Ships. Barks. Sch'rs. Total. S. Boats. Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'rs. Total. S. Boats. 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. Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'rs. Total. S. Boats. Ships. Barks. Brigs. 1836-37. Sch'rs. Total. S. Boats. Ships. Barks. Brigs. Sch'rs. Total. S. Boats. 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 a 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 62 338,886 55 Genesee Valley.. ...... 1,051,912 77 -$21,927,471 39 Oneida River Improvement. Balance in favor of E. & C. Canal fund... 4,398,473 84 $26,325,945 23 Revenue. Erie Canal Enlargement. .$17,000,000 Black River do..... 1,090,026 3,592,039 05 Do Extension to the St. Lawrence. 2,055,458 06 1,327,874 Chenango do extension to Tioga Point. 788,150 391,056 .... 264,000 74,204 247,354 18 1,474,502 79 ... Canal debt as above...... Oswego.. 158,380 01 LATERAL CANALS. -$26,325,945 23 Cost of Construction. $543,962 23 226,036 64 348,440 61 140,671 49 Cayuga and Seneca Chemung.. Crooked Lake Chenango.... Total.. Interest. Repairs... Expenses of Collection. Miscellaneous.... Total payments receipts..... ..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 $23,170,860 13,651,684 $36,822,644 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, víz: $2,054,868, being provided for, it is not included in the above statement of canal debts, This fund is invested as follows: Balance against Lateral Canals...... ... $4,690,970 37 Loaned on bonds and mortgages at 6 p. c... 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 His arrival at Buffalo which might not again soon occur. 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 his venerable and worthy wife. Since then he has declined $25,000 4,000 rapidly. $21,000 a sum sufficient to pay the debts of all the farmers in this 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. Silk Manufacture. Mr. J. W. Gill, of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, has an establishment for the manufacture of silk in successful operation.— 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 VOL. V. REGISTER. 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 of pearl, needles, nux vomica, orris root, oil of almonds, opium, palm leaf, platina, Peruvian bark, old pewter fit only to be re-manufactured, plaster of Paris, quicksilver, rags of any kind of cloth, India rubber, reeds unmanufactured, rhubarb, rotten stone, elephants' and other animals teeth, polishing stones, bristles, ratans unmanufactured, raw and undressed skins, spelter, crude saltpetre, gum Senegal, saffron, shellac, soda ash, sponges, sago, sarsaparilla, senna, gumac, tapioca, tamarinds, crude tartar, teutenegue, tin foil, tin in pigs, bars, plates, or sheets, tips of bone or horn, tortoise shell, turmeric, weld, woad or pastel, Brazil wood, Nicaragua wood, red wood, cam wood, log wood, dye woods of all kinds, unmanufactured woods of any kind, except rose wood, satin wood, and mahogany, whale and other fish oils of American and zinc; and, also, wool unmanufactured, the value whereof at the place of exportation shall not exceed eight cents per pound: Provided, That if any fine wool be mixed with dire or other material, and thus be reduced in value to eight cents per pound or under, the appraisers shall appraise said wool at such price as in their opinion it would have cost had it not been so mixed, and a duty thereon shall be charged in conformity with such appraisal: And provided further, That when wool of different qualities is imported in the same bale, bag or package, and any part thereof is worth more than eight cents a pound valued as aforesaid, that part shall pay a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That boards, planks, staves, scantling, sawed timber, and all other descriptions of wood which shall have been wrought into shapes that fit them respectively for any specific and permanent use, without further manufacture, shall be deemed and taken as manufactured wood. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That on all articles imported into the United States from and after the thirtieth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-one, there shall be laid, collected and paid on all articles which are now admitted free of duty, or which are chargeable with a duty of less than twenty per centum ad valorem, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem, except on the following enumerated articles, that is to say: muriatic acid, sulphuric acid or oil of vitriol, alum, tartaric acid, aquafortis, blue vitriol, calomel, carbonate of soda, corrosive sublimate, combs, copperas, indigo, nitrate of lead, red and white lead dry or ground in oil, sugar of lead, manganese, sulphate of magnesia, bichromate of potash, chromate of 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 respectively the same rates of duty imposed on them under existing laws; and the following articles shall be exempt from duty, to wit: tea and coffee, all painting and statuary the production of American artists residing abroad, all articles imported for the use of the United States, and