2.-TRADE OF CHARLESTON, S. C. Exports from Charleston, S. C., to Foreign Ports, for the year ending December 31, 1859. Imports into Charleston, S. C., for the year ending December 31, 1859. 1st quarter 1859, January, February and March,. 2d 66 2d 66 4th Exports for 1858 April, May and June,. July. August and September,.. October, November and December,. [Larger than 1859]. Imports for 1858.. [Smaller than 1859]. 3.--OUR TRADE WITH CUBA. $563,714 265,457 348,225 418,739 $1,596,135 $19,321,585 912,828 The following figures show the value of the trade between the United States and Cuba during the ten years, ending June 30, 1858: Our traffic with Cuba is composed chiefly of sugar, molasses, cigars and tobacco for imports, and oils, fish, provisions, breadstuffs, lumber, staves, iron, vegetables, and manufactures of wood, for exports. In 1857 we took of her six hundred millions pounds of sugar, at $33,200,000, and twenty-seven millions gallons molasses, at $6,800,000, and tobacco and cigars for $3,500,000 more, and we paid her about nine millions in produce and manufactures, five millions in foreign coin, and thirty millions in bills on England, which we afterward shipped domestic gold to meet. 4. THE FUR TRADE OF ST. LOUIS. The fur trade of St. Louis last year exceeded over half a million of dollars. More than three fifths of the sum is the product of buffalo robes, which are sold at an average of about $4 each, at first cost; 120,000 coon skins, 68 cents each; 37,000 mink skins, $1 60 each; 120,000 pounds deer skins, 224 cents per pound; 10,800 wolf skins, 90 cents; 34,500 opossum skins, 18 cents each; 1,100 otter skins, $2 85 each; 4,000 fox skins, 30 cents each; 5,500 muskrat skins, 28 cents each; 2,000 wildcat skins, 25 cents each-the whole making a total of $559,422 50. The St. Louis Democrat says in regard to the buffalo robes, that it is an interesting fact, and new to many, that all these buffalo robes are dressed by Indian squaws, scattered over the great West. The number of robes is decreasing annually, not so much by the lessening of the immense buffalo herds, as by the extinction of the Indian race, or the occupancy of their grounds by the whites. Some years as high as 120,000 robes were brought to St. Louis-usually about 110,000-but this year only 85,000, besides the buffalo calf skins, which are also quite numerous. 5.-COMMERCE OF BALTIMORE. We have on numerous occasions recommended Baltimore as a fitting and proper mait for the conduct of Southern trade, and are always glad to chronicle its prosperity, despite of the fact that the merchants of Baltimore neither subscribe to our REVIEW nor advertise in its pages. though solicited very frequently to do so as a means of understanding Southern opinion and reaching Southern customers. Even Boston has done more for the REVIEW in these respects than Baltimore, we are forced in candor to say. This, however, has nothing to do with our present purpose, which is to show from the recent Annual Report of the Prices Current in how prosperous condition is the commerce of Baltimore. The aggregate commerce of the city for the past year is estimated at $150,000,000. The greatest article is dry goods, estimated at thirty millions; the next, ready-made clothing, seven millions; sugar, seven millions; boots and shoes, three millions six hundred thousand; books, three millions; grain, seven millions; flour, five millions; leather, three millions. The foreign exports have fallen off about a million and a half, and the foreign imports increased about two millions and a half. The American, speaking of the trade generally, says, "though the year has not been with Baltimore, in common with other commercial centres, one of marked prosperity, yet the general result has been satisfactory." The Prices Current uses the following language, which properly appeals to the patriotism of the South: "We have been reading and hearing, for some years, that it was the desire and intention of Southern merchants to withdraw their patronage from the abolition cities of the North, to those having a common interest in the maintenance of the peculiar institution. As yet, we do not see that this principle has been carried out to any marked extent, and we should scarcely refer to it now but for the fact that since the outrage at Harper's Ferry, it has been avowed upon all hands as the determination of the South to practise a stern and uncompromising system of non-intercourse. The claims which Baltimore has always urged and sustained, wholly independent of such considerations, should secure her, we think, a larger share of Southern trade than she now commands; and if there be any practical meaning in these declarations, the results must soon be plainly manifest in a largely increased business with that section of our country. For domestic dry goods, for provisions, for manufactured tobacco, for groceries, liquors, flour, and other almost equally indispensable articles to the Southern merchant and planter, there is no market north of Baltimore—and we challenge a contradiction of these facts-that can offer greater advantages or better terms to purchasers; and if there be any minor obstacles in the way, these can be promptly removed upon a proper encouragement to trade. We call upon Southern merchants, therefore, if they mean what they say, to test the truth of our assertions. Number and Class of Foreign Vessels arrived at this Port the past Year, and compared with two previous years. A Comparative Table of the Principal Articles exported from the Port of Baltimore to Foreign Ports for the past three years. Foreign Imports and Exports at the Port of Baltimore, 1859. Imports of foreign merchandise, free goods, Total Imports.. dutiable,. .$5,479,532 4,929,461 $10.408.993 .$5,605,958 $8,522,251 $152,806 202,010 $8,724,261 Exports of Tobacco from the Port of Baltimore for the last thirteen years. Prices of Maryland, Ohio and Kentucky Tobacco on the 15th of January, and about the same day each alternate month, 1859. 6.-COMMERCE WITH THE PACIFIC. At the last session of Congress, Mr. Ward, of New-York, made a very able speech in advocacy of Government aid to the proposed Atrato Canal, intended to connect the waters of the Atlantic and the Pacific through the republic of New Granada. Our readers will recollect that we published, several years ago, an able paper in advocacy of this canal from the pen of F. M. Kelly, Esq., and we are glad, in addition, to extract some of the statistics of Mr. Ward's speech. The estimated cost of the canal is $73,687,141: Table showing the Trade of the United States that would pass through the Atrato Canal, if now finished, taken from the Official Returns of the year 1857. Table showing the Trade of England that would pass through the Atrato Canal if now finished, taken from the Official Returns for 1856. Table showing the Trade of France that would pass through the Atrato Canal, if now finished, taken from the Official Returns for the year 1857. |