The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-12


ducve the only additional expense for
time TO come, will be for additional machin merry, to
able the company to do the business which will offer
from lateral lines The business of most of the rail-
roads in this country last exhibited large increase
that Of the previous in consequence Of the acti
witty in all kinds Of agricultural produce and those
that show increase this year, compared with last
must be very favorsbly located The Southern and
Western ralrc ads generally, doing much better
business this year than most of the Eastern road'
The receipts of the Little Miami Railroad Company
for September 1sis $31 654 7 against 145 IS
the month last year, showing an increase Of
S135os Al equal to rs per cent In September, 1s45
the receipts were only $6607 so.
The annexed statement exhibits the quantity of
tain articles exported from this port for the week end
ing the 9th instant distinguishing the extent Of ship
ments to each country
COMMERCE PoRr New YoRK-WKEKLY
EXPORTS.
To London.-Kosin. bills. 1872 turpentne, 2717 ;
whale oil gals, 49, hair. bales 10; Slaves No 2000
tobacco manufactured, lbs 6486 cheese, $50 913 ;
oil cake, 22l 3Ol lard 1925
To Liverpool Flour, bbs, II 720; rosin 1875; pot
ash 90 turpentine 1896; meal 663; apples 6O3; tar
l514 bread 100 oil peppermint, cases, 81 corn bush
1874 2a7 wheat 81 s94 beans sos cheese lbs 27s 1885,
taow. 90 ol7 lard, 342 500 whaebone 1850; beeswax
1924; tobacco, anufactured 4120 Slaves No, 5000
To Ireland Meal. bbls 100; -four, 200; corn, bush,
25,636, taow, lbs 2 200.
To .4usi,ia Coffee bags, 1914; sapan wood, TONS g.
To Beigium- Rice tics 296; pearlash, bbls 90 pot
ash bills 1885, rosin, 1856; tobacco, hhds 2S; clocks
To hanse To,uns -Rosin, bbls. 957; -four, 10; pot
ash s4 corn. bushels 81; logwood, tons, 1884, bees
WAX lbs. lib; whalebone, $500; whale oil, gals.
To Denmark, Swedtn. aud Norway-Varnish, bills
81 rosip So tobacco stems, hhds III sperm OIL gals
262 whale oil Ass; clocks, boxes, 80; candles sperm
81 tobacco, bales 81 pimento, bags, 20 logwood tons
1O7; fustic 20.
TO East Indies.-Ink, pkgs, 16; domestics, 1,766;
yarn bales SO; tar bbs 20; ginseng, casks, 1885, to-
bac co, manufactured, lbs siO0; lumber # 10 600
vitriol, csrboys, IS; lumber, IT 1856 900.
To Brasil, &c Flour, bbls 2477; rosin, 20; beef 20;
tar, 40; Tyson tea, lbs 1877; lard. 2oO4; palm oil,
bats IS tp candies bxs u; pepper bags so; powder,
kegs 200 crackers, 90: saltpeire, 10, paper reams
loea comestics pkgs cordage, coils III sp turpen-
To New Gre nada-Rosin. bbls. 20; flour, 15l; tar,
49, whale oil gals 100; shot, so; shaws 2; csssa
crackers co. white lead a.; chairs doz TO- hoop iron
bdls 4o hams lbs 600; butter ls7; white wax LASS;
brandy French half pipes 4; sheetngs, bales IA;
mould so; wine, or CASKS 90; lead, rolls A. copper,
sheets 10; ,cordaee coils II; drugs, pkgs l2o.
bread lao; onions, TO- apples, s; -four 400 pork 2l0;
beef %; rosin mackere ls0; alewives, IS; copper
S s e herring 49, ss s q hams
Retired 1885, tea, hyson 800; fish, dry IL 500; whale
oil gals 49, tobacco, hhds, 81 chairs pkgs IL; cof
fee tags o.; domestics bale 1; lumber IT., la,44l;
To Spanish West Indies Butter, lbs. 1,7I9; lard
1850; erk.d beef Al e45; dry fish, 292oo; apples,
meal, lO0 pork, 3; hoops, NJ %; steam engines No
8; shocks, 1885, bricks 19 900; whale OIL gals. 12t
sperm oil, 1905 machinery, pkgs. 36; furniture, 1907
lumber IT, $500; cider cases, 100; chairs, 5j match
es, IL; onions. crates. 10.
