The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-04-08

Excess Of the exports over the i'm
ports. ....-...-... .$i3,42I ,5U4
The Custom House Of New Orleans received
81 .635. $751;
bales figures for 1882 .o3i, OF which
To Great Britain $40 1o7 .256
To France. ........... ................. 16719bs6
In fact, from July l. 1877. to June 3d. 1878. Great
Britain received 49, 70 per cent tsl17. 431 05 and
raw cotton exported from the United States.
The difference between So. 10 and IA. AZ per cent
seems very strange. since your cotton ls free OF
French with the English tariff, and II you ap-
Des o b hs ne ahsa g Enxaad and
paralyze the same exports to France.
II have g rte 1P2an and ha re-
imported nl 81 Tie same ii, so.75s.
From July !. 1877. to June 80 1878. the value OF
| the brown or refined sugar and moiasses I'M
ii you desire to know the proportion France
shows In that kind Of imports read the follow
Cuba $50, os7 500, Spanish possessions ssss2.-
s26, Porto Rico $A749 ,65s. British West Indies
French West indies and French Guiana -, s4s-
1857. Hawaiian Islands 81, 294 100, Britiah Guiana
na'f Brsh East naiss "a
s437 O61. Danish West Indies 1857 os4, Dutch
West Indies and Dutch. Guiana ssss,s75. san,Do-
H
Belgium sl29117. British North America SLIT :
892, Central American States s114,4 34, British
possessions 10 Africa $ss s2e United States Of
i America $66.737 Hayti $40. Peru 1895. Ger
many $6434. France s1105. all other countries 81
+ tai SIS, 1876 447.
You see that France ranks the twenty sixth
among all the nations which compete to satisfy
the wants OF the American consumers.
In 1850 the United States sugar crop was
heads; Alabama. s242; Florida Georgia and
Texas. the balance.
Total productions. hhds. $50 SO;
OF which from Louisiana -..---, 221 ~
Ten years later we notice:
Texas. Florida, Georgia and other States sag
. From 1850 to 1854 the average Of the annua
!, From 1874 to 1878 that average declined to lat.
. 1877 .s7s pounds. Decrease 81 per cent.
TIT Ct the Imports 9f brown T5at
viz:
Imports from 1850 to 1884, pounds OFT 1888 20
From 1874 to ,922 3S
Increase. pounds. s. 9o7. 1889 is
Therefore from 1850 to 1854 the national pro
sumed In the United States. From 1874 to 1877
: the 4B per cent dec ined to per cent.
If the imports into the United States from 1877
Z to 1878 have really contributed to this decline Il
i 9 per cent. you have hardly any reDroach t
Il From 1867 to 1875 the French colonies exporte
It raw sugar TO England. Italy, Algeria and sene
Il gal for an annual average Of $3488.
In the same period raw sugar exported from
France to Belgium, England. Italy and Rnssi
represent an annual value of Sc. 1876. 40S.
From 1867 to 1876 France exported also refine
sugar to Russia, Sweden. Norway, German,
ls Belgium; England. Spain. Italy. switzerland
t. Greece Turkey. Egypt, Barbary States. Uru
= nual average of $203T44s5.
! She sent ''vergeoise'' sugar to Belgium. Eng
le land. Italy and switzerland for $45l ,2O9.
She shipped molasses to Sweden, NOrwa,
Germany. Belgium. England. Italy and Switzel
land for $433.5z2
She exported syrups, preserved fruits an
' succades 70 Germany, Belgium. England, Spail
q Italy. Switzerland Turkey. United States tV
II find them for the first time) for 1888, Os5.
n What II the duty imposed BY the foreign tai
= 1T. upon the French raw and refined sugars?
England. free of duty.
!. Germany per go pounds. raw sugar 50. r.
1t Austria. raw sugar from So 80 to 80 Is. refine
!. sugar $13 ID.
2, Belgium. raw sugar. over No. IS, SO 23; No.
y and below free Of duty; refined sugar frol
" $40 % To $40 81.
The duty imposed by Spain Is from IS to
SIS 81: by Greece. from 50 Il to S. 81: by Itai
Y from 81 LIS to S. ~; by Norway. from ST. SIS
81 SO 90; by Netherlands, from 81 81 to $12 Is;