Foreign..

Foreign..
British

Foreign.

British

Foreign.
British

SIX MONTHS ENDING JUNE 30, 1883.

rritish

Brazil, ballast.......

British

Belize

28

Norwegian

19, 986

289

..do

12, 107

317

32, 093

26

German.

24

.do

8, 691

25

17,872

256

11,726

282

29, 598

24

8, 691

22

1

Swedish

989

8, 428

22

3

974

4

.do

1, 963

8, 428

1

989

5

2,032

6

Danish

3

1, 168

3

do

1, 168

3, 021

1

371

371

Russian

5

.do

1,875

5

1,875

3

977

970

American

1

670

1

do

670

Mexican......

58

.do

41, 934

670

679

8

565

66

42,499

58

41, 934

427

64

Honduranian.

23

574

23

42, 361

.do

Spanish...

3

13

3

..do

574
13

23

632

23

632

3

13

3

13

4

4

4

749

4

749

Total

87

62, 909

363

27,386

450

90, 295

85

60, 675

324

26, 025 409

86, 700

SOUTH AMERICA.

UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.

BARRANQUILLA.

Report by Consul Dawson on the trade and navigation of Barranquilla and Sabanilla for the year 1882.

I have the honor to state that, as I have but just arrived at Barranquilla, I can of course do but little more than give my first impressions of the place. But as the consulate at Sabanilla and the consular agency at this place have been abolished, and I have the honor to be the first United States consul ever appointed to this post, I will impart such information as I have acquired since my arrival, leaving fuller details for a later date. Barranquilla has a population of about 25,000. It is situated on a flat, sandy plain on the Magdalena River, about 5 miles from its mouth. The Magdalena River is the great commercial highway of Colombia, and 9 lines of steamers ply between this place and interior ports along its shores. Last year 15,036.18 tons of freight went up the river from this city, and 16,420.07 tons came down. Passengers who went up the river from this place numbered 2,314, and those who came down 3,321. In other words, 23 steamers were engaged in the river traffic, and transported 31,456.24 tons of cargo and 5,635 passengers. Gold and silver brought from the interior was valued at $3,175,580.71, and that sent away at $637,742.40.

There is a railway between here and Salgar, 15 miles distant, and two or three trains run daily. The ocean steamers disembark and receive most of their cargoes and passengers for this place at Salgar, on account of the difficulty of crossing the bar at the entrance to the Magdalena. But the custom-house is in this city, and here all things must come. Mails leave here for Bogota, the capital, 600 miles inland, every six days. Bogota has telegraph and cable communication with the United States. There is also a telegraph line between Barranquilla and Carthagena, 108 miles, but no direct telegraphic communication with the rest of the world.

The principal steamship lines between this and foreign ports are the Hamburg, the Liverpool, the Royal Mail, the Transatlantic French, and the Campo and Transatlantic Spanish lines. The Atlas line plies between here and New York, via Kingston, Jamaica, fortnightly. The time for steamers direct between here and New York is about nine days, and between here and New Orleans about six days. A monthly steamer leaves here for the latter place. The subjoined table will show the character and destination of the exports from here during the year 1882. I also append a brief sketch of the country from a report of Director-General Cisneros.

FROM WASHINGTON TO BARRANQUILLA.

And now, perhaps, I may be allowed a few words about getting here. After I was ready to start I desired to reach here as soon as possible and to avoid as much of the Atlantic as I could during the months of February and March. I determined, therefore, to reach Colombia via Florida and Cuba; and on February 14 I took the cars at Philadelphia, Pa. The fast train started one hour and fifteen minutes late, or at 8.35