DELAWARE AND RARITAN CANAL. Pennsylvania coals [Schuylkill and Lehigh] which passed through the Delaware and Raritan Canal to New York. 1846 1847 540,200 339,923 of which 134,667 tons were Lehigh coal. 405,533 66 66 769,602 Lehigh and Schuylkill coal. Schuylkill coal. 474,105 carried by Delaware and Raritan canal to New York. Number of Canal Boats which cleared from Bristol, on the Delaware Canal. Total number of clearances from the port of Philadelphia, in 1846, of coals of all descriptions, 8,953 vessels, averaging 120 tons, and containing 1,065,228 tons, in addition to that shipped in boats from the Lehigh. In the year 1847, the number of clearances of vessels laden with coal from Port Richmond, near Philadelphia was increased to 11,439. Rates of Commission as regards coal, adopted by the Philadelphia Board of Trade. Coal down the Susquehanna and the Tide Water Canal. DOMESTIC COMMERCE OF PHILADELPHIA. The following tables show the progressive increase, in periods of five years, of the enrolled and licensed tonnage, engaged in the trade of Philadelphia, and of the total registered, enrolled, and licensed tonnage of that port; which increase is, in great measure, attributable to the coal trade of Pennsylvania, within the last twenty years.† Philadelphia Commercial List, January 16th, 1847. Statistical Annals of the United States. Adam Seybert, M. D., Phila., 1818, and other authorities. There are a few unavoidable, but not very material, discrepancies in some of these returns, owing to the different sources from whence the data have been obtained. FOREIGN COMMERCE. As regards the foreign commerce of Philadelphia, our returns exhibit a great falling off, whilst that of New York and Boston has considerably augmented. The following abstract is sufficient to show the relative proportions of the foreign trade enjoyed by these three principal ports. Value of Exports, domestic and foreign, from the Custom-House returns, from the Ports of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Report of the Board of Trade. † Hunt's Magazine. New York Journal of Commerce. Foreign exports $91,000,000. Table of the Foreign Arrivals and Departures, and of the aggregate Value of the Exports and Imports. Value of the General Commerce, foreign and domestic.? Geography of Pennsylvania, Trego, p. 145. Commercial List and Philadelphia Prices Current. American Almanac, 1845-7. Hunt's Merchant's Magazine. Niles's Register. M'Culloch's Gazetteer. Emigrants' Directory, 1820. Commerce and Navigation of the United States, 1844. Custom-house returns.-Commercial List, 1854. Philadelphia North American. Hunt's Magazine. **De Bow's Review. tt New York Journal of Commerce estimates foreign exports and imports at $281,000,000. American Almanac. 22 Boston Post. New York Journal of Commerce. Table of Importations into the Port of Philadelphia.* In the subjoined statement we have shown the amount of tonnage, owned, registered, and enrolled, of three of the principal commercial ports of the United States, at stated periods, whereby the contemporaneous advance of their trade is made apparent-compiled from official returns. Ports. New York, 1810.† 1831. 1834. 1839. 1843. 1844. 1845. 1846. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. 268,548 286,438 359,222 430,000 496,965 525,162 625,875 655,695 149,121 138,174 212,536 203,615 201,323 210,885 227,994 241,520 125,258 79,968 85,520 96,862 104,340 114,894 147,812 148,058 Ports. 1847. 1848. 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. 1853. New York, Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. Tonn'ge. 646,043 733,077 796,491 835,867 931,193 1,149,133 450,492 313,192 342,936 188,087 206,497 222,428 229,443 252,451 For the more complete illustration of the relative commercial importance of these ports, we have added a table of their foreign arrivals and coastwise arrivals, respectively, during the years subsequent to 1810.§ The later years are from the Philadelphia Commercial List. Philadelphia North American, January, 1854. † Seybert's Statistical Annals, p. 308. Hunt's Magazine, and Report of Board of Trade for Philadelphia. Hazard's United States Register; Philadelphia Commercial List, and other sources Commerce of Boston, Hunt's Merchant's Magazine, Vol. X., 1844. It is becoming more and more difficult to obtain a correct exhibit of the coastwise commerce for the different ports. From this view, it is seen that in the greatest increase in the number of foreign arrivals, Boston stands the first, while New York is the second; and on that of coastwise arrivals, if we include the coal trade, Philadelphia considerably outnumbers those of the two other ports. The apparent diminution in the coastwise arrivals at Philadelphia, from 1843 to 1846, is owing to the omission of all the small craft which it had been customary to include. So great are the discrepancies among these statements, that it is impossible to know which to select. There seems no rule observed, by which the actual state can be known through the returns, which can be increased or diminished at pleasure, according to the number of the smaller vessels incorporated therein. As far as the port of Philadelphia is concerned, the annual returns in the table are exclusive of all ships, barques, brigs, and schooners, *Commercial List, January 16th 1847. † Commerce of Philadelphia.-Custom-house returns. Including steamers, 580. Report of the Philadelphia Board of Trade and Commercial List, 1854. We annex the coastwise arrivals during the year 1853, from the Philadelphia Board of Trade. Ships, 96; barques, 109; brigs, 529; schrs, 6,325; sloops, 3,709; steamers, 1,136; barges, 6,525; boats, 11,098; total, 29,456. New York Journal of Commerce. |