Oats. Barley Lead Bacon 1850. 1851. 1859. 340,462.. 1,149,783.. 2,596,231 42.. 19,435.. 112,271 3,237.. 166,188.. 497,913 .lbs. 5,365,708.. 2,354.277.. 3,989,917 3,936,500.. 4,961,240.. 7,164.672 1,943,600.. 728,100.. 1,004,686 7,396,604.. 6,541,400.. 8,796.590 Wool......bales. Hemp Broom Corn. Iron... Coal.. 51,604.. 61,823.. 45,179 1,066.. 2,139.. 3,598 472.. 310.. 77 112.. 375.. 789 5,420 7,155 95,452 54.. 665.. 439 4,848 34,665 .pigs 18,102.. 26,983.. 31.916 524.. 1,707.. 6,620 Tobacco...hhds. ing a population of more than one hundred millions, and sweeping over a territory containing some of the finest agricultural and manufacturing districts in Europe. And besides, in a short time we shall obtain a good share of the residue, for the following reasons: 1st. The inward voyage from Liverpool to Norfolk is from eighteen to thirty hours shorter than it is to New-York. One day will be thus saved. 2d. Another Hides.......No. day will be saved in escaping the deten- Copper....tons. tion incident to the transit through England. The saving of two days in the transmission of intelligence, at an era Lumber.....feet 47,416,744 84,068.589 72,337,255 when time enters so largely into the Staves... No. 18,652,890..10,696,006.12,998,614 computation of all business operations, would of itself be controlling. But when we add to this, 3dly, the further saving of the onerous charges now imposed by England upon the transit postage through COMMERCE OF HAVANA.-The Diario that kingdom, it can hardly be doubted that the Virginia and Antwerp line will de la Marina, of the 1st inst, contains in a few years after its establishment full tabular statements of the commerce transport the largest portion of the mails of Havana for the year 1852, and, also, between Europe and this country. When this is done, trade will necessarily follow, and the great seaport of Virginia, being the centre of commercial intelligence, must become also the centre of commerce itself. No longer de- Years, pendent upon New-York, Virginia will then be the recipient of the benefits of exchange and other commercial profits, instead of paying them to others, as she now does to the amount of nearly twelve millions of dollars per annum. LAKE IMPORTS FOR 1852.-The following table, says the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, will show the imports at that port by the lake for the season of 1852, and also, for the seasons of 1850 and 1851. It will be seen that there has been a handsome increase of most articles, some being nearly, or quite double former seasons. The value of imports this season over last exceeds $13,000,000. 1852. Buffalo Robes.bales Flour.... .bbls. 1,096.183.. 1,261,301.. 1,299,513 66,548 arrobas of coffee, 36,712 hhds. Pork 70,570.. 60,669 molasses, 143 tierces honey, 345 arrobas 76,679 of wax, 391 pipes rum, 731,125 M cigars, 79,306 5,099 and 841,160 lbs. tobacco. 31,559 The entrances and clearances for 1851 65,232.. Corn Meal. 9,990.. 2,287.. 11,146.. 5,614.. 12,818.. Fish Cranberries 1,176 1851, entered 1,934 vessels, of these 623 Spanish. eks. 17,339.. 13,721.. 14,522 1852, 64 1,758 Wheat....bush. 3,608,261.. 4,260,004.. 5,549,778 1851, cleared 1,865 Corn ..... 2,521,149.. 6,080,330.. 5,136,746 1852, 66 1,789 7,686 6,814 and 1852 were as follows: 28,257. .389,715. 4,034 Lake Imports-Commerce of Havana-Fisheries. THE FISHERIES.-We give below some interesting statistics relative to the fisheries, which are taken from the invalu 503 able forthcoming work of Hon. Lorenzo Sabine, referred to in the annual report of the Secretary of the Treasury: Statistice of the Fisheries of the United States in 1840- General View, showing the Produce, Men, and Capital Employed in each State and Territory. Smoked or 5. Delaware. Maryland 71,292 Virginia South Carolina. 425 Value. .81.695.. 11,622,163.. 197,457. $419,092 00 442,974.. 16,000.. 11.725,850 1850.....93.706.. 11,224,185.. 168,600.. 365,349 00 45,523.. 1,160.. 1,077,157 1851*....95,616.. 8,681,176.. 151,088.. 367,729 00 157,592.. 2,215.. 1,301,640 The following statistics show how 344,665.. 1,228.. 949,250 much these fisheries have fallen off. 74,000.. 179.. 93,275 16,460 The value of exports of codfish was: 15,240.. 58.. Imports of Salt. Exports. Tonnage. Bushels. Quintala. Delaware.. 7,987.. 165.. 170,000 7,814.. 88,947 1804. 1817. 1823. North Carolina.. South Carolina.. 1824. 1832. Georgia. Alabama 6.. 1839. 1843. 