COTTON. IMPORTS INTO NEW ORLEANS FROM THE INTERIOR-continued. (La. & Mi.....bales 967679 Hay, Lake,..... .bales 15202 Iron, Pig,-. .hhds 2478 ..bales 53434 Pork... Arkansas,.... bales 85430 Lard... .... tcs. & bbls 125496 Packing yarn......reels Mobile,. Texas, 406 2093 998 2704 .hbds 141046 ...bbls 11213 157689 Skins, deer... -packs ... bales 15606 Lime......western bbls ....do 14546 Lead, bar. .......kegs 1138 Sugar.. ..boxes 53936 Lead, white.......kegs 1368 Soap.. ..bbls 300 Molasses.. bbls 233923 Shingles .kegs ..boxes 5308 bbls 850000 Oats....... bbls and sks 463273 Staves ........... Dried Peaches,.....bbls Dried Apples,.....bbls Candles,.... Cider,. Coal, western,.. Flaxseed,.. ..bbls ....bbls 40000 .7319000 .bbls 1307 758 Tobacco, lead.....hhds 89675 4291 Tobacco, chew.....kegs 4779 14114 Tobacco ..........bales 162 468 Oil, linseed. 381 Twine.........bundles 2341 ...bbls 146359 Whisky Window glass......bxs 19251 ..boxes 303 Wheat,....bbls.& sacks 64918 VALUE OF PRODUCE OF THE INTERIOR. A Table, showing the receipts of the principal articles from the interior, during the year ending 31st August, 1852, with their estimated average and total value. 1200-94915 .Hhds. 18831 Total exports for 12 months.. -18,225.. 134..130..26,703 Stock on hand 1st Sept., 1852. Providence and Bris 6,489.. 946.. 93. 6,384 3,524..1,685.. 9,519 729.. 99..-. 2,873 ..319.. 143 38....11,081 Petersburg Alexandria, D.C.......... 1,156.. - Mobile... 2,127 ..16,187 7,207 5,151 Apal. & Pensacola.... 1,399.. Other ports.. Years Arrivals Exports Stocks Arr'ls Exp'ts Stocks 9758 89675 93715 18831 MONTHLY ARRIVALS OF SHIPS, BARKS, BRIGS, Salt, Liverpool.... .bags 12525 10367 10627 ..bags 353616 274690 225013 .....boxes 25673 29293 18843 ....sacks 580106 420838 468932 Three-cent pieces....120,000.... Total coinage. .2,163,000. Salt, Turks Island, &c...bush. 235952 419685 583183 Last year..........5,625,000.. NEW-ORLEANS MORTALITY, 1851-52. $6,605,600 10,044,500 From September 1st, 1851, to August 28, inclusive, 1852.-From Dr. Axson's New-Orleans Medical Journal. 3,600 1,488,000... 235,600 NORTH CAROLINA.-INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, REVENUES, ETC.--From the valuable work of Mr. Williams, upon North Carolina, lately issued from the press of Lippencott & Co., we extract the following: In 1825, a Board of Internal Improvements was established, and the funds arising from the sales of Cherokee lands and dividends from stock owned by the State in the Bank of Cape Fear, set apart as the fund. (See Revised Statutes, p. 347.) Present Internal Improvement Board --CALVIN GRAVES, of Caswell; THOMAS BRAGG, of Northamp ton. 1. The Dismal Swamp Canal, uniting the waters of Pasquotank and Elizabeth rivers in Virginia, was incorporated in 1790. 2. Cape Fear Navigation Company, incorporated in 1796, to improve the navigation of the Cape Fear River, from Averysborough to the confluence of the Deep and Haw Rivers, the sum of $100,000, to be subscribed in shares of one hundred dollars each; the state subscribed six hundred and fifty shares of stock. 3. Roanoke Navigation Company, incorporated in 1812, improving the navigation from Halifax to the Virginia line. The state owns $50,000 in the stock of this company. cost of about $1,600,000. The state indorsed the bonds of this road in 1838, to the amount of $500,000; and in 1840, $300,000; for which she is liable, and has already in part paid; the road being mortgaged to save the state harmless, has been sold under the mortgage, and has been purchased by the state. George W. Mordecai, President. 2. The Raleigh and Wilmington Rail-road, from the Roanoke River to Wilmington, was incorporated in 1833. The company was organized in March, 1836. This work was commenced in October, 1836, and finished in March, 1840, at a cost of $1,500,000. Six hundred thousand were subscribed in the stock by the state; and by act of 1840, the state indorsed the bonds of this company for $300,000, a part of which she has paid. The repairs of the road in 1850 increased the cost to another million. Gen. McRae, President. 3. The North Carolina Rail-road, from the Wilmington and Raleigh Rail-road, in Wayne county, to Charlotte, was incorporated in 1848, in which, on $1,000,000 being subscribed by individual subscribers, $2,000,000 is to be subscribed by the state. This road is now in progress. Hon. J. M. Moorehead, President. 1. Buncombe Turnpike, from the Saluda Gap by way of Asheville to the Tennessee line, was incor4. The Clubfoot and Harlow Creek Canal was in-porated in 1824; capital stock to be $30,000, in shares corporated in 1826; in which the state holds thirty shares. 5. The Cape Fear and Deep Navigation Company was incorporated in 1849, in which the state subscribed $40,000. 6. Neuse River Navigation Company, incorporated in 1850. State subscribes $40,000. 1. The Raleigh and Gaston Rail-road, from Raleigh to Gaston, on Roanoke River, was incorporated in 1835. This road was finished July 4th, 1839, at a of fifty dollars each; the state owns one hundred shares. The company was organized in 1826; the first toll-gate was erected in October, 1827. 