The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-13
Commercial and Financial Matters.

Commercial and Financial Matters.
Tho Chicago water department, during No
vember. took IN $l29,82G. Of which Sl2s.358 was
received from water rents.
Tho Memphis Avalanche OF the eleventh
eavs. "Yesterday's cotton receipts at this
mort amounted 10 1908 bales; sales 55oO. The
stock OH hand is 1902 bales"
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There was n slight decline in State CoDsOls
Yesterday. They closed easy Mt 723s072fs,
against 2a.0l73ts on Wednesday. Premium
Bonds closed quiet at 2GH02G'4, against
2Gs 50i2Ga. On the previous day. The sales at
tbe Exchange amounted to 100000 Of State
Copsols and $1,000 Of Premium Bonds.
Yesterday three British steamships cleared
from this port wit caIgoes aggregating 1854
bales, as follows The St Louis, for Liver
pool 4t57 bales: the Gillian, for Liverpool,
$3.50 bales. and tho Barnard Castle, for Revel,
4977 bales. The st. Louis also carries out
$4,000 bushels " bulk wheat the CHILEAN. 1G, 900
bushels of corn in bulk and the bark Attivita,
for Rouen. 49, 05 bushels of bulk corn.
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An examination Of the salaries OF ministers
in Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Ken
lucky and North Carolina, shows q lower
average in North Carolina th8n in either Of the
other States. Georgia supports her ministers
best Kentucky next. Virginia third and South
Carolina fourth. The largest salary paid any
minister In North Carolina is that Of DIR. Will
son presbyterian, OF Wilmington, being $4,000.
Owing bonded debt OF 5000 900 600, and In
default for SG0O0O0 interest thereon the re-
public of Peru won't repudiate; that would
be too active a step; she will merely continue
not to pay-a method Of mastery inactivity
bipblv profitable to her. The loan is secured
secured II the word by mortgage upon the
p1Iano deposits and nitrate beds Of which the
government has had the monopoly, and on
divers alleged TaiirUufs, which don't pay any
dividends But who is 10 forecose the mort
Rage2 The English bondhoIders will have to
whistle
Bankers and business men troubled with
surfeit OF copper and nickel change are inter
egted IN knowing that Congress has provided
q remedy by requiring the Treasurer Of the
United States to redeem in lawful money all
copper. bronze copper-nickcl and base metal
coinage Of every kind when presented in
sums " not less than S20' The coins should
be sent, charges paid to the nearest sub
treasury and information furnished the as
sistant treasurer at the time ms to tho denom-
nations and kind Of money desired In ex-
change
we Yesterday morning stated that the price
of Mddllng Orleans Cotton had dropped on
the previous day to 59S pence in Liverpool
and 3-lG cents In New York the lowest
point the staple had touched since tho war
Yesterday there was still further decline
and prices ruled for Orleans Mddling at
8 1-1G cents at New York and BIC pence at
Liverpool. We Iepubish the following table
showing the fluctuations In the prices Of Or
leans MiddIing during the twenty-one years
prior TO the war. These figures are taken
from statistical view of cotton" compiled
by Mr. George Foster, formerly Of the firm Of
Foster a. Gwyn. of this city, now planter In