1845. $2,400,000 203,000 734,024 873,685 749,909 709,218 381.175 803,353 STEAMBOATS IN THE UNITED STATES. -We are indebted to A. Guthrie, Esq., steamboat inspector, for the following list of steamboats in the United States. The list shows that the western cities have the largest number-St. Louis taking the lead, and Cincinnati next in the figures. The eastern cities, however, exceed in the proportion of tonnage, as New-York, with ninety-two boats, gives a tonnage of 64,447 tons, while St. Louis, with 126 boats, only gives 30,948 tons. Most of the western boats are high pressure, while the eastern are low pres sure. Places. Cincinnati Wheeling. Pittsburg Eastport Bangor Bath. No. of No, high No. low boats. Tonnage. pressure. pressure. 104.... 24,109....104.. 38.. 6,843.... 38. 101.... 16,384.. .101 5 4 3 2 1 1 2 2 1 5.... 1,298 82 3 Total..........1,205....391,557....853.... 352 The number given in the above table to the city of New-York is only ninetytwo, which is a very small figure if we take in the numerous ferry-boats and rivers adjacent to the city. With these tow-boats that ply about the bay and added, the aggregate would amount to one hundred and fifty at least. MR. FABENS lately delivered a lecture upon French Cayenne, in which he said -Cayenne presents itself at this time in a peculiar aspect, as being the asylum of 5 political convicts and exiles, and the theatre whereon the great and thrilling drama of emancipation has been enacted, and as offering a field for mercantile enterprise. People, generally speaking, are almost ignorant of even its geogra phical locality; and no wonder, for very 6 often the newspapers publish accounts which are incorrect and misleading. He would present a few observations on its physical aspect, and then proceed to glance at its commercial and social condition. In accordance with this programme, the lecturer described the 24 geography of the colony, and, regarding its physical aspect, remarked, that in scattered portions of the coast are deep tracts of country of low level surface, covered with thick bushes. This solid 6 mass of vegetable life strikes the beholder at first as an army of intruders on a foreign domain. That the soft mud, 7. in which these bushes have taken root, has been thrown up by the sea, there cannot be a doubt. Shells of oysters, and even the anchor of a ship have been 26 5 1 1 1 10. 5 2 *Maine, 9,858; New-Hampshire, 481; Massasetts, 39,416; Rhode Island, 190; Connecticut, Total, 50,539. No. of Steamboats-Mr. Fabens's Lecture on French Cayenne. 505 and the beauty of the climate, that even a negro has only occasion to work one day in fifteen to produce food enough for his family. The fruits, particularly, are abundant, and the bays and rivers abound with fish, and the forests with game. The forests would make the for discovered two leagues from the ocean, trees, and present a fine prospect. It is evidently showing that the ocean has picked by hand by means of double made incursions. So long as this mud ladders, and exposed in the sun, where continues soft it tends to break the force it becomes browned. It requires but of the ocean rolls; but there are times little outlay of capital, and growing in when it becomes hard, and the sea healthy localities, and requiring only a rushes through with terrific and destruc- small amount of labor, can be worked tive violence. Regarding the climate by whites. Mr. Fabens then entered of Cayenne, Mr. Fabens said, that so far into the particulars of other productions, from its being unhealthy, as is generally and showed how their cultivation had supposed, it was decidedly a healthy declined since the emancipation of the place. In and about the town of Cayenne blacks. Such is the richness of the soil the air is bracing and salubrious. That the seamen of our merchant ships have suffered from diseases must be admitted; but at the same time it ought to be remembered, that that class of men are proverbial for careless and intemperate habits. The seasons are divided into the rainy and the dry. The former tune of the man who would enter on a commences in November and continues seven months. During this rainy season the water falls in immense masses for days together. The temperature varies very little, and the prevailing winds are from the north and northeast. It is also a fact that Cayenne is generally free from pestilences, and even earthquakes have not left their mark, though they have been sometimes slightly heard. In a commercial sense, Cayenne presents many advantages. To the early French colonists it presented a forbidding aspect; but they resolutely set