The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-02-09

day for Havana with 900 mules and horses.
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The British Steamship Ieverrier cleared yes
terday for Liverpool with besides other cargo
3p,gs5 bushels of corn In bulk.
Montana fslieitates herself that. with popu-
9ation Of 600 not one business failure occurred
within the Territory last year.
The Florida orange season has proved unfe-
munerative. The markets were crowded with
unrpe fruit at arst. which forced down prices,
and there they have remained.
THE total deficit of the German finances is put
down at 10. 900 opp marks. Military and naval
expenditure ID not merely maintained but in
creased Hence the recent loan.
check for $500 recently passed through one
Boston bank and the Clearing House. aud whsn
1T reached the bank upon which 1t was drawn 1t
WINS found that 1T was neither signed nor in
dorsed.
rrominent merchants who Pas just returned
from visit to the Eastern States. Informs us
that business m alters in boston. New York and
other commercial centres In thas section are
much more stagnant and unproptttous than
they are here III New Orleans.
Illinois has $1,000 square miles Of coal-bed,
averaging more than 40 feet in thickness. She
rnised last year 10000 600 bushels OF eorn-one-
sixth of all the corn raised In the United States.
and harvested 900 tons of hay nearly one
tenth Of all the hay in the country
OF tho AGA bales which were on tho LESSEE
Taylor. $40 were saved, chiefly through the
energy and prompthess of Capt. Kenson. and
were brought here yesterday. Some OF this
cotton was picked up thirty miles below the
scene of the accident. five hours after Its occur
renee
It Ia said TINT the shipping business Of Boston
has been falling away for years. and with o
view Of preventing further decline and regain-
ing what Ia lost, merchants are circulating and
signing petitions to have the Boston and Albany
road make direct connection with the Hoosae
tunnel that Chicago and other commercial cities
the West may be brought into closer relations
with the East.
New York observer points to the fact that
during 1877 the total arrivals in thfs country
from China and japan were 9eo6. and tho do
epartures were 1862. leaving 1854 Americans,
Japanese. Cinnamon Englishmen and French
men efthe Aforesaid arrivals In this country.
An more than 2o54 Cinnamon died In the United
States last year, there s very good evidence that
Monaghan immigration can not be very exten
sise.
Now that thcre Ia u fair prospect OF an carly
raising Of the blockade of the Black Sea, and 0
consequent liberation Of large amounts Of wheat
foreign estimates Of that commodity awaiting
the resumption Of commerce are given MS fol
lows: Eight millions bushels in store in Odesst
and other ports, and 12ooo.oo0 bushels on the
lines of the different railroads back OF 0deHst
and Sebastopol. And 1t is stated that ut
Petersburg newspaper estimates the total when
exportabe from the Black soa and the Sea Q
A5of at not less than 40 100000 bushels.
A movement has been inaugurated in France
looking to the promotion Of more direct ant
intimate commercial relations with the Unitet
States. Paris telegram notes the formation
Of committee Of merchants and members 9
the national legislature to facilitate the meas
ure. 1t has been resolved to send an agent tx
this country with mn address showing The
benefits of increased commercial intercourse
and to convene Franco. American congress n
Paris during the approaching international ex
hihition."
We have on several occasions urged upon on
congressman the Importance Of using thei
best and most strenuous efforts at Washington
to effect the removal of the duty from the ar
ticle of salt. This duty was imposed for til
benefit of the salt manufactures in New Yorl
and Kanawha Valley. We are surprised to lear
that the we'll known Onondagh salt reservation
In New York that used to yield handsom
revenue to the State is in an unsatisfactory con
dition. The expense of managing the spring
last year was $50 300 SO, while the superintend
ent had on hand at the beginning Of the fscs
year Just begun only 40 cents applicable to tn
payment Of the expenses OF this year. 70
many years individuals. as well as the Stat,
made handsome profits from the manufacture
of salt. but rival works elsewhere and the los
of the Southern trade In the war. which led +
the starting of salt making in the South. brok
up the Syracuse monopoly. Many of tho sal
makers are ruined. and the State is virtual
losing money by its interest In the reservation
The newspapers of the East and West ar
discussing the cnuses OF the late disaster whic
befel the steamer Metropolis on the rock bouu
coast of New Jersey. by which more than 10
lives were lost Many of our contemporaries
eseem to loso sight Of the notSDious unsen
worthiness OF tho ship. and expend their AMI
madversion upon the signal service corps. TIL
officers of this corps. though they report thu
the gale was running at the speSa of sixty mile
an hour.at the time Of the accident. and that
was beyond the power of human effort to go t
1t he rescue Of the people on the METROPOLIS ma
possibly have laid themselves liable t
adverse criticism. obut the main fac
connected with. this melancholy disaste
should not be lost sight of. and tn
parties who sent that ship to sea should be he'll
to a strict accountability As far back as 49,
just after having been rebuilt. the New Orean
inspectors pronounced against tho Metropoli
and rated her at Az Notwithstanding this. to
gether with the fact that she had been repare
five times in as many years, the Ship Masters
Associated" of New York rated her as high a
Al hos ,a,}su 4
dation. Certainly that. with the circumstance
connected with the loss Of the shipoioes nc
speak highly for the correctness and relabt
of that association. whose reports are so gene
rally used among the shipping men of Ne,
Orleans.
Advance Of silver. @
St Louis Times, Feb. 81
Silver coin Is running up In spite Of the exer
tions OF the New York bears to cry 1t down. .