II. Exports of Cotton and Tobacco from New Orleans during each of the Nine Years ending the 30th of September, 1836, III. Arrivals of Ships, Brigs, Schooners, Sloops, and Steamboats, for Four Years, ending the 30th of September, 1836. Totals 498 472 537 13 1,520 1,372 507 490593 111,601 1,172 418 507 487 10 1,422 1,005 405 428 469 21,304) 1,081) We are indebted for the above valuable information to the Circular Statement of William Alderson, Esq., New Orleans, the 1st of October, 1836. [For the information which follows concerning the commerce of New Orleans, we are indebted to Hazard's Commercial and Statistical Register. Imports from the Interior at New Orleans, for Three Years, ending with the 30th September, 1839. Arrivals of Ships, Brigs, Schooners, Sloops, and Steamboats, for Three Years, ending 30th Sept., 1839. Exports of Cotton, from the port of New Orleans, for the last Three Years, commencing 1st October, and ending 30th September. Comparative Arrivals, Exports and Stocks of Cotton of New Orleans, for Ten Years, commencing RECAPITULATION. Great Britain 309,768 481,501 355,096 France 122,452 127,828 133,641 North of Europe. 1,446 7,580 6,431 South of Europe. 9,040 14,528 14,225 Coast wise 138,111 105,749 85,145 Exports of Sugar and Molasses (up the River excepted) for Three Years, ending 30th September, 1839. 29,143 3,011 13,115 20,415 26,098 3,662 10,144 27,133 27,581 2,269 6,326 28,324 (New Orleans Price Current.) Exports of Tobacco, from the port of New Orleans, for the last Three Years, commencing 1st October, and ending 30th September. Comparative Arrivals, Exports, and Stocks of Tobacco of New Orleans, for Ten Years, commencing 1st October. An Ordinance Concerning the Levee Duties in and for the Port of New Orleans.-The General Council of the Municipalities of New Orleans, in conformity with the 20th section of the Act of Incorporation, approved 8th March, 1836, ordain as follows: Article 1. The levee or wharfage duties on ships and other decked vessels, and on steam vessels arriving from sea, shall be fixed as follows: Art. 2. The payment of these duties shall be exacted and collected by the municipality within whose limits such vessels may have moored, after their arrival from sea in port; and an extra duty of one third of these rates shall be paid by all vessels which may remain in port over two months, the same to be recovered at the commencement of the third month; and if they remain in port four months, then they shall pay a further additional wharfage of one third of said rates, at the commencement of the fifth month, and be privileged to remain until the expiration of six months from date of original arrival and mooring, without a further charge being imposed on them. Art. 3. When any vessel shall be removed from that division of the port in which it shall have originally paid duty, to another division of said port, under the jurisdiction of another municipality, said latter municipality shall be entitled to receive from the municipality to which said duty has been first paid in the following ratio, viz.: One half of the duty actually paid or due, if said vessel have not remained longer than fifteen days in that part of the port in which it was first moored; one third, if said vessel have remained longer than fifteen days, but not more than twenty-five days; but if beyond twenty-five days, not any part of said duty shall be recovered. Nevertheless, the municipality in whose limits said vessel shall afterwards be moored, shall have the right to levy and collect the extra duty of one third of the rates mentioned in Article 1, on the conditions mentioned in Article 2; provided, that no further charge or extra duty shall be exacted from any vessel which may have removed from one part of the port to another, for the mere purpose of forthwith proceeding to sea. Art. 4. All vessels or steamboats coming from sea, which, after their arrival in port shall proceed to, and return from any plantation, or other place, with a cargo, or part of a cargo, of any kind of produce whatever, and shall again enter the port for the purpose of discharging the same, shall pay, on returning from any such trip, a levee duty of eight dollars over and above the duties fixed by the 1st article of this ordinance, the same to be collected by the municipality within whose limits said vessels may discharge said produce. Art. 5. The levee duties on steam vessels navigating on the river, and which shall moor and land in any part of the incorporated limits of the port, shall be fixed as follows: Art. 6. All steam vessels employed as packets, and plying regularly between this port and ports in the Gulf of Mexico, including Havana, shall pay no other or higher rate of wharfage