Total. MONTHS. ARTICLES Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'rs. Total. S. Boats. Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'rs. Total. Monthly arrivals of Ships, Barks, Brigs, Schooners and Steamboats, for five years, from 1st September to 31st August. 1840-41. 1839-40. 1838-39. 1837-38. S. Boats. Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'rs. Total. S. Boats. Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'rs. Total. S. Boats. Ships. Barks. 595 191 325 532 1,643 2,187 553 177 435 682 1,846 1,973 461 146 407 716 1,740 1,568 471 111 460 570 1,612 ||1,558 408 102 440 540 1,489 1,561 New Orleans Price Current. Wealth and Resources of New York. In an article a few days since we alluded to the efforts that are constantly making by our opponents to injure the credit of the State, by denouncing the various works of public improvement now in progress as extravagant, and asserting that the expense of completing them will involve us in debt as deeply as are some of our sister States while the income from the works will never pay the interest on their cost. We then showed that the estimates, on the strength of which these works were undertaken have so far not only been proved correct, but for the last year there was a large excess, and this year there is every probability of there being still greater. We have now before us a statement which the reader will find interesting. It presents at one view the operation of our canal system from 1817 to 1840. By this it will be seen that the Erie, Champlain, and all the lateral canals, except the Genesee Valley and Black River, which are not completed, are paid for. The famous "forty million debt" is to be made up of the cost of the enlargement of the Erie Canal, and the construction of the two lateral canals. ERIE AND CHAMPLAIN CANALS. Payments. Cost of Construction.....$10,035,132 62 Repairs............. Cost of collecting tolls, &c. Interest on loans..... Premium on Stocks pur chased....... Miscellaneous.. 4,343,035 64 Chemung.. 370,945 18,547 25 382,892 29 2,402,535 120,326 78 5,776,111 52 338,886 55 1,051,912 77 -$21,927,471 39 Balance in favor of E. & C. Canal fund... 4,398,473 84 Am't of Debt Jan. 1841...$13,651,784 $26,325,945 23 Oneida River Improvement. 50,000 Estimated amounts required to complete the public works. Erie Canal Enlargement.. 2,500 00 $687,789 23 $17,000,000 Genesee Valley Canal.. ... 2,235,550 .$18,505,818 61 3,592,039 05 Do Extension to the St. Lawrence.. Chenango do extension to Tioga Point.. do Repairs and new locks 1,327,874 788,150 to do 391,056 264,000 74,204 $23,170,860 13,651,684 $36,822,644 Tolls.... Auction Duty Salt Duty... Steamboat tax Sales of lands.. Revenue. Rent of Surplus Water... Miscellaneous. Interest on Surplus. Premium on Loans Oswego.. 2,055,458 06 73,509 99 103,755 18 25,127 36 247,354 18 LATERAL CANALS. Cost of Construction. Cayuga and Seneca $543,962 23 226,036 64 348,440 61 140,671 49 .2,389,311 72 $3,648,422 69 1,248,331 67 710,305 99 54,032 96 34,420 80 $5,595,514 11 1,004,543 74 The last Legislature authorized a loan of three millions for the present year. If therefore we borrow four millions per annum for the next five years, all of the great public works above named may be completed by the year 1847. This will not be a very alarming amount to borrow annually, as the canal tolls will doubtless exceed two millions this year, and continue to increase. When these canals are completed, we shall have nearly one thousand miles of canal navigation within this State, uniting the Hudson with the Lakes, the St. Lawrence, the Susquehanna, Ohio and other rivers, besides a connexion with the canals of Pennsylvania. The means for the redemption of the balance of the Erie and Champlain Canal debt, due principally in 1845, viz: $2,054,808, being provided for, it is not included in the above statement of canal debts. This fund is invested as follows: The estimated cost of the enlargement of the Erie Canal (including the amount already expended) is $23,284,931; Black river Canal, $2,287,374; Genesee Valley Canal $4,688,050.—Ib. Wonderful Speed. Mr. C. H. Ruggles, of St. Louis, arrived here from New York, on his way home, on Friday night last, in seven days from that city. He left New York on Friday the 13th ult. at 5 P. M. and reached Chicago on Thursday morning, via the lakes, just in time for Frink & Walker's line, which arrived here at nine P. M. on the next day. He must have stopped 6 or 8 hours at Ottawa also. He continued on to St. Louis the same night by steamboat, and doubtless awoke at the wharf of that city on Sunday morning; thus making the passage from New York city to St. Louis in eight days. Was the journey via the Ohio river ever made sooner! Mr. R. however, was favored by a concurrence of circumstances which might not again soon occur. His arrival at Buffalo must have been just at the moment when the lake steamer was about to leave, and at Chicago he must have been equally fortunate in getting onward. The same good luck attended him in taking passage to St. Louis. On Monday night another gentleman arrived here from New York who left on the 14th. He was just nine days performing the journey, and this may be considered the average time at present. As the public becomes better acquainted with the advantages of this route, and the travel increases upon it, more method will be observed by our Illinois packets in their arrivals and departures, and probably next season the trip first above spoken of will be very often repeated. Peoria (Ill.) Register. North Carolina Manufactures. He who twelve years ago should have predicted that at this time cotton would be imported into North Carolina for manufacturing purposes, would have been looked upon as at least a very visonary being. But he would have been a true prophet. We have now before us a sample of a lot of Louisiana cotton, which was received here, and forwarded to one of the factories of the interior. Wilmington Chronicle. Mr. Brevoort, the millionaire who recently died in New York, had lived in the same house since his birth—that is, $45,000 for ninety-nine years !