Hay, bales, Iron, pig, tons, Lard, hhds., Lard, barrels and tierces, 216031. Lard, kegs, 303661 Leather, bundles, 6316 Lime, western, barrels, 14920 Lead, pigs, 606966 Lead, bar, kegs and boxes, 787 Molasses, (estimated crop,) gallons, 12000000 Oats, barrels and sacks, 467219 Onions, barrels, 7960 2327 1199 5401 4 Oil, Linseed, barrels, Oil, Castor, barrels, Oil, Lard, barrels, Peach Brandy, barrels, Potatoes, barrels, Pork, barrels, Pork, hhds., Pork, in bulk, pounds, Skins, deer, packs, Shot, kegs, Soap, boxes, Staves, thousand, 52362 16750 344 32000 1585 2594 4393 706958 410 21584 47662 61934 701 459 Sugar, (estimated crop,) hhds., Spanish Moss, bales, Tallow, barrels, 151861 356480 14201 13564430 3492 3333 1361 22 5258 5580 2000 240000 3406 4357 Average. 影 3 00 4.00 3.00 60 2 50 25 00 9 00 5 00 19 00 1 25 2 75 30 00 60 00 17 00 3.00 20.00 1 00 2 80 16 00 16 75 2.00 20 00 25 00 20.00 .15 00 2 00 8 50 35 00 3 7. 00 7.00 20 00 15 00 18 00 2 50 40 00 40 00 4. 00 18 00 Value. 1192009 157086 67000 1032 192000 3962 64800 39537 3534790 650000 410096 59575 170317 21030 27540 3672527 910983 126320 14920 1699504 12292 1920000 350415 15920 46540 29975 108020 60 303782 3030080 497035 406932 24444 23331 21220 330 94644 13950 80000 9600000 13624 78426 Whither Exported. f Havre....... ................................... Rotterdam and Ghent 000..... Glasgow and Greenock.......... 27996...... 6270..... Ports. Amount. 47882 6390 118 2132 1199 135333 4260 149181 FLOUR, Barrels. 1847-48. Cotton-Bales. .........619817..... New York...... 80940 Total.....472519 Exports of Cotton and Tobacco, for the year commencing 1st September, 1847, and ending 31st May, 1848. ......... PORK, Barrels. Portsmouth..... Other coast wise ports..... Total..... 103885 104290 15920 31439 2328 18241 2134 45126 318363 Total value, Total in 1846-47, Total in 1845-46, Total in 1844-45, ..123856 8659..... 1831..... 304..... 8716..... ............................... ............................... 14170..... .................... 1566.... Boston..... 12328..... 5633.. .1201897.... BACON, Hhds. Average. 55 00 12 00 3 00 11 00 4.00. 7.00 791.. Gottenburg Spain and Gibraltar............. 32565.......... ............ .......................... 74.00 1 80 1847-48. Tobacco-Hhds. ..... 8706 .......... 10 08 000 1153 000 2201 3178................... 129 2625 100 000 75 LARD, Kegs. 10542 299871 5655 391690 5482 6028 59998 74947 9777 13203 4218 11865 918 132407 1346 413603 460541395496 5252 239 945 7692 617 3388 000 .......................................... 975 1619 1369 200 Export of Flour, Pork, Bacon, Lard, Beef, Lead, Whisky, and Corn, for the year ending 31st August, 1848. $79779151. 90033256 77193464 57199122 Value. 2633510 720000 76680 354 LEAD, 23450 4796 947331 17040 269659 5000000 000 228 000 60364 WHISKY 358989 9785 262233 268501 6967 687 144181 5364 12419 37977 562. CORN, Sacks 71020 6937 59007 59456 560630 1223861 Exports of Sugar and Molasses, for the year ending Aug. 31, 1848. 1847-8. MOLASSES. Whither Exported. New York........ Philadelphia........ Charleston, S. C.................................. 3355 Savannah 806 Providence and Bristol, R. I.. Boston.............................. Baltimore.......................................... ..................................... Norfolk...... Mobile.... September, October, November, December, 6888 230 5310 Apalachicola and Pensacola.. 1738 Other ports.******** 171 Total......... 89182 January, February, Hhds. ....36053 .....19808 March, April, May, June, July, August, 1847-8. SUGAR. 3674 ...11149 Bbls. 2600 1612 539 1846-7 .... 869 3258 861 .... 1604 426 273 11942 Comparative prices of Sugar, on the Levee, on the first of each month, for five years.* 5 @ 7 5 @ 7 3 @ 55@ 7 41@ 7 4 @ 7 6 @ 9 5 @ 7 5 @ 7} 21 @ 5 5 3 @ 7 } 7 1@ 4 5 @ 1845-6 6 @ 6 6 @ 7 5 @ 7 4 @ 6 4 @ 6 4 @ 6 6 51@ 74 @ 4 @ } @ Hhds.. 5747 117 .... 118 1043 1177 1522 .... 65 6 $ @ 6 @ 6 3 3. @ Bbls. 31225 10861 6660 2334 602 5067 12002 7121 112 9645 3984 1015 90638 5 @ 61 5 6 @ 7 5 @ 5 5 @ 6 1 * 3 @ 5$ 41 @ 64. 2 } @ 54 43@ 7 23@ 55 @ 7 5 @ 7 5 1843-4 + Cents. 5 @ 7 5 @ 7 4 @ 6 7 @ 6 5 @ 6 $ 4 @ 4 @ 6 4}@ 614362 4 @ 6§ 4 @ 7 5 7 4 a 6 *In our review of the Patent Office Report, see ante page 538, our estimates for the Sugar Crop of 1847 were taken from the "Picayune" of September 1st, 1848. We find, by comparing the tables in the "Picayune" with those of the "New Orleans Price Current," from which the present table is taken, that they are differently made up, though the results are about the same. In fairness to the Commissioner of Patents, we wish to say that the prices of 538 sugar for the last five years, have ranged higher than our remarks at page would seem to indicate. We find, however, that the average at New Orleans has not reached six cents per pound since 1843-4. We are still of opinion that our estimate for the sugar crop of 1847, is not too low.