than is imposed by this ordinance on steamboats navigating the Mississippi. Art. 7. The duties specified in the preceding article, shall be paid on the mooring and landing of said steamers in port, by their captains or other agents, to the officer entrusted with their collection by the municipality within whose limits said vessels shall have moored and landed. Art. 8. After the payment of these duties, said steamers shall be entitled to remain thirty days in that part of the port which may have been designated by the municipality to which it belongs; and any steamer remaining over thirty consecutive days, shall pay an additional duty of two dollars per day, until its final departure from port, the same to be collected daily; and if any steamer leaves its first landing place, to take a berth and be moored in another municipality, it shall pay said additional duty of two dollars per day, to the collector of the municipality into whose limits it shall have been removed, whether said term of thirty days shall have expired or not at the time of such removal. Art. 9. Steamers employed as tow boats, and which shall have received on board any produce, the whole or any part of the cargo of a vessel, and shall discharge the same on the levee, shall pay the same duty as is specified in Article 5, according to their tounage; said duty to be collected by the proper officer of the municipality within whose limits such discharge shall be effected. Art. 10. Tow boats shall pay, for each time they may moor to take in wood or other fuel, eight dollars to the municipality within whose limits they may moor and take in said fuel. Art. 11. The following levee dues shall be exacted on all flat boats, barges, keel boats, pirogues, and other raft. crafts, &c.: On each flat boat, either fully or in part laden with produce, materials, or merchandise of any kind, On each barge, measuring 70 feet or more in length, $10 10 On all barges, keel boats, or boats measuring less than 70 feet, and not exceeding 15 tons burthen, 6 On all boats not described in the present ordinance, 4 1 On each coasting pirogue, The owners or keepers of boats used as places of depôt for any article whatever, shall pay a duty of $1 per day. The following duties shall also be levied : On their being broken up, if in the incorporated limits of the port, each flat boat, On rafts of timber not containing more than 25 logs each raft, $4 On each steamer, or other vessels than flat boats, being broken up within said limits, 10 On each raft of timber containing more than 25 logs, then in the ratio of that increase. On each craft measuring 40 tons or under, employed to carry sugar, molasses, wood, or any other description of merchandise, there shall be levied, on each trip, a duty of On all craft exceeding 40 tons each, employed as above, shall also be levied, on each trip a duty of 4 6 Art. 12. All boats or other vessels arriving within the limits of the port, with fish, meat, vegetables, eggs, or any and every other kind of provisions, expressly for the purpose of supplying the several markets, shall be entirely exempt from paying any levee dues; but the same, and all other description of craft, otherwise employed, whether particularly mentioned in this ordinance or not, shall pay duty according to the tariff above ordained. Art. 13. The time allowed for all pirogues, flat boats, barges, boats and keel boats to land their cargoes in port, shall be fixed at twelve days from their original arrival, after which said craft shall pay daily an additional duty on each barge, boat, or keel boat over 70 feet in length, $1.00 75 And less than 70 feet long And in the event of any of said vessels removing from one municipality to another, from their first place of landing, they shall pay daily said additional duty to the latter municipality, whether said term of twelve days shall have expired or not. The time allowed for discharging of boats or other craft not otherwise described in this ordinance, is fixed at twelve days from their arrival in port, after which said boats and craft, and all rafts and floats, shall be taken out of the incorporated limits of the port, under penalty of being fined $25 for each day they may be found in violation of the law, said fine to be paid by all owners, masters, keepers or consignees of said flat boats, rafts or floats, for each and every day they may refuse to comply with the dispositions of the present ordinance; said fine to be recovered before any competent tribunal, on the evidence of the proper officer whose duty it is to see the levee or port ordinances carried into effect. Provided, however, that this clause in the present ordinance shall not deprive any of the municipalities of the right of