The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-28
A NEW DEPARTURE.

The agitation Of the Brazilian mail contract
and the representations made in connection
Herewith, Of the great facilities New Orleans
possesses for the control of the trade of
Mexico, Central and South America and the
West Indies, as well as the superior induce
ments she is able to offer to the merchants OF
those countries, have already begun to bear
fruit They have served TO attract the atten-
ton Of the merchants OF those countries, as
we'll as those of New Orleans to the mutual
benefits to be derived from this commerce,
and the result is that already an
experiment is on foot to test on a cOnsidera-
BILE scale the truth of these representations
During the present month two large cargoes
have gone from this port, one by the steamer
Z. b. Ward to Ruatan, via Belize, and the
other by the schooner John Atwood, to Bar
ranquilla, United States of Colombia The
manifests of these vessels are before us, and
they show line of goods which can be sup
piled from New Orleans more cheaply than
from any other port in the country, and in
order to show that our merchants can supply
the demands OF this trade, we will mention
some few of the more important articles en-
braced in these cargoes. That of the schooner
Atwood is valued at $4,000 and more and con-
sists Of assorted merchandise embracing
almost every staple product of the country,
besides all kinds of manufactured goods and
quantity of foreign merchandise The chief
Items in this Invoice are flour, bread, lumber,
door frames, soap, hardware glassware,
crockery, prints and white cottons, clothing,
furniture, stationery and articles of this de-
scription, the chief item being $3.50 worth of
flour
The invoice of the steamer Ward consisted
OF much greater variety of articles COM
prising besides flour, pork, bacon, corn, rice,
soap, coal Oil, candles, tallow, butter, tobacco,
canned goods, mess beef and furni-
ture, almost every conceivable article
Of general merchandise. We enumerate
these articles to show our merchants
the character Of goods demanded
in these markets and convince them that they
can supply all the staple articles of export
which constitute the basis of valuable trade
New Orleans has every ad-
vantage over all competitors for this rich
commerce, and If we can supply these coun-
tries, in exchange for their products, with all
that they require from the outside world,
'AiOLO 10 M LCtboOI why uOG U1OHOpO-
lie their custom. With a regular line of
from here to Aspinwall and an
other to Rio, via Kingston, Jamaica, or st.
Thomas, we could doubtless handle In q few
years from twenty-five to thirty millions of
1ollars' worth of coffee in exchange for the
same amount of cotton goods and Western
produce
To-day the article of greatest value i'm
ported into Brazil is our domestic cottons, and |
yet out of over S2O,OOO,0O0 of these fabrics |
imported into that country, but little over
100000 worth goes direct from the United |
States This is certainly not the result Of
high prices in this country, else our cottons
would not find their way, as they do, to Bra
Ill through English ports. The following
proves the fact:
The exports of domestic cottons from this
'ort to foreign ports for the week ending july
6 have been as follows: