Imports of Peruvian Guano at Baltimore for the for 1852. We are unable at present to 1849. 1850. 1851 1852.. last Four Years: 2,700 tons. give anything further than the range of Cents. IRON FURNACES OF MARYLAND.-The following table exhibits the names, number, location and capacity of the January...1st...21@....15th...21@22 February... 1st...21% @22 ..15th...23 @23 blast furnaces of the State of Maryland. March.....1st...23% @24 ....15th...22 @22 During the late depression and excessive April...... 1st..21@22 ...15th...22 @22 1st...21 @22 ....15th...21 imports, most of these furnaces have June .1st...21 @21%. ..15th...21 been idle, but prices having greatly im- July. .1st...21@22 August ....1st...22@23 proved, they are now about going into blast again: Capa'y per ann. 1.... Alleghany co.... 3,000 May.. September...1st..25 @ @22 @21%% ..15th...22 @23 ....15th...22@23 ...15th...25 @ October ...1st .:25 @ ....15th...25 @- West Indies.- Bble. 2.... 6,000 Lena.. 1.... 1,500 Antietam.. 1.... Washington co.. 2,500 Green Spring. Years. 1,000 Blue Ridge... Catoctin.. 1.... Frederick co. 3,000 1840.... 1,500 1841 Elba. 1....Howard co...... 1,500 1842 Muir Kirk 1.... A. Arundel co... 2,000 1843 Curtis' Creek. 1844 Patuxent 1845 1. 64 2,000 1846 Nasaongo 1.... Worcester co.... 1,500 1847 Ashland 2....Baltimore co.... Oregon.. 1849 Gunpowder. 1850 Harford 1....Harford co.. 1,500 1851 1,000 Sarah Havre de Grace.. Principio 1.... Cecil co.. 2,000 Maryland.. 1.... Baltimore city.. 2,500 Laurel.... Chesapeake Cedar Point.. Total..... 2,500 2,500 ...1,905 1841 5,000 4,184. 11...... 8,750....4,006 1842. Locust Grove...... .... .31....Pig iron......... Receipts of Lumber at Baltimore for the past Five .70,500 5,172. 114 10,885 536 Years: 1847 6,013 183. .18,240.. .4,236 1848.. 1849. 1849. 1850. 63,000,000 66 13,153.... 307. .12,619....2,653 Flour Inspections. exclusive of Bay Craft: Vessels arrived at Baltimore during the year 1851, Ohio Ships. Baiks. Brigs. November.. 6... 22.. 31.. Total, Sch'rs. Total. 1851. 36... 65... 139 Total 1852, 128.292 401...1,068... 1,889.1,633 66 1851, 103.214...346... 970...1,633... the following foreign vessels: Ships-Bremen, 33; NOTE. In the arrivals the past year are included Whisky-Manufactured Tobacco-Foreign Imports and Exports. 473 Tobacco Statement, showing the Quantity in the several Warehouses on the 1st of January, 1852. the Inspections by each house for the year ending December 31, Deliveries for the same period, and Stock on hand January 1, 1853: Total..... ...... Total. 2,708.... 4,082.... 3,654....17,699 8,396. 8,114.... 9,940....48,332 .13,594....66,031 .15,849....13,288....11,104....12,196. Deliveries for 1852.... .13,749....11,577.... 9,223.... 9,072....10,651....54,272 Stock, January 1, 1853.... 2,100.... 1,711.... 1,881.... 3,124.... 2,943....11,759 The following statement shows the manufacturers; the raw material gains stock in warehouses on the 1st January, additional value as the old crop, now 1852, and the quantity of each kind in nearly or quite consumed, goes into use, spected for the year ending December 31. and no likelihood of an abatement durHbd. ing the coming season need be appreStock in warehouses January 1, 1852.. 17,699 hended from the prices now quoted, Inspections from Jan, 1 to Dec. 31, 1852, viz: which are: Maryland.. Ohio.. Kentucky........... Pound lumps of excellent fine quality..from Cents. Tobacco Inspections at Baltimore for the last Twelve Years: 29,569 .17,720 837 30 to 40 46 Virginia.. 23 to 28 200 To which add, received from District of Best brands of 5's and 8's lump 17 to 22 541 Medium "Rotterdam.. "Amsterdam .11,473 5,067 44 France Virginia and 7,679 "England. Years. 2,847 "Trieste.. 830 1852. "St. Petersburg. "Hamburg. 618 1850. "Emden. "Africa... "West Indies. Other ports.. 1846. 253 Coastwise ports. 47,696 46,476 1841. MANUFACTURED TOBACCO.-The lead Maryland. Obio. other kinds. Total. 29,569....17,720....1,043....48.332 25,013....16,798.. 931....42,742 27,085....13,965. 783....41,833 30,689....13,664....1,248. .45,601 23,491 ... 9,702... 703....33,906 34,580...15,219.. 772... 50,571 29,354....13,465....4,877 29,980.... 7,692....1,479 ...39,151 ing features of the past year's business Exports of Tobacco from the Port of Baltimore for in this important article have been, much regularity of demand, as compared with the previous year, and a more uniform scale of prices, with little varia- 1850...15,864. 7.814.. 5,973..8,177..6,540..44,368 tion. The stock now on hand to go 184812,787 7,910 3,103.5,761 131.38,890 over to the next season is made up 1847. 22,967. 7,819..11,388.7,889 1,895.53,482 chiefly of desirable kinds of fine, good 1846 24,404 9,498. 6,181..8,165.3,037..49.491 and medium qualities, mostly of the 1845 26,832 18,171..10,944..7,183..2,880..66,010 manufacture of last summer and fall, 1843...16,990.. 6.525. 7,325..7,932. 