UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. 609 A Comparative View of the Registered and Enrolled Tonnage of the United States; showing the Registered Tonnage employed in the Whale Fishery ; also, the Proportion of the Enrolled and Licensed Tonnage employed in the Coasting Trade, Cod Fishery, Mackerel Fishery, and Whale Fishery, from 1831 to 1845, inclusive. 1831.... 1832.... 1833.. 1834.... 1835.... 1836.... 1837... 1838.. 1839.. 140.. 620,451 92 647,394 32 1,267,846 29 82,315 79 539,723 74 60,977 81 686,989 77 752.460 39 1,439,450 21 72,868 84 649,627 40 54,027 70 750,126 72 856,123 22 1,606,149 94 101,158 17 744,198 60 62,720 70 857,438 42 901,468 67 1,758,907 14 108,060 14 783,618 65 56,403 70 885,821 60 939,118 49 1,824,940 14 97,640 00 792,301 20 72.374 18 897,774 51 984,323 14 1,8-2,102 65 144,680 50 873,023 22 63,307 37 810,447 29 1,086,238 40 1,896,685 69 127,241 81 956,980 60 80,551 89 822,501 86 1,173,047 891,995,639 80 119,629 891,041.105 18 70.064 00 34,244 54 1,262.234 27 2,096,478 81 131,845 25 1,153,551 80 72,258 68 899,764 76 1,280,999 35 2,180,764 16 136,926 641,176,694 4676,035 65 1841.... 945,803 42 1,184,940 90 2,130,744 37 157,405 171,107,067 88 66,551 84 1842.... 975,35 741,117,031 90 2,092,390 69 151,612 74 1,045,753 39 54,804 02 1843.... 1,009,305 01 1,149,297 92/2,158,601 93 152,374 86 1,076,155 59 61,224 25 1844.... 1,068,764 911,211,330 112,280,095 07 168,293 63 1,109,614 44 85,224 77 1845.... 1,095,172 44 1,321,829 57/2,417,002 06 190,695 65 1,190,898 27 69,825 66 Recapitulation of the Number and Class of Vessels built, and the Tonnage thereof, in each State and Territory of the United States, for the year ending the 30th of June, 1845. 610 UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. The Produce of the Fisheries of the United States, in 1840, is exhibited in the following Table. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Extract from the Agricultural Statistics, as returned by the Marshals under the 13th Section of the Act for taking the Sixth Census. UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. Massachusetts 143,021 540,295 158,923 Rhode Island 29,669 61,492 62,484 271,760 378,226 51,543 1,345 3,139 1,170 165 355,161 1,076,409 137,941 38,445 72 14,721,785 289,202 93 15,857 6,187 42,467,349 1,029,526| 840 50,715 5,990,473 49,254 115 1,302 52 18,680,663 Georgia 63,034 7,041 Florida 7,198 92,680 61.007 51,383 16,167 212,216 11,062 406,514 1,965 Iowa 10,801 37,449 15,354 104,891| 17,101 154,737 729 216,385 5,787 District Columbia 2,145 3,274 572 4,673 1,557 12,147 294 15,751 5,0811 272 39,385 707 28 44 15,642 61 13,161,231| 185,839 16,347 15,591,432 462,644] 489 46,890 611 UNITED STATES OF NORTH AMERICA. Statement showing the Number and Class of Vessels built in the several States and Territories of the United States from 1831 to 1845, inclusive. Total number of vessels built. Total tonnage. Tons. 122,987 22 711 1,065 85,962 68 144.539 16 1,188 161,626 36 937 1835.. 25 50 302 100 30 507 118,330 37 113,135 44 118,-93 71 124 87 322 342 163 1,038 146,018 00 *For nine months. 613 holding real property, was introduced into Congress, and, after long debates, carried through both the Senate and House of Representatives: the bill, however, failed to become a law by the interposition of the president's veto. -The president, having, in the mean time, been re-elected for a second term, in the beginning of the session 1832-33 invited Congress to make enquiry whether the public money deposited in the bank could be considered entirely safe in its keeping. A committee was, accordingly, appointed to make the enquiry suggested; and it made a voluminous report, concluding with a resolution "that the government deposits might 113,627 49 safely be continued in the Bank of the United States." But the president was far from being satisfied with this result. 872 118,399 23 Impressed with a belief, from a report made by the government directors of the institution, that its means had been em766 103,537 29 ployed to influence the elections, and for political purposes, he directed the Secretary of the Treasury to remove the deposits and place them in certain of the state banks. The secretary refused to take this step, and was dismissed from office. His successor complied (October 1st 1833), and at the next meeting of Congress, in December following, made to it a report, as required by law, of the proceeding, and of its motives. The Senate thereupon declared those motives to be wholly insufficient, and adopted a resolution, by a vote of 26 to 20, that the president, in directing a removal of the deposits, had assumed an authority "not conferred by the constitution and laws, but in derogation of both." The president, in his turn, sent to the Senate a protest, complaining that he had been condemned unheard, and that they had no constitutional right to pass censure on his conduct otherwise than in consequence of an impeachment of him by the House of Representatives; and the Bank of the United States continued to be deprived of the government deposits. It seemed now to be on the eve of extinction; when, by one of those sudden changes in the relative strength of political parties, to which all governments founded on a popular basis are incident, it succeeded in obtaining a new charter, but on very onerous conditions, from the legislature of Pennsylvania. To compensate for these, the temptation became the greater, on the part of those who were invested with the direction of its affairs, to incur imprudent risks, with the expectation, in the event of success, of making extraordinary profits. It sought in various ways to extend its After the statements which have been given of the commerce and principal products of the United States, we come naturally to speak of the money, by means of which those products have been exchanged. A succinct sketch, however, of the later monetary history of the country, together with an account of the actual condition of the American system, or systems, of banking, is all that will be attempted. In anticipation of an application to Congress, on the part of the Bank of the United States, for a renewal of its charter, General Jackson, in his first annual message, intimated that its constitutionality, as well as expediency, was very questionable, and suggested the establishment of another institution, founded on the security of the government and its revenues; and in his message of December 7th 1830, he again proposed a bank, which should be a branch of the treasury, without liberty to issue notes, make loans, or purchase property. The various interests involved in the fate of the Bank of the United States were of so much importance, that its recharter, very naturally, now assumed the character of a party question. The whole country, from one extremity to the other, was violently agitated concerning it; and the people were called upon, at the elections, to decide in favour of the bank or of General Jackson. At length, in the spring of 1832, a bill for the extension of its charter, with certain modifications in the power of issuing notes and |