LIST OF VESSELS ENGAGED IN THE WHALE FISHEEY. From the District of Sag Harbor, N. Y., which have not returned home dnring the past year, and are now at sea. Jannary 1, 1846. 1843. Sailed. Ships & Barks. Tons. Apr. 21, Citizen.... 7, Thames.. 20, Noble ..... Master. Destination. Owners and Agents. 464 David F. Lansing... N.Pacific.. Mulford & Sleight. 299 Samuel C. Leek.... N.Pacific.. Ezekiel Mulford. 414 James R. Bishop.... N.Pacific.. Thomas Brown. 274 Doyle Sweeney..... N.Pacific.. Ira B. Tuthill. 411 S. Woodr. Edwards. N.Pacific.. N. & G. Howell. 370 William A. Jones... N.Pacific.. William A. Jones. 367 Benjamin Glover... N.Pacific.. Thomas Brown. 340 Sylvester Miller. N.Pacific.. Post & Sherry. 424 Sylv. D. Cartwright. N.Pacific.. Charles T. Dering. 397 Thomas W. Roys... N.Pacific.. Post & Sherry. Nov. 8, Manhattan.... 440 Mercator Cooper... N.Pacific.. John Budd. Dec. 4, Fanny.... . . . . 391 H. H. Edwards.... N.Pacific.. N. & G. Howell. 21, France..... Sept. 16, Alexander.... Oct'r 4, William Tell.. 11, Crescent....... 18, Helen............. 30, Josephine... 1844. ... May 2, Silas Richards. 454 Richard Dering.... N.Pacific.. Mulford & Sleight. 13, Philip 1st..... 294 Joseph S. Case..... N.Pacific.. Ireland, Wells, Carpenter. 23, Panama. June 1, Portland....... 4, Niantic... 465 Thomas E. Crowell. N.Pacific.. N. & G. Howell. .... 5, Franklin....... 391 Edward Haley N.Pacific.. Huntting Cooper. 24, Sabina.......... 416 David P. VaiÏ...... N.Pacific.. Charles T. Dering. July 1, Timor. 289 Nathaniel Edwards. N.Pacific.. Huntting Cooper. 8, Hudson.. 29, Ontario 1st.... ... ... 368 Henry Nickerson, jr. N.Pacific.. L. D. Cook & H. Green. 22, Alciope....... 377 Jesse Halsey...... N.Pacific.. Post & Sherry. 29, St. Lawrence.. 523 Edward M. Baker... N.Pacific.. L. D. Cook & H. Green. 30, John Wells... 366 Jerem'h W. Hedges. N.Pacific.. Thomas Brown. Aug. 12, Thos. Dickason. 454 William Lowen.... N.Pacific.. Mulford & Sleight. 23, Acasta... 284 Daniel B. Harlow... N.Pacific.. John Budd. 368 James M. Green... N.Pacific.. S. & B. Huntting & Co. 260 Henry French S.Atlantic. Charles T. Dering. 280 William F. Fowler. N.Pacific.. Charles T. Dering. 31, Washington 2d 236 George W. Corwin.. N. Pacific.. Wiggins & Parsons. Sept. 4, Neva... 363 Nathaniel Case..... N.Pacific.. Ireland, Wells, Carpenter. 359 David R. Drake.... N.Pacific.. L. D. Cook & H. Green. 382 James M. Havens... N.Pacific.. Nathan N. Tiffany. 19, Noble 2d..... 273 William B. Howes. N.Pacific.. Charles T. Dering. 28, Wiscasset... 380 William H. Payne.. N.Pacific.. S. & B. Huntting & Co. 298 Frederick Weld.... N.Pacific.. David G. Floyd. 314 Samuel P. Briggs... N.Pacific.. L. D. Cook & H. Green. 470 David Hand....... N.Pacific.. Mulford & Sleight. 18, Martha... ..... ..... 19, Levant........ 309 Edwin P. Brown... N.Pacific.. Wiggins, Parsons & Cook. 14,974 tons, sailed in 1843 and 1844. WOOL TRADE OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. From small beginnings, the Rochester wool trade has risen to the most important in the State. An amount equal to one-eighth of the whole product of the State of New York is purchased and sent to the Eastern markets by dealers in the city of Rochester. They operate largely in Western New York, and extend their purchases, through agencies, to every part of Northern Ohio and Michigan. The "Rochester Democrat" has compiled below a table, showing the amount of wool shipped from Rochester during the navigation season, for three years. The table does not, of course, indicate the entire quantity shipped by Rochester dealers, because many of their largest purchases are made by agents, at the doors of the wool-growers, and shipped at other and more convenient points. It will be seen that there was a considerable falling off in the shipments of 1846. Several causes have contributed to this result. The main one, probably, is the increased attention paid to the purchase of wool at other points in Western New York. Formerly, the great bulk was purchased