EXPENSES OF MAINTAINING ROAD.

Buffalo and
Rochester.

Hudson
River.

New-York and
Erie.

Repairs of road-bed and railway, except cost of iron.... $29,087 45.. $59,512 98.. $188,351 29.

THE RAIL-ROADS OF NEW-YORK.

32 miles of the Buffalo Road has been sold for $322,000, which, deducted from cost of road and equipment, leaves that sum $2,415,014 29.

Northern Road add $70,000 for docks, $108,868 expenses; $507,185 losses.

And

Oswego
Syracuse.

Rochester
and
Syracuse.

$9,645 54.. $83,878 80.. $38,526 48..$43,120 05..$16,942 54..$10,695 24

Northern.
$39,458 80.

Syracuse
And
Utica.

Depreciation of way...

2,178 21..

Cost of iron used in repairs.

55,080 00..

5,412 52.. 3,948 44

Taxes on real estate.

12,080 34..

10,846 90..

43,233 01..

Rail-roads-Earnings, Cash Receipts, Payments, &c.

Comparative Statement of the Stocks and Prices of

Inferior

Ordinary

Middling

Good middling.

Upd's, N. Or's.

Fully fair........

........nom.....10...12

Fine....

Good fair...........nom..... 64

nom...nom

8.

.9..

.9%. .9%.
94.10%

.7% ..8 ..84.8% 834. .9/

Middling fair

Fair

Fully fair.

Good fair..
Fine....
Stock, bales

Inferior..

Ordinary

Middling

Sour, per bbl

.25,000

BREADSTUFFS.-Flour and grain, for

the greater part of the past year, 1852, nom....nom.....nom... 10% ruled low, and it was only with the com

Superfine, No. 2.

State, common brands.

State, stght brands

State, favorite brands

Western, mixed brands.

8

nom

.36,000

mencement of the past autumn that prices began to advance, closing, on the 31st December last, at higher figures -1852 than at the close of the preceding year. We annex the comparative quotations for flour in 1851 and 1852:

.8

8%....9% .9%...9%

Michigan and Indiana, stght, brands.
Michigan, fancy brands

Ohio, common to good brand

December 31, 1852.

$4 87% a $5 06
5.00 a 5 18%
5.50 a 5 56%
5 56 5 62%

5 62% a 5 75
5 62% a 5 68%
5.68% a 5 75
575 a 5 814
5 68% a 5 814
575 a 5 8114
575 a 5 934
5 81% a 6 00
6.00 a 6 37%
6.00 a 6 564

5 87% a 5 934
575 a -
575 a -
5275 a
562% a
5.561/4 a 5621/4
562 a

Northern, per bush...

The movements in grain have more or less kept pace with those of flour. The crops of wheat last year were larger and of better quality than usual. The supplies from Canada and the Southern states were large, and of good quality, while the great receipts of Western, with Genesee, &c., showed about the average of the previous year in quantity Two and four rowed, and quality. The crop of Indian corn, which is always large, was a full average one. Oats, rye, and barley, were also in fair supply. We annex tables of comparative prices:

River and Canal, per
West'n & Canada do..
New-Jersey do..

RICE. It will be perceived that the prices for this article have continued to be very uniform since 1846 and 47, 125 a 131 when there was such a large demand for export. In the summer of '47 fair quality sold at as high as 53-4 a 6 cents; the same quality has been sold this year at six cents on account of short supply and large demand for California. Rice was first introduced into this country

68 a 69

Stocks and Prices of

Cotton-Breadstuffs-Provisions, &c. 549

The first

in the year 1647. A half bushel was used
as seed, and planted in Virginia, which
yielded sixteen bushels, which result
encouraged future operations.
shipment was made to England in 1698,
which consisted of about 215 casks, and
since that period the export demand has
continued to increase, until now, when
we export almost two-thirds of our crop,
which amounts to about 225,000 tierces.
Carolina rice commanded the prize
medal last year at the great London ex-
hibition, and will continue to be in favor
-as it is the best-so long as it can be
afforded at a reasonable rate.
We pro-
ceed to annex tables of comparative
prices, with imports, exports, stocks, &c.:

In pickle, per barrel....$13 75......

LARD.

9a

BUTTER.

Prime Ohio, per lb.....

Orange County, per lb.. 21 a 23..

1852.

Irish

a

a 3

State..

14 a 18.

Ohio.............

11 a 14.

CHEESE.

Inferior and com....2% a 2%..2% a 3%..3% a 3%
.3% a 4%
Middling and fair....27% a 3%..3 a-
Good and prime .3% a 3%..3% a 3%..4% a 4%

6 25 a 637

19

a 22

8 a 9

.1,610 ..2.813

3,310 Exports.

