New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-25
COMMERCIAL NOTES.

California will have no difficulty in export
in every pound OF her surplus productions this year at
the cheapest of rates for freight There are now IL
port At San Francisco 81 disengaged sGips with ton
IS loading Tor that port already on the way. onchrd
% tn. being at New-York ana oneeSnth at Liverpool
Tba Caiurnans puzzled 10 know what To give them
for rcturu freight
Attic same time that remarkable shipments OF
musAets and munitions Of war are being made
from this country to Turkey the news comes from
Birmingham In Gland, whose principal industry Is the
manufacture OF rios that never before ata TINE OF I'M
prrd'ng war was business so dali. In the United states
the facilities for producing arms have been much I'M
proved and deyeOPed ami the arms are made SO ccyery
and cheap that serious blow has been given TO TINS
branch II EDgland's commerce.
The arrival of steamer at New-Orleans
with y bass OF coffee calls attention to the growth
of the coffee mportaons at Southern ports There IA
falling off at all ports this year, owing 20 the fact that
large speculative purchases made IN 1879, and
rctop OF the stock has had TO be worried off year;
BIT the principal southern ports have cone better tLa
Sev-YorR. II, 1873 The imports at New-iork exceeded
i fhose an Baltimore by only 262 700 New orleans
has LOST next To nothing. The statement for 1876 . AZ
follows: New-Yora. 73S 3s1 bags Baltmon. 471,6SO;
Now Orleans, 1885, all other ports. ll1OOl New
YORK apparently losing gQodJ share Oh lnls IrIe
but line OF steamers 10 50uth Aner"a "ouiu ch"'s
hrr To recover il.
Free trade in ships has been proposed again
thjs Winter IL hoped by American Smpodilders
that the suggestion would bring OH discussion OF the
whole subject Of the comparative cDst OF shpDuIuu& Ia
this and other countries and the needs OF tho Industry
r,re The builders are ready for it, they court II and
would yaue IT, At the present time thcy are building
iron -ses every cent as cheap as tbe EhgiIs ana ~
many respects better aud in Ne" England IL Is clalea
that weIs the duty copper plates Temovei, WOoneh
strips could be built as cheap az they are CONSTRUCTED ~
Crsd4 as they are, IN haG aeI s :" ar"nse very
little attention. There have been nOmchlary s'lE III
w CoIif,ra Iyely i.t br!ef and thai is I'll. IL X T. be
feared the matter Win rest here for this Winter The
pcoue AZ Ha.LNgtOn too busy saving the country 10
live sii ypir,' Interests much OF "a beafn. now
n the pauses of politics the LOulsiailan In
res In fresh dreams the future greatness OF New
Orleans With the recent consolidation OF an alrah
route 10 Chicago under one management that OF the IL
laois Central predictions OF diversion OF inc gram
trade to NcwOTeans break out afresh and the assertion
"a forveptly made that in few years the Para OF the
Sortherp continent will handle more produce than any
other seAport OF the whole country II this prove true,
other agencies viii have been at work To accomplish IL
Iesidcs the new route 10 Chicago NewOfl'hhs Is no
the great whe at fields than NewYOik. and not 80
near as RatmOre she indeed closer 10 the corn nelds
OF Illinois and the cotton regions or Iennessee put that
ia ali the advantage her railroad gives her. a. long as
Northern ports properly served 10y the ied
ing to them 1he people Of NewOrieans VII! Doubtless
roam , benefit iroH their new railway connections ahu
OF their countrymsn %i Deg, ~ beir nredons
there IL raSlDtSs OF speech III soiho vi '"''i IA
which is meet for roproof
little pamphlet just issued in this city en-
titled The Problem solved-How to Shorten the DIS
lance Between Europe and America Is commercial
curiosity The author comes to New-fOrk 10 OBTAIN
funds for building railroad in Nova SCOTIA the ultimate
effect OF which, IN his opinion will be 10 concentrate all
The European trade of continent and the shipping
engaged therein Whitehsven n s. NJ the expense Vi
Newly ork and all other Atlantic ports The railway H
20 miles long and is to connect Whitehaven with New
Glasgow where q connection will be made Wild
inc railway system OF the comment Tue
idea of the author is that 1t Is necessary
20 shorten the trip the for the bencf Oh tnt
sfeody and ever-gOwng stream OF wealthy ana chtF
waited people which pOurS down u the Steamship
and d,ses itself throughout the countries OF tDe Oid
Wnrd, annually and the return tide " laahlonaDe
fHrean travel and also for benefit Of trade. To
shorten the trip he proposes TO have all Ships
sau from Whitehaven which In the most easterIy
1rt ~ the c.ntu Mt from which point steamers can
cross the 0ccau IN five days Travellers and mails by
taxing train betW Whitehayen and New YORK. WOuu
I'm make the distance between Liverpool and New
Y0rk al = saving Of IS hours over the fastest tame eve,
made The author Of the new scheme believes tnat III
the gram coal cotton, aud other trade OF the continent
can Sc ard vail be gathered at WhiIehayen He calls ~
teaton therefore. " the grandeur OF te "hnehA'en