Charleston Exports for 1852-New-York Taxation. 405 Statement of Exports of the Growth, Produce, and Manufacture of the United States from the District of Cotton. Uplands. Value in Russia.. 39.. 1,000,849.. 88,515 Prussia Sweden. 100 7,993. Holland 6,196. 944,556. 83,349 Belgium 40. 2,045,392. 177,850 England 17,358 .5,148,526. 85,430,489. 8,992,698 British West Indies.. 10,457 French European ports on the Atlantic. 5,342. 1,379,490 66 66 Mediterranean.. 3,515.. 537,925. 6,487,720. 753,914 Cuba.. Italy.. 20,348 Holland Buenos Ayres. Hanse Towns and ports of Germany. Denmark and Norway. Spanish European ports on the Mediterranean Spanish West Indies. United Provinces of La Plata.. Spanish European ports on the Atlantic. Africa.... Guatamalian ports on the Atlantic. Scotland.. Brazil.. Totals. .122,785,275..... $12,899,620 Whither Exported. tierces. Value in Quantity in bushels. Value in Total value to each country. Russia. 274... 6.217.... 94,771 Prussia. 2,904. 72,506.. 72,506 Sweden Holland. 92,879 Belgium. 2,604. 50,299.. 35,773.. England. 4,513. 80.230....138,115.. 915. 22.023. 113,707.... 111,726 250,212 9,230,386 British West Indies 683.. 13,296. 28.516 French European ports on the Atlantic. 2,442. 61,726.. 66 66 Mediterranean.. 1,043. 26,781... 784,210 Cuba. .17,480. 378,059.. 398.378 Italy. Buenos Ayres. 7,508 Hanse Towns and ports of Germany 238,757 Holland. Denmark and Norway. Spanish European ports on the Mediterranean.. Spanish West Indies United Province of La Plata Spanish European ports on the Atlantic. Africa. Guatamalian ports on the Atlantic 6.342 2,075 Scotland. Brazil.. Totals... The aggregate amount of imports in American and foreign vessels during the Year. year 1852, was: in American vessels, $1,285.716; in foreign vessels, $481,627 -total, $1,767,343. pro 1837. 1840.. 1843.. There were 9.426 barrels of naval stores, valued at $31.636, exported from Charleston in 1852, chiefly to England. Since 1835 taxation in New-York has 1844.. quadrupled, while the value of real perty has not increased thirty per cent., and the population has not quite doubled. And still, New-York prospers. The following statistical table shows the rate of taxation from the year 1835 to 1852: 1848. 1850. 1852.. Mr. Tuel of New-York lately publish- Alabama Steamship Company, Black ed in the New-York Journal of Com- Warrior, between New-York and New merce an article upon the steamships Orleans, Mobile and Havana, 1,900 3 of that city. From it we learn that the New-York and Savannah Steamship Cunard (British) line was established in Co., Florida, Alabama and Augusta, of 1838, and consists of Arabia, 2,500 tons; 1,300, and 1,350 tons respectively, 3,950; Asia, 2,200 Europa, 1,800; America, 2 New-York and Virginia Steamship 1,800; Persia, 3,100; Africa, 2,200; Ni- Company, the Roanoke and Jamestown, agara, 1,800; Canada, 1,800; Cambria, 1,050 respectively, 2,100; 3 United States 1,500; aggregate tonnage, 10,000. Mail Steamship Company, the Cherokee, Empire and Crescent City, 1,300, 2,000, and 1,500, respectively, 4,800; total number of ships employed, 17; aggregate of tonnage, 21,912. The New-York and Liverpool United States Mail Steamers.-This line was established by E. K. Collins, Esq., in 1850. The first of its ships, the Atlantic, sailed from New-York for Liverpool 27th April, 1850. The Arctic of this line has made the quickest passage of the Atlantic steamers from New-York to Liverpool, accomplishing it in 9 days and 17 hours. Atlantic, 3.000 tons; Pacific, 3,000; Baltic, 3,000; Arctic, 3,000; aggregate tonnage, 13,000. The Ocean Steam Navigation Company comprises the United States Mail Steamship line between New-York, Southampton and Bremen, and consists of the Washington of 1,700 tons; the Hermann, 1,700; aggregate tonnage, 3,300. This company was established in 1847. The New-York and Havre Steam Navigation Company consists of the United States Mail Steamers, the Franklin, of 2,209 tons; Humboldt, 2,200; aggregate tonnage, 4,400 tons. The Glasgow and New-York Steam ship Company is running its new steamship Glasgow, of 1,962 tons and four hundred horse power. The steamships employed on lines between New-York and the Southern cities of the United States are seventeen, belonging to the following companies: 4 steamers, Marion, Union, Southerner and Adger, of 12, 15, 10 and 1,500 tons, respectively, New-York and Charleston Steamship Company, 6,200; 2 propellers, Benj. Franklin and Wm. Penn (1,000 