The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-05-31

His coachman testified that at one poll he saw
the CooperCary booth captured by Tamma
| NY and in retaliation had bounced the Tam
many men and substituted the greenback
tickets. Out Of 75,O 900 tickets and $1,000 docu-
! ments which Mr.. Cooper paid for, only GOO
were distributed. With great disgust he tes-
titled that there had been a whole army OF
| men who had been promised S. each for the
care Of the ticket boxes after him. ''They
came after me every day." he said, "and I'm
still paying them" The jury came into court
on Saturday and, having failed to agree, was
discharged.
An interesting illustration Of the partIthat
machinery moved by steam plays in modern
life is furnished in a paper read before the
Boston Society of Civil Engineers by Hon.
Edward Appleton. late member of the
Massachusetts board of railroad commissions
ers After careful and elaborate calculations,
Mr. Appleton concludes that it would re-
uure 100000 horses to do the hauling in
that State now performed by locomotives,
that these horses would require the SCI vices
of 400. 900 men to assist and direct them. The
annual expense of this force would be $780,
the locomotives requires the services of only
1000 men, and the cost of it is only $40, 100000.
If the locomotives should be suddenly de-
stroyed the work they performed would not
be done at all, because to do 1t with horse and
human power would require twice us many
men and horses As arc now in the State, and
would cost more than the business could af-
ford. ..-..... m........
An English writer on commerce, Alexander
tombstone Wilson, In his new book on the
Resources of Modern Countries, prophecies
that the South American trade will eventual
ly be forced out of England's hands by
American and Australian competition. The
passage is 50 interesting that we give 1t entire:
Some OF these countries South AmerIcan)
will, we may hope, always give England q
certain share Of their trade, whatever It's vol
ume; but, on the whole, | fancy the destiny |
lies more with the United States and with our
Australian colonies than with us, and that the
regenerating forces which they nearly all need
will come mostly from the former. Already the
North Americans are pushing
their wares into all the markets Of the South
Pacific and Atlantic. and the trade between
Chill and Australia at all events, though dip
ping very low. has never been altogether sub
merged. AS ono looks at the map one sees
that such trade currents, North and South,
East and West, would be the natural ones,
and 1t Is byno means an extravaganza notion
to entertain that Mt some future day the bust
est marts Of the marts Of the world may lie
on that continent and between it and the
Anglo-Saxon settlements In the Southern
ocean. The North with its enormous stores
Of coal and iron, its fine energy, and order
loving communities, may dominate in time
over Central and South America,
and command the heavy manufac-
turing trade and the machinery sup
ply of the whole continent; while
an equally energetic race in Australia and
New Zealand may find outlets for special pro-
ducts and command at least fair share of
custom In the South as well as give an i'm
portant impetus to local development along
the South Pacific coast. In this contest Eng
land will in time be worsted, just as in the far
East her children, working from their fair
vantage grounds in Australia and Western
North America may in time be greater mer
chants and rulers of labor than she is now. |
This is q far-off dream, perhaps; yet it IS i'm
possible not to see that foundations for It's
realization are being laid, and that the com
mercial future of South America, when its
yet distant better day comes, at all events,
ioes not lie with us. We hold much the
largest share of the trade at present, partly !
because OF our splendid steam mercantile
marine, but we are being elbowed now. and
may by and by be beaten.