[Some other articles, such as rosin, quercitron, and whalebone, were also received in small quantities, but the correspondent was unable to ascertain the precise extent.] Number of vessels arriving from the United States......... emigrants who embarked for the United States...... Price of passage, fare included, 23 dollars. 86 2,749 Average price of passage, provisions, &c., included, 25 rix dollars—about 19 dollars 50 cents United States currency. 12,630 Number under American flag, indirect 35 Price of passage, including provisions, 23 dollars 50 cents. Of the 624 bottoms employed in carrying the foregoing produce of the United States, 414 were American, 147 Hanseatic, twenty-seven French, twenty-two Swedish and Norwegian, eight English, five Hanoverian, four Belgian, four Dutch, two Prussian, and one Danish. The sales of tobacco at the five ports on the North Sea, amounted, in 1843, to 68,970 hogsheads; less by 13,015 hogsheads, than in 1842. Prices in 1842 ruled so low, compared with former years, that the trade overstocked itself. CHAPTER XXVIII. MISCELLANEOUS TABLES; COMPRISING A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE PRINCIPAL EXPORTS, AND OTHER STATEMENTS RELATIVE TO THE TRADE of THE UNITED STATES. THE subjoined table, compiled from the official reports of the treasury, for the last twenty-three years, shows the annual value of American produce of all kinds, exported from the country. Column 3 contains that of cotton alone; column 4 contains the aggregate value of all other kinds of flour, rice, tobacco, hemp; of beef, pork, lard, lumber; of the products of the sea and the forest, the field and the workshops. RECAPITULATION of the Value of Tobacco, Rice, Flour, Pork, Hogs, Lard, Beef, Cattle, Hides, &c., Exported from the United States annually, from 1821 to 1845, inclusive. 1821.. 1822... 1823.... 1824.. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. dollars. 698,323 190,287 766,205 973,591 1,512,808 2,752,631 10,478,059 1825... 1826 1827. 1828. 1829. 1837 1838. 844,534 221,041 6,282,872 1,820,985 4,962,373 1,291,322 739,461 192,778 4,855,566 1,882,982 5,759,176 1,489,051 707,299 204,205 6,115,623 1,925,245 4,212,127 1,832,679 930,465 247,787 5,347,208 1,917,445 4,121,466 1,892,429 733,430 207,765 6,816,146 2,343,908 4,434,881 1,555,698 772,636 184,049 987,447 1,697,170 5,536,651 5,480,707 2,620,696 4,283,669 1,495,830 719,961 176,354 626,235 1,066,663 1,821,906 5,548,354 5,185,370 2,514,370 5,000,023 1,493,629 674,955 176,205 526,507 1830.. 5,833,112 1,986,824 6,132,129 1,315,245 717,683 142,370 641,760 1831.. 4,892,388 2,016,267 10,461,728 1,501,644 829,982 264,796 750,938 1832... 5,999,769 2,152,361 4,974,121 1,928,196 774,087 290,820 1833... 5,755,968 2,774,418 5,642,602 2,151,588 955,076 258,452 1834...... 6,595,305 2,122,292 4,560,379 1,796,001; 755,219 190,099 1835... 8,250,577 2,210,331 4,394,777 1,776,732 638,761 164,809 759,953 1,008,534 3,323,057 7,694,073 1836. 10,058,640 2,548,750 3,572,599 1,383,344 699,166 114,033 653,662 5,795,647 2,309,279 2,987,269 1,299,796 585,146 96,176 651,908 7,392,029 1,721,819 3,603,299 1,312,346 528,231 148,191 636,945 1839.. 9,832,943 2,460,198 6,925,170 1,777,230, 371,646 127,550 732,087 1840. 9,883,957 1,942,076 10,143,615 1,894,894 623,373 210,749 1,237,789 1841... 12,576,703 2,010,107 7,759,646 2,621,537 904,918 504,815 993,262 1842.... 9,540,755 1,907,387 7,375,356 2,629,403 1,212,638 388,185 598,487 1843...... 4,650,799 1,625,626 3,763,073 2,120,020 1,092,949 508,968 1844...... 8,397,255 2,182,168 6,759,488 3,236,179 1,810,551 758,829 501,302 924,922 2,011,694 5,495,130 915,838 1,307,670 3,121,030 10,810,180 672,917 1,004,800 1,335,600 3,139,598) 6,372,987 661,455 1,136,704 1,724,586 4,841,383 524,692 1,078,773 1,717,571 5,729,797 582,473 441,690 7,014,522 8,797,055 4,663,795 8,014,880 8,243,473 1845. RECAPITULATION of the Export of Flour from the United States, for Eleven Years, distinguishing the Countries to which Exported. RECAPITULATION of the Exports of Wheat, Flour, Indian Corn, Indian and Rye Meal, Rye, Oats, Ship-Bread, and Potatoes. 