29,385

.25,318

GROCERIES. The chief fluctuations in sugar, coffee, and molasses in prices, have, if anything, been in favor of the Casks. year 1851, compared with those of 1852. 26,823 These articles meet with an increasing 29,618 consumption every year, and their value, .26,321 like other articles, is regulated by sup26,105 ply and consumption, or demand. The 24,844 chief foreign supplies of sugar are derived from the West Indies, and principally from the island of Cuba; while the domestic production, both in Louisiana, Florida. and Texas, as well as in the maple forests of the North, has been largely augmented. The present consumption of cane-grown sugar in the United States is estimated to be equal to about 10,000 boxes per month, or 2,500 per week, equal to`about 500,000 tons per annum. Our limits do not permit our going more into detail. We annex the comparative prices of sugars for the periods indicated:

PROVISIONS.-Provisions have, within the past year, materially advanced. The stock of old pork was greatly reduced at the opening of the past season, or at the commencement of last autumn. A scarcity of hogs at the West, with an increased demand for pork in California and Australia, sent up prices. Thus, on the 31st December, 1851, mess pork sold at $14 50 a $14 75; while, on the 31st December, 1852, it brought $19 a $19 50, and in the same month sold at $20, to arrive. Our limits do not permit us to go into details regarding the pork trade at the West, including tables of supplies and consump- New Orleans... tion.

With the advance in pork other articles of provisions have generally sympathized, and have advanced with it. The movements of each are shown by the following comparative tables of prices:

Brazil..

Jan. '51.

Java, white, per lb.

Dec. '51.

Dec. '$2

....11

a 11%..

11

.13

a 14

12 a 13

8

a 944..

8% a 94.. 8 a 9%.. 8 a 9%

9 a 9

Cardenas, &c.......... 18 a 19

.3,300........4,000. . . . . . .

Maracaibo.
Costa Rica.

8% a 9%

8 a 94 9% a 10% 8 a 8%

St. Domingo (cash).... 7% a 8
Stocks, bags................... 89,316..........53,483
FISH.-The fishery excitement last
summer and autumn, had the effect of
interfering with the catch of mackerel,
which was smaller than usual, and thẻ
stock in this market on the 31st Decem-
ber, 1852, was not over one-fourth what
Hence prices have
it was in 1851.
ruled higher than previously, notwith-
standing the importations of foreign fish
have been much larger than usual. Dry
cod, on the contrary, which are taken
in our own waters, show a large increase
in stock over the same period in 1851.
The stocks of each may be stated as fol-

COFFEE. The movements in this Laguayra.. article of trade are quite interesting, but our room compels us to be brief. The annual increase in the consumption of coffee in the United States has been very great. In 1821, it amounted to 11,886,063 pounds, or 5,306 tons; and in 1835, a period of fourteen years, we find that it actually reached to the large quantity of 91,752,802 pounds, or to 40,961 tons. Prior to the revolution, St. Domingo produced the largest supply of coffee, which in 1792 reached 35,000 tons; and had not the island been sacrificed to the blacks, it was expected in another year to have reached 42,000 tons. Cuba, also, at one time produced considerable coffee; but it has, since its culture in Brazil, yielded to the cultivation of sugar. The growth of coffee in Brazil has been wonderfully augmented. In 1821, the quantity exported was only 7,200 tons, while in 1839-40 it reached 30,000 tons. The exports from Brazil, within the three or four past years, have been as follows:

Molasses-Coffee-Fish-Fruit-Iron-Wool-Ashes, &c. 551

FRUIT. The importations of foreign ing the past year there was a great fallfruit at this port are very large, includ- ing off in the crop, with a corresponding ing both dry and green. Our statistics decrease of imports to the United States, apply to the former. The chief im- and enhancement of prices. portations of raisins are derived from seen from the following tables: Malaga, in Spain. It appears that dur

IMPORTS OF MALAGA RAISINS INTO THE PORT OF NEW YORK.

This is

IRON.-There has been considerable ment in price, which tended to impart activity in iron during the past year, greater activity to our own manufacwith a material enhancement of prices tures. The demand for rail-road iron in both Scotch pig and rail-road bars. has become enormous, and some delay The many new uses to which iron is ap- is likely to occur in meeting the wants plied in building and to other purposes, of the vast number of roads either have greatly augmented the consump- building or projected in the United tion of the article. The duty being ad States. We annex a comparative statevalorem, has advanced with the advance- ment of prices: