APPENDIX. ... bbls. ........bales. ... lbs. ......tcs. CHICAGO-GROWING COMMERCE OF.-We sub Total Total ARTICLES join a table of the value of imports and exports, Imports Value Value from 1836 to 1818 inclusive: Leather ... bdls. 32,283 4 25 137,902 Imports Exports bxs. 11,384 9 60 102,456 1836 $325,203 90 bbls 4,434 5 00 22,170 1837 373,677 12 11,665 00 Liquors..... hhds and ps. 64,817 80 51,853 1838 579,174 61 16,044 75 Merchan. and sund..pkgs 3,162 90 00284,500 1839 630,980 26 33,843 00 ..tons. 1840. 562.106 20 93,132 13 00 1,117,584 1841. 564,317 88 .bush. 60 29.289 1842. 664,347 88 ..kgs. 64,189 3 00 192.567 1613. 971,819 75 .bbls. 8,395 28 00 232.540 1844. 1,626,116 00 785,504 23 Oranges.... bxs. and bols. 27,280 4,547 6 00 1845.... 2,43,145 73 1,843 12 00 22,116 1816 2,027,150 00 1,813,468 00 Oats.... 197,868 25 00 49,467 1847. 2,641,852 52 247,400 01 1.237 1848. 8,338,639 86 10,709,333 40 Pork and Bacon....hhds. 10,338 45 00 465,914 CINCINNATI.—Imports, 1851-1852, (for Exports 1,987 22 00 43,714 ..bbls. see Appendix to vol. İ.,) for the years ending August Pork in bulk. 22,501 15 00 337,515 .Ibs. 16,532,884 6 991,973 31st. Potatoes.. .bbls. 20,739 1 25 25,923 Total Avrage Total Pig Metal. .. tons. 22,605 24 00 513,570 ARTICLES Imports Value Value Pim'o and P'r ...bgs. 1,425 13 00 18,525 Rye... ..bus 58,317 50 29,153 Apples, gr.......... bbls. 71,182 $1 60 $ 106,844 Rosin, &c.... .....bbls. 14,184 3 50 49,644 Beef 1,609 9 00 14,481 Raisins.. .. bxs. 28,417 2 00 56,34 Beef. ..tcs. 1,145 15 00 14,885 Rope, Twine, &c.. 3,203 5 00 16,015 Bagging. .... pcs, 71 2 00 142 Rice... tcs. 3,782 25 00 94,550 Barley 89,994 045 hhds. 39,224 58 00 2,274,992 Beans.. 14,137 1 60 21,219 .. bbls. 15,237 14 00 213,318 Butter. bbls. .. bxs. 2,259 30 00 67.770 Butter...... firk. and kgs 13,720 13 00 178.360 Seed, flax ..bbis. 48,074 3 00 144,299 Blooms. ..1099. 4,036,50 00 201,800 ..grass. 10,819 11 00 119,019 Bran, &c. ..sks. .hemp. 304 1 50 456 Candles.. .bxs. 91,312 1 30 118,705 Corn... ..bush 653,788 30 196,136 ..bbls. 58,020 1 50 87,030 Corn Meal. 8,640 40 3,456 Shot... ..kgs. 1,688 17 00 22.596 Cider.. ......bbls. 874 3 00 2,622 Ten.. pkgs. 12,810 25 00 390,250 Cheese. ....cks. 46 12 00 .hhds. 11,469 46 00 527,161) 241,753 2 40 604,141 ..bules. 1.906 4 00 9,984 Cotton. baleg. 12,776 50 00 633,900 bxs. & kgs. 23,060 20 00 461,200 Coffee.. .sks. 95,732 17 00 1,627,444 Tallow. .bbls. 5,930) 15 00 88,950 Codfish. drumy. 10,775 Wines. .bbls. & Acks. 4,482 35 00 156,870 Cooperage. .pcs. 135,118 - 60 81,070 bkts, & bxs. 8,322 10 00 Egis. bxs, and bhls, 10,544 4 0 42,176 Wheat. .........bush. 377,077 60 0:26,422 Flour.. ..bbls. 511,012 3 20 1,635,334 Wool.. ........ bales. 4,562 50 00 228, 100 Feathers sky. 6,716 12 00 80,592 Whiskey. ..bbls. 272,788 6 75'1,773,122 Fish, sund... .bbls 20,076 9 50 190,722 Cotton Yarn.... .pkgs. 10,836 1 50 Fish.... ..kgs, and kits. 1,075 2 00 2,150 bbls. 167,002 1 75 622,507 Fruit, dried... bush. Grease... ..bbls. 24,877 200 49,754 Total Value.... .....sks. Cheese. ........ ....bxs. 66 $24,715,331 Glasg... 1,936 15 00 29,010 Glassware.. .pkgy. 44,004 2 25 99,000 Hemp......bdls, and bls. 36,602 4 401 18,295 NOTE.