-and had never been farther from the 20,000 city than Staten Island. His health had been remarkably good, and his eyesight clear, until a year ago, when he lost $25,000 his venerable and worthy wife. Since then he has declined 4,000 rapidly. $21,000 Silk Manufacture. Mr. J. W. Gill, of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, has an establish a sum sufficient to pay the debts of all the farmers in this ment for the manufacture of silk in successful operation.county.-Peoria (Ill.) Register. Another Diamond Found. Abbeville Court House, 23d August, 1841. Mr. Editor: Sir.-In the Southern Patriot of the 14th inst., I noticed an extract from the "Cincinnati Daily Gazette," relative to a "native diamond, found in Indiana," and was forcibly impressed with its description as being nearly the same connected with a gem which I found in the year 1838, in the Wisconsin Territory, my gem will cut glass, and scratch quartz chrystal. It cannot be scratched by the hardest silversmith's file, nor by grinding on a grind stone. It is in width, and in thickness, with 24 convex bumps, blisters or facets on one side, and when exposed to the rays of the sun or candle light, these facets reflect the light very brilliantly. Its shape somewhat resembles the segment or one-fifth part of a circle. It has a slight tinge of pale yellow, apparently confined to its exterior, and is very transparent. It weighs in air 22 grains, and by immersion in spring water 20 grains. My object in this publication is to arrest the attention of the scientific, whom I respectfully invite to an examination of the gem mentioned, together with my cabinet generally, consisting of six hundred cornelians, agates and other transparent stones, unknown to me, with these can be seen the prairie salt, and the richest ores of iron, lead and copper, all of which were found in the United States, and within its Territorial limits. THOMAS PIERCY SPIERIN, Charleston Patriot, He manufactures velvets, dress silks and a variety of other silk goods. The silk manufacture, we have no doubt, will in a few years become a very important one. Dissolution of the Cabinet. All the members have resigned with the exception of Mr. Webster. New nominations have been made to the Senate to supply their places. The letters of Messrs. Ewing and Crittenden, have been published-we have not room for them this week. A serious riot with loss of life, has occurred in Cincinnati particulars hereafter. The UNITED STATES COMMERCIAL AND STATISTICAL REGISTER, is published every Wednesday, at No. 76 Dock street. The price to subscribers is Five Dollars per annum, payable on the 1st of January of each year. No subscription received for less than a year.— Subscribers out of the principal cities to pay in advance. PRINTED BY WILLIAM F. GEDDES, No. 112 CHESNUT STREET, Where, and at 76 Dock St., Subscriptions will be received. COMMERCIAL AND STATISTICAL REGISTER. VOL. V. EDITED BY SAMUEL HAZARD. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 22, 1841. Revenue Bill, Duty of 20 per cent. on certain articles-Proviso respecting wool and woods. No. 12. hair unmanufactured, hair pencils, ipecacuanha, ivory unkermes, madder, madder root, musk, manna, marrow and manufactured, iris root, juniper berries, oil of juniper, kelp, other soap stocks and soap stuffs, palm oil, mohair, mother Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- of pearl, needles, nux vomica, orris root, oil of almonds, tives of the United States of America, in Congress assem- opium, palm leaf, platina, Peruvian bark, old pewter fit only bled, That on all articles imported into the United States to be re-manufactured, plaster of Paris, quicksilver, rags of from and after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hun- any kind of cloth, India rubber, reeds unmanufactured, rhudred and forty-one, there shall be laid, collected and paid on barb, rotten stone, elephants' and other animals teeth, polishall articles which are now admitted free of duty, or which ing stones, bristles, ratans unmanufactured, raw and unare chargeable with a duty of less than twenty per centum dressed skins, spelter, crude saltpetre, gum Senegal, saffron, ad valorem, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem, except shellac, soda ash, sponges, sago, sarsaparilla, senna, sumac, on the following enumerated articles, that is to say: muri- tapioca, tamarinds, crude tartar, teutenegue, tin foil, tin in atic acid, sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, alum, tartaric acid, pigs, bars, plates, or sheets, tips of bone or horn, tortoise aquafortis, blue vitriol, calomel, carbonate of soda, corrosive shell, turmeric, weld, woad or pastel, Brazil wood, Nicaragua sublimate, combs, copperas, indigo, nitrate of lead, red and wood, red wood, cam wood, log wood, dye woods of all kinds, white lead dry or ground in