granting a specific privilege for said flat boats, rafts or floats, to be broken up and used within any one of their respective limits. Art. 14. It is hereby expressly forbidden to all owners, masters, consignees, or other persons, to sell, or cause to be sold, on board of any of the aforesaid craft, under any pretence whatever, wine, beer, cider, and spirituous liquors in quantities less than a barrel, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each contravention; said fine to be paid by them in the like manner, and on the like evidence as are described in Article 13. It is also expressly forbidden to smoke, or allow to be smoked, meat of any kind on board of said craft, under the penalty in the manner levied, and on the evidence above mentioned. Art. 15. All barges, flat boats, keel boats, or other craft, in which shall be exposed for sale in the part of the port assigned for their accommodation during the said term of twelve days, any produce, goods or merchandise brought on board from a distance less than 100 miles above the cities of New Orleans, excepting sugar, molasses, and cotton, the staples of Louisiana, shall be fined in a sum of not less than $50 nor exceeding $100, the same to be recovered in the manner set forth in Article 13. Art. 16. In case any person should furnish any false reports relative to the cargoes, owners, or consignees, or the date of such crafts entering the port, or in any manner interfere with, or impede the officers of the several municipalities in the free exercise of the duties devolving on them, said person or persons so contravening shall, on conviction, pay a fine of not less than $20, nor exceeding $100 for each contravention. Art. 17. It shall be obligatory on the part of captains of vessels and steamers, and also on masters, owners, and keepers of all crafts, flat boats, rafts and floats, to pay the aforesaid duties on board of their respective vessels, a receipt for which shall be delivered to them by the proper officer of each municipality, in order to prove payment thereof, in case any of said vessels, craft, &c. be removed from one division of the port to another. Art. 18. All the fines imposed by this ordinance shall be for the benefit of the municipality within which any contravention thereof may have been committed; the same to be levied on the evidence of the wharfinger, and if voluntarily paid, the receipt for same shall be given by the treasurer; but if they be resisted, then their recovery shall be effected by and before an authority or court of competent jurisdiction. Art. 19. It shall be a special duty of the wharfinger for each municipality to make a weekly report to the comptroller thereof, of all and every description of vessels, their tonnage, &c. which may each day enter and moor within the limits of the port under his superintendence; which weekly report shall be carefully tiled in the office of said comptroller, for further reference and examination, and in regular rotation of dates. Art. 20. Be it further ordained, that, from and after ten days' promulgation of this ordinance, the wharfage collectors of the three municipalities shall cause to be kept, by the enrolling clerk at the custom-house, a record book, in which daily entries shall be made of every vessel which may arrive from sea, specifying their names, their masters, consignees, where from, and their tonnage, having three marginal spaces on the right hand, headed Municipality Nos. 1, 2, 3, respectively, which space shall be from time to time filled up with the signatures of the three several wharfage collectors, indicating that they have received the wharfage due to their respective municipalities, by each of whom the expense of procuring and maintaining said book of record, if any, shall be borne and paid in three equal proportions. Art. 21. Be it also ordained, that, in the event of the resignation or suspension of any officer or officers employed as collectors of any of the branches of the revenues belonging to either of the municipalities, he or they shall be forthwith required to deliver up to the treasurer of the municipality whence his or their appointment was derived, all his or their books, accounts, and vouchers appertaining thereto. Art. 22. The present ordinance shall be put in force in ten days after its promulgation by the Mayor; and the execution of such dispositions thereof as relate to the police of the port, shall specially belong to the officers appointed by each of the municipalities for this purpose. Art. 23. All previous ordinances, or parts of ordinances relative to levee dues, and to the police of the port, and which may be at variance with, or opposed to, the provisions of the present ordinance, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.