DESTINATION OF SPECIFIED ARTICLES EXPORTED FROM THE PORT OF CINCINNATI DURING THE YEAR 1851-52, COMMENCING THE FIRST DAY OF SEPTEMBER, AND ENDING THE LAST OF AUGUST. hhds. & tcs. tons. bxs. & bbls .lbs. 4.434 3,162 93,132 33,220 4,547 8,206 4,560 7,281 .10,233 8,268 7,657 The Commerce of CHARLESTON, South 64,817 Carolina, for the year ending 31st Aug., 458,703 1852, shows: exports cotton to Liver1,958 pool, 15,635 bales Sea Island, and 179,650 Upland; total exports cotton to 64,189 Great Britain,-Upland, 191,585; to 8,305 France, 40,577 Upland, and 3,373 Sea 1,843 Island; to North of Europe, 16,240 Up197,868 land; to South of Europe, 22,025 Upland; total exports, Sea Island, 19,008 1,987 bales; Upland, 270,427-foreign. In ad22,501 dition, the exports to Boston were 19.901; 20,739 Rhode Island, 715; New-York, 144,045; 22,605 Philadelphia, 24,548; Baltimore, 10,336. 1,425 Total coastwise, 199,605, and 3,305 Sea 14,184 Island. Grand total exports, Sea Island. 3.203 32,313; Upland, 470,032. 247,400 10,333 16,532,884 11,384 Liquors. Merchandise and sund. ...pks ...kegs. 58,317 3.782 48,074 91,312 11,410 39,224 There were 12,889 tierces rice export- 5,930 377,037 4,562 10,836 167,002 The following steamboats were built at Cincinnati during the same period. The capacity of boats is said to exceed custom-house tonnage 100 per cent. : Registered tonnage.-Steamers Sydo- Commerce in New-York and Philadelphia-Canada. We have received from Job B. Tyson, Esq., of PHILADELPHIA, a series of letters addressed to Mr. Consul Peter, contrasting in eloquent language, and with a great array of facts, the commerce of that city with the commerce of New-York, and tracing out the probable future of both. We shall publish these letters in the Review. They show the population to have been Charges under estimate, 1850 66 Sinking fund Total 66 1852 185 8,770 1 4 125,972 14 5 73,000 0 0 £634,466 0 0 The following table shows the amount of duties collected at the chief lake towns in 1852 and 1851: Buffalo, N. Y. 1851-2. 1850-1. .$91,000 Oswego, N. Y. Philadelphia. Sandusky, O.. Cleveland, O.. Plattsburgh, O. Detroit, Mich. Niagara, N. Y. Ogdensburgh, N. Y. Cape Vincent, N. Y.. ..409,045 The following table shows the movements going on in GOLD in Great Britain: MOVEMENTS OF NEW GOLD IN GREAT BRITAIN. The total of the above for 1850-1, amounts to $376,000; for 1851-2, to CALIFORNIA. (Gold first imported 21st June, 1849.) $542,000; an increase of $162,000, or AUSTRALIA.—(Gold first imported in October, 1851.) 103 ports of entry, in which the total duties of 1850-51 amounted to $48,788,000; and in 1851-52, to $47,320,326; thus showing, that while there was a large falling off in the aggregate amount of duties collected, there was an enormous increase in the duties paid at the lake ports. The reader will find under the head of SOUTH AMERICA, in the "Industrial Resources," the early statistics and history of CHILI. The following table shows the exports and imports of the first six months in 1852, în duty-paid goods. Customs......... Excise 20,180 13 8 Territorial 19,961 5 10 Light-house duty, C. W. 937 6 10 Central America Ecuador. Bank impost 15,832 7 7 France Militia fines, &c.. 8 26 Fines, forfeitures and seizures. 1,364 0 0 Holland Casual .... 11,138 2 11 Mexico Law fee fund 4,052 12 2 New Grenada 795 The following are items of expenditure: Sardinia 36.995 8,497 Sweden and Norway 3,397 102,873 10,573 0 0 Permanent charges by legislative enactment, United Canada..... In the same period of 1851, the exports were 125,355 0 7 $6,126,546; imports, $6,542,795. ART. XIII.-DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY AND ENTERPRISE. TALIAFERRO P. SHAFFNER, ESQ., OF KENTUCKY, PRESIDENT NEW-ORLEANS AND ST. LOUIS TELEGRAPH COMPANY, ETC., ETC. With a Portrait. MR. SHAFFNER, though still a young man, scarcely thirty-one years of age, has performed an active and useful part in extending the character and influences of our great western country. His father was a native of Maryland, though from a stock which originally emigrated to Pennsylvania, and are known both in the Revolutionary and late war. His mother was a Virginian, of German origin. In 1835, being then in his thirteenth year, he accompanied a relative to St. Charles county, Missouri, and participated in the establishment of the town of Flint-hill, in that