Years. 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 A table of Imports and Exports of the United States, from the year 1791 to 1847, inclusive; together with the excess of Imports or Exports for each year, and the nett revenue accruing from Imports during the same period. 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1803 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842 1843 1944 1845 1846 1847 Imports, $52,000,000 31,500,000 31,100,000 34,600,000 69,756,268 81,436,164 76,379,406 69,551,700 79.068,148 91,252,768 111,363,511 76,333,333 64.666,666 85 00,000 120,000,000 85,400,000 53,400,000 77,030,000 22,005,000 12,965,000 113,041,274 147,103,000 99,250,000 121,750,000 87,125,000 74,450,000 62,585,724 82,241,541 77,579,267 80,549,007 84,974,477 79,484,068 88,509,824 74,492,227 103,191,124 101,039,266 108,181,311 126,521,332 149,895,742 189,980,035 140,989,217 113,717,404 127,946,477 64,763,799 108,435,035 117,254,569 121,691,797 146,545,636 The commercial year of 1843 consisted of only nine months, and the fiscal year of only six months. This will account for the diminished imports and exports of that year. It is also worthy of remark, that the fiscal year of 1843 not only consisted of but six months, but of those six months in which the imports are generally the least; and hence the great falling off of the revenue. The facts above stated arose from the change of the commercial and fiscal year. The increased export of 1847 arises from the famine in Europe. A STATEMENT showing the quantity of Tobacco inspected in Virginia from 1838 to 1847, the quantity exported, and the foreign markets to which it was shipped; the stock left on the first of October of each year; likewise, the quan tity of stems shipped during the same period, and the foreign markets to which they were shipped. U. Kingdom. Cowes and a market. France. 5,268 7,395 3,747 4,098 605 1846.... 1847.... 12,321 13,350 12,228 16,562. 10,025 11,424 6,961 6,525 11,045 5,453 Antwerp. 1,828 1,817 1,019 1,698 Stems. .... .... .... 774 .... 1,170 2,463 1,064 2,785 2,818 5,400 1,075 .... .... 1,061 2,354 556 MARYLAND AND OHIO. Receipts. Hhds. 37,600 .... ..... Italy, Spain, etc. Total Shipped. Stems. .... 57 .... 136 1,621 .... .... 218 1,672 mun .... Stems. Tobacco. 512 136 ...... .... STATEMENT-Continued. 4,542 1,623 5,333 Bremen. Holland. Tobacco. Stems. Tobac. Stems. 616 1,908 319 128 236 2,317 1,236 876 919 1,158 3,828 1,177 1,504 3,843 2,497 2,013 4,573 2,294 7,637 3,013 5,168 Exported. Stock. Years. 1,422 1,055 844 34,029 1846.... 37,678 32,596 1847..... 1,543 6,975 1,935 3,810 2,622 1,842 2,458 2,092 5,407 627 Comparative Receipts, Exports to foreign ports, and stock of the Maryland and Ohio Tobacco Crop, and also the Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee crops, for the years 1846 and 1847, Years. 72,896 55,588 895. 321 689 560 222 81 Inspected. Stock. Tobacco. 12,397 44,845 8,719 11,100 45,886 14,363 22,050 42,679 19,060 51,726 18,127 KENTUCKY, ETC. Receipts. Exported. Stock. TRADE AND COMMERCE OF HAVANA. The following particulars of the commerce of Havana, for the first six months of 1847, as compared with the same time in 1846, is derived from " Diario de la Marina," of July 16th, 1847:— The number of vessels entered Havana, during the first six months of 1846, was 824. Of these, 316 were Spanish, and 508 foreign; during the same time, this year, the number was 1,085, of which 272 were Spanish, and 813 foreign. The number of vessels cleared the first six months of 1846, was 821, of which 307 were Spanish, and 514 foreign; same period, this year, 1,085, of which 267 were Spanish, and 828 foreign. Of this increase in foreign vessels, the American flag had the largest number, in consequence of the great importation this year of the productions of the United States. From the table giving a comparative statement of products registered for exportation from the port of Havana during the first six months of the last twelve Sugar, boxes, years, we take the articles of sugar, coffee, and tobacco, and compile the following table for only the last five years: Ports. Spain, 1843. 310,788 575,670 899,349 Baltic, Hamb. & Bremen, Belgium, Trieste & Venice, Other ports, 1844. 390,110 Sugar. 1845. 157,389 140,383 63,840 84,451 866,949. 572,662 Another table gives a comparative statement of the exportation from Havana to different ports, during the first six months of 1840 and 1847. the articles of sugar, coffee and tobacco: We take only Coffee. Arrobas. 1846. 1847. 1846. 1847. 1846. 1847. 1846. 1847. 74,969 50,466 21.598 23,087 4,654 17,652 474,314 144,402 52,960 110,532 36,633 68,323 23,483 15,044 407,152 163,191 465 1,298 11,103 12,511 104,172 16,625 48 2,836 630 1,804 6,933 2 1,356 5,801 766 2,369 57,911 83,303 62,489 ....... .... ...... 181 9,971 877,021 249,408 1,350 25,100 ...... 6,825 24,710 1,679 7,500 7,875 .... 2,162 6,690 Total...... 