-In the above, we have not included Dry Hides.. .. loose 18,334 25 50 467,517 Goods, Hardware, Queensware, and sundry miscel. Hides, green.. ...... lbs. 51,647 2 40 27,209 laneous articles, which, with those mentioned, come Hay bales. 54,905 1,557 under the head of Merchandise. It would be utterly Herring.. ...bxs. 9,270 2 50 23,195 impossible to make an estimate of these articles. Hogs.. .head 50 2,574 | Coal and Lumber are also onnitted -- no correct Hops.. baley. 460,210 9 00 3,691,890 statement of the amount imported being obtainable. Iron and Steel.. ..pes. 1,591 60 00 95,460 In the above calculation we have given as nearly as ..bols. 191,107 1 45 291,160 possible the correct average value, and we believe ...tons. 54,078 3 75 202,729 the aggregate is below rather than above the actual Lead, .. pigs. 10,111 24 00 242,664 amount. The value of the total imports at this port Lard. 54,733 3 12 171,040 is not less than forty milions.--Editor of Cincinnati ..kgs. 36,0471 21 00 756,987 ) P. C. ..... bxs 65 ...bbls. COTTON STATISTICS. COMMERCE OF THE WORLD. The following table has been arranged and pub- COUNTRIES Imports Exports lished by W. P. Wright, Esq., Cotton Broker, NewYork: Great Britain... £100,000,000 £70,000,000 France... 45,000,000 56,000,000 United States 45,000,000 40,000,000 Hamburg 22,000,000 20,000,000 Netherlands. 22,000,000 18,000,000 Belgium.. 16,000,000 15,000,000 Russia. 14,000,00 14,000,000 New South Wales. 1,500,0 1,800,000 Austria, 8,800,0 6,000,000 Brazils. 6,500,0 5,500,000 Spain.. 6,000,0 5,000,000 Sardinia. 9,000,000 6,500,000 Denmark 5,500,000 3,500,000 Cuba. 5,700,000 5,600,000 Canada. 4,000,000 3,000,000 Egypt. . 2,500,000 2,000,000 Sweden. 2,300,000 2,500,000 Portugal 2,500,000 1,600,000 Java. 2,000,000 5,000,000 Mauritius 1,200,000 1,200,000 Ceylon.... 1,200,000 1,500,000 Greece. 1,000,000 800,000 Cape of Good Hope.. 1,100,000 500,000 Papal States.... 1,500,000 1,200,000 Bavaria... 850,000 1,200,000 Van Diemen's Land, 600,000 500,000 Total...... £321,750,000 £287,900,000 Grand Total....... £615,650,000 MARINE OF THE WORLD. The following authentic and highly interesting tables are from the Belfast (Ireland) Mercantile JourNUMBER OF VESSELS AND TONNAGE BELONGING TO THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES: 1,732 Spain.. 579,475 5,206 470,973 4,622 India.. 406,479 868 522,056 1,128 Prussia.. 813,096 4,690 823,456 4,635 United States.. 4,328,639 21,643 4,361,012 21,805 Russia.. 1,323,080 6,401 1,177,994 6,197 Norway.. 772,885 7,909 806,766 8,160 Sardinia.. 700,000 6,000 700,000 6,000 New-Orleans. Total. Austria........ 528 1845. -Entered Cleared Democratic Whig Abolition Scating 1840* .1,274,197 1,128,276 7,072 562,722 .1,048,592 1,025,339 21,059 Sweden.... 540,902 6,707 562,394 6,347 1842. .1,133,938 1,033,828 27,301 15,484 Belgium.. 356,367 2,424 349,638 2,368 1843. ...1,073,157 983,433 66,374 26,881 Egypt... 409,156 2,019 432,696 1,707 1844*. .1,372,809 1,318,622 62,159 Cbina.. 169, 155 531 163,717 .1,161,674 1,113,846 62,194 1,929 Other Countries 1,927,505 15,915 1,965,867 17,163 1846. .1,165,432 1,132,788 79,979 6,305 1847. 1,234,409 1,261,376 78,557 Total........23,333,620 139,638 22,738,801 136,402 1818*. .1,219,962 1,360,752 291,342 1849 1,223,371 1,231,368 76,578 6,071 LIBRARIES IN THE UNITED STATES. 