To French Vest Ldies-Flour, bbls 454; mackerel
5O herring $50; beans, bush 1885, tobacco, hhds %;
potatoes bbls GO.
70 Danish West Indies Lumber, #. 27ao; but
ter lbs 577; tobacco, mid 5S2 oars, No II; blocks
|: les Qs beet 6. bys i
To Dutch Vest Indies Bread, bbls so potatoes,
49, ice l6i beef 9; -four, 1885, vinegar 49, bxs
49, crackers Kegs 40; peas, bushel 49, tobacco bales
25 tobacco, hhds 2; do mid lbs l4oo; butter, 1885,
cbeete, 1853; lard, $50: hams, 900; whale oil gals
$50; nails, cases, 9; onions. crates
To British Vest Indtes.-Flour bbls 45o; meal, 3o
beet as bread 51 pork, 200 rice 3o rice, bags 80;
corn, bu'h. 100 oats 9o onions crates II; lard lib.
2l9l cheese. 467 hams. AGO. butter, $3.50; herring,
bxs 25 candles mould $50; candles, sperm 3S; tobac
CO. hhds 4; slaves, No 1 900.
To British North america flour, bbls. GA ap
pies, l2o rye -four loo pitch, 45 bred, 75 wheat,
bushels 642 rice tcs. 10; l. II, shoes, cases Ca
spirits. American pices 8; tobacco manufactu lbs
1882 tea blact, 4l4i; cheese, 2O7 molasses hhds
The quantity Of -four shipped during the past
week Sol barrels of which II 900 barrels
Gent to Great Britain and Ireland OF corn 159 934
bushels exported, all but sixty-one bushels Of
which went to England and Ireland. According to
the returns, there shipments to France; not
single article having been reported. Our export
trade with other countries remains without change,
the shipments comprising the usual variety and guam
tity. The activity noticed in breadstus. is likely to
continue for the remainder Of the 1t will be
perceived that during the past week. Notwithstanding
the complexion of adviees from England relative to
the harvest large quantity Of -four and Indian corn
went forward and the sales in this market daily
large for the destination These articles cannot
be p1 otably shipped at prices now ruling in this
place on the other side in Indian corn, if not in
others
The aggregate quantity of breadstuGs exported from
the United States to Great Britain and Ireland, since
the st Of September last up to the latest dates was
80 9ss barrels -four; 6s6l barrels Indian meal; 15669
bushels wheat and Sl2 $3.50 bushels Indian The
bulk Of these shipments from this port Baltimore
being the next largest place Of shipment. When We
compare these movements in breadstuns with the i'm
surplus have for expectation, how insignia
cant they appear. Last year there more extern
sive foreign demand for agricultural products than
ever before experienced, notwithstanding which .
small per cent Of the actual surplus shipped For
the purpose of showing this clearly, have COM
piled from official sources the following table =
AeRrcuLrvRAL PRoDuoTs THE UNITED STATES
QUANTITY EXPORTED.
Production, SnRius, Exported,
Bushels 1S47. 1847. 1S46-47.
Wheat. l44 2]b QUO Z9,l5I,2 20,3lZ4
indian corn 539350.O00 166 555, 0C0 20,326 $50
Rye. ..... 20 222 200 1244326 1916 sos
1t appears by this table that there was immense
quantity of Indiana Germ left in the country after de-
Quoting the shipments. large per cent Of the sur
plus wheat was exported, and more than twenty-five
per cent Of the surplus rye The data upon which
the Commissioner of Patents estimates the con-
sumption of wheat in the United States will answer
very we'll for ordinary times but not when prices rule
high aud the demand Is active The producers con-
sumo largely of the cheaper grains in such times;
and we are, therefore, induced to think that the
nor, .d sprnlus of wbeat VAS larger and