The New Orleans daily Democrat., 1878-07-03

Commercial and Financial Matters.
The steamship Emily B. Souder arrived at
tbis port yesterday from Havana, with $50
hhds Of sugar. -
Clne Boston firm has 100000 pounds of
t,ams TO be affected by the recent advance In
price. -------
Senator Sharon has fortune Of $2O,OOOOO0
20 look after. and has to stay away from Con
gress and keep sober.
THE Massachusetts bay mackerel fieet, re-
sIuced to six vessels, is preparing to sail from
Eewburyport, Mass. this week. Fifty years
ago the fleet numbered 1870 sail.
Reliable statistics show that the cultivated
land Of France is divided into 100000 proper
ties Five millions are under six acres. Bel
TII nus u HE HE subdivision of property. In
ireland, on the other hand, ITO owners hold
more than one-ffth OF the soil.
The State Attorney of Connecticut has
granted the indictment against the ex-otilcers
and filed new information more extensive in
particulars as to the charge OF conspiracy
Re-arrcsts were made bonds OF $1,000 each
continued and the case put over to August.
Boston bankruptcy case, in which the
petition was filed in 1S41, and which has out
lived the bankrupt, the assignees and large
proportion OF the creditors has been revived
bv Che coming in of reversionary interest,
and has occupied the attention of the bank
ruptcy courts recently.
There was only moderate business In So
curities yesterday and rates were easy
state Consols opened at 7G5E and closed weak
at 76ISD7e74. The sales we're $4,000 in the
Exchange and S377,OOO outside. Premium
Bonds closed quiet at 331S@332s Sales $685.
900 outside the Exchange.
Tomorrow, "the Glorious Fourth" the
Cotton Exchange will be closed At New
York the Exchange will close this evening
and remain SO until Monday morning next.
The Gothamites require two or three days
after holiday to reeuperate their shattered
energies and fit them for business.
There are now 125 telegraph stations i'll
Japan. with 5000 miles of wire in operation;
1000 miles more are in course Of construction,
and additional extensions are contemplated.
The rapid progress of the work Is best shown
py the fact that the first line for practical
purposes was not erected In that empire until
the close Of 1862
A physician Of Nashville, Tenn, has com
uiled table of mortality of the races In
eleven cities-Memphis, Chattanooga, Knox
ville Richmond, District of Columbia, Balti-
more, Mobile, Selma, New Orleans. Charles
ton and Nashville. The result is the average
mortality among the blacks is more than 80
per cent in excess of that among the whites.
In the District Of Columbia the death rate of
the whites per 1000 Is 1929 per cent, and the
blacks 47.6O per cent yet the white population
is 115.0Oo and the blacks $4,000. In New Or
leans, with population of $4,000 whites and
$1,000 blacks, the death rate is 2546 for the
whites per annum and 29G9 for the blacks.
We find in the Scientific American these
very interesting facts regarding American
carpets: Our production Of carpets Is larger
than that Of any other country in the world.
In 1875 the value of the product was $32,376,-
1853. In 1872 our importations Of carpeting
amounted to nearly $6000,000; in 1877 they
were only S674,911 In their report as to the
character OF American carpets the Centennial
Judges said "The proofs at the exhibition Of
our attachments in this manufacture were OBJ
served with no little surprise. 1t was mani
fest, from the absence Of rival foreign exhi-
billions, that In respect to the carpets OF the
cheaper and medium qualities, up to the two
and three-ply ingrains, the competition is con-
fined to our own manufacture. Even rival
English manufacturers generally admitted
fhat in the production Of Jacquard Brussels,
tapestries and Wiltons, and narrow Ak
ministers. we have nothing to learn from
them either In design or fabrication" 1t Is
worth while remarking in this connection
that when American inventors undertook the
task Of devising carpet-weaving machinery,
Che work was all done on hand-looms by men.
Now women and boys do all the manual
labor, In 1874 a man, with helper, could
weave not more than seven yards OF Brussels
carpets in a day. Now girl will weave fifty
yards in that time
Mr.. w. n. Vanderbilt is great railroad
man and bids fair to surpass his father, the
old Commodore, in that line Of business. Ac-
cording to the Albany (N " Argus, Mr.. Van
slerbilt has for some time been endeavoring to
get control of the Michigan Central road,
which he has just purchased, and that during
late years he has been buying up all Of it's
stock that he could get at market value, His
control of the road at this time has not been
gained by borrowing proxies, but by the &C