with which they are navigated, cannot be surpassed, if it can be equaled, on any waters in the world-ocean or inland. The storms and tempests on these lakes are as violent as on the Atlantic, and the danger of navigating them is known and acknowledged, by those who have tried both, to be equally as great, if not greater. superior character of the vessels employed upon them." Hence the The following is a rough estimate of the value of lake commerce: "The amount, as shown by the tables appended hereto, and what is done from the extensive mills at Black Rock, which joins this city, in 1815, by an estimate made by the Canal Board of this State, from a system long adopted, and from experience found to give very near the true amount, is $28,000,000; add the commerce to and from this city, which never reaches the canal, and it will increase the sum $5,000,000 more: which amount is farther to be increased by all the business delivered on and taken from the lakes by the various other canals and railroads named in this communication; and the very large amount of what may be termed intermediate commerce between different ports on the lakes, which I put with great confidence at an equal amount with that done through Buffalo. And to all this must be added the amount done on Lake Ontario, which I place at $15,000,000, and I arrive without the fear of being refuted at an amount of $81,000,000, without including one dollar of the immense sums of money carried over these lakes.' 99 Two hundred thousand persons are supposed, independently of crews, to have crossed the Upper Lakes in 1845, besides fifty thousand on Lake Ontario. From the conclusion of the paper, we extract this passage: "The commerce of these great lakes is of the highest importance to this Union, whether regarded in a commercial or national point of view. "Commercially, as binding together by the strong ligaments of mutual interest and benefits a very large number of the States, who are thereby enabled to exchange their varied commodities of trade, one with the other, and with all; while each revolving year adds a new and stronger link to, the bright chain of friendship and interest, which indissolubly connects them together. Nationally, as being an invaluable nursery and school for the creation of seamen, as well as furnishing the government with the cheapest, most prompt and efficient means of defense to an extended frontier. Only give the hardy navigators of these Northern and Western Lakes, channels of communication deep enough to swim their ships in, and harbors to protect them from tempests and storms, and government will always have at hand on this frontier, the ready means to repel insult and aggression, come when and from where it may." COMMERCE OF AMERICAN CITIES. 391 COMMERCE OF AMERICAN CITIES. THE Commercial year, which closed on the 1st of September last, was one of the most remarkable and prosperous in the history of our country. From Maine to Mexico, from the Atlantic to the remotest borders of western civilization, the same interminable progress, the same unexampled prosperity, is to be marked. We shall devote a few pages to the examination of these results. Let us begin with 1.-NEW ORLEANS. This extraordinary city, which it has pleased God, in all its fortunes and advances, to visit with the most fearful and desolating scourge in the summer through which we have but now passed, preserves its character. We have, over · and over, dwelt in our pages, from the first number of our Review to the present, upon its population, its wealth, its resources, its advances, its prospects, &c. The reader, by consulting all of these papers, will obtain a mass of information of incalculable importance, not only upon this mart, but upon all the South-west and West. We have been lavish in material here. At this time we can only give the results of the past year, in order to have the records complete to date, and not to consume our pages by publishing any matter over twice. The chart of the city's commerce, which we published in the December number, 1846, had but a small circulation, few copies only having been printed, and our circulation has doubled since then. It will be necessary, on this account, to draw upon some of the tables contained in it in order to be complete. They were furnished us through the courtesy of our neighbors of the PRICE CURRENT, the best publication of the kind in the world. ΤΟ OTHER EXPORTS OF NEW ORLEANS, TO SEPTEMBER 1. 