The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-04

| washed 32c, 2O00 his u1lwaShed cOmbtng, 1000
lbs do, $4,000 lbs ieeces, IS bags No. pulled,
43 bags Lambs do, q bags fine combng do,
on private terms: 10 bags super do 38c, 1000
| lbs do 43c, 5000 lbs Western Texas 196127c
| 10000 lbs Eastern do, mostly 23@29e, 1000 lbs
Western do 150117c, 30Od'ibs black do tic, 40
| bales fall California 1Gc, 50 do 16016Lc, 1900
TBS spring do, $4,000 lbs fine Eastern Texas,
1000 IBIS Australian and 50 bales Cape on
| private TERMS
Cincinnati Leaf Tobacco Market Report
for the Week Ending september I'D.
| The offerings at auction warehouses for the
week foot up HOG hogsheads and 2l2 boxes,
mostly of low and nondescript sorts, for
which the market has been decidedly easier
purchases being made at about nc nearer our
inside quotations than last week. All kinds
suitable for the various grades Of tine-cut
chewing, and those having sufficient body for
| plug fllers, have met q ready demand at
full prices During almost the entire month
| Of September the weather has been favorable
for the growing crop and possibly there never
! was known greater Improvement In so short
upon In August as worthless have, under the
warm days and cool, dewy nights of Septem-
Der, grown and ripened into fine tobacco. Sc
we're frosts early in October would injure Sc
riously large quantities that require q week
or ten days yet to fully mature; but if old
Jack will delay his visit for two weeks yet
| there will doubtless be one of the best crops
lin quality Of cutting tobacco housed ever
grown In the districts tributary to our mar
Imports Of Dry Goods Mt New York.
| The entries for consumption for the month
show an increase of $45,36O over tho same
week last year, but are smaller than in the
year previous. The Withdrawals are small as
| compared with 1876, but the amount thrown
upon the market is greater. larger Guanti-
ty Of goods has been entered at the port dur
| Ing September of this season than last year,
yet they are considerably behind the figures
OF 1875 The amount for warehousing was
S12O, 800 less than last year.
| The aggregate imports for nine months are
somewhat over those Of the same months
last year, but behind those of the previous.
Liabilities Of Express Companies.
recent United States Supreme Court
| decision is of some interest to common car
! rierS and those who entrust packages to them.
1t grew out of facts which have been stated
before in these columns. In 1869 the Southern
| Express Company received from the Louisiana
National Bank at New Orleans two packages
one containing 1928, for delivery to the
Bank OF Kentucky at Louisville and the
other containing $4,000, for delivery to the
Planters National Bank at Louisville. The
packages were carried to Humboldt, Tennes-
see, and there delivered to the Adams Express
| COmpany's messenger, who was also the
Southern Express Companyis messenger. He
placed them in an iron safe, and deposited
the safe in an apartment of the car set apart
| for the use of express companies; but the
train, in passing over trestle ON the Louis
vile and Nashville road, was wrecked by the
falling of the trestle, and the money destroyed
by the burning Of the car. The messenger
was rendered insensible by the fall of the car,
and remained SO till after the destruction was
complete There was some evidence tending
to show that the timbers Of the trestle were
destroyed, On these facts the United States
| Circuit Court for Kentucky found for
the Adams Express Company, the de-
PENDANTS. The Supreme Court reverses
this judgment and decides in favor
companies are common carriers, subject to
all the responsibilities of common carriers
that they cannot relieve themselves from
losses occasioned by the negligence of rail-
road company or its agents not owned or con-
trolled by them; nor can they relieve them
BILE in case OF fire. Their status and liabil-
ity are fixed by the law governing common
carriers, and are not TO be- modified and linn
tied by special stipulations. On this point,
the .courtsays: 'Having taken up the occu-
patton of common carriers, its fixed legal
declaration or stipulation that they should
not be considered such carriers The duty of
a common carrier is to transport and deliver
safely, against all failure to perform this
duty, except such failure as may be caused
by the public enemy, or by what is denom-
mated the act Of God. BY special contract
with his employers, ne may, It is true, to
some extent, be excused, if the limitations to
his responsibility stipulated are, in the judg-
ment of the law, reasonable and not incon-
sistent with sound public policy. 1t is agreed,
| however, he cannot by any contract with his
customers relieve himself from responsibility
for his own negligence or that of his ser
wants, and this because such q contract is
unreasonable and contrary to legal policy"
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