New Brunswick,.. Between Newark and Elizabethtown,.. 46 Way passengers to and from places between Elizabethtown and New Brunswick, 3,846 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 'The boats of the 1st class average about 600 tons, making an aggregate of 5,400 tons. 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. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES. Continued. Pounds States and Terri of Wool. Number of bushels of Tons of Hay. 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 38 238,230 $1,493,718 143,249 2,230 $1,808,683 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 383 358 50 218,922 32,098 745 44,450 17,388 51,764 1,365,653 302,953 5,243 147.881 10,093,991 10,497,032 1,732,357 14,700 3,788,173 2,924 33,710 1,966 56 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 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, 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 25 * 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. 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 1 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. Official statement of the imports and exports of Havana for the year 1840. 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. |