1846-7. 1845-6. 1844-5. Whiskey, bbls. Corn, sucks. 63-77 77328 3480 219845 9167 339560 8210 107890 83834 88228 96307 76755 2379 155513 9053, 123917 1162 139678 122119 89164 13.96 5217 852 5357: 564 135189 4856 15324 250, 29783 3637 17167 1159 23:51 556 9962 7103 3253 19523 7720 1004 2674 5362 150 465 8180 38381 11033 11092 12-13 2943 1000 33005 43051 1092 1015 14100 467 149 1053037 40394 3053 293714 29096 13716 .... 729 39619] 446 11951 800 43812 11176 2828 133799 7094 13434 1005 743 2076 228 279931 28354 68441 4098 172186) 74502 56046 150 259523 75960 79617 647 3671 3638 17242 2175 1000 13165 46:201 8982 87953! 1100 1038 4490 8460 41869175534) 43959 5603 391 23737 43798 174086 260 211674 55891 520 8175 206 624 23163 2533 9332 5539 13315 190 89997 9056 50 39915 8961 126262 495 27912 874 88810 350 17455 21 600 81341! 1256 500 4122 43821 78 22495 67513 Total........ 1319506 2305201 25904 907977 51996 624258 63259 2520513 573191,272319) 21042 790904 | 58162718285 58181941589 279137|181409 12082468338 23969/707439 32360| 220295| In the above the exports to Mobile, &c., via the Pontchartrain railroad and new canal, are included. MONTHLY ARRIVALS OF SHIPS, BARQUES, BRIGS, SCHOONERS AND STEAMBOATS AT NEW ORLEANS, TO AUGUST 31. 27 70 104 14 105 163 55 13 25 114 17% 175 220 74 23 291 28 156 233 117 36 53 36 242 230 42 219 245 83 39 37 29 188 289 81 43 49 57 230 309 280 298 118 48 57 48 271 279 65 241 42 47 173 292 136 293 521 44 56 52 204 272 73 32 37 40 182. 275 49 244 281 69 25 40 38 172 270 34 194 242 204 262 88 229 168 55 120 22 821 29 176 151 23 8 51 151 10 181 117 18 a 10 11 42 99 16 29 16 161 23 60 25 82 46 22 30 32 130 236 105 28 47 98 198 57 16 16 7 9 47 124 53 10 27 15 165 145 124 35 30 35 224 185 67 41 491 195 66 28 54 35 156 285 47 30 77 70 24 246 75 50 95 8303 240 79 146 221 130 420 43 156 173 121 10 13 Erigs. 5282882898 Schooners. Total. TRADE AND COMMERCE OF NEW ORLEANS. 393 EXPORTS SUGAR AND MOLASSES, TO AUGUST 31, FROM NEW ORLEANS-RIVER TRADE NOT INCLUDED. Norfolk Richmond & Petersb'g, Va. 4,806.......... Apalachicola and Pensacola....... 1,415........ 473.... Other ports... Total ..11.653.... 695. 5,981.. 395. 802.... 2,842.15.861...... 33.068 2,418. 3,002....17,515 653.... 60 4,51221,804 2,421.... 58013,925 3,147.... 647.... 1,352.... 58.... 3.238.. 43.... 22.... 413. 156.... ... 3,783.... 1,038.... 371.... 76.... 511. .... 6,197 ...... 2,565... 540.... 286 50,113... 5,451... 4,053.42,20883,208...11,493.... 4,703....67,214 ·49, 142-6,794.9,875--34,322.-11,422.-217--1,882..15,744.31,549......7,285.-28.030 ··21,392--1,422-2,418--11,575. 8,478--697.. 354. 4,214--14.474-708--1,283. 9,091 4,4:26.. 95.. ... 5,610. 1,502.. 782.. 10. .... 2,686.. 483...... 6,062 ·12,564.. 480.. 547..10,943. 5,467 1,090..100.. 63. 3,986 1,254.. 240.. 1,610 576.. 106 475.. 55.. 5,492. 42. 1,001 2,814.. .... 976. 4,809 586. 5,231 8,660.-663..1,162 8,459 96.. 6,029 562.. .. 2,039.. 610. 28.. 947 .... 216 2.316 575 3,313 Richmond & Petersburg, Va.. 4,500.. 208.. Alexandria, D. C... 201.. .. 2,836 3,011..375.. 760 239.. 391.. 881.. 42. 22. 112.. 750.. 102.100 800.. 1,369 104,501-10,561-17,094 --94,415--34,395.1,544 -3,409.-42,962-66,044-2,280-12,366.-66,901 RECEIPTS PRODUCE AT NEW ORLEANS, 1847, AND VALUE. Receipts from Mobile and Florida are taken from New Orleans; from Charlesleston, those received from Savannah; from Mobile, the receipts from Florida. Exports from Georgetown, S. C., to N. Y., are added to Charleston receipts; exports from Darien, to Savannah receipts; exports from Mobile and Florida, to |