New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-31
COMMERCIAL NOTES.

Reports from all parts of the West continue
to indicate better times. veer trade, and general
feeling OF buoyancy all ranks OF business men,
Protection to Canadian industries was badly
defeated the Canadian Legislature on the recent test
voe and this promising and growing market for Ameri-
can manufactures therefore still remains open.
The annual volume of Home Consumption of
imported merchandise prepared by Dr. Young, Chief
OF the of Statistics for the year ending June 80
1876, out It's statements OF the duties on Imports
&c, are valuable.
A movement is on foot in Philadelphia to
give TO door bells and tortured ears by aboshins
the huckscr Several large meetings have been held by
business men regard to the matter. There Is only one
voice among them, and that a loud one
The men who have been thinking of start
ing new steam line from Baltimore to Liverpool find
tnev can get much better freighs from Galveston and
Southern ports Besides freghts going down.
rather than up The prospect OF bringing their steam
ers north Baltimore therefore slim at present
l,France proposes to spend 100000 francs in
silks at Lyons the material to be used in reulnishing
the national palaces and armOrcs, which since the
with Germany have not been In the very best condition
France wants these buildings to appear wen 10 hcr
guests during the EXPOSITION
A load of fruit brought all the way from
California to the Centennial Exhibition in refrigerator
car created mucn astonishment there. TIE company
which made this and other shipments last year, has
now enlarged and intends going INTO the business
on large scSe ompaSv e and has cap Of 100000
The Calitorpi fruit made good impression in the east
markets last year, and II Is 10 learn s,
generous shipments of 10 be made The present
scason
The war with Prussia cost the French loss
of $50 900 population independently OF the loss by
division OF territory So slow has been the growth OF
population since, that during the SIX years following jan
1870 covering the period OF the war; France gained
only 295 in the number OF her people This apparently
stationary condition OF ancient ally made the SUD
ect of serious discussion by her writers and economist
..pff hnr. IN "a "A
progress of population because the increase OF Dlhs
over deaths is now from 100000 to 10000 year, anu
hT eo sSTan y 1SE
to call to encourage Immigration carry
marriages, and attention 10 the public health.
The new eras which have been dawning on
various portions of the country with great energy at inc
rate of ten twelve day, for the last year or two
have not spared Galveston; and the announcement is
again made that grand and glowing future has just
opened up before that enterprising city, This time 1t Is
nv reason OF first shipment Of beef from Galveston by
steamer, for England, via New-fork me Gdireston
Necs ntmates that it Is nonsense to think OF sending
cattle overland TO New.YOrk, and converting them INTO
lean blue beef here poodle will get IL al Galveston
fresh, fat, healthy, aud luscious as II IL had Just
from cropping the rich and nutritious grasses OF
orr nnrvaled pastures" The Ne,cs foresces
traio of beef trade al Galveston and remarks that
the terrible horns aud boots of tie dreaded Texas steer
will no more furnish the Northern local, furnishing for
an item with food for the same The prospect in fact
is altogether Of the most dazzling and elaborate de-
scriptOn.
A circular letter of MOseback g. Humphrey
OF Chicago makes interesting statements In regard
TO the facilities OF the present age for obtaining teas from
China and Japan 1t quotes first from an article In The
Boston Journal in which the writer. ~ c. NASH says:
have cited these two great national enterprises 1.-THE
suez Canal and Pacific Railroad in order to show that
the telegram railroads and steamships have brought the
world Of into single center Us the ghi OF inc
SUM- but few hours required 10 complete CON-
mcrcal transactions with China the East Indies |
order to-day "A quantity of teas from China, ana III %
DAYS they are at the warehouse. whereas II
they had been shipped in Olden time. by sailing yes
sell they would have been 135 days IN reaching Boston,
causing q deterioration in value OF five cents per
pound" The circular goes on to say that Chicago ln
orers have tested all routes. They lind that by way OF
San Francisco the shortest aud best IL takes from loS
$50 days reach Chicago with cargo by sailing YES
sel from China, and 14O days by steamer through The
Suez Canal but only % days by steam via San Fran
cisro. The circular concludes: 1.-THE remarkable
growth of Chicago as q tea market Is my stery."