1850. .1,298,636 1,265,240 99,035 1,035 1851. ..1,397,757 1,229,233 78,143 3,096 FROM PROF. JEWETT'S WORK. No, os vols. 9,505 Public School Libraries.... OF 1,552,332 POPULATION — GROWTI IN WESTERN STATES. 227 Academies and Professional Schools.. 320,909 1840 1842 1844 18509 142 Students' Libraries (in Colleges, &c.). 254,639 126 College 586,912 37,133 49,524 52,379 305,191 126 Social Iowa.... 43,112 611,334 61,834 69,478 (Popular).... 90,000 192,214 39 State 288 937 II.......476,183 584 917 692,653 764,809 851,470 34 Scientific and Historical Societies.... 138,901 Ind..... 656,866 754,232 822,598 868,175 988,416 Mich....212,267 248,331 284,395 308,437 397,654 10,199 Aggregate....... .3,753,964 Total..1,449,373 1,676,447 1,918,648 2,083,800 2,735,945 The number of Libraries, each less than 1,000 volumes.. 271 PRODUCTIONS OF THE WORLD. Volumes in these Libraries. 95,980 GRAIN. Number of Libraries containing each 1,000 Quarters volumes and upwards... 423 Great Britain..... 60,000,000 Voluines in these Libraries. 9,105,652 Austria........ 96,000,000 Average size.... 4,977 France.. 62,000,000 United States .118,000,000 The number of volumes published from July, Russia.. 52.000,000 1850, to July, 1851 in the United States, has been esti- Canada 19,000,000 mated by the publisber of the “Book Trade” to have Spain.. 12,000,000 been 1,298, embracing 213,049 pages, and forming Other countries.... 45,500,000 1,176 distinct works. The following is a popular classification.-Norton's Literary Gazette. Total.. 395,500,000 Novels and Tales.. 249 COALS, Juveniles.... 52 Tons Gift Books.. 32 Great Britain... 38,000,000 Poetry, Hymns, &c.. 80 United States.. 4,400,000 Music Books... 22,000,000 Theology and Religion. 170 Belgium.. 4,500,000 History and Travels... 121 New South Wales.... 45,000 Biography. 96 Polítical. 16 68,945,000 Commercial. 12 Science. 50 PRECIOUS METALS. Natural History. 8 Metaphysics.. 8 United States--California....... 14,500,000 Mathematics. 17 Brazil... 7,000,000 Classical.... 7 Russia. 3,350,000 Dictionary and Languages.. 13 Great Britain (Silver)... 50,000 School Books.. 50 Australia.. Orations.. 3 Asia.... 1,400,000 Essays.. 11 Law 43 Total..... 26,300,000 Medicine. 47 IROX. Agriculture.. 20 Tons Practical Mechanics. 18 1,850,000 Fine Arts... 6 United States.. 8 600,000 Manners and Morals. 18 239,000 Belgium 15 150,000 Miscellaneous. 48 43 France... Austria 55,800 POPULAR VOTE OF THE UNITED STATES Sweden..... 157,000 SINCE 1828.-To note how nearly equal great parties will be divided, we furnish the following statis. Total...... .Ibs. 3,042,500 tics from the Herald : SILK 7,000,000 1828 650,943 511,475 Sardinia.... 2,500,000 1832 687,502 583,297 Papal States.. 800,000 1836 765,068 737,526 Two Sicilies. 1,200,000 1837 819,203 927,213 260,000 1838 956,019 1,066,712 Prussia 620,000 1839. 1,011,168 972,347 Salonica. 166,000 China.... • Presidential elections, Total..... 12,517,000 Tuscany PROVISION TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. RAILWAY SYSTEM OF THE WORLD-1852. EXPORTS OF PROVISIONS FROM THE UNITED STATK3. Laid 54,925,546 3,886,976 25,746,355 3,006,630 21,843,164 Hams lbs 41,014,528 l'ork bbis 80,310 253,486 lbs 10,361,189 Butter Ibs 3,876,175 Bef bols 1840. 1841 1842. 1843. 1844 1815. 1846. 