The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-10

| wheat In bulk
stanleys African expedition IL reported to
| have cost tho London Telegraph and New York
Herald sl75.ooo.
| Tho New York Tribune says: Politically the
Bland bill should be entitled. an act to destroy
| tho Republican party"
The exports OF corn from this port thus far
| this year amount to 29ss,o7g buabels. against
p12 900 bushels for tho same time last year. show
ing most gratifying increase
Tho steamboat Sam Roberts. with four barges.
arrived yesterday from Evansville. with COLT
bushels OF corn in bulk o471 sacks Of corn and
$500 sacks of oats.
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Tho Knokorbooker Ioe ,mpany Of New York
has nh nounced that In consequence Of the pros
poets Of short loo crop II will forthwith put up
the price Of loo to IFS customers.
State consols continue to exhibit an improve
neht. and the quotations for tho same yester-
day rulod at s5e.Goe5ss -higher than they have
showed up for rome time past. Premium bonds
were easier and we're quoted ut 9e'st931t.
Tho 81. Louis Republican notices The exhibit
ton, on Change In that CITY, Of n sample of
graduated sugar made from what Ia known as
the amber" eane which Ia supposed 10 BIO the
first instance of the successful granulation of
sorghum
Tho German Emperor announces to his peo
pie In his imperial speech that the financial re-
uuirements Of his EmpiS Increased more
rapidly than the revenues. This Ia not the case
In conut ared France. Beaten France has beaten
her condueror by her wise financial policy.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Fho l,n0 In ii nd a nhi yghn
made tho last inspe ,tion of the lost Metropolis,
are to DO investigated. They pronounced tho
vessel aeaworlhy. but fragments Of tho wreck
on the Oorrltuck beach show that she was rotten
throughout. and it has been asoartained that
her machinery was old and unreliable.
The total value OF school property in Me-
braska, as estimated during tho past year. Ia
III 49,, 1886 80. Tho total OF school expenditures
was Loaf .10t al. There nre $500 teachers ON
ployed against b3s In 1a1ol tho average salary
Of male teachers Ia s5b 40 per month, and the
average anlary OF female ten hers is s3l Of.
There are 66.174 pupils enrolled in the schools.
proposition has been made to the City
Council OF Indianapolis. by Detroit firm. to
furnish 10 candle gas to consumers ut ii 60 per
1000 cubiD feet. tho works to DO com rleted and
ready for business within eighteen months.
That Is getting the gas tariff down to very
reasonable rate and tho concern will doubtless
make good profit on their product at those
figures
The issue OF certill ,ates for silver bullion M
proposed in tho Senate and already permissi-
bic by law, would prove d great public oonven
fence: but silver treasury notes. TO as low as
five dollars. based upon such bullion deposits,
would furnish to the whols people as good
currency as the country has ever known and
obviate completely al. tho alleged disadvantages
OF silver reconciliation.
For many weeks the authorities Of tho Treas-
TRY Department. have beon wrestling with tho
abuses and mlsnanagement OF the New York
custom house. Atlength they have oontrtved u
system for the regulation of entries and the I'M
proved discipline of employees. from which
divers good results are expected, not tho le ,st
desirable Of which Ia the saving Of half million
dollars nr more. The New York custom house
liz populous with ioafers and barnaclee Of long
experience however. and there are probably
among its attaches some who have experience
In worse ways of cheating the government than
toafing.
The wreck OF the steamship Metropolis Ia one
that ought to be inquired into most thoroughly.
Uongress might do tho country service by in
ono OF its numerous Investigating
committees to make on exhaustive inquiry.
1t In asserted with much emphasis that one of
the contractors for the Metr polls as trans
port ship would not allow any member OF his
family to go out in her. II was good enough for
the laborers engaged to go out to Brazil, but not
enough to risk the lives OF any Of his
own relatives. The purser Of the Metropolis
ala Int tbe th,tc 49,.
washed ashore in splinters. and that he picked
up pieces after the wreck that were like rotten
punk, or an old stump that has boon decayng
for fifty years"
The building designed for the use OF our Ag-
riculturM Department at the Paris Exposition
will DO satisfactory In a good many ways. 1t Ia
to DO In tho shape OF n star or stars. our we'll
known emblem or emblems. In vases of Amer
lean stone. emblematio of the different kinds OF
rock produced In America. will be growing
plants Of corn. cotton. sugar tobacco and rice,
embematio Of our important national vegeta-
bes. A cupola containing poultry--in other
words a hen-cupoa-wil be sustained on
pillars showing ma 70 half husked on the stalk
and embematic Of johnny-cake Emblem ATTIC
of our whole country, a stand OF flags will sur
mount the cupola and be surmounted Ia turn
by more poultry In tho shape OF the American
eagle. stuffed.
The Mississippi River DiIl.
Washington Correspondence st. Louis Repub,
lican, 18th inst.l
II Ia quite probable that the Commerce Com
mit1ee of the House will report back the bill OF
the st. Paul river improvement convention
tho Committee on Mississippi Levees. which
now is also titled Improvement Of the Missis
aippi River" The members Of the Commerce
Committee think they have no jurisdiction over
the matter. Certain they are that they cannot
give II much attention. as the committee Is now
40 pressed with business that II has increased