3,822.42,594 with a small proportion comparatively of common and perishable descriptions. Agents and holders will therefore have it in their power to meet the early trade expected in the coming season, with, perhaps, a better supply than they have been enabled to offer within several years, and present advantages to new buyers, which it is conceded this market, 1844... from location alone, enjoys over those eastwardly. Prices are now settled 1846.. down to a point barely remunerative to 1847.... 1841...16,373.. 7,918.. 5,169..3,814..2,519..38,001 Value of Foreign Imports and Exports at the District of Baltimore for the past Thirteen Years: 1848. 1849 5,291,566.. 1850. 1851. 1852. 6,417,113.. 8,530,970 Imports. Exports. IMPORTATIONS. 5,245,894... 7,209,602 A Comparative Statement of the Imports at the 8,660,981 Port of Baltimore, commencing January, 1851 and 1852: 6,466,165 Articles. Total, 1859. Total, 1851. Coffee, Rio 7,549,766 Bark, Peruvian......ceroons.... 1,207 750 .bags. .224,082....266,240 Laguayra & P. Cabello 16,241. 21,081 Maracaibo 5.873 Other ports. Coastwise 3.885 Men. Cocoa.. 1.. 2. 196.. 8 Cocoanuts.. .No....M1,316... M739 311.. 15 Cotton, from 1.. 96.. 6 New-Orleans Charleston 13,000.. 12,500 Savannah 677 26 Other ports. 8,000.. 7,500 Copper pigs. 44 bars 1,775.... 2,808 Table of Inspections of Wheat and Rye Flour and Flour. ..tons.... 1,342 44 ....lasts ......moys.. 334 67.228 76,366 59,388 45 West Indies .bush.. 137,333... 97,626 46 355 2,653 322 2.542 773 3,597 bags.. .hhds. 11.345 8.310 13,153. 7,173 36. 271 450 3,432 2,819.... 6,596 Provision and Liquor Trade-Grocery Market-Dry Goods. 475 Among the articles of western product have reached the extraordinary total of of primary importance which cannot one million three hundred and seven but be affected both by the completion thousand barrels, a larger aggregate than of the Pittsburgh and Baltimore route, has ever before been attained. When and the opening of the Baltimore and the new flour trade is added which our Ohio Rail-road to Wheeling, is tobacco. rail-road communications must secure Baltimore has for years been a leading from the West, the probabilities are, that market for this commodity-the inspec- the aggregate just above named will tion of which has reached seventy soon be doubled, and that Baltimore will thousand hogsheads per annum-and take the first rank in this item of trade. although New-Orleans has heretofore exceeded this city in her annual aggregate receipts, there is every ground for the belief that Baltimore, through her rapid, cheap and certain lines of rail-road communication, will attract to herself a large portion of the tobacco of the West, which has heretofore descended the Mississippi, and she will thus be rendered de facto and permanently the tobacco market of the Union. The European capital concentrated here for the purchase and exportation of the article is ample, and will certainly expand with the demands created by the new accessions from the West. The provision trade of Baltimore must also receive a fresh and powerful impetus by reason of our newly completed rail-road communications to Wheeling and Pittsburgh. In this important and constantly increasing branch of trade, there is to be found displayed a degree of enterprise, intelligence and energy, which affords the gratifying assurance that its increase will be met with enlarged capital and all other facilities that the interests of buyer and seller may require. We are credibly informed that the value of the provision trade in this city alone, during the last year, was eight millions of dollars. The business of provision packing, in which Baltimore is at this time so largely in advance of the other seaboard cities, both in the extent of operations and reputation for excellence, is also likely to experience a great increase from our rail-road communications. In regard to position as a provision packing point, Baltimore possesses advantages not to be found elsewhere. At the season for the prosecution of this business, the temperature here is very nerally at the desired happy medium point, being neither too cold to prevent the thorough curing of the meat, nor too warm to cause it to spoil. Although we have no detailed actual data on the subject, we feel warranted in saying, that the foreign and domestic liquor trade is steadily on the increase-to be swelled materially, we have no doubt, by the domestic article which the West will send to this market, as well as by importations from abroad. Notwithstanding all the disadvantages under which Baltimore has heretofore labored in the absence of cheap and rapid communications with the West, her character as a leading grocery market has been successfully maintained; and now that her long indulged aspirations are realized, and the iron-roads from her harbor to the Ohio River are at length completed, the energy and enterprise of her merchants will take good care that their friends in the interior shall be supplied on even better terms than heretofore. During the year just closed, the coffee trade of Baltimore has comprised an aggregate import of 248,248 bags. We are enabled to state that coffee will shortly be carried to Cleveland from Baltimore, via Pittsburgh, in less than sixty hours, and at less than fifty cents per hundred pounds. Facilities of this character will enable