VALUE OF FOREIGN DRY GOODS WITHDRAWN FROM WAREHOUSE AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH. $4,139,589 $56,275,198 VALUE OF FOREIGN DRY GOODS ENTERED FOR WAREHOUSING AT THE PORT OF NEW YORK FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30TH. Total entered at the port $17,067,031 $14,388,565 $11,671,500 $9,982,557 Total entered at the port $364,965 $3,957,635 $4,183,740 $64,613,747 $57,221,062 This falling off in the imports has resulted, of course, in a corresponding decrease in the receipts for duties, amounting at the port of New York to a decline of $2,991,284 93 from the preceding year. We annex a comparison for three years, beginning each year on the first of July :- While the imports at the port, where more than three-fifths of the whole revenue is received, have thus declined, the exports have been without material change. The shipments of specie from New York to foreign ports have increased $10,650,972, and of foreign free goods, $389,825; while domestic produce, exclusive of specie, has fallen off $8,643,221, and foreign dutiable goods, $1,162,958; leaving a net increase over the preceding fiscal year of $1,233,825. The decline in the exports of domestic produce occurred previous to the 1st of January; for the last six months the shipments were $24,478,521, against $24,488,201 for the corresponding period of 1851, being a difference of only $10,000. We annex a monthly statement for the entire fiscal year, with a comparison of the totals for the last two years: EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK TO FOREIGN PORTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1852. Total .......... Do. 1850-51.. $38,853,757 $4,461,885 $871 687 $37,278,703 $81,461,032 47,496,978 5,624,843 482,655 26,622,731 80,227,207 We continue our monthly statement of the comparative exports of some of the leading articles of domestic produce from New York to foreign ports, from January 1st to July 17th, inclusive: 3,146 .bales 205,350 3,406 113 tes. 18,367 21,539 .lbs. 1,363.477 260,719 262,132 Tobacco-Crude.pkgs. 10.442 13,305 6,189 Man'd....lbs. 1,987,836 2,109,474 917,610 443,535 Hay. Hops.. It will be seen from the above that the exports of cereals, with the single exception of Indian corn, are considerably in advance of last year. There is a falling off in the shipments of oils of over three-quarters of a million of gallons, owing to the high prices occasioned by the disasters among our whale fisheries. In several items of provisions there is also a decline, although there is an in 17,897 Tallow.. 457 Whalebone....... crease in beef equal to 11,294 barrels, the tes. and bbls. in our statement being all reduced to the latter denomination. We cannot forbear, in conclusion, from warning the public against irresponsible associations of every description, which have sprung up all over the country, their success in imposture being almost guarantied by an easy money market, and the prevalence of a prosperous business. They swindle the emigrant and the immigrant; they sell "tickets" of passage to any part of the globe, and contract with parties here to bring their friends from abroad, in both cases defrauding their victims out of the whole or a good share of their money. They spring up in the merchandise line, and buy goods on credit that will never run out. They buy and sell land-warrants, locate grants, and collect pensions. They sell lottery tickets, pir.chbeck watches, and galvanized pencil cases. Some of them take the form of building associations, where, in imitation of a few (how few!) really useful institutions of this class, they profess the most generous designs, but pocket the money of the gullible. They are multifarious in their plans and professions, but they all agree in real purpose; their methods of operation are new, but their principles are ancient; their whole system is but pocketbook dropping, or thimble-rigging on an enlarged scale, with fresh apparatus. Akin to this class, if not of it, are some new banking associations professedly located in the District of Columbia. They may be controlled by honorable men, but they are based on a system as rotten and irresponsible as the veriest humbug by which honest men were ever cheared out of their money. To avoid these impositions the only safe policy in every department of business is to follow only the legitimate trade; to reject all flattering overtures or offered services, which promise golden returns for trifling investiments. There is no royal road to fortune; and if any offer, it is sure to be a decoy; those who wish to be on the top of the mountain, must needs bear the toil of the climbing. JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY, AND FINANCE. AVERAGE DIVIDENDS OF BOSTON BANKS. The following statement, for which we are indebted to Mr. Foxcroft, exhibits the annual average dividends paid by twenty-three Boston banks, during fifteen years ending with 1851: The above named are the only city banks that have been in operation throughout the last fifteen years. There were, in 1837, thirty-four banks in operation, but since then, eleven of them have closed up their affairs. Nine others have taken their places -there being now thirty-two banks established in Boston. 6 1-30 6 9-30 5 7-30 |