county, and was actively engaged in all the varieties of western forest life. In the store, driving the team, at the plow, with the axe, he toiled faithfully-enduring with patient and becoming fortitude the privations and wearying cares and labors of frontier life. In the spring of 1838 he repaired to Louisville, Kentucky, and obtained a situation in a small clothing store, at the very liberal salary of $10 per month. His monthly profits amounting to the extraordinary sum total of one dollar! Not depressed by this seemingly insufficient encouragement, he was constant in his attention to the interests of his employer, and had the satisfaction, soon afterwards, of finding his assiduity rewarded with a liberal increase of remuneration. Thus passed the first year in his new occupation; the beginning of the next found him engaged in an extensive fancy silk-house, at a liberal salary. During this period, from 1838 to 1840, he employed his nights (that others, similarly situated, gave to amusements and sometimes to more objectionable pleasures,) in constant and close study of the useful branches of education, thus making atonement for early disadvantages, and paving the way for future usefulness. Of a religious cast of thought, with a native instinct and dread of contact with vice, he avoided such evil company as youth is often prone to the allurements of the wine-cup, the race-course, and the card-table-finding agreeable companionship among those who were calculated to inspire elevated thoughts and teach the true paths of happiness here and hereafter. In the year 1840, Mr. Shaffner, having arrived at the age of eighteen, determined upon the study of the law. Permitting no idle time to elapse, he at once made the necessary arrangements, and entered the office of Samuel M. Semmes, Esq., of Cumberland, Maryland, an eminent jurist of that city. But he did not devote himself exclusively to Blackstone, Coke and Chitty. Under the especial instruction of the Principal of the Alleghany Academy, he applied himself to the perfection of those attainments which he had commenced under his own guidance, and which were to invest him with those advantages which were most essential aids in the development of his energetic character. By way of relieving the monotony of close and steadfast application, Mr. Shaffner, in time of vacation, undertook pedestrian tours to neighboring states, visiting all the institutions of learning and other institutions of interest in the states, north, south and east. In these excursions he rendered himself familiar with the history and character, the statistics and people of every important town or city in the middle, eastern, and southern states. His topographical knowledge alone, has to him been invaluable, and his impressions of the whole eastern and southern portion of this great republic are almost as thorough and perfect as if they were the result of laborious and scientific surveys. His motto seems to have been: What is worth understanding at all, is worth understanding well;" and consequently he has not been content with less than a thorough knowledge of all he has investigated. Returning to Louisville in May, 1843, he commenced the practice of his profession; having made an office connection with Hon. Charles T. Flusser, a gentleman of learning and ability, of the most fascinating and enlarged conversational and social qualities, but utterly disinclined to the drudgery and labor of professional duty. Taliaferro P. Shaffner, Esq., of Kentucky. The position of the young barrister was trying in the extreme. Without money, or connexions, which are more valuable than money, he found the means of success most difficult of attainment. Notwithstanding many difficulties, through the kind offices of Dr. Samuel Griffith, he was enabled to continue the practice of his profession; and, while he was perfecting his knowledge of the science of law, materially advanced his knowledge of its forms and practical ethics. 187 statistics and general useful information, which appeared in 1847.