The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-03-01

At the instance at Gen. Todleben Russia was.
before Germany n patron of Krupp paying
him sio,cuo, sitooe and sven $4,000, for single
gun.
British interests are touched. We may cay
stabbed by Two points In be permanent peace
conditions -one being the proposed acquisition
BY Russia of the Turkish iron claas. which we're
built and equipped with money borrowed from
England and never paid tho other. Russlas
perpetual mortgage upon the annual tribute
raid BY Egypt 10 the Porte.
ss According To the report u the New York Pub
lie. out Of sixteen clearing houses which report
Tor two years, only three show larger transact
tlons for two weeks OF February. 1878, than for
The CORRESPONDING weeks last yenr. These exa
septibns are New Orleans. GIG In 1915
against sg.6s5, saT Id 1871, San Francisco and
/ Louisville In the sixteen cities named the total
slearanees lip to February 10 amounted to
sAss418si7, against ssas,oso,e a7 In 1871.
The expenses of the 2G1 liteboat stations on
she coasts OF England. Scotland and Ireland
Maring 1877 were 137 $3.50. OF lives saved there
we're iolt, calling for The distribution OF ten sill
yer medals, seventeen votes OF thanks. and re-
wards iii money amounting TO $1,000. The cost
of one English lisfboat, with carriage and
equipment aud boat-honse. averaars f4500, and
IL cost $3.50 per annutn to skeep each establish
ment lii order. -.
Acurpus bill was presented In ths United
States House Of Representatives en0the 25th
Instant, proposing to give Dir. Mudd, Of Mary
land. sspoe for aiding cholera sufferers at the
Dry Tortugas. Dr. Mudd was the furgehn who
set the leg Of John Wilkes Booth. and who WAS
sent TO Dry Tortugas for 1t. While there he
rendered humane and efficient service to fell
i low prisoners taken with the cholera He now
asks for $4,000 compensation.
According to best Information at hand. the
following is d correct exhibit Of the stocks OF
the articles named now held In this city 4o077
bbls Of -four and s24a bbfs OF pork: Of bacon
there are 125 casks Of shoulders. 1871 casks of
clear rib sides and ab5 casks OF clear sides; Of
dry salt meats there are 4oi casks OF shoulder,
1tu casks Of clear rib sides and 2es casks OF clear
sides; Of lard there ale 1867 tlerees 1904 kegs
and stb5 pals.
Advices from the E,st resort very uneasy
feeling among capitalists there who, have been
into d frame of mind on the silver unestl lon that
makes them dis.rnstful q gil kinds Of loans;
Indefinite evil as the result If reissue If ell
YER SO that whilst larRa Sums 81 un'nvested
capital are held. they are unwilling ~ make
rate Ut interest. until thev have had line to see
how silver money is going to affect values. This
feeling Is the natural result OF The course East
ern writer's and speakers ON. finance have toll
lowed, aud Ia due more to. the u srepresenia1,
liens Of The snrt back r h s asgr
will not be long In discovering, however, that
the silver movement is advocated by II far differ
derfnabe pHpsr currency and tends to very
different resnlt.--tst. Louis Republican.
The Bombay exports In 1877 amounted $40 1ea
Hal, In aTe N
In 1877 were the smallest In seventeen years. he
last year falling tn 80 low a figure being 1860
The exports in 1876 exceeded those OF 1877 by
soi. s67 bales or nearly fifty per cent. This
movement ID an important factor In the cotton
problem from our standpoint. Indicating that
even the enlarged railway facilities OF British
India. and the uheapening OF the route to
Europe by the opening OF the sues canal, stil
leaves the India cotton dependent upon alb
normally high prices In Europe and that only
high prices encourage Its export. This is an
encouraging fact to American cotton growers.
though 1t IL to be remembered that 1t Ia scarcely
as important q fact TO US as 1t Is to English
spinnersl While the Bombay exports have
fallen OIL 80 materially. the receipts at Bombay
have kept up verv well, showing an increas-
Ing CONSUMPTION by manufacturers In ludia.
This. In turn, may tell In slight measure
tinofi the CONSUMPTION OF low grade American
cotton for the manua'ture OF goods for India.
Looking back over life Of unfulnlled hopes,
OF almost constant financial distress. mingled
With some fleeting literary triumphs, The onoet
Goldsmith once said that the only period Of
happiness no had ever enjoyed was when In
youth he wandered over the Continent penni
less minstrel In after life he retraeea his steps.
having plenty OF money In his pockets but In
vain he endeavored to recall the en- husiasm
which those scenes had Inspired In him for
merly. In this experienee we have one OF the
landscape of life, and though a. times we mny
not be able tn quite subdue the innae rebel Ion
arising against such apparent Injustice. there
enduring with as good n grace as possible
{ this and other unpleasa timppsitions OF human
existence, Men. harden rs they. grow, older.
The merchant OF 40 sneers at the tale which as
a sehoelbpy he wept and moaned over. :. In the
order Of things it + not possible for Mr.. Bayard
Taylor Ambassador to the Court OF Germany.
10 have the same feelings of enthusiasm and
delight In going. over the beautiful scenery OF
the Rhine aa ne exparia,,nesd when, travel Ell
ago. Since that tine he has visited every cor
Scenes nsa 3. and eeoyag The v aaues Of the best
railway and hotel fare. but we venture to say
hat to-day ha regaas .ha 9n oa
cherished of his reeo lections.-[St. Louis He
publican. .@
Some of our Western exchanges are pokfne
fun ut the Export Traders Convention held
last week at Washington. The Louisville Cou-
risr. Journal pronounees IL to have been hum
bug, and declares that they 'hawled vociferousl,
for foreign trade and dem anded government
aid to establish postal lines Of steamSrs witt
Brazil and other foreign countries. but when L
came to the cause OF the deer sssion in foreigt
trade-the tariff-the convention put its hee
upon any proposition for revision Of duties OF
any change In the navigation laws" The manu-
faeturers OF the United States who afs pre-
tected" by a high and nearly prohibitorl
tariff have to confront the fact that out o