The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-25

s NV for Rouen with $4,000 bushels Of corn In
HHHa llI. On the day before tho BARK Countess
81 uchatel cleared for Bordeaux with 17,o92
nshels Of wheat IN bulk.
Z State Consols ruled weak yesterday ut 1874
IA .7s5a. against 7s16G173a4 on Wednesday.
semum Bonds closed easy at 291a09'Ia,
za ralnst 29146129M on the previous day. safes
#aported at tho Stock Exchange: S25ooo OF
HsS ate Console and &45. 900 Of Premium Bonds.
I'll " the cargo of the ship Cleopatra, which
A ared Yesterday for Bremen. we notice 300
ida OF tobacco. the largest shipment OF that
So RA,oduct from this port which we have had to
az@A.cord for d long time and VIC hope 1t will
love the forerunner Of many others Of like
ID agnitude in tho near future.
aaYTTnder a decision rendered In tho United
sSstates court In Baltimore on Monday, cigar
Manufacturers are required to have separate
rooms for the manufacture and sale OF their
Asoods. This decision disposes Of tho "parti' |
lion" question, about which the internal rove
aaue bureau and some OF the manufacturers
have boon at variance for some time.
n The largest feather house in the world is II
IaJhicago ooncern-Charles Emmerch 90.
Tho trade. which extends throughout tho
Northern States, with frequent shipments to
Europe Is estimated at 900 pounds annu-
lily It takes nearly 100000 geese to pro-
luce the feathers.
q Tho Buffalo Express proposes this conun-
3irum: "Cnn ~ country be very hard up
which consumes 5010n000 gallons Of whisky,
IN 100000 barrels of beer and 100000 900
cigars in u eingle year," No; and when
athere Ia added the cost Of SILKS. diamonds,
Ajewelry. wines, and other useless expcndi
j IRE, it forms MI aggregate that quite aston
Hshes those who really think the times are
zhard. -----
d FIAT M ATRI- MONy.-G Gen. Stewart l.. Wood
zford of New York. in u recent speech, said:
I"You felI in ]ovo with a very pretty girl.
lYou spend u good deal Of timo In counting
her. BY and by you ask her If she will marry
you. and she makes you glad by hor sweet
lsYes.' You reply Whom and the happy day
Id fixed. When tho wedding day comes you
Bro to claim your bride. But no; your maid
i On replies: %, no; ] have joined the Nation
lal party, and SO long ae you believe That my
promise is just az good rs the realization,
land that courtslip Is as good as marriage,
only think you have your wife, and you hnvo
her."
How the times affect women e shown somo-
what by the statistics and differences Of tho
report Just made by the Boston "Bof1in's
Bower Up to 1879 there WAS an increasing
inclination among tho working women to get
into factories and shops. Domestic service.
which offers a field for the earning of much
better wages than factory labor, was neg
lected for productive work. The panic came
and the forces in the factories were reduced,
Apparently many shop girls turned domes-
tics them and In the general reduction health
has gone down rs well as pay. Thus. In the
Boston hospital in 1873 "a there were 43A do
mestics and 81 shop girls. in 1874 Is the mum
Der was CTS and 81 in the next year 1877 do
mestics and "a shop girls; that is. the number
of domestics in the hospital increased 3tJ,
while that OF shop girls declined from 81 to
"a. 1t seoms easiest to account for this on
she decline in health owing to poorer food and
more work-results of the timcs-and to &c
count for the decline in sickness in the shops,
partly at least, by q decline in II number OF
shop employees. TO help along those who
are out of food tho Bower furnishes u dinner.
or did last winter, to those who needed it.
A somewhat curious and interesting calcu-
laton as to the rate ut which wo have de-
creased our national debt by the appreciation
. of the grcenback has recently been made. It
shows that In 1864. whom our debt payable in
coin was $4,000, 100000, and the greenback
dollar was worth 3SlR cents IN coin, it would
have required SG,250,00 600 to have paid tho
debt in currency; that on September /,
1878, our coin debt amounted in round num-
beers to $4,000 900 900, while the coin value of
the greenbacL dollar was 99I1 cents, and that
1t would have required at that date in cur
rency $2,0l5, 600, 600 to have paid tho debt The
difference between Sc 250, 100000 and $4,000
100000, viz: "a 250,0o0,O00, represents the re-
duction of the public debt effected by the
policy enforced by the Republican party. The
appreciation Of the grecnback has reduced
the public debt as certainly and logically as
reduction has been accomplished by tho
actual purchase and cancellation of bonds.
While we are at it, there are further inter
estipg facts which, while they are familiar,
will yet bear repetition. In 1865 the national
debt amounted, in precise figures, to S2,75s,
100000: it is now $2O2GO0O 900; reduction,
$732,000,000. In 1865 the interest on the ma
tional debt amounted, ut and $40 per cent,
to 8,000,0 900 per annum. We now pay inter-
est at the rate Of and per cent, and it
amounts to S94500,00o per annum; decrease
of $33 500 900 per annum.
In 1865 the debt was 81 % Der capita: 1t is
now only 81 81 per capita
The decrease of the debt in paper may be
tabulated as follows:
In IA years ................s 81, $50, 900
IN year. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 305, 000,0 900
IN | month. Observation-Disclosures. 25,900, 900
In | day. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $4,000
IN hour. Observation-Disclosures. 14,100
IN / minute. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 235
LII second. Observation-Disclosures.
the New York Commercial Advertiser calls
attention to the fact that the export trade in
canned goods Is largely on the increase, and,