2. The Fayetteville and Western Plank-road, from Fayetteville to Salisbury, was incorporated in 1848. Stock, $200,000, in shares of fifty dollars each. State subscribes one-fifth. 3. The Turnpike Road from Salisbury west to the Georgia line, was incorporated in 1848, and the lands in the state, in Cherokee, Macon and Haywood, as well as the Cherokee bonds, are pledged to make the same. The Public Treasury of North Carolina is divided into I. Public Fund. II. Literary Fund. The public fund is supplied I. From taxes collected by the sheriffs annually from the people, and paid into the treasury, which is levied on land and town property, poll, (white and black), money at interest, dividends and profits, stores, carriages, watches, and other property, bank tax, attorneys' licenses, dividends of Buncombe Turnpike Company, and some other sources, which amounted last year to $179,768. The literary fund is supplied- II. The sales of vacant and swampy lands in the state, taxes on taverns, dividends on stock held by the state in the Bank of the State and Bank of Cape Fear, dividends on the stock held by the state in the Roanoke Navigation Company, and in the Cape Fear Navigation Company, tax on auctioneers, interest on bonds held by the board, which amounted last year to $112,316. THE ANNUAL EXPENSES OF THE STATE. From the public fund for judiciary, about $30,000 00 Legislature. 45,000 00 10,000 00 Executive Principal and interest on bonds of Raleigh and Gaston Rail-road indorsed by the state. 70,000 00 And other demands, which amounted last year (1850) to. The expenses paid from literary fund are, for common schools.. 228,173 00 Daily Tri-weekly Weekly Monthly be chargeable with postage at one cent an ounce for all distances under three thousand miles, and two cents an ounce for all distances over three thousand miles. to which fifty per cent. shall be added in all cases where the same may be sent without being pre-paid. and all printed matter chargeable by weight shall be weighed when dry. Quarterly rates of postage when paid in advance, on Newspapers and Periodicals sent from the office of publication to actual subscribers, from and after the 30th of September, 1852. Weekly newspapers (one copy only) sent to actual subscribers within the county where printed and published..... Newspapers and periodicals not exceeding 14 oz. in weight, when circulated in the state where published.. Newspapers and periodi cals of the weight of 3 oz. and under, sent to any part of the United States 451...191.... 6)....11 Over 3 and not over 4 oz... 91...39 ....13 ....3 Over 4 and not over 5 oz. $1.36...58). .19....44 Over 5 and not over 6 oz...182 ...78;....26 ....6 Over 6 and not over 7 oz...2.27...97....324....7 Over 7 and not over 8 oz..273 ..1·17 ....39 ....9 DIRECTIONS. free 221... 9.... 3j.... 1st. When the weight of any publication exceeds 107,339 00 eight ounces, the same progressive rate of postage, laid down in the above table, must be charged. 2d. Publishers of newspapers and periodicals $500,000 00 may send to each other from their respective offices of publication, free of postage, one copy of each publication; and may also send to each actual subscriber, inclosed in their publications, bills and receipts for the same free of postage. 106,000 00 200,000 00 120,000 00 65,000 00 80,000 00 ..2,000,000 00 State bonds for Neuse and Tar rivers... State bonds for Cape Fear and Deep rivers. State bonds for North road.... Carolina Rail $3,071,000 00 POSTAGE LAW OF 1852.-This law is a liberal advance upon the previous one. Small newspapers and periodicals, published monthly or oftener, and pamphlets not containing more than sixteen octavo pages each. when sent in single packages, weighing at least eight ounces, to one address, and pre-paid by affixing postage stamps thereto, shall be charged only half of a cent. for each ounce, or fraction of an ounce, notwithstanding the postage calculated on each separate article of such package would exceed that amount. That books, bound or unbound. not weighing over four pounds, shall be deemed mailable matter, and shall 3d. Postmasters are not entitled to receive newspapers free of postage under their franking privilege. 4th. If the publisher of any newspaper or periodical, after being three months previously notified that his publication is not taken out of the office to which it is sent for delivery, continues to forward such publication in the mail, the postmaster to whose office such publication is sent, will dispose of the same for the postage, unless the publisher shall pay it; and whenever any printed matter of any description, received during one quarter of the fiscal year, shall have remained in the office without being called for during the whole of any succeeding quarter, the postmaster of such office will sell the same, and credit the proceeds of such sale in his quarterly accounts in the usual manner. 5th. Quarterly payments in advance may be made either at the mailing office or the office of delivery. When made at the mailing office, satisfactory evidence of such payment must be exhibited to the postmaster at the office of delivery. RAIL-ROAD AND CANAL STATISTICS. Table of the Comparative Cost of Construction of Twenty-eight Rail-roads in the United States. |