* His attention had become fixed upon that wonderful invention which conveys intelligence with the wings of lightning and outstrips the wind. Being at Baltimore during a considerable portion of 1844, he became interested in the progress of the line of electric telegraph then in course of construction by the government, between Washington and Baltimore, under the supervision of Professor Morse. He was comIn 1844, he was selected to act as editor pletely charmed by it, and at once applied of the leading publication of the Order of himself to its study, with the view of Odd Fellows, issued in Baltimore. Having ultimately embarking in that business. attained to the highest grade of office, and In 1847, Mr. Shaffner commenced active being one of the most prominent members efforts for the extension of the telegraph to in the United States, he brought to the the West and South, but particularly the magazine great influence and increased latter. Knowing the affinity between the patronage. His efforts were generally two interests, he devoted every energy to sustained by the popular opinion of the bring about that connection. After many members of that institution, and his decisions upon questions of the laws of the Order are referred to even at this day as authority, and many of them are blended in the codes of the states. Being also an eminent brother of the Masonic fraternity, and of the Order of Knights-Templar, etc., he was selected to edit one of the official organs of that institution, in 1845; and the productions of his pen, numerous, and elucidating various subjects, were received with peculiar favor wherever read. They were always distinguished by manifestations of mature judgment and a depth of thought, indicating the labor of mind rather than the pruriency of fancy, or the ephemeral flittings of the imagination. From 1842 to 1846 he was a liberal contributor to various literary publications, and during the greater part of the same period was an active correspondent of several of the leading papers of the day. efforts, embarrassed by legal difficulties, and retarded by disputed rights between the patentees and Mr. O'Reilly, Mr. Shaffner connected himself with the latter, and commenced the line from Louisville to NewOrleans, with the view of using the House system of telegraphing upon it. After considerable progress had been made, south as well as east of Louisville, Mr. Shaffner became convinced that the House system was wholly useless and impracticable at that time, particularly in a southern climate, and he accordingly abandoned the enterprise, and proceeded to negotiate with the patentees of the Morse telegraph, and ultimately succeeded in securing the right, in conjunction with William Tanner, Esq., of Frankfort, Ky. The first Morse section, connecting the East with the West and the South, was constructed by these gentlemen, alongside of a rival line built at the same time by O'Reilly, south of Louisville. After the completion of the first section About the year 1844, he was elected of the New-Orleans and Ohio line, Mr. ShaffSecretary of the Kentucky Historical ner proceeded to connect New-Orleans Society, and was continued in the office direct with St. Louis and the Great West, through several successive years. Whilst by a range through Nashville, Paducah and conducting the correspondence of the society, his reports, containing a vast variety of interesting and valuable matter, were read with uncommon interest. Abstracts were made from them and diffused through the publications of the country. In 1844, Mr. Shaffner was chosen Recording Secretary of the Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church South, of which church he has been an exemplary and worthy member for nearly twenty years. Among the latest of Mr. Shaffner's literary labors, with the exception of his fragment contributions to the annuals and magazines, was the Kentucky Register, a duodecimo of Cairo, which was completed in 1850. He associated with him, in this enterprise, Messrs. Thomas C. McAfee and Brother. Before the completion of this line, being a rival to O'Reilly, he took active steps to prevent that gentleman from extending his lines west of St. Louis. He associated with him Mr. Isaac M. Veitch, of St. Louis, a gentleman of great energy, and well suited for such an enterprise. Notwithstanding Mr. O'Reilly had a large force at work, erecting the line west of St. Louis, Mr. He had been appointed Commissioner for nearly all the states, and through his indefatigable legislatures for the better taking of depositions and exertions, laws were passed by several of the state acknowledgments of deeds. |