UNITED STATES. The following de. tails will illustrate a few among the many aspects under which the produce, industry, and commerce of the United States of America present themselves to our natice.
In the year ending June 1850, the United States imported 247,951. tons of bar iron, 14,706 tons of hammered. iron, 10,101 tons of scrap iron, and 74,874 tons of pig iron. New York exported 4,814,574 dollars' worth of produce and commodities in that year, more than two fifths of which went to Liverpool alone. The cotton exported in the same year was 035,381,001 lbs., being far below the average of recent years.
The exports from the United States in the year ending June 1849 amounted in value to 145,755,820 dollars of which two thirds were in United States' vessels. The imports (pay ing duty) in the same period were 147,857,439 dollars; of which five-sixths were in United States' vessels. The domestic exports were thus made up:— Dollar 132,600,055 The remainder of the exports (about 13,000,000 dollars) were re-exported foreign commodities.
More than half of the entire exports of do mestic produce were sent to Great Britain.
In the next following year, that is, the year ending June 1850, the exports of domestic produce from the United States was136,946,012 dollars, of which Great Britain and its depen dencies took the enormous value of 81,687,051 dollars; considerably more than half of which was comprised in the single article of cotton.
The following table shows the progress of the population and wealth of New York:— rican and 0816 foreign. The tonnage of these
vessels was 4,361,002 tons. The total of the crews entered as belonging to those vessels was 195,871. From New York alone the number of ships cleared was no less than 2818, of 1,106,070 tons. In the first nine months of 1850, there were 19 steam ships and 18 sailing vessels launched at New York; and at the end of that period there were 19 other steamers and 12 other sailing vessels building. The numbers of passengers which have arrived at New York during the last ten years are as follow To show how the various states of the Ame rican Union stand related in respect to ship. building, we give the numbers for the year ending June 1850 :— 1,143,885 25,384 In June 1850 the length of the inland mail routes in the United States (not including Oregon and California) was 178,672 miles ; and the annual transport on those roads amounted to 46,541,423 miles. The number of post offices in the United States in that month was 18,417.
On January 1, 1851, the length of Railways in the United States amounted to nearly 9000 miles, and the cost to upwards of 60,000,000/. sterling. They were distributed among tho states in the following ratios :— In the year ending June 1850, the merchant ships which left ports of the United States amounted to 18,195, of which 8379 were Arne