The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-08-19

The United States August returns received
at the Department Of Agriculture show that
the average condition Of tobacco is only ", as
against 81 for the same period in 1878, but a
change for the better Is anticipated Ia Sep
TENDER.
The American consul at Client reports the
rates paid to agricultural laborers at from II
to 20 cents per day for men and i to II cents
day for women, and their food. When hired
as servants, with food and lodging, they are
paid 81 Is and 50 per month.
It ID remarkable that the amount Of gold
and silver coin and bullion In the Bank Of
England Is almost exactly that In the treas
ury Of the United States. At the latest report
the Bank Of England contained e35.G94 093.
And at the latest adyices the treasury had
S1T7,379, 1872.
Dispatches from Berlin report that the rye
crop of the country, which supplies the coun-
try with Its principal article Of food, will yield
less than three-quarters Of an average while
wheat is counted On to yield a full harvest.
Not much OF demand for American grain
can be looked for, therefore, from Germany
There was but very little activity III the
market for public securities. State Conaols
closed steady at 81 lazN138, against 3124lg35 on
Saturday, with no sales reported. Premium
Bonds showed an advance, closing at 241sGl
2414, against 231s0y24 On Saturday, with sales
OF $4,000. At New York Louisiana Consols
were quoted at 3773sa !, with no sales.
The South is more solid than at any time
since the war She will raise, this year, about
100000 bales Of cotton, 100000 hog5heads Of
sugar, and very nearly 10000 600 pounds Of
tobacco. This will be a half million more bales
Of cotton, twice as much sugar, and 100000
more pounds Of tobacco than she ever raised
before.
We learn from the circular of Messrs. C. Fl.
Lawrence l. Go. that the receipts Of butter and
cheese for the week ending August Is were as
follows:
Butter
Fk's P.kgs. Tubs.
New York 3 5 - IS
Total. ...........17o ~ 81 20
company was organized in Philadelphia
last week which offers to supply the city with
gas at fifty cents a thousand cubic feet as
against 50 Is charged under the present mon
opoly The four gallons Of naptha and TWEEN
ty-dve pounds Of coal necessary to make a
Thousand feet OF the new gas costs just nineteen
cents, and the whole process does not exceed
In cost forty cents. Private consumers will
be abundantly supplied at ST thousand
Who says gas cannot be produced at rates
within the reach every family?
Washington correspondent declares that
the great cost Of living to American ambas-
sailors abroad is all CANNON, kept up for the
purpose OF preventing reduction of salaries.
Washington Is probably as expensive a city |
as most OF the European capitals, and vet few
of the foreign ambassadors there spend more
than $4,000 year. Edwards Pierrepont spent
more than his salary, for he always lives very
extravagantly. Stoughton IS a born courtier |
and spent great deal ia st. Petersburg get
ting into the good graces of the nobility. But t
for man Of ordinary tastes the ambassadors
la salary Of ST., 800 is more than sufficient.
The protective tariff that it is proposed to /
levy on American lard and bacon imported +
into Germany is causing much protestation t
there. These articles Of consumption have
been sold there at considerably lower prices
than the domestic articles, greatly 70 the re-
joicing of the poorer classes, OF whom many
find it hard tolive at all Even the farmers
are said to sell their pigs alive, and tobuy the
imported product. The proposed duty will
thus fall directly upon the poorer classes, and
since lard and pork form u considerable part
Ct their diet, will be more oppressive than
similar duty upon almost any other article Of
food.
For many years 1t has been supposed to be
the rule in building sea-going steamers to
divide their hulls with bulkheads into water
tight compartments, SO that damage to one
section would not necessarily involve the
sinking Of ship. II theory this plan seems
to be all that could be desired. In fact, nobody
case in which the compartment
arrangement has saved ship from going to
the bottom. If such cases have occurred the
damage was probably exceedingly slight.