the following articles, when specifically imported by order, and for the use of any society incorporated or established for philosophical or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or by order and for the use of any college, academy, school or seminary of learning, in the United States, to wit, philosophical apparatus, instruments, books, maps, charts, statues, busts of marble, bronze, alabaster or plaster of Paris, casts, paintings, drawings, engravings, specimens of sculpture, cabinets of coins, gems, medals, and all other collections of antiquities, statuary, modelling, painting, drawing, etching, or engraving; and, also, all importations of specimens in natural 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, Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be aloes, ambergris, bole armenian, arrow root, annotto, anni- levied, collected, and paid on each and every non-enumerated seed, oil of anniseed, amber, assafoetida, ava root, alcornoque, article which bears a similitude either in material, quality, alba canella, bark of cork tree unmanufactured, burr stones texture, or the use to which it may be applied, to any enuunwrought, 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, bo- which is levied and charged on the enumerated article which racic acid, Burgundy pitch, berries used for dyeing, smaltz, it most resembles in any of the particulars before mentioned; lasting or prunella used in the manufacture of buttons and and if any non-enumerated article equally resembles two or shoes, vanilla beans, balsam tolu, gold and silver coins and more enumerated articles on which different rates of duty are bullion, clay unwrought, copper imported in any shape for now chargeable, there shall be levied, collected and paid on the use of the mint, copper in pigs, bars or plates, or plates such non-enumerated article the same rate of duty as is or sheets of which copper is the material of chief value, chargeable on the article which it resembles paying the highsuited to the sheathing of ships, old copper fit only to be re- est duty; and on all articles manufactured from two or more manufactured, lapis calaminaris, cochineal, chamomile flow-materials, the duty shall be assessed at the highest rates at ers, coriander seed, catsup, cantharides, castanas, chalk, co- which any of its component parts may be chargeable. Proculus indicus, colombo root, cummin seed, cascarilla, cream vided, That, if in virtue of this section, any duty exceeding of tartar, vegetables and nuts of all kinds used principally the rate of twenty per centum ad valorem shall be levied in dyeing and composing dyes, lac-dye, emery, epaulets and prior to the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fortywings of gold or silver, furs undressed of all kinds, flaxseed two, the same shall not in any wise affect the disposition of or linseed, flax unmanufactured, fustic, flints, ground flint the proceeds of the public lands, as provided for by an act grindstones, gamboge, raw hides, hemlock, henbane, horn passed at the present session of Congress: And provided plates for lanterns, ox and other horns, Harlem oil, hartshorn, further, That no duty higher than twenty per centum ad VOL. V.-93 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. valorem, in virtue of the said section, shall be levied and paid public revenue," and to provide for the punishment of em on any unmanufactured article. Drawbacks on sugars, rum and molasses, to be reduced in proportion to duties on them. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the drawbacks payable on exported refined sugars, manufactured from foreign sugars, and on exported rum, distilled from foreign molasses, shall be reduced in proportion to the reduction which shall have been made by law (after the passage of the acts of Congress of the twenty-first of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and twenty-ninth of May, eighteen hundred and thirty, allowing said drawbacks,) in the duties on the imported sugars or molasses, out of which the same shall have been manufactured or distilled, and in no case shall the drawback exɛced the amount of import duty paid on either of those articles. Duties on French and Austrian wines. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That prior to the second day of February next the wines of France shall not be subjected, under the provisions of this act, or any existing law, to the payment of higher rates of duty than the following, namely: on red wines in casks six cents a gallon; white wines in casks ten cents a gallon, and French wines of all sorts in bottles, twenty-two cents per gallon: Provided, That no higher duty shall be charged under this act, or any existing law, on the red wines of Austria, than are now, or may be by this act, levied upon the red wines of Spain, when the said wines are imported in casks. Duty on railroad iron. