The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-10

costly, or else they think by wearing 1t con-
tinually it detracts from their personal APP
pearance.
The following telegram, from Rio, was re-
ceived yesterday by Messrs, Small q Co. and
Marks & Co.:
RIO DE JANEIRo. May 8, 1878.
Bags
Purchases coffee since May 1.....-....... $4,000
Cleared Atlantic ports ........-..-.... ...-..
Cleared Gulf ports. ...-..
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Price '-'-.---'-- 9saoo
Stock ......... 81 900
Exchange OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 23a
Average daily receipts Observation-Disclosures. 3.7oo
The proportion. of the foreign trade of the
United States carried in our own vessels pre-
vious to the late war, ranged from 70 to 921a
per cent. During the four years of the war
1t declined from 661a to 2724 per cent, and since
the war it has ranged from Is to 351a per cent.
In 1877 the proportion carried in American
vessels was about q per cent
The London Economist calculates the d.
rect losses Of the cotton operatives in Eng
land In quitting work to be about g15,O00 per
week, while in the indirect losses must be
included the union funds, which the savings
OF years have got together This estimate,
however, Is much behind that Of the Man
chester Examiner, which places it at from
100000 to G25,O0O.
In the course of a recent interview Barnum
said: "My present show represents nearly
$1,500,0 900. The expenses are about $4,000
day. pay my best rider 500 day, Sun
days included acrobats and gymnasts, $50 to
500 per week. according to ability; clowns
from $50 to SITS per week; pictorial printing
this year, $43, 900. My expenses on my trip
three years ago amounted to $650,O00, and in
that year, in six months, the profit was
100000"
The New York Chornicle of the 4th instant
summarizes its weekly weather kilograms
from the twenty principal points in the cot
ton growing States, and says:
Good progress has been made In the devel-
opment of the crop this week everywhere. In
Tennessee however, much damage Is report
II ed from the excessive rain and wind. The
storm was of much severity at many other
points, but our correspondents generally say
no considerable harm to the crops resulted.
In Texas everything is progressing favor
i ably.
4 The immigration into Kansas during the
past four months is believed to be larger than
has been known for a corresponding period
since her admission into the Union. The State
means within its power, making liberal ap-
propriations in advertising its resources and
attractions to those seeking new homes. The
larger part of this immigration has passed
directly across Missouri, whose advantages
are quite equal, if not superior, to those Of
+ Kansas. -
The Supreme Court of the United States
the other day decided the question of pay of
workmen in the arsenals, navy yards and on
other government works, under the provi-
sions Of the eight-heur law 1t was held by
such workmen that the act intended they
should be paid the same wages for eight
hours work that they had formerly received
for ten. To this the Supreme Court holds adj
versely, and we have the curious spectacle OF
a statute, passed for the benefit OF a class,
proving an absolute injury, as the wages OF
the workmen have been cut down and their
. means of living reduced. Another instance
of the profundity Of Republican legislation!
The ship VIM. Tapscott cleared yesterday
for Liverpool with 6517 bales of cotton, which
Is an extraordinarily large cargo-perhaps
the largest shipped by one vessel since the
war. But this is not, by any means, the
largest cargo of cotton, as pronounced to be
by one of our contemporaries, that has gone
out from this port. Before the war the ship
Monarch of the Seas I'VE think that was her
nance carried out, three times from this port
to Liverpool, over 1000 bales Of cotton each
trip, her last cargo footing up 1879 bales. In
v those days cotton was not compressed to the
extent that it now is, and the cargo of that
ship, relatively considered would be equal to
about 5000 bales.
A comparison of the public debt statement
on the first instant with the statement issued
on the first of April, showed the bonded debt
of the government has increased $4,000
being S10,000,0OO of AZ per cents, and $4,000
600 of 4 per cents. But the matured debt has
decreased S1,200,000, and the paper money
4 debt has decreased 81, 100000. The interest
due is more by $500, 900. This makes net in
crease of obligations of ST 800 000 but the cash
on hand shows an increase of nearly $40, 100000,
SO that the net debt is reduced by 100000,
standing on the first instant, less cash in the
treasury, 50, O39, 5l4 81. The free coin bal
ance. which stood at $50, 122 654 at the end OF
March, has now become S65 413,634, with every
prospect of continuing to grow during the
present and succeeding months. To be sure
sscoin" now means gold and silver, but as the
+ double standard has been re-enacted we can
not complain The receipts of fractional cur
rency for redemption have now fallen to a
very inconsiderable sum. The reduction dur
ing the last month was less than S150,000, or
less than per cent of the amount outstand-