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Way passengers to and from places between Elizabethtown and New Brunswick, 3,846

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The number of Passengers carried in the Philadelphia lines, for which a transit duty

of three cents each is paid to the state of New Jersey.

6,093

2,156

2,452

1839-January 1st to July 1st,...

1840-January 1st to July 1st,....

1841-January 1st to July 1st,...

35,320

36,477

44,299

WESTERN STEAMBOATS.

The following steamboat statistics are compiled from data found in the Louisville Directory, just published. They exhibit an aggregate amount of steamboat tonnage that presents the commercial importance of the west in a strong light.

The number of steamboats now afloat on the western and southwestern waters is about 400. Of these there are

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The residue at Brownsville, Marietta, Portsmouth, and other places, all on the western

waters, except four or five built in eastern ports.

COST OF TRANSPORTATION ON CANALS, RAILROADS, &c.

The inquiry is frequently made, what is the difference in the cost of transportation on canals and railroads? This question is answered by the following statement, made two years since, by Mr. Charles Ellet, Jr., Chief Engineer on the James River and Kanawha Canal and Railroad :

Cost of freight on canals, exclusive of tolls, 1 cent per ton per mile.

Railroads, 2 cents.

McAdam roads, 10 to 15 cents.

Common turnpikes, 15 to 20 cents.

Steamboats on the lakes, 2 to 4 cents per ton per mile.

Steamboats on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to 1); future average, 1 cent per ton per mile.

STATISTICS OF AGRICULTURE.

AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES.

Extract from the Agricultural Statistics, as returned by the Marshals, under the 13th

section of the act for taking the sixth census. Politely furnished for publication in

the Merchants' Magazine,

by

the

Hon. Daniel Webster, Secretary of State.

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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES. Continued.

Pounds

States and Terri

of Wool.

Number of bushels of

Tons of

Hay.

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Potatoes.

Flax.

Tobacco. gathered.|| cocoons.

of the

ml.

orchard.

made. produced.

Bbls. of tar, pitch, tu pen

tine & rosin.

1,465,551 10,392,380 691.053

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238,230 $1,493,718 143,249 2,230 $1,808,683

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1,260,955 6.234,901 496,647

13,040

406

1,097,398 1,585,955 220,056

94

401,358

3,257,79 8,206,734 734,047

244

4,233

4,220,541

4,892,097 1,109,387

100

500,140

1,055,591 5,385,652 569,425

23,132

1,741

579,227

2,273,219 209,177

1.905

476,845

173,630 904,778 63,417 lb 383
893,675 3,414,227 426,160 b.147 481

358

50

218,922

32,098

745

44,450

17,388

51,764

1,365,653 302,953

5,243

147.881

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10,093,991

10,497,032 1,732,357

14,700

3,788,173 2,924

33,710

1,966

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1,315,676 562,863 9,416

170,7604 350,561

602

278,939 1,555,977

2,271,420 154,957 19,182

297,856 2,200 €66,607 1,807

347 1,442

232 446 25,914

529

5,673

2,290

36,266

466 558 114,339 7,623

230,985

92,123 74,157,841 10,767,451 3,188

1,530,541

1,454,861 668,921 37,233

5,562

516,412 5,262

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torics.

Maine,*

Massachusetts,*

Georgia,

Kentucky,

Ohio,

Tennessee,

Louisiana,.

Alabama,

Mississippi,

Missouri,

3,666,844 5,629,784 1,029,311

1,029,526 2,373,034

49,524 845,935

173,400 1,5 0,700

185,839 1,538,625

462,644 684,491 44,870

Indiana,
Illinois,.

1,202,209 1,548,190 191,158

600,366 1,956,887 156,442

Michigan,§

Arkansas,

Iowa Territory,.

23,028 234,063 17,953

313

12,676

41,750

23,609

50

50,305

District of Columbia,

707

12,035 1,231

55,550

576

75,506

3,507

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* The returns of the states marked thus, (*) have been corrected. The statistics from the remainder of the states and territories are not yet examined.

† Statistics not yet received.

† The aggregate not yet made.

Aggregate not made. No return from Middle Florida.

|| Some of the marshals have returned pounds of ginned cotton, others in the seed. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

COMMERCE OF JAMAICA.

IMPORTS FOR 1838, 1839, AND 1840.

The following table exhibits the imports into the island of Jamaica, for the years 1838, 39, 40. It was compiled from official documents.

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COMMERCE AND BUSINESS OF OSWEGO, 1840.

A late number of the Oswego Commercial Herald contains a statement of the commerce and business of that place, of which the following is an abstract:

The registered tonnage of vessels owned at Oswego in 1840 is 8,346 tons, and the number of entrances and clearances of American vessels being generally schooners of large class, is 1,822. There was received at Oswego during the past year 764,657 bushels of wheat. Of which 672,790 bushels have been manufactured at the Oswego mills, and the residue been exported to the north, or gone east by canal. There were manufactured there in 1840, 145,000 barrels of flour, 35,000 of which were exported to Canada, and the residue sent down the canal or consumed at home. Of salt 205,000 barrels were received at that port by the Oswego canal from the Onondaga works, of which 153,538 barrels were shipped to the upper lakes, 42,000 barrels were exported to Canadian ports on Lake Ontario and the river St. Lawrence, and 14,544 barrels went to a domestic market, excepting a small quantity that remains on hand. A large quantity of agricul. tural and domestic products have been received there from the north, among which, 7,315 barrels of ashes, and nearly four millions of pounds of butter and cheese, have cleared for an eastern market by the canal. The tolls collected at the Oswego office for

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1840 are $51,239 23, to which the Oswego mills have contributed in tolls on flour and ship stuffs $21,943 11, notwithstanding the large northern export of 35,477 barrels that went to market by the St. Lawrence. From the 1st of September to the close of the season, 100,000 barrels of flour were turned out at the Oswego mills, showing that they have ample power to manufacture a million of barrels during a season, if the market and profits would justify so large a business. "On the whole," says the Herald, " our commercial men have done an active, and, we believe, profitable business, with tolerably good prospects ahead for an active trade in the spring. The country is full of produce, and contracts are making by purchasers and forwarders. A large number of first-class vessels, and several steamboats are being built for the business of the ensuing season. Two fine vessels and a steamboat are building at Oswego, which will be ready for the spring trade. The American produce that went to the Montreal and Quebec markets during the past season amounts to two millions of dollars, and the 1,400 sail of square. rigged vessels that cleared from those ports during the same period, furnish some evi. dence of the growing Canadian trade. Stimulated and encouraged by the success that has hitherto rewarded their enterprise, our neighbors across the lake are on the alert, preparing, with ample means and increased capital, to compete for the products of the western states, and to divert the current of trade down the St. Lawrence."

TRADE, COMMERCE, AND NAVIGATION OF HAVANA.
The following is a statement of the arrivals at Havana during the year 1840 :-

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Official statement of the imports and exports of Havana for the year 1840.

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which 79,198 bbls. came from Spain, and

Total,..

.$14,556,138 | 39,701 from the United States.

The whole amount of the commercial revenue was $5,075,957. The internal taxes, &c., amounted to $1,415,448; total, $6,491,406.

A comparative view between 1839 and 1840 shows a difference in favor of the com. merce of the port of $1,442,257.

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