their shoulders to the wheel, and soon produced a change, for the graceful cotton was seen in full bloom, and the spices of the east lent a fragrance to the air; tamarind and palm trees grew up as if by magic, and the dark forests were made to yield the most valuable woods. Since then, emancipation has swept over the land and blighted the once fair prospect. However, the country still presents a fine field for commerce. Among the various commodities of the country, the sugar-cane occupies the first rank. This product is raised principally on table lands, though ruins are still to be seen on the slopes. The average production does not exceed 7,000 pounds to the acre. The process of cultivation is highly interesting. Many estates have been abandoned, and the quantity exported may be set down The clove tree was transplanted to Cayenne, where it has since been cultivated with success. It flourishes best on mountain sides, and is laid out in alleys of twenty feet, and the cloves grow in bunches on the branches of the at zero. timber speculation, for the production is great, and the means of transportation easy. The delightful climate of Cayenne makes it a pleasant place of residence, and its wonderful exemptions from storms and earthquakes make it a convenient stopping place for whalers and homewardbound Indiamen wanting supplies. Mr. Fabens then entered on the history of Cayenne, and remarked that when, in 1791, the Assembly of France proclaimed throughout the colonies the dictum that all men were free, the colonists were completely perplexed, but at length compromised matters with their negroes by merely informing them they were free, and then making them work harder than ever. Nevertheless, the colony was in an unsettled state; and in 1800 the planters set vigorously to work to frighten the blacks into obedience. After the overthrow of Louis Philippe, the blacks were emancipated suddenly in Cayenne, as well as in the other French colonies. Coming as it did at first in the form of a declaration, blasting all the planter's prospects, it was indeed a bitter pill; and when the official decree arrived, ordering emancipation to take place within two months, the planters anticipated it by freeing their negroes at once. A state of terror existed among the colonists, and the military and police were kept continually on the qui vive. The institution of universal suffrage being applied to the blacks, produced laughable farces, for many had no names, and the christening scenes were ludicrous in the extreme; but on the day of voting the confusion was awful. Statement of duties, revenues, and public expenditu es, for the first quarter of the fiscal year, from July 1 to September 30, 1852, agreeably to zarrants issued exclusive of trust funds and treasury noles funded: RECEIPTS. From sales of public lands.. From miscellaneous and incidental sources... EXPENDITURES. The result of these political measures is to be seen now in the colony, which has crowded jails and grog-shops, and presents many a scene of awful destitution. Desolation has succeeded to prosperity. The colonists had feared that emancipa- From customs..... tion would be followed by an insurrection of the blacks; but the real mischief has shown itself in the ruin caused by the laziness of the negroes. Slavery ostensibly existed before, but now we see that the blacks are slaves to their own brutal and degrading passions. After a few further remarks, Mr. Fabens concluded by making a few general observations on the colony of Cayenne and its relations to the mother country, and Army proper, &c......$2,669,662 23 hinted at the propriety of the United Fortifications, ordnance., States protesting against the uprearing arming militia, &c.. of a penal colony, which will scatter a Paying the old public debt. stream of vice through her cities. FINANCES OF THE UNITED STATES. TABLES ACCOMPANYING THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. Statement of Duties and Revenues during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1852: The receipts into the treasury during the fiscal year, ending June 1st, were: FROM CUSTOMS, VIZ: Civil list, miscellaneous and foreign intercourse... Expense of collecting the revenues Expense of collecting from lands. Navy $1,918,185 56 Interest on Treasury notes 216,787 04 216 09 ne loan of 1843... ..300,000 00 sury notes, per act of $15,723,935 71 415,945 91 191,200 10 $16,331,081 72 $3,993,086 71 556,411 09 34,469 80 2,805,756 94 2,886,449 27 2,868,760 51 295,653 37 |