Baltimore to maintain a successful competition with any and all of her sister cities, and insure her a fair share of the grocery trade of the lake country. In domestic dry goods, it is known that Baltimore has for many years past carried on a very heavy and successful trade with the West; a trade that has arisen from a very small beginning to a present enormous aggregate both in extent and value; and in this branch of business, too, we may confidently predict a still more rapid increase, under the influence of the new and important facilities of access created by our lines of communication with the West, the Northwest and Southwest. The importance of the flour market The business of the Baltimore market of Baltimore is shown in the fact that in the sale of European dry goods is the inspections of the year just closed growing steadily and healthfully, and any other city on tide-water, and at prices as low as can be furnished elsewhere. this department of our trade must now abundance-nearer to Baltimore than to experience a still more rapid expansion. A sure basis of calculation upon which this opinion is founded, exists in the fact that Baltimore will now possess all the elements of a large and regular export trade to Europe, the returns for which will, of course, be in such articles as will best suit the wants, comforts and luxuries of the Western and Southern states. Although this article has already been extended to a greater length than we contemplated at its commencement, we cannot forego allusion to the very superior pig iron made in the vicinity of Baltimore. It is unsurpassed for the purposes of car and engine wheels. The ore is found in great abundance, and The advantageous position of Balti- the manufacture of the iron can be inmore as a manufacturing locality has creased to any extent, inasmuch as long been understood. Its water-power, wood fuel is obtained in abundance for extent and availability, is not sur- from the shores of the Bay and its tribupassed; and superadded to these advan- taries, which is not the case in any of tages is the possession of a healthful and the cities east of Baltimore. Large genial climate. The development of the quantities of this iron are now carried Cumberland coal region, and the low to New-England, and there made into price at which its valuable mineral fuel car-wheels for the supply of the Newis furnished in Baltimore-excelling England rail-roads. Already Baltimore beyond question all other kinds of fuel is able to boast of the most extensive for the generation of steam-cannot fail establishments in the Union for the to give a new impetus to all departments manufacture of the rolling machinery of of domestic manufacturing industry. rail-roads. This assertion is proved by Through the instrumentality of the Bal- the fact that at this time Mr. Ross timore and Ohio Rail-road, the coal of Winans is finishing, complete for serAlleghany county is brought from the mines to Baltimore in the brief space of fifty hours or less, and furnished on the wharves or at the forge fires and steam engines of our workshops at the very low rate of $3.50 per ton. The arrangements recently concluded by the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-road Company for the large increase of its motive and transporting power, will bring to this city annually 600,000 tons of Cumberland coal, with the certainty of a steady prospective increase the demand for it having been always ahead of the supply. From the Susquehanna valley, we are certain, also, of large supplies of anthracite coals, both by railway and canal, embracing all the descriptions, and existing in the greatest vice, a locomotive engine every four days, or three engines every two weeksthe value of each engine being about ten thousand dollars. We may add that his preparations are so extensive that if required he can complete two engines per week. The first locomotive for burning mineral coal in the generation of steam was built in the shops of Mr. Winans. His engines, adapted to that kind of fuel, for burthen trains particularly, enjoy a higher reputation than any other in this country. His workingforce employed in this description of machinery alone, is, at the present time, seven hundred men. There are now building, and under contract, at the various establishments in this city, about two thousand burthen cars. ART. VIII.-RESOURCES, &c., OF PHILADELPHIA * MR. TYSON'S LETTERS TO THE LATE WM. PETER, BRITISH CONSUL.—NO. I. MY DEAR SIR:-Your official con- propellers-desirable as these are-but nection with our port has led you to of regular steamers, to London or Livertake some interest in its commerce, and pool, has not been established here, as a residence of ten years in Philadelphia in New-York and Boston. I propose to has enabled you to form a clear notion * We have been favored by the author, Job R. its wants and capacities. Among Tyson, LL.D., with a corrected copy of his admirar intelligent inquirers, you have ble letters, and shall give them in consecutive numasked, why a line, not merely of bers of the Review to our readers.-ED. REVIEW. |