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An act to release from duty, iron prepared for, and actually Taid on railways or inclined planes," approved fourteenth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, be, and the same is hereby repealed; and there shall be laid, collected, and paid on such iron hereafter imported, a duty of twenty per centum ad valorem: Provided, That such repeal shall not operate, nor shall such duties be imposed upon railroad iron which shall be imported under the provisions of the said act prior to the third day of March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and laid down on any railroad or inclined plane, of which the construction has been already commenced, and which shall be necessary to complete the same. Exception for vessels beyond Capes Good Hope and Horn. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall apply to goods shipped in a vessel bound to any port in the United States, actually having left her last port of lading eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, or beyond Cape Horn, prior to the first day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-one. Passed at the 1st Session of the 27th Congress. An act making appropriations for the present session of Congress. An act authorizing a loan not exceeding the sum of twelve millions of dollars. An act for the relief of Mrs. Harrison, widow of the late President of the United States. An act making appropriation for the pay, subsistence, &c. of a home squadron. An act making further provision for the maintenance of pauper lunatics in the District of Columbia. An act to revive and continue in force for ten years an act entitled “ An act to incorporate the Mechanic Relief Society of Alexandria. An act to repeal the act entitled "An act to provide for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the bezzlers of public money, and for other purposes, An act to provide for the payment of Navy pensions. An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States. An act further to extend the time for locating Virginia military land warrants, and returning surveys thereon to the General Land Office. An act to authorize the recovery of fines and forfeitures incurred under the charter, laws, and ordinances of Georgetown, before justices of the peace, An act to revive and extend the charters of certain banks in the District of Columbia. An act in addition to an act entitled "An act to carry into effect a convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic." An act to amend the act entitled "An act to provide for taking the sixth census or enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States," approved March third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, and the acts amending the same. An act making an appropriation for the funeral expenses of William Henry Harrison, deceased, late President of the United States. An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights. An act making appropriations for various fortifications, for ordnance, and for preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities. An act to provide for placing Greenough's statue of Washington in the Rotunda of the Capitol, and for expenses therein mentioned. An act authorizing the transmission of letters and packets to and from Mrs. Harrison free of postage. An act to make appropriations for the Post Office Department. An act making an appropriation for the purchase of naval ordnance and ordnance stores, and for other purposes. An act making appropriations for outfits and salaries of diplomatic agents, and for other purposes. An act to provide for repairing the Potomac bridge. An act relating to duties and drawbacks. An act to repeal a part of the sixth section of the act entitled "An act to provide for the support of the Military Academy of the United States for the year 1838, and for other purposes," passed July 7, 1838. Joint Resolutions. A resolution relating to the light-boats now stationed at Sandy Hook and Bartlett's Reef. of the Digest of Patents. A resolution for the distribution of seven hundred copies A resolution to provide for the distribution of the printed returns of the sixth census. rotted hemp for the use of the United States Navy. A resolution in relation to the purchase of domestic water Joint resolution making it the duty of the Attorney General to examine into the titles of the lands or sites for the purpose of erecting thereon armories and other public works and buildings, and for other purposes. Bank Notes--Payment. Judge Este of the Superior Court in this city has decided at the late term of his Court yet in progress: "that the receipt of bank notes as money, is not a legal but a conventional arrangement: that the law is well settled that when bank notes are taken as money, or in payment of an antecedent debt, the risk of insolvency is upon the party from whom the bills or notes are received, even when both parties are alike ignorant in regard to the solvency of the bank whose notes are passed, unless there is an agreement that the party who received the notes takes them at his own risk." In case of such payment without special agreement, and the bank is found to have been insolvent when the notes were passed, the party may return them and recover on the original cause of action or for money had and received.-Cincinnati Gaz |