth
ult large quantities Of machinery and copper
apparatus for sugar manufacturing are now
beflg shipped from TINT port to the west
Indies. Cuban planters. T. Is said, declined 70
ket shows better prices. AS an instance OF ms
fact, tho English steamer Ayrshire erriy; q ut
New York recently from the West indies III
ballast.
Germany has been perfecting o great canal
system and semi-offcal statements indicate
that the government will persist in carrying
2t hs system Of hi s"s and
they have the Dict with them. The most note.
worthy feature Of the system ~ the union q, OF
Of the Rhine When the projected supplement-,
ary canals are completed Germany will excel
all other countries OF Europe IN fhcllltles 1or
cheap transportation.
with here and there an exception says the
Boston Journal Of Commerce. In It's review, Of
Massachusetts cotton manufacturing stocks,
the tone of the market continues quite as
III athletic as ut any previous date; to say that 1t
IL dull only Expresses family tho stun ion. The
changes for the week are therefore not lhrge.
because Of III. indisposition to move much en-
her way. Holders cannot sell unlfss by
forcing the market and buyers will net take
old. In the belief that still lower points may
yet be reached
The Export Trade.
The export trade Of the United States for
Sep ember as furnished by the bnreau Of statis-
tics cxbib u large increase over last ear the
value OF produce and MERCHANDISE sent out
being $40 57s ADJ against SAC. 251,0l7 In 1876. The
total value Of goos imported In September was
s34 G5l $50 or 81 597 900 more than for the tsame
month of 1876. Comparing the returns
dar year. there is shown in the imports
Of me, chandiss an increase, on last
wear of $40. 7s4 900: while in the exports
of goods the increase Is only sl6,a63.O1D In
Guiding specie with merchandise etc. for the
aet nine months, the exports have exceeded
the imports by s7s.s0l 900. while for the same pc
Rod of 1876 the excess OF exports was sfl5,5T.-
OOo and in 1875 only 81 $4,000. During the first
nine months of this year this country exported
| 927 900 leaving the net amount OF specie sent
out Of tho country s24 ss9. 900. which was about
SO 10000 less than an average product Tor that
length Of time During the corresponding nj e
months of 1876, the net export OF 5peci9 was
| sJ7 1853 900, and in 1876 $50, s47 600.