oil, sugar of lead, manganese, unmanufactured woods of any kind, except rose wood, satin sulphate of magnesia, bichromate of potash, chromate of wood, and mahogany, whale and other fish oils of American potash, prussiate of potash, glauber salts, rochelle salts, sul-fisheries, and all other articles the produce of said fisheries, phate of quinine, refined saltpetre, which shall pay respect- and zine; and, also, wool unmanufactured, the value whereof ively the same rates of duty imposed on them under existing at the place of exportation shall not exceed eight cents per laws; and the following articles shall be exempt from duty, pound: Provided, That if any fine wool be mixed with dire to wit: tea and coffee, all painting and statuary the produc- or other material, and thus be reduced in value to eight cents tion of American artists residing abroad, all articles imported per pound or under, the appraisers shall appraise said wool for the use of the United States, and the following articles, at such price as in their opinion it would have cost had it when specifically imported by order, and for the use of any not been so mixed, and a duty thereon shall be charged in society incorporated or established for philosophical or lite- conformity with such appraisal: And provided further, That rary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or when wool of different qualities is imported in the same bale, by order and for the use of any college, academy, school or bag or package, and any part thereof is worth more than seminary of learning, in the United States, to wit, philo-eight cents a pound valued as aforesaid, that part shall pay sophical apparatus, instruments, books, maps, charts, statues, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That busts of marble, bronze, alabaster or plaster of Paris, casts, boards, planks, staves, scantling, sawed timber, and all other paintings, drawings, engravings, specimens of sculpture, descriptions of wood which shall have been wrought into cabinets of coins, gems, medals, and all other collections of shapes that fit them respectively for any specific and permaantiquities, statuary, modelling, painting, drawing, etching, or nent use, without further manufacture, shall be deemed and engraving; and, also, all importations of specimens in natural taken as manufactured wood. history, mineralogy, botany, and anatomical preparations, models of machinery, and the models of other inventions, plants and trees, wearing apparel, and other personal baggage in actual use, and the implements or tools of trade of persons arriving in the United States; crude antimony, regulus of antimony, animals imported for breed, argol, gum arabic, aloes, ambergris, bole armenian, arrow root, annotto, anniseed, oil of anniseed, amber, assafœtida, ava root, alcornoque, alba canella, bark of cork tree unmanufactured, burr stones unwrought, brass in pigs or bars, old brass only fit to be re-merated article chargeable with duty, the same rate of duty manufactured, brimstone or sulphur, barrilla, braziletto, boracic acid, Burgundy pitch, berries used for dyeing, smaltz, lasting or prunella used in the manufacture of buttons and shoes, vanilla beans, balsam tolu, gold and silver coins and bullion, clay unwrought, copper imported in any shape for the use of the mint, copper in pigs, bars or plates, or plates or sheets of which copper is the material of chief value, suited to the sheathing of ships, old copper fit only to be remanufactured, lapis calaminaris, cochineal, chamomile flowers, coriander seed, catsup, cantharides, castanas, chalk, coculus indicus, colombo root, cummin seed, cascarilla, cream of tartar, vegetables and nuts of all kinds used principally in dyeing and composing dyes, lac-dye, emery, epaulets and wings of gold or silver, furs undressed of all kinds, flaxseed or linseed, flax unmanufactured, fustic, flints, ground flint grindstones, gamboge, raw hides, hemlock, henbane, horn plates for lanterns, ox and other horns, Harlem oil, hartshorn, VOL. V.-23 Non-enumerated articles to pay same duties as those which they most resemble-no unmanufactured articles to pay more than 20 per cent.-disposition of the proceeds of the public lands not to be affected. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be levied, collected, and paid on each and every non-enumerated article which bears a similitude either in material, quality, texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any enuwhich is levied and charged on the enumerated article which it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; and if any non-enumerated article equally resembles two or more enumerated articles on which different rates of duty are now chargeable, there shall be levied, collected and paid on such non-enumerated article the same rate of duty as is chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highest duty; and on all articles manufactured from two or more materials, the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates at which any of its component parts may be chargeable. Provided, That, if in virtue of this section, any duty exceeding the rate of twenty per centum ad valorem shall be levied prior to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fortytwo, the same shall not in any wise affect the disposition of the proceeds of the public lands, as provided for by an act passed at the present session of Congress: And provided further, That no duty higher than twenty per centum ad |