The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1877-10-18

ing TO increase sales OF quinine. call for a gov
eminent subsidy to encourage the spread Of
1nalarial fevers2
The following table from the New York
Bulletin, shows the exports of provisions
from New York, Boston, Baltimore, Phladel-
phia, Montreal. Portland and New Orleans
Tor the week ended October 6, 1877:
r,a.1 ,h,. Total week Prev. week
Beef bbls. and ties 1,2s3 1ea1
larH, lbs ..a......4.... .3801l71 2.B0l 2S4
,,a g,,acon. lbs. , .'.'''.''..'''.. ssa4Ia T1ess75
lnqese lbs .s'..4...... 219s065 1895 267
THllow. lbs ........,,-,.... 9s3152 LOCI ,gD5
From the rice. circular OF Messrs. Dan
Talmage's Sons Il Co.. 16 Cont street under
date Of October 10, we take the following.
During past two weeks our market has
been active, and closes strong at quotations.
Heceipts have been Free and although the
mills have been running at full capacity, the
demand has been large enough TO take par
cells soon as offered, hence there has been no
70 sau higher than at equal date last year,
being maintained by the large demand, which
may be accounted for by the fact that stocks
at the opening of the season, and also the ab-
sence Of any large amount Of the Carolina
product, go that Western and Northern con-
sumers have drawn on this market for their
entire supply.
The reported earnings of twenty-four
western railroad companies during the
month OF September aggregate $s, s,44s,g72.
against $7196,s72 during the corresponding
month last year The increase Is 81, ,307, 100.
The greatest increase was in the earnings Of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul road
Nine OF the twenty-foir roads suffered do
crease as compared with the same month in
1879.
Hog Packing.
The Chicago Commercial B,lleta, contains
the following about the process of hog pack
ing Ia that and other Western points:
The receipts OF hogs during the week just
closed were s0,s10, against 7S, 962 during the
week previous and sS,5l7 for the correspond
Ing week last year Packers have been en-
abled to continue slaughtering operations
quite actively during the week past, and have
further added literally to the seasons work
the aggregate now exceeding that of the total
of last season. The urgent demand for most |
descriptions Of hog. products at fair prices
mas encouraged packing operations to some
tare Of domestic cuts q meats s having sss % trans
acted o weeks business which will compare
favorably with the average of the winter
season. Prices of hogs have declined Is
@20e VI 100 tb, and this has acted as an in
ducement, especially to those having previ- |
Ously made contracts for product at very sat |
isfactpry figures. Most of the houses which |
slaughter on foreign account were busy. and
those packers who have been running spas
medically were running their business more
regularly. Some hogs were slaughtered and |
packed on Eastern aecount-mainly cut into |
product desired for special trade. The quail |
ity of the hogs received was fair-rather |
better than that Of the previous two or three |
weeks. Pork is being manufactured mode |
rately, but chiefly of the lighter qualities. |
All kinds of meats are being produced lib
orally. as packers can dispose of them readily |
from the block or when twenty to thirty days
In salt Lard is also attracting some atten-
ton, and the yield Is fully in proportion to
the quality of the hogs received.
Summer packing ,is progressing favorably
at the principal packing points In the West. |
The receipts of hogs are fair, and packers
generally are doing fair, business. The
packing at this point to date aggregates
about 800 600 hogs, against |, ,l45, 600 to date
last year, and 8SO000 to date i'm 1876 The
aggregate summer packing last year was
1,3i5, ,a02 hogs. The aggregate packing in the
West to date s about 2ss9 hogs against
Cedar Rapids to date is 81, ,479 hogs, against
94,571 to date last year.
Improvement of the Mississippi River.
The st. Louis Republican, in an article on |
the proceedings of the ST. Paul Convention,
says: vs. n,,..o,. ,,,,+ +,o oos+ :, ,,o ,,,,n,.,
ment. judiciously executed, may be, the re-
duction in rates calculated on the low water
freight alone going up and down the river for
five years would pay It. One of the greatest
difficulties In the navigation of the Missis-
sippi river is that boatmen require to have at
least two kinds of boats for the same
trade In different seasons of the year
large bOalS l0r nlgn water, ana small, light |
draft boats for low water. Either this or
they must build their large boats with
very light draught so as to do low water SER
vice. which means that 1000 ton boat must
be SO constructed as to get out on five feet
water by carrying only fourth or third of
cargo. Or course, the freight carried has
to pay for all this-the extra expense of two
boats, where only one ought to be required.
or the cost of employing 1000 ton boat
built at cost of $6e,000 to carry the cargo of
a 900 ton boat that would cost only $25,0O0
A stream whose water depth varies every day
in the year. and the range of whose varia-
tions is from five to thirty feet, pre-
ssents financial as well as navigation
difficulties, which must be taken into
account, in building boats and fixing the
rates OF freight. The river is divisible into
three sections-St. Paul to st. Louis st. Louis
TO Cairo and Cairo to New Orleans-and If
there could be secured the minimum depths
proposed by the ST. Paul convention feet
for the first eight feet for the second and ten
feet for the third, it would rid the problem of
navigation and river carriage of its chief diff
Hculty. Boatmen could adjust the draft Of
their boats and their freight rates to the es-
tablished minimum depth the necessity OF
building boats that can be used only one
third of the year would be avoided; the
charges for carriage would be lessened; and
the whole commerce of the river, largely in
creased by the lowered rates, would reap the
benefit of the Improvement