exclusively in Rochester; but lately the villages of Le Roy, Batavia, Attica, and Dansville, have become important wool markets; and when the price is low, as it was the past season, and the demand light, wool-growers prefer selling at the nearest market, not having sufficient inducements to seek a market at a distance. The low prices of 1846 may have induced some to hold over their stocks. On this point, however, there is considerable difference of opinion. We find in "Document No. 6," of the United States Treasury Department, a letter from Aaron Errickson, Esq., of Rochester, one of our oldest wool-dealers, who has, we believe, been engaged in the business ever since Rochester became a prominent wool market. From this, which was written at the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, we have made a few extracts in relation to the parchase of wool at this point. The following table will show the average prices of wool in the Rochester market, for a series of years. The average price of wool in Western New York was realized by the growers, for the last eleven years, as follows: 1835, average price 35 cents per pound. | 1841, average price 361 cents per pound. Although the manufacturers and dealers purchased the clip of 1839 at the average cost, as above stated, in the autumn of the same year wool declined to nearly the price of 1840. The average price of 1846 has been furnished us from the same source. By the extract below, it will be seen that Mr. Errickson last year tried the experiment of shipping wool to England-with what success, we leave him to tell in his own language:— "I have, the present season, shipped to England about 40,000 pounds of American fleece wool, grown in Western New York. This wool cost at the hand of the growers 33 cents per pound, and averaged in quality about the second grade of fine wool. The eight sample bags of these shipments (and they determine the value of the whole) have been sold in Leeds at a price which, by adding the difference in exchange, is equal to 40 cents per lb. To arrive at the relative value of wool in this country and England, it will be necessary to add to the American cost, for collecting, packing, and transporting to tide-water, or to the factories of New England, not less than two cents per pound; which, added to the price paid the growers, makes the home value 35 cents, leaving a difference against the British manufacturer of five cents per pound; and as, from the great expense of shipping to and selling wool in England, the present experiment will rather pay a loss than a profit, the difference must be still greater before successful exportations can take place." It is the opinion of many of our best-informed dealers that the shipment of wool to England cannot be attended with success until the quality of our surplus changes. The great difficulty is, that we have annually a large surplus of medium grade wools, for which there is no demand in England--their deficiency being mostly confined to the finer kinds. Until we produce a surplus of fine wools, we can probably never become extensive exporters. COMMERCIAL STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES. The following table exhibits the value of domestic exports of the United States, from 1821 to 1845, inclusive, embracing Cotton, Tobacco leaf, Rice, Flour, Pork, Lard, Beef, Cattle, Hides, Butter, Cheese, Skins and Furs, Fish, &c. &c., &c. DOMESTIC PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURE. Statement exhibiting the value of Domestic Produce and Manufacture, and of Bullion and Specie, exported from the United States, from 1821 to 1845, inclusive. VALUES OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES IMPORTED INTO THE U. STATES. The following table shows the value of Cottons, Woolens, Silks, Linens, manufac ares of Silks, manufactures of Hemp, Iron and Steel, Earthen, Stone, and China Ware, Specie and Bullion, &c., imported into the United States in each year, from 1821 to 1845 inclusive: |