The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-14


rareoes of cotton aggregating 1882 bales.
Considering the season there was an I'M
usually large shipment Of rice yesterday for
up the river. The City of Alton Tor st. Louis
carried away 700 barrels.
The exports Of wheat from New York last
week to Europe were distributed as follows
In Continental cities other than French di-
rect. 27s,1e7 bushels; to French cities direct,
IH5. TITS bushels; to Great Britain for orders,
$50 6ss bushels. Total, 1.Ota ,6O5 bushels.
The reported sale of securities on Saturday
footed up $4,000 of State Consois, and $218,-
ooo of Premium Bonds. The market closed
strong for Consols ut 7GD7shs, against 1910
y5L on Friday. Premium Bonds were easy
mt 31ys0951s, against A94@35 on the previous
day. The sale of stocks, which are generally
quiet, amounted to only forty shares
Since the first OF September there have been
received at this port SAT, $40 bushels of wheat,
Ia bulk, against 80, TBS bushels same time last
year; 313, 636 bushels of rye|est year not one
bushel sugar, 1903 692 hhdslast year 132, 1913
hhds; rice, bbls and sacks, 2o9. 39G-last year
264 O62: pork 36, 527 bbls-last year a., 341 bbs;
moasses 306,58O bbls-last year $3.50, 1888 bbls;
Hour AL $50 bbls against AL 1Oa bbs last year;
cotton seed /, ZIG, OO1 sacks-last year 1O35, 1888
sacks; meats In bulk s,973,711 h, against
A,g4,446 h last year; corn In bulk 3,549, 1866
bushels, against 1, las, $50 bushels last year.
The above comparative statement of re-
Ceipts Of produce shows that, notwithstand-
the dull times, our trade shows q most graf
flying increase.
The latest novelty is the sending Of an i'm
mense steam collier to Paris carrying some
1900 tons of various sized anthracite coal.
The steam collier itself is q curiosity, and 1t
bears on 1t for exhibition in Paris locomo-
tive built with CRATE furnace, and adapted
for the use of the waste or dust coal, the re-
fuse of the mines. These locomotives have
been In operation for several years on the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. They
are said to be run at q cost for fuel of cents
per mile, the ordinary cost being IL cents per
mile, and 1t Is stated rs fact that the con-
tion of this waste or dust coal does not
exceed, ton per ton, the consumption of the
larger coal for the same service. 1t is in
tended to exhibit this machinery and illus
trate the economy In thus utilizing the waste
aud dust of the mines which may be had for
the mere cost Of handling and hauling.
Up to 1s49 the American clipper ships were
Tho best ocean craft They were purchased
in large numbers by British merchants, and
entered In the British shipping list. Iron
ships then came into vogue. English workmen
could make them better and cheaper than
American workmen could. Works were ao-
oordingly established on the Clyde. America
refused to follow the example Great Britain
had set. American merchants were not per-
NIT ted to buy Clyde-built steamers, though
they could buy them cheaper than they
could build others like them at home The
consequence was that the carrying trade
passed into other hands, and the United
States now pay $13O,OOO,oO0 annually to the
vessel owners of other countries. Besides
the sum actually paid In freights, it Is COM
puted that 800 steamships, employing $4,000
men, earning $15oO,0o0 monthly, are employ
ed In our trade with Europe.
The annual statistics of the trade and pro-
duction of iron and steel develop some re-
ma rkable facts. The price Of the metals have
never before been so low in this country The
decline of value since January. 1873, has been
Sd per cent on the price of pig iron, So per
cant as to refined bars. 60 per cent as to Bes-
semer steel rails and SIS per cent on best iron
rails. The consumption of these metals by
the industries of the country has not, how
ever, declined In any similar proportion. The
lowest point OF depression in the business of
building railroads was reached in the latter
half of 1876. All the steel rails used In this |
country are made here and all the iron rails, |
except an inoonsiderable fraction-less than |
one In 5000. 1t is needless to say that times
are hard In the iron business but cheap coal |
and cheap iron have saved from ruin at least
a hundred domestic industries since 1873.
Prot. Wagner, the statistician of Berlin, has
prepared table showing that since the ter
animation of the French war the Germans
have imported, In excess of their exports, an
amount equal to the French indemnity That |
Is, for every dollar France paid Germany the
latter country has spent abroad dollar more
than 1t has sold abroad The figures. by
years. are: 1872, S135 600 600; 1873, $685. $50 O0O
f1S74, $685., 100000; 1875, S3l5,OO0,O00; 1876,
4S57 800 600. Total in five years. 81 1876 900 900,
which. making all possible allowances for in
..terest and errors, leaves Germany 81, 100000
300 behind on It's foreign trade. The excess of
Imports for 1877 is expected to add $3.50 100000
tpr $500 100000 to this unfavorable balance. |
The last year was very bad one in German |
bnanuIacCuTeS, anu This year prospects are
9 ;iComier than ever. These facts are believed |
!, 10 make the German government anxious for
a neace.
THE Cincinnati Price Current of the eleventh |
INSTANT contains it's twenty-ninth annual re-
fpprt OF pork-packing in the West. The total
inter packing in the West for the sea-
ION just closed, was 6.5O5OOO hogs; average
bet weight, 226 400 pounds; yield of lard, |
III a.,
"a 80. Compared with last winter, there is
gain Of 1404,o09 in the number of hogs
packed, 1912 pounds in the average net
weight, 453 in the average yield OF lard, |
and decrease of 50 10 in the average