1847 1818 1849 1850 1851 66 Beef. Bacon. Hemp Lead Tobacco... 108 hhds 5.012 tcs 122,948 bbls 14,290 tcs 47,450 bble 19,730 kgs 412 tons 5,111 tcs 4,538 bbls 24,432 csks 6,986 tcs 57,160 bales 472,438 pigs 78,600 ib. bre 9,210 hhds 5,011 bxs 21,892 bbls 21,405 hhds 11,548 bbls 40,510 " 29,916 " 38,490 38,776 kgs 169*769ʻTS 66 Refined Sugars.. EXPORTS OF UNITED STATES PRODUCE TO GREAT BRITAIN. 689 54,755 9,258 592,583 2,760,329 245 1850 683,970 376,995 556,884 366,980 60,510 1,642,504 44,631 369,777 316,926 5,947,206 1819 565,624 576,902 451,466 317,418 693 518,547 111,385 953,815 911,546 5,077,220 334 322,030 67,259 1843, 3 mos 187,187 6,886 3,240 19,436 337,954 161 198 6,418 bxs 16,753 bbls 6,180 bgs 15,345 tong 30,840 1836 lbs. lbs. lbs. bush. POPULATION OF AMERICAN CITIES--Based upon the increase of population from 1840 to 1850 in the following cities. Mr. Scott, of New-York, in Hunt's Merchant Magazine, makes a table showing TIME OF DUPLICATION OF AMERICAN CITIES. Yearg 7) 8 8 Whale oil... Milwaukie........ Years Oswego.... Nashville.. Detroit... Tullow Flour.. Wheat... 165 919 38,598 ceroong.. Year. Years.! There is one publication for every 7,161 free inhab Louisville.. 93 Bangor.. 14 itants in the United States and territories. Worcester. 94 Richmond.. Madison STATISTICS OF NEW-YORK.-IMPORTS INTO 91 Troy. Syracuse. 10 Wilmington, Del.... 15 THE PORT OF NEW YORK, 1851 AND 1852. Jau. I to Aug. 31, Springtield.. 10 Lancaster, Pa....... 153 1862 1851. Fall River. 10 Paterson 16 10,843 10,716 Hartford Brandy, \ pipes 16 25,449 24,660 Reading 11) Albany. Coal, tons.... 49,451 37,745 York. 12 York, Pa.. 20 1,107 Boston Cochineal, ceroons.... 1,521 12 Utica... 24 4,725 Washington 12 Cocoa, bags.. 7,719 New-Bedford.. 26 Coffee, pkgs. 445,989 392,210 Rochester 12 Lockport.. 27 397,856 Chillicothe. 12 Schenectady Cotton, bales.. 28 313,890 300 570 Philadelphia. Duck, bales... 28 11,913 6,953 Savannah.. 12 Norfolk 30 25,604 28,119 Portland 121 Petersburg, Va.. 32 14,314 56,024 Providence. 121 Figs, drums, &c. 3,162 Gin, pipes. Lynn. 3,255 35 12: Charleston, S.C. New-Haven 47,063 40 42,563 Portsmouth.... tons 268 774 Columbia, s. C.. 13 Salem, 42 1,069 Hides, bales.. 773,104 E66,333 Wheeling.. 134 Natchez.. 85 26,096 37,952 Lowell.. 14 Iron-bar, tons 46,390 pig, tons.. 100 372,910 479,429 New-London.. 14 sheet, &c., bdls. 180 1,258 1,614 GROWTH OF TOWNS IN THE UNITED STATES. 881 656 Pop, in Pop in Lead, pigs... 268,743 328,264 1850 63,264 76,263 New-York, with suburbs, had tierces. 4.916 5,086 an average duplication of bbls.. 31,940 36,633 less than 15 years, say... 14 63,000 650,000 Olive Oil, casks. 747 1,336 Albany doubled once in. . 15 5,349 51,000 boxes and bekts 36,820 19,997 New-Orleans... 12 8,000 125,000 23,414 Pepper, bags.. 2,884 Washiogton.......... 13 3,210 40,000 10,950 6,027 Baltimore.. Pimento, bags.. 26,869 24.689 Philadelphia, and suburbs...20 73,000 450,000 Raieins, casks.. 1,894 8,938 Boston, and suburbs.. .23 38,000 212,000 bxs and frails. 105,711 148,733 Providence.. .23 960 Richmond.. 24 5,537 27,500 28,910 28,859 Worcester 18 2,411 16,000 1,183 996 Lancaster.. .40 4,292 12,500 .1,315.407 1,946,579 Charleston.. .45 18,712 43,000 28,021 13,944 Salem .. .50 9,457 hhds.. 157,886 Sugur, 133,022 Alexandria. 