Total- dollars, 20,033,526 SUMMARY STATEMENT of the value of the Exports of the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States, during the year ending on the 30th day of September, 1831. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. THE SEA. Fisheries Dried fish or cod fisheries 625,393 Pickled fish or river fisheries, herring, shad, salmon, mackerel 304,441 Whale and other fish oil 554,440 Spermaceti oil 53,526 Whalebone 133,842 Spermaceti candles 217,830 1,889,472 THE FOREST. Skins and furs Ginseng Product of wood Staves, shingles, boards, and hewn timber 1,467,065 Other lumber Masts and spars Oak bark and other dye All manufactures of wood 214,105 7,806 99,116 275,219 Naval stores, tar, pitch, rosin, & turpentine 397,687 Ashes, pot and pearl AGRICULTURE. Product of animals Beef, tallow, hides, and horned cattle Butter and cheese Pork, (pickled,) bacon, lard, live hogs Horses and mules Sheep 750,938 115,928 935,613 3,396,611 4,263,477 829,982 264,796 1,501,644 218,015 14,499 2,828,936 Flax and hemp 102,033 55,755 104,760 2,969,435 96,931 947,932 2,397 17,221 61,832 1,126,313 231 Cloth and thread Bags, and all manufactures of Wearing apparel Combs and buttons Brushes Billiard tables and apparatus Umbrellas and parasols 2,599 59,749 120,217 3,947 2,343 29,580 Trunks 5,326 Brick and lime 4,412 Salt 26,848 3,783,248 Articles not enumerated Manufactured 394,681 Other articles 715,311 1,109,992 61,277,057 PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. 1.-DOMESTIC. Message from the President of the United States, to the Twentysecond Congress. - First Session. Fellow Citizens of the Senate, and House of Representatives, THE representation of the people has been renewed for the twenty-second time since the constitution they formed has been in force. For near half a century, the chief magistrates, who have been successively chosen, have made their annual communications of the state of the nation to its representatives. Generally, these communications have been of the most gratifying nature, testifying an advance in all the improvements of social, and all the securities of political life. But frequently, and justly, as you have been called on to be grateful for the bounties of Providence, at few periods have they been more abundantly or extensively bestowed than at the present: rarely, if ever, have we had greater reason to congratulate each other on the continued and increasing prosperity of our beloved country. Agriculture, the first and most important occupation of man, has compensated the labors of the husbandman with plentiful c crops of all the varied products of our extensive country. Manufactures have been established, in which the funds of the capitalist find a profitable investment, and which give employment and subsistence to a numerous and increasing body of industrious and dexterous mechanics. The laborer is rewarded by high wages, in the construction of works of internal improvement, which are extending with unprecedented rapidity. Science is steadily penetrating the recesses of nature and disclosing her secrets, while the ingenuity of free minds is subjecting the elements to the power of man, and making each new conquest auxiliary to his comfort. By our mails, whose speed is regularly increased, and whose routes are every year extended, |