The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-27

Seven vessels cleared yesterday. with i2,pu2
haieB Of cotton
The steamship Hudson. for New York, carries,
~ addition % othsrartcles q freight. $3.50 bbls.
III nplaHHes.
Between 1ssB and late the product Of gold and
silver Id Mexico was s7e2 100000, and Of Ameri-
can, from territory formerly Mexican. ti,sse.-
sTaigb.
Tho gross earnings Of the Illinois Central for
six month";. ending October 81. are s2,s22p5
which In sB28sgA more than for the six months
0f the previous year.
Naturally. during holidays. business In the
wholesale line IL exceedingly and disagreeably
dull, and during yesterday though our mer.
camille friends looked fresh and eager for bar
gains, there was very little done In any de-
scrption OF goods.
We have heard OF complaints that ship
fnoered and loading at the steamboat landing
iii the Second District very seriously interferss
with the receiving Of sugar and mnlasaes at
that wharf. Our energetic Administrator of
Commerce will no doubt. give this matter his
earliest attention.
In Cincinnati. on the s2d inst, according TO
the Commercial, OF the pad, New Orleans exa
change was firm and quoted at a premium Of
No while that OF New York. Boston, Philadel-
phia and Baltimore was quoted at Ito per cent
discount. On the same day New Orleans ex-
change was In demand at 1T. Louis.
The steamship Ascupart cleared yesterday for
Cork with 1900 sacks Of wheat and 900 bushels
of wheat In bulk. The Italian brig Carolina
for Havre. carried 444b sacks Of wheHt, and the
steamship prometheua. for Liverpool has on
board 5e4 bushels of that cereal In bulk. maxi
Ing In the aggregate OF ioe4B4 bushels of wheat
M the amount expectation Of that article for
The day.
Some gentlemen represent the coal producing
corporations Of the anthracite region Of Penn
sylyHniA and they control the labor and the llv-
Ing OF quarter Of d million of people. They
have combined for the purpose OF preventing
competition In that production. and to fix the
prices which must be paid by several millions
oil people for fuel. They constitute the most
powerful trades Union IN the country.
Three vessels arrived here yesterday from
Liverpool with salt. via: The steamship Joseph
paAse, with 6eo0 sacks and 80 tons Of rock salt
to jackson a Manson; ship Samuel skoheld
with 1850 sacks, and the ship Olive Il. Southland
with 1890 sacks. IT the import duty were taken
of this article@which is one of prime neees-
sttv, and cannot possibly be placed Under the
general head Of "luSuries"-the hundreds Of
ships which come here during the season In
ballast from Liverpool for cargoeH of cotton
would bring cargoes of salt aud with proper
care and energy the lucrative trade in this ar.
tirle with the pork packing people west of the
mississippi which New Orleans once enjoyed.
would be revived and increased to mammoth
ptepessehs' -
The Intelligence that reaches us from the
sugar4growing region Of the State IT, generally
anything but assuring and encouraging. In
the Teche country, Terrebonne, Barataria Sec
uons contiguous to the Gulf and other large
sheets OF water. the effect of the freeze
which visited us In the early part of the
month are not so perceptible and Injurious,
and, In some cases, pretty fair crops have
been made; but on the coast above here, on the
Lafourche and throughout the upper belt of the
eane-growinE region of Louisiana. where the
cold was severe, the product has been most So
riouely curtailed, and many planters have been
well nigh ruined thereby. This IL most untor-
tunate, for. after several years Of trouble and
disaster our sugar planters In 1876 and 1915 had
good crops, and with the promise Of an ample
return for their toll, enterprise and industry
this year. they had good reason to hope that the
time Of their deliverance from debt and trouble
was near ut hand consequently many INDUCED
LII much needed improvements on their places
which involved large OUTLAWS of money. the
same being fully justified by the promise of
abundant crops. Such men will feel the dis
appointment most sorely, and are to be COM
minerated.
Along the upper coast the damage has been
particularly severe. We have heard of 1--WE
plantations In that region on which less than
half crops have been made. and some cases
where planters have found their canes so much
injured that they have abandoned them In the
fields. The loss is variously estimated at from
10 to so per cent Of the crop estimated In tho
early part Of the season.
The Chicago Times wants to know where are
those steam harges that were to run to the up
per rivers and bring down the contents Of their
granaries. The Tunes can't be expected to be
sas nne nHs st ssea Of oo s oe ets
There will be more of them before long. con,
strSct sx to eaarrE grain ain, z bulk IN hold and
many landings on the Illinois. Missouri aud
upper Mississippi, This thing Is coming. sure
MISUNDERSTANDING the jbes and sneers of the
Democrat.
The New York Public. December 30. says:
The exchanges Of the banks last week were
lihle larger. New York included than they were
side Of New York there IL still decline of over
= per cent San Francisco and Louisville con-
tinue to report increased clearings. aud Mil
waukee and New Orleans return to the gaining
list. but the other cities, except New York re-
port losses. AT Boston. especially the decrease
Is important and unusual The exchanges for
the week ending December 8 at San Francisco
and for the week ending December Is at the
other cities, compare thus:
1877 1876
New YORK -............ $426 a35. 100 1891 100 $40
Boston. -.-'......,..... 45502.579 b4,439. 494
Ih!hdetpnla ..-'..'...-.. 32691 1853 Al 1908 ,712
Gnlcago. .'''',t...'.... 21976,9l0 22942 1886
new orleans '.,.+....... I.466,a9a 1889, 14o
Cincinnati ................. ls7e274s IL TsS s3o
San Francisco. ............ l27e2l36 10oA's12
st. Louis. ll0g4a5s IL a4s sss
Baltimore ................. 1o,s99025 10 669 900
Milwaukee ............-... 69s7 sos 6,asos94
Louisville ................. 49s9 500 40l5 0s3
Pittshurg .................. 1856, FOG 46o5 TAI
prnYidance .......,........ 3hnh 400