each) between New-York and New-Orleans, 2,000; 2 propellers, City of Norfolk and Richmond, between Charleston, Norfolk, Petersburgh and Richmond, of 444 and 518 tons respectively, 962; 1 N. Y. and The California lines consist of the steamers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, as follows: the Golden Gate, 2,500 tons; Tennessee, 1,300; Northerner, 1,200; Republic, 1,200; Oregon, 1,099; Panama, 1,087; California, 1,050; Columbia, 800; Carolina, 600; Columbus, 600; Isthmus, 600; Unicorn, 600; Fremont, 600; John L. Stephens, 1,500 ; total, 15,536 tons. The United States Mail Steamship Company, on the Atlantic side, connect with the Pacific Mail Company. Their steamers are: Georgia, 3,000 tons; Ohio, 3,000; Illinois, 2,500; Empire City, 2,000; Crescent City, 1,500; Cherokee, 1,300; Philadelphia, 1,200; El Dorado, 1,300; Falcon, 1,000; George Law, 2,800; Total, 19,600. Vanderbilt's Line, via Nicaragua, is composed of 10 ships: The Northern Light, 2,500 tons; Prometheus, 1,500; Pacific, 1,200; S. S. Lewis, 2,000; Morning Star, 2,500; Independence, 900; Pioneer, 2,500; Brother Jonathan, 2,100; Star of the West, 1,600; Daniel Webster, 1,200. Total, 18,000. The New-York and San Francisco Steamship Company is composed of the following steamers: the Winfield Scott, 2,100 tons; United States, 1,500; Cortez, 1,800; Uncle Sam, 2,000. Total, 7,400. The Empire City Line is composed of the following steamers: the Sierra Nevada, 1,800 tons; City of Pittsburgh, 2,000; San Francisco, 3,000. Total, 6,800. Contract for the Passage of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 407 ART. X.-INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS. TEHUANTEPEC RAIL-ROAD.-NEW-ORLEANS AND WESTERN-ROAD.-MEMPHIS AND HOLLY SPRINGS ROAD.-SOUTH CAROLINA RAIL-ROAD.-MACON AND WESTERN-ROAD.-PHILADELPHIA RAIL-ROADS TO THE WEST.-SOUTHERN RAIL-ROADS.-RUSK'S RAIL-ROAD BILL.TEXAS RAIL-ROADS, ETC. THE Mexican government, persisting in their denial of the validity of the Garay grant,upon which we had so much to say in our January number, have by a formal contract conceded the passage of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec to Mr. Sloo and others. We have seen a summary of the provisions of the new grant, and regard it of sufficient importance to be copied at length. ART. 1. Provides that the communication is to be by water as far as the Guatzacualco river is navigable. 2. A plank-road to be commenced from the head of navigation, within one year, and completed in three years. A rail-road to be commenced at the end of three years, and to be completed in the course of the four following years. 4. Company shall make docks, etc., at the ports of the termini, which are to be designated by the government of Mexico. 5. Government grants the lands necessary for plank-road and rail-road, and for buildings, etc.; owners of private property taken to be indemnified according to law. 6. The company may use public lands en route gratis, and also that of private individuals with indemnity, etc. 8. The company to have exclusive right of transit for passengers, freights, etc., at rates to be approved by government. Government to levy any contribution on the property, etc., of the enterprise, at any time, but it reserves the right to impose a duty not exceeding 12 cents per passenger and package transported by the company's route. 9. The company may import free of duty, all materials, etc., for the road, with the sanction of government; also such provisions, etc., for workmen as cannot be procured on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. 10. The company subjects to rules established by government; no sales of goods, etc., to be made on the route. 11. The government will open two ports at the termini of the road," it being understood that Ventosa shall be used only for the reception of passengers and merchandise by the company. The other port is Vera Cruz. 13. Government protection is assured to the company and its employés during the twenty years of its existence. 14. Guarantees payment by the company of $300,000 in silver at once, and $50,000 in monthly instalments until $600,000 is paid. 15. The company is to carry the Mexican mails without charge, and all goods for the Mexican government at one-fourth of the regular rates; all Mexican troops, officers and government agents to pass free. All moneys, ores and other products of the country to be transported at one-fourth less than the regular rates. 