$118,000,000, but the following comparative summary embraces some of the leading particulars, and will be found very interesting for reference : IMPORTS OF A FEW LEADING ARTICLES OF GENERAL MERCHANDISE AT NEW YORK, FROM FOREIGN PORTS FOR THE YEARS In like manner, we have not room for all the particulars of exports, but the following includes a comparison of some of the most important items :— EXPORTS OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC PRODUCE FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS IN THE YEARS It is hardly possible that the import trade for 1857 will equal the total for 1856, but we do not think the falling off will be very large. Present appearances indicate a decrease in the receipts of dry goods, although from the higher rates the same quantity will make an increased valuation at the custom-house. The export trade will be large, but the total will depend materially upon the prospects for the next European harvest. If we are to supply a large part of Western Europe with breadstuffs, there will be no important decline; but if the next year's crops in England, France, and Spain should be good, the export trade of next fall will dwindle to a very moderate total. Cotton is much higher in price than at the corresponding date of last year, and the average for the year promises to exceed either of the last three, even though the crop should be fully 3,000,000 bales. The price of sugar continues enormously high, and the consumption must be sensibly diminished. NEW YORK COTTON MARKET FOR THE MONTH ENDING JANUARY 23. PREPARED FOR THE MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE BY CHARLES W. FREDERICKSON, BROKER, NEW YORK. Since the date of my last report, (December 26th,) our market has been well maintained at a small advance. The total sales are estimated at 35,500 bales, inclusive of parcels in transitu and re-sales. Holders, generally, have shown a degree of firmness compatible with their opinions as regards the shortness of the erop; while buyers seem to have been uninfluenced by the increasing receipts, now beyond those of last year, and strengthened in their views by continued activity in all the Southern markets, and the advancing tendency displayed in all the European marts of commerce, have contributed largely in sustaining prices here, which requires all the late advance abroad to cover cash. Nearly 2,000,000 of bales of the present crop have already passed from the hands of the producers at prices much beyond their expectations, and it is not altogether improbable that a resort to short time and finer counts of yarn, may place the balance of our crop in the power of the lords of Manchester, at prices more in accordance with the cost of production than those now ruling either here or abroad. Our own spinners, both in this and the Southern markets, have been active in their purchases, not from any knowledge of the short-comings of the present crop, for it is impossible to estimate the crop sufficiently correct as a basis for a monetary guide, but simply because a better selection is offered and more easily obtained early in the season. The sales for the week ending Janury 2d were 8,500 bales, at c. to c. per pound advance. Holders demanding further additions, tended to limit transactions, and the market closed steady at the following, with small offerings PRICES ADOPTED JANUARY 2D FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: : For the week ensuing the sales were 10,000 bales, inclusive of parcels in transitu, at a small advance on middling and grades below. Holders were firm at the following, at the close:- PRICES ADOPTED JANUARY 9TH FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: The transactions for the week ending January 16th were 8,000 bales, and holders were less stringent in their demands, being willing sellers at a reduction of c. to c. per pound. Continued heavy receipts at the South dampened the expectations of buyers, and the market closed quiet at the annexed :— PRICES ADOPTED JANUARY 16TH FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: For the week closing at date the sales were 9,000 bales, at prices a shade more favorable to holders. Buyers were, however, cautiously inclined, owing to advance in freights and insurance; but as the foreign advices were favorable, the market closed steadily at the following PRICES ADOPTED JANUARY 23D FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES: JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE. CONDITION OF THE BANKS OF THE UNITED STATES. The subjoined tables have been compiled from the official returns made to the Treasury Department: Total. .... 2,649,264 2,428,926 25,130,695 84,972,674 1,240,681 $186,952,223 $195,747,950 $23,429,518 $24,779,049 SPECIE AND STOCK AND REAL ESTATE BASIS-1856. PROPERTY AND TAXATION OF NEW ORLEANS IN 1856. We give below, from an official source, (Francis Turner,) an abstract of the assessment of the parish of New Orleans, after objections and corrections have been made, for 1856: $67,460,115 $5,183,580 $18,544,500 $181,335 9 10....... Real estate....... Showing a grand total of real estate, slaves, and capital, of $91,788,195. On this there is levied a State tax of 16 cents per $100, amounting to $150,980; a mill tax, 10 cents per $100, amounting to $91,188; internal improvement, 7} per cent on $100, a total of $68,391; State licenses, $181,335; poll tax, $7,178 -total State taxes, $500,672. Mr. Turner says:— In comparing the above statement with the returns of last year, I find there is an increase on real estate and slaves of $1,514,450. Not being able last year to obtain the recapitulation, I cannot state exactly the increase ou capital, but from facts before me, I believe it will exceed the above-making a total increase of over $3,000,000. |