-(New Orleans Price Current.) The following are the rates imposed on every description of merchandise, by an ordinance of the general council of New Orleans, which was put in execution on the first day of November, 1839. Cents. Cents. . 6 - 10 - 10 - 121-2 - 121-2 3 or less. - 121-2 - 6 On each ton of pig lead, pig iron, iron and copper nails, iron articles, coal, salt, slates, flag stones, bricks, pav. ing, curb, and gutter stone, stone, bar iron, sand or ballast, or other articles of great weight, computing the ton at 2,000 lbs. - 15 On bulk pork, per ton of 2,000 lbs. 15 On each keg of lard, butter, &c. - 1 On each case of copper. - 8 On each firkin of do. 2 On each bag of coffee . 3 Ou each piece of bagging, coil bale rope, packing yarn, &c. . On each pack or small truss of skins, sack of corn, corn meal, oats, bran, or other grain On each crate of earthen or stoneware. - 21-2 On each empty hogshead, tierce, bundle of chairs, buckets, &c. 3 There were in this city, in 1830, 4 banks, with a capital of 9,000,000 dollars, exclusive of a branch of the Bank of the United States, having a capital of 1,000,000 dollars. The aggregate amount of dividends on bank stock during that year amounted to 542,400 dollars. But one of the banks, having a capital of 2,500,000, had only commenced; and as the whole capital of another bank had not been paid up, the dividend was really the produce of a capital of 6,750,000 dollars; being at the rate of 8037 per cent. thereon. In April, 1835, there were 10 banks in the city having an aggregate paid up capital of 26,422,145 dollars, exclusive of about 6,000,000 to be paid in. There were, in 1830, 6 insurance companies in the city, having an aggregate capital of 2,400,000 dollars.-Statement by J. H. Goddard, Esq., New York Daily Advertiser, 29th of January, 1831; and Letter by the Secretary of the Treasury, 5th of January, 1836.) For Monies, Weights, and Measures, see NEW YORK. NEWSPAPERS. Publications in numbers, consisting commonly of single sheets, and published at short and stated intervals, conveying intelligence of passing events. Importance and Value of Newspapers in a Commercial Point of View.—It is foreign to the purposes of this work to consider the moral and political effects produced by newspapers of the extent of their influence there is no doubt, even among those who differ widely as to its effect. Their utility to commerce is, however, unquestionable. The advertisements they circulate, though these announcements are limited in Great Britain by a heavy duty, the variety of facts and information they contain as to the supply and demand of commodities in all quarters of the world, their prices, and the regulations by which they are affected, render newspapers indispensable to commercial men, supersede a great mass of epistolary correspondence, raise merchants in remote places towards an equality, in point of information, with those in the great marts, and wonderfully quicken all the movements of commerce. But newspapers themselves have become a considerable commercial article in Great Britain. In the year 1830, the produce of the stamp duty, deducting the discount, levied on newspapers, was 410,9801. 6s. 6d. The gross produce of the sale must have been more than double this sum, without allowing for the papers sold at a higher price than 7d.; so that the consumption of newspapers must have amounted, in that year, to nearly 1,000,000%. sterling. Newspapers, in London, are sold by the publishers to newsmen or newsvenders, by whom they are distributed to the purchasers in town and country. The newsmen, who are the retailers, receive, for their business of distribution, a regulated allowance. The papers which are sold to the public at 7d., which form the great mass of London newspapers, are sold to the newsmen in what are technically called quires. Each quire consists of 27 papers, and is sold to the newsmen for 138.; so that the newsman's gross profit on 27 papers is 28. 9d. In some instances, where newspapers are sent by the post, d. additional on each paper is charged by the newsmen to their country customers. Some of the clerks at the post-office, called clerks of the roads, are considerable news-agents. The stamp duty on a newspaper is, at present, nominally 4d.; but a discount is allowed on those papers which are sold at a price not exceeding 7d., of 20 per cent., which reduces the stamp duty actually paid to 3 1-5d. Each paper being sold to the newsman at a little less than 5 d., the sum which is received by the newspaper proprietors for paper, printing, and the expenses of their establishments, is a small fraction. more than 24d. for each copy. Advertisements form a considerable source |