16. For fifty years the government is to receive 20 per cent. of the profits of the road. All privileges stated, are guaranteed during the twenty years to the company; but at the end of that time the road is to be turned over to the government, guaranteeing the delivery at the end of that time, by a deposit of 10 per cent. of the profits for the last ten years of the contract. 17. The company to build light-houses, etc., at designated points; and will ap propriate 211⁄2 per cent. of the net profits of this road to that object. 18. Inspectors to be appointed by both parties to overlook their interests along the road. 19. The company is to construct no forts, introduce no armed troops, shall not admit on the road any more persons than necessary to do their necessary work. The company to assist in preventing smuggling. 20. Foreigners employed by the company to have only the same rights as Mexican citizens. All questions to be decided by Mexican tribunals. 21. Transit free to all nations; but 25 per cent. to be added to the charge for transporting merchandise of other nations who have no treaty with Mexico. 22. Offices for the sale of bonds are to be opened in the City of Mexico and London, and for the first six months one third part of the shares are to be kept at the disposal of Mexican citizens. 23. Foreign mails may be carried over the road by the company; but always sealed, and passing through under proper inspection. 24. No sales of shares to be sold for lands appropriated for Indians, etc. scription to the capital stock of this company, which are made payable in periods of from one to five years: Private subscription. 44 St. Martin's.. 25. All the articles of the convocation of July, 1852, not conflicting with those City of New-Orleans.. stated above, are to be binding on the company. NAVIGATION ARTICLES.-1. The ex clusive privilege of navigating the Guatzacoalcos, is guaranteed; but Mexican vessels have a right of navigation for the supply of the inhabitants along the bank of the river. $759,835 00 75,000 00 33,400 00 103,775 00 115,625 00 250,000 00 156,600 00 1,500,000 00 $2,994,235 00 M. B. Hewson, whose report upon the Holly Springs location of the Memphis and Charleston Rail-road we lately noticed, uses the following language upon the practicability and utility of that route: "It may be safely assumed, therearising from the Holly Springs location fore, that the increase of way trade 3. The company is to supply a line of to be perfectly safe in the matter, let will reach $60,000-in order, however, steamers under the Mexican flag, to this increase be taken at $30,000. Now, transport merchandise from Vera Cruz to the Guatzacoalcos. 2. Government exempts from tonnageduty all the company's vessels. 4. All Mexican mails are to be car ried free of charge to all points at which the vessels of the company touch, and all goods belonging to the Mexican government at one-fourth part of the regular charge. All troops, agents of the government, etc., are to be free of transit: metals, products, etc., at 25 per cent. less than the regular rates. 5. Steamers on Pacific are to use the port of Acapulco as a depot for coal, and as soon as possible, they are to use the coal mined in the State of Guerero. From the Report of President Overton of the New-Orleans and Western Rail road Company we glean the following statistics: Receipts and Expenditures of the N. O. and Great Western Rail-road Company. On account of RECEIPTS. Stock instalments paid in .$136,420 00 Contributions for preliminary expenses 3,941 88 the through business estimated by its friends for the Memphis and Charleston road, would certainly pay the running expenses of the road, and here then, arising from the Holly Springs location, is at the very lowest calculation a net profit equivalent to $500,000 at 6 per cent. or to very nearly one per cent. on then the additional capital required for the whole estimated capital. Assuming the La Grange route, at the sum of $125,000, the additional business on the lent to an additional capital of half a other route bringing an income equivamillion, the Holly Springs route will yield to the stockholders 114 per cent. the La Grange. On the basis then of per annum, over and above the yield of the profitableness of the La Grange route, I beg leave to report to your Excellency, that the Holly Springs location of the Memphis and Charleston rail-road is decidedly "profitable." None of