50 4,196 8.800 tierces 3,380 1,448 Cincinnati.. 750 125,000 34,627 31,379 Pittsburg 9 1,565 83,000 boxes.. 163,157 168,033 St. Louis. 91 2.000 80,000 bags 59,890 141,277 The above cities, together.. 17 273,391 2,154,300 Spelter, plates... 54,193 82,618 All but the four western. .20 261,076 1,741,300 Tin-Bauca, &c., slabs. 25,393 13,266 The four western.. 8 12,313 413.000 Plates, boxes.. 2-6,152 230,362 The four largest eastern.....15$ 201,000 1,482,000 Tobacco, hhds... 10,603 9,454 NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, &c., PUBLISHED bales and ceroons. 24,550 15,434 IN U. S -The statistics of the newspaper press form Wines, butts and pipes. 1,064 963 an interesting feature in the returns of the 7th cen. hbds and pipes. 13,631 11,767 sus. It appears that the whole number of newspapers 1 casks... 28,884 37,393 and periodicals in the United States, on the 1st June, bbls.......... 6,607 7,118 1850, amounted to 2,800. Of these 2,494 were fully boxes.. 44,172 53,760 returned, 234 had all the facts excepting circulation W'col, bales.... 11,757 37,163 given, and 72 are estimated for California, the terri EMIGRATION INTO MASSACHUSETTS, 1851,tories, and those that may have been omitted by the The Superintendent of Alien Passengers for the Assistant Marshal. From calculations made on the statistics returned, port of Boston, J. B. Munroe, has presented a stateand estimates where they have been omitted, it ap ment of the foreign emigration, by which we find pears that the aggregate circulation of those 2,800 that the whole number arrived by water in 1850 Wa..... 30,075 papers and periodicals is about 5,000,000, and that ihe entire number of copies printed annually in the The whole number arrived by land in 1850... 10,786 United States amounts to 422.600,000. The following table will show the number of daily, weekly, In 1851, the number by water was... Total in 1850 40,861 28,319 monthly, and other is ues, with the average circula In 1851, the number by land was...... ..16,654 tion of each class : No. of copies 45,973 No. Circulation printed an'ly. Being an increase of 1851 over 1850, by Dailies.. .5,868 350 750,000 $35,000,000 land, of.. Tri-weeklies.. 150 75,000 11,700,000 and a decrease, by water, of.... 756 Semi-weeklies. 125 80,000 5,112 8,320,000 Leaving a total increase of...... Weeklies.. . 2,000 2,875,000 149,500,000 NATIVE AND FOREIGN POPULATION OF MASSACHUSemi-monthlies.. 50 300 000 7,300,000 SETT3.-The population of Massachuselis, in 1850, acMonthlies.. 109 900,000 10,800,000 cording to the state census, was 994,665. Ofthis numQuarterlies. 25 20,000 80,000 ber 200,896 were foreigners, about one half of whom belonged to Boston and to towns within ten miles of 2,800 5,000,000 422,700,000 that cily. The rapid increase of foreigners within 424 papers are issued in the New England states, I the last ten years, and the continual influx to this 876 in the middle states, 716 in the southern states, country from foreign shores, have created fears in and 784 in the western stateg. many minds for the result of its influence upon the The average circulation of papers in the United country and its institutions, and have also beeo made States, 1,785. the subject of legislation. 19,000 Saltpetre, bags. |