The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-01
WASHINGTON.
Current Gossip in and Around the
Capital.
REPORTS from Consular A~gents-Crops
in England and Trade IA
Western Mexico.

wAatrsaToN. July 3I.-The United States
commercial agent at Nottingham. England,
In a disnatch to the Department OF State,
uiyeg A gloomy account OF the crops, owing
10 m unparalleled wet and cold season. From
his central position he IL able to predict q seri-
Gus failure throughout England. and o large
demand upon Russia and America for q sup
ply Of breadstuffs. The advocates Of free trade
rejoice In Its beneficial effects IN seasons Ike
the present. Among the farmers a great In
crease In the number Of bankrupta must en-
sue. The landlords will have their farms
thrown back upon their hands by the tenants
to q considerable extent.
The United States consul at Los Pas, Mexi-
90, In q dispatch to the Department OF State,
gives some interesting information n regard
to trade IN the western coast Of Mexico, n
Guiding Lower California. After o residence
there OF sixteen years he has observed Of late
b diminishing trade. fewer ships from Europe
and a withdrawal OF mercantile houses frUtIt
business. ImpOrtatlons from California have
almost ceased. This Is the effect OF the pres
emit Mexican tariff, which also increases
smuggling all along the coast as vel as on
the Rio Grande. Emigration to Arizona and
New Mexico Ii constantly going forward.
]oSTRoLL KNOX II SPEAK ON NANcE
Hon. John Jay Knox, Controller Of the Cur
Tency, has accepted IN Invitation 70 ADDRESS
the bankers convention, atSaratoga Springs,
next week, upon the financial topics Of the
day. @@@
GRANTS REFERENCE 70 TIE CHINESE.
Eollovvinp is the text OF the letter from
Gen. Grant mentioned In these dispatches.
ri ID dated Pekin, China, JuneG q. Gen. Grant
saws: II have been In Pekin three days, and
have seen all that Is Of interest In thisc city.
/ have found China and the Chinese much rs
you have often described 1t and them. IL Is
not country nor a people calculated W invite
travel, or to cause one to make q second visit,
but the Chinese are q people. OF wonderful
shrewdness and industry, and are rapidly
monopoIiziDg the trade as carriers. mer-
chants, mechanics, market gardeners and
servants from Bombay eastward.
"Then, too, their leading men seem TO have
2 thorough appreciation q M necessity lof
Internal improvements, such as railroads,
etc, but have IL horror OF introducing them
with foreign capital and under foreign man
agement. Their idea seems rather to edu-
cate d sufficient number OF their own yOung
men abroad to fit them rs engineers. machtn-
lists, soldiers, sailors, etc, and then to make
their improvements with their own men
and means. My belief y that
In less time from now than half 9 cen
fury Europe will be complaining Of the rapid
advance Of China -
II NICARAGUA ROUTE.
Gen. Grant expresses himself much gfaJl-
fled ut Admiral Ammen's having gone abroad
as representative of the United States ut the
Inter-oceanic congress recently held In Paris.
He says:
II do not believe there is another American
who understands the relative advantages OF
the one feasible route over all the others, nor
who Gun state the advantages and obstacles
In the way on other routes ~ clearly as 40
miral Ammen.'
Gen. Grant, like Admiral Ammen, has
always taken O deep in this canal project, and
they are both fully agreed that the Nicaragua
route Il the most feasible Of all the routes
ever surveyed and that the canal through
that country would be not only advantageous
to the OF tho world, but especially
to the Of the United States.
Besides, % canal through Nicaragua can be
constructed Ia less time and at much less cost
than by any other route. There seems to be
no doubt when Gen. Grant returns home he
will lend his influence to push forward the
rrant work. @@ sm@# @