513,318 401,302 95,530 282,201 75,620 88,208 2,016,066 720,293 We give the substance of the Diario's article, which refers to the above exports: "From the first statement, it appears that, in the six months ending the 30th of June, sugar has increased 106,912 boxes over the same period, last year, and 36,763 boxes over that of 1844, which was the year of greatest production and exportation, thus proving that the crop ought to be abundant. The exportation of this product, as appears from the totals in the second statement, conforms with the entry, 87,984 boxes more having been shipped, than in the first six months of last year. In the distribution of the exports, we see that an excess over those of last year, of 57,572 boxes, has gone to the United States; of 55,542 to England; of 18,185 to the Baltic; of 9,613 to Holland; of 7,530 to Belgium; of 332 to Trieste and Venice; of 1,358 to various ports, The exports to Spain have fallen off 24,494 boxes; to Cowes, 20,814; to Hamburgh and Bremen, 11,368; to France, 2,536; and to Italy, 2,936. The diminution in the exports of sugars to the peninsula, is not to be wondered at, since the same thing is observable in the maratime movements of our national vessels, and the causes, of which we have before spoken, are known. The falling off at Cowes, is made up in the very considerable increase of direct shipments to England and the Baltic. Besides, the peculiar circumstances in which, until now, Europe has been placed, must have had an influence on trade in general, and we could not hope to be an exception, although, in truth, we cannot complain, since, fortunately, the United States, by the modification of the tariff, and on account of the diminution of the crop of Louisiana, have taken from us much, while we have 1846. 319,9601 101,025 80,602 2,003,450 .... 5,944 21,286 6 16 97,764 47,830 800 8,282 1,559 11,331 Tobacco. 1,278 19,981 360 1,588 2,620 1847. 426,873 294,166 94,048 754,503 Tobacco. imported more of their productions. Recurring, however, to the total exportation, we will add to those of Havana the sugars which have been shipped in the same six months from Matanzas and Trinidad. From Havana, the number of boxes was 401,302; from Matanzas, 269,325 7-8; from Trinidad, 34,534 1-2—in all, 705,162 3-8 boxes. Although we have the returns of only the first three months from Cienfuegos, we may yet add to the above, the 17,540 boxes shipped thence in that time, making the exportation, so far as we have information, to this time, already reach 722,702 boxes. "As with sugars, so with coffee exported hence; the increase of the latter over the first six months of last year, being 186,671 arrobas. Tobacco, in the leaf, appears to have had an extraordinary falling off in exportation-being no less than 1,295,773 pounds, while in the manufactured article there has been an in crease." COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES WITH CHINA. The annexed statements of the commerce of China with the United States, for the year ending June 30th, 1847, are derived from the "European Times" Imports into China, from the U. States, from July 1, 1846, to June 30, 1847. Brown drills, 3,300 Yarn, piculs, 2,943 Flour, barrels, 4,697 Cochineal, ceroons Shirtings, Exports of Tea fron China to the United States, for the seasons of 1846-7 and 1845-6. Congou and Sou chong, Pouchong, 1846-7. Pounds. Oolong, Pekoe, Hyson, 1845-6. Pounds. 372,736 685,695 120,398 173,350 754,243 2,796 Candles, boxes, 1846-7. Pounds. Twanky and Hy 3,146,126 3,064,160 son Skin, 905,566 Total* 18,886,287 18,502,092 Total Exports of Tea from Canton, for the seasons of 1846-7 and 1845-6, to the following countries: 800 18,903 229 70 10,527 260 33,433 1845-6. Pounds. 1846-7. Pounds. 1845-6. To Gt. Britain, 53,448,339 57,622,803 To Hanseatic [Towns, Holland, France, Including the Mary Ellen, lost in Gaspar Straits, cargo 716,110 pounds. 2,770,705 2,588,776 8,572,181 8,633,731 854,043 983,836 1,307,017 1,253,709 1846-7. 1845-6. Pounds. Pounds. 1,071,560 1,383,252 226,790 364,580 Pongees, pieces, Exports from China, to the United States, of silks and sundries, for the seasons of 1846-7, and 1845-6. Sarsnets, Senshaws, Camlets, Damasks, Levantines, Crapes, Shawls and Scarfs, Raw Silk, boxes, Nankeens, Grass Cloth, PROGRESS OF THE AMERICAN CHEESE TRADE. There is no product of the United States that has been so steadily gaining favor in foreign markets, for the last fifteen years, as the article of cheese; and desiring that the farmers of the west should participate in the advantages accruing from the increasing demand for this commodity, we wish to call their attention to the following statistics. We are not aware that there is any reason why cheese may not be made as profitable in the western States as in New York. It is true that the freight would be something more, but there are many advantages in the valley of the Mississippi, which are greatly in favor of the western stock grower. The first of these is the low price of land, and the great advantage, at present, of summer range. Cheese will bear transportation better than any agricultural article produced in this country, and carries with it less of the productive properties of the soil in proportion to its value. This is a branch of husbandry that requires little outlay of capital, and can be carried on as cheaply as any other, and we feel confident that if a few enterprizing individuals were to set the example, that Missouri and Illinois would in a few years not only rival, but advance far beyond, New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, in the production of cheese. We should be pleased to hear from some of our agricultural friends upon the subject of making cheese in the west; and we should like very much to see a comparative statement made between the profits of growing corn for market, at ten to fifteen cents per bushel, and cheese at the fair market price. Almost the entire amount received for cheese would be a clear gain to the country—for the greater part of the products which constitute the food of cattle, is of so little value, when compared to its bulk, that it will not bear transportation to a market, and much of the attention and labor connected with cheese-making, would not be otherwise employed. |