the interests involved in this $140,361 88 road will at all suffer by the Holly Springs location. Collierville, by being made the point of turn-out for the Somerville branch from the main trunk, will, in all probability, become a point of importance, commensurate with the business of that branch. The Somerville branch, by the withdrawal of the rivalry of the main stem on the La Grange location, will in virtue of the undivided trade of Hardeman and McNairy, become an excellent stock; and 9.258 04 2,056 50 79,205 43 $140,361 88 The following are the amounts of sub- while this accession of business will Statement of the South Carolina Rail-road Company. Passengers. Mail.. Freight. 409 Total. save all risks as to this short branch The earnings have been as follows on being abandoned for want of business this road: to sustain it, the town of Somerville will become an important agency point 1852... 91,938,72 13,272,77..164,374,26.269,585,75 for the Memphis merchants. Moscow, 1851...102,694,29..13,352,27.. 95.546,70..211.593,26 in virtue of its position at a bend in the main course of the Somerville branch will, by absorbing the business of the southern part of Fayette and Hardeman, and of the northern part of Marshall and Tippah, become the only distributing point for one of the richest planting districts along the whole length of the road. Nor will La Grange suffer by the Holly Springs location. town is situated on a hill above Wolf river, and inaccessible to a road running north and south. In the event of the Memphis and Charleston Road being located by way of La Grange, the Mississippi Central Rail-road, (an extension of the New-Orleans and Jackson road,) being pushed into Tennessee under its charter in that state, till it connect with the Mobile and Ohio Railroad at Jackson, in Madison county, will intersect the Memphis and Charleston Rail-road, some two miles east of La Grange, and as a consequence building up at the crossing the exchange point of that district, will bring utter ruin on La Grange. The superior advantages of the Holly Springs route to Memphis, are too plain to require com 10,755,57.. 79,50.. 68,827,56.. 57,992,49 Showing a decrease in passenger earnings of 10 per cent. and an increase of freight earnings of 72 per cent., with an aggregate increase of 274 per cent. over the business of 1851. This on the whole is a satisfactory result. though the decrease in the passenger This earnings is to be regretted, and was not fully anticipated. ment. In the increase of the freight earnings, the expectations of the board have been fully realized; and a confident belief is entertained, that the increase will be continued. The Commercial List," published in Philadelphia, in discussing the capacities. of that city to compete with all others, including New-York, for the trade of the great West, uses the following language: On the first of the present month the last link of rail-road connection between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh was completed. This vast enterprise, involving an expenditure, actual and prospective, of full fifteen millions of dollars, begun by merchants of this city in the face of every discouragement, passive and active, has so far been achieved, that during the light of a summer day we can pass from the eastern to the western metropolis of Pennsylvania. The Quaker, so long quietly plodding, and shunning collisions, has boldly stepped into the arena of modern trade, and thrown down the iron gauntlet. In the generous strife, he calls upon his western friends to stand by him, and show fair play; and he will fear neither Yankee nor Knickerbocker, even with Europe at their back. What are the grounds of this confidence? Let a few figures This shows an increase in the gross The following gentlemen have been elected officers of the Macon and Western Rail-road, Georgia: President, Isaac Scott; directors, Andrew Low, Edward Padelford, J. C. Levy, Charles Moran, Drake Mills, Adam Norrie, Ker Boyce, F. C. Matthiesson, N. C. Munroe, J. B. Ross, Jas. Thweatt, C. J. McDonald. The present line of rail-road from Phil-adelphia to Pittsburgh is 358 miles. which includes the portage over the mountains. Starting with this distance as a basis, let us see what are at this moment the relative distances from points on the southern lake shores and on the Ohio, to points on the sea-board. Other things being equal, the shortest of these routes will command the trade and |