The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-02-11

This is a striking picture Of our progress.
The Revenue, of Pennsylvania for the year
| ending November 80, 1885, was 81 43S, 13l ST. and
there is an available balance in the Treasury of
$754,252 81.
in the United States in lS45, was sl9, 100 tons,
valued at S33,95O, 500.
New Bedford Oil Trade.-The Whaleman's
Shipping List gives the total value of sperm oil
entered in the New Bedford distfic. in the year
1885, at 81 1856 143 of whale oil, 81 46O sos of
bone, S5Ol ,O0S. The total value of whale fishing
$3,S46,759 The number of vessels entered from
foreign ports l40, of which all but nine were
American; 50 of these were employed in the whale
fishery, and 80 in the foreign trade. The amount
OF duties received merchandise imported during
the year was Sl6,503 13.
Baltimore.-This city has made remarkable pro-
gress during the last ten years. Its population has
advanced eighty per cent, viz: from 100000 to
ieo,ooo Its public works and buildings have also
lncreased anu ior two years past the new houses
erected within its precincts-l900 per year-actu-
York.
This rapid growth may be traced to a variety of
causes. First to the fertility of the soil around it,
which furnishes cheap and abundant supply of
The necessaries of life. Second. to the cheapness
OF building materials, superior clay being found on
the spot, and abundance of timber and fuel in It's
Immediate vicinity. A vast supply of lumber is
amp furnished by the Susquehanna river Third,
to the admirable position of the city as distribu,
ing mart. Situate at the head Of the Chesapeake,
1t not only controls the trade of m shores but being
the point on the seaboard nearest to the Ohio, ii
has always commanded great western commerce,
which has of late expanded with the progress of
lis public works. Fourth, the recent growth of
Baltimore may be traced in part to its public i'm.
provements. The chief of these is the Baltimore
Ohio Railway, now finished to Cumberland which
10 1852, will be carried through the Aleghanies TO
Wheeling, and reduce the journey from Baltimore
10 the Ohio, to fifteen hours This work has long
ianguished from the PROSTATE credit of Maryland
but the State has resumed payment !; her bonds are
current, and the road is under contract to the Ohio
Even in Its unfinished state, it now earns about
SloOO,OOO from transportation. Upon its compile
tion Its business must be more than doubled.
The tide water canal along the Susquehanna
river, and the Susquehanna York Railway,
also connect Baltimore with the coal mines and
IRON works of Pennsylvania ; but in addition to
this, communication wAh her canals and RAILWAYS,
brings Baltimore than PHILADELPHIA to Pitts
burg and the railways across Ohio
Ohto.-lt appears from the returns of taxable
property in Ohio, that the taxable value of real
estate there is estimated at S341 1856, ,S3S, and that
of personal property S9s s,s47 SOP. The supposed
actua. cash value of all the property in the State
is not less than six hundred millions of dollars
The lands in the State are valued at 1896 751 1O3
live stock, S34, ,432, 1s9; merchants goods, SIS.
j19,S71. The amount of State tax in 1S49, was
Sl,423, 1885, road tax s2O3, 72s county, school and
township taxes, 81 692, 164 school house and other
special taxes, $751;, ,6S4. Total amount of taxes in
the State, S4,227,7Os.