318,719 488,161 923,151 1,897,501 1,450,293 1,254,415 787,790 1,359,415 5 37 5 37 60 4 95 4 50 32,884 593 632 4,082 12,080] 446 35,270 639 653 2,767 8,401 545 7,348 329 86 28 Quan Quantity. tity. bushels. dollars. barrels. bushels. dollars. barrels. dollars. barrels. dollars. dollars. 8,906 6,730 860,809 704,902 342,824 174,639 480,034 22,214 59,036 67,997 1829.. 4,007 6,372 837,385 897,656 | 478,862 173,775 495,673 34,191 127,004 74,896 1830.. 45,289 46,176 1,227,434 444,107 | 224,823 145,301 372,296 26,298 87,796 66,249 1831.. 408,910 523,270 1,806,529 571,312 396,617 207.604 595,434 19,100 71,881 132,717 250,533 1832.. 88,304 93,500 864,919 451,230 278,740 146,710 480,035 17,254 75,392 78,447 1833.. 32,221 29,592 955,768 487,174 337,505 146,678 534,309 36,038 140,017 102,568 1834.. 36,948 39,598 835,352 303,449 203,573 149,609 491,910 39,151 1835.. 47,762 51,405 779,396 755,781 588,276 166,782 629,389 30,854 1836.. 2,062 2,062 505,400 124,791 103,702 140,917 621,560 36,646 1837.. 17,303 27,206 318,719 151,276 147,982 159,435 763,652 28,323 1838.. 6,291 8,125 448,161 172,321 141,992 171,843 722,399 22,864 1839.. 96,325 144,191 923,151 162,306 141,095 165,672 658,421 29,458 1840..1,720,860 1,635,483 1,897,501 474,279 338,333 206,063 705,183 53,218 170,931 868,585 822.881 1,515,817 535,727 312,954 232,284 682,457 44,031 138,505 159,893 378,041 817,958 916,616 1,283,602 600,308 345,150 209,199 617,817 34,190 124,396 175,082 1843.. 311,685 264,109 814,474 672,608 281,749 174,354 454,166 21,770 65,631 108,640 1844.. 558,607 500,411 1,438,603 825,106 404,008 248,382 641,028 32,690 104,391 133,477 388,603 1841.. 1842.. 74,108 Estimated consumption of Indian corn meal in the West Indies, from the New Orleans Bulletin, 1845. "A general computation of the consumption of Indian corn meal throughout the islands of Antigua, Dominica, Granada, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Kitt's, St. Lucie, St. Vincent, Tobago, Guadaloupe, Martinique, Vergens, and Bahamas, with a population of 184,000 souls, is estimated for some years annually at 200,000 barrels: Barbadoes, 25,000 barrels; Trinidad, 10,000 barrels ; Demerara, 15,000 barrels; St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John's, 44,000 barrels; Porto Rico, 40,000 barrels; Jamaica, 30,000; making 364,000 barrels of corn meal annually." EXPORTS OF DOMESTIC PRODUCE FROM THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN. The following tabular statement exhibits the amount and value of the articles of domestic products, enumerated in the preceding tables, exported from the United States to Great Britain and Ireland, during the years 1828 to 1844 inclusive : During the third quarter of 1843, there was exported to Great Britain and Ireland 29,062 barrels of flour-value 136,963 dollars. TOTAL Value of Agricultural Produce Exported from the United States, during the Years 1828 to 1844 inclusive. PRICES of Cotton, Flour, Beef, Pork, and Wool, for ten successive Years, in the New Price of wheat, wages, &c., in New York currency, viz., eight shillings to a dollar, as settled at the Patroon's office on the 1st day of January, during the several years under-mentioned. The following is an approximate estimate of the annual amount of sales of articles of country produce in the city of New York, for the consumption of the inhabitants. COMPARATIVE Average Prices of Wheat per Bushel in the eastern Part of the State of Ohio, and in Philadelphia; also the Annual Average Prices of Flour per Barrel, in Philadelphia, from 1820 to 1841. Wheat per Bushel. Wheat per Bushel. YEARS. In Ohio. In Flour per Bar- YEARS. In Ohio. In Flour per Barrel in Philadelphia. dlrs. 1820 cts. 0 20 dlrs. cts. dlrs. cts. dlrs. cts. dlrs. cts. dlrs. 0 92 cts. 5 67 |