-[EDITORS. . HAVING arrived at the conclusion of the tenth number of the WESTERN JOURNAL, we trust that we shall be excused for adverting to our own affairs. To us, few things could be more embarrassing than canvassing for our own work; and hence we have waited until those confiding friends who generously came to our support at the commencement, should have time to judge of its merits. We are not so vain as to imagine that we have given satisfaction to all our readers, nor so egotistical as to suppose that we have done complete justice to the work. Yet we may be allowed to say that many of our patrons have kindly expressed their approbation of our labors, and are pleased to encourage us in the hope of being useful to the country. From such individuals we venture to claim something more than the money price of the work: we claim their influence in extending its circulation. If they are convinced of its utility, we hold it to be their duty to aid in extending its usefulness, and we respectfully invite them to discharge this duty by explaining the nature of the work, and soliciting subscriptions. We have still on hand a considerable number of the current volume-these we will dispose of for $2,50, and any individual sending us five dollars before the commencement of the next volume, will be entitled to the first and second volumes. After the close of the first volume, the work will be enlarged to 72 pages, printed with new type and on good book paper. With these improvements we cannot afford the second volume alone for less than three dollars. Our distant subscribers, who are in arrear for their subscription, will confer an important favor upon us if they will remit by mail, at their earliest convenience. TO AGENTS. We beg to call the attention of our agents to the foregoing address to our patrons, and desire that they should be guided by it in the discharge of their duty. We respectfully solicit their active exertions. C TO EDITORS.. Our friends in the interior with whom we exchange would greatly oblige us by publishing our terms during the remainder of the year. We cannot afford to pay for this service, and wish it to be understood that we do not claim it except from such as may believe that it will be the means of promoting the public good. 1) *** LARGE HEMP STALK. We have received from Capt. J. T. CLEVELAND a Hemp Stalk produced on his farm in Howard county, Missouri, which measures 81 inches in circumference. He informs us that it measured over nine inches when taken from the ground... We avail ourselves of this opportunity of noticing two typographical errors which occur in Capt C.'s communication on the growth of Hemp, in the August number. At page 441, line 30, for leave read have, and at page 444, line 32, fot land read hand. WESTERN JOURNAL. Volume I.] THE NOVEMBER, 1848. ART. I.-WHERE SHALL WE FIND A MARKET FOR OUR SURPLUS GRAIN: WHERE shall we find a market for our surplus grain? The individual who can answer this inquiry, and direct us where consumers and purchasers can be found, able to pay remunerating prices to the grower, will be quite as great a benefactor to the west-as he would be to mankind in general-could he teach them how to produce two blades of grass instead of one. According to the estimates made by the Commissioner of Patents, it appears that, after feeding both man and beast, and making liberal deductions for all other purposes, there will still remain of the crop of 1847, a surplus of 224,384,502 bushels of grain, for exportation, This aggregate is made up of the following articles: wheat, 40,581,750 bushels; Indian corn, 173,654,904 do.; rye, 5,296,913 do.; and buckwheat, 4,950,935 do.-amounting, in all, according to the prices at which these grains are valued by the Commissioner, to $124,078,522 55—a sum larger than the average annual exports of the entire country, including cotton, tobacco, rice, and manufactures of every description. The Commissioner of Patents, in his report for 1847, says: We have not been able to obtain the returns from other countries, (meaning other countries besides Great Britain,) for a series of years. But, from the best authorities which we have been able to consult, we have compiled the following table, exhibiting the quantity of wheat (exclusive of other grains,) required by the principal corn purchasing countries of the world: Total [Number XI. |
