The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1853-02-24

w estern lakes rivers and railroads., making
a volume Of about 600 pages, Is nearly ready
for distribution. It is a very able aud com
Prehensive document, while the immense a.
mount Of authentic statistical information
which It contains renders it invaluable as a
book Of reference, and reflects great credit
upon its author. Dir. Corwin has fully JUS
tilted the expectations o his friends is his at
%tention TO Western aud South western in
~terests in this report. His instructions to
Mr.. Andrews were Of the most liberal char
al character, and they have been most ably
and fully complied with. The following sta
%tistical information is compiled from the re-
port by the correspondent of fhe Baltimore
Sun:
"The gross value OF the m Of the
lake ports in 1851 was $50, 5000, 900; Ii
censed American tonnage, els 200 tonsi en-
tered and cleared at all the ports about o.
SOC, 900 tons. Our with Canada
was over 1900, 900, of which over two
thirds were exports. The Canada trade for
1852 has fallen off $l,5OO,OO0, while the
lake coasting trade has increased about rs
per cent, making a gross aggregate for last
year of over $400. Oo0, 900. There will soon
be completed an aggregate length Of 5,400
miles Of railroads in the United States, cost
ing about $3.50, 600, 900. Over $4,000 miles
are now in actual operation; the balance in
progress.
The British colonies have an area Of 2lS-
339,4l5 acres, and a population OF $780,
900; a with all countries amount
ing to $40, 20O, 900, Of which about $I9, 0cO,-
900 is with the United States, and $50 ,O00,-
900 with Great Britain. These colonies
own and employ shipping measuring nearly
500, 900 tons. Full statistics of the fisheries
are contained in this report, accompanied
by an historical view ofthe English, French
and American fisheries, and the regulations
by which they are governed. Commercial
notices, with detailed statements of the
commerce of all the principal lakes and
river towns; the aggregate tonnage Of the
lakes and rivers, and aggregate value of
river commerce are all given a place, and
are full Of interest. A most interesting &C.
count of the commerce oftheGu lf Of Mexico;
an able document on the cotton crop of the
country, and some commercial statements
Of the business of the most prominentAtlan-
tic cities, close the docume.t in an appro-
pirate manner The statistics of cotton and
manufactures Of cotton, as an article of COM
merce, show n most wonderful and unpre-
cedented advance in the consumption of that
staple since 1890, at which time we were
importers. The annual value of the crop
may now be stated to be 500, 900, 900, and
the article constitutes fully one-half the val
ue Of all our domestic exports to foreign
countries. Several very fine maps are to
accompany the report, as illustrations of its
different sections: The Colonies; the Lake
and st. Lawrence Basin; the Railways and
the Mississippi Valley, and the Gulf of Mex
leo; Cuba and the Isthmus Of Tehuantepec
all originals-prepared expressly for this
work.
Mr.. Andrews report is considered, by
such members of Congress as have examin-
ed it, to be the most complete and able doc
ument OF the kind which ever emanated
from the Treasury Department"
We shall have ucca sion, upon the publ
cation ofthc report, to extract more largely
from its contents. 1t gives a most excel
lent idea Of the greatness of our country.
New MEXIco.--Most of the accounts from
this Territory are not very iattering as to
the present or future prosperity and impor-
t5Dce ofthis portion of Uncle Sans landed
acquisitions. The Secretary Of War esteem
ed it Of SO little value that he recommended
that Now Mexico should be given up to the
savages-keeping it and governing it won ID
cost more than il would come TO. Gov. Lane,
Il aroN 10 HE l.tA -. a. H. H..
torial Legislature presents two sides to the
picture, the first certainly not very attr &c
tive. He says that New Mexico is very dis
tant from the States, is difficult OF access and
IL surrounded by barbarians of doubtful faith.
The population, which does not much cx-
coed sixty thousand souls, is widely scatter
ed through distant valleys, over an area so
immense that twenty companies Of the
United States troops are insufficient for its
protection against Indians; and the people
are 30 badly armed that they cannot protect
their own property from depredations. Ag-
riculture and stock-raising, the two great
interests Of the Territory, are depressed for
the want of a certain market for the pro-
duce of the soil, and for wont Of protection
for aocks and herds. The mines are near
BY abandoned, and their products (gold and
silver excepted) will not bear the transport
tation to market. Tho highways are in a
bad condition; and the school master Gan
indispensable functionary in a popular Co
vernment) is rarely seen. The country is
overrun with red and white thieves and rob.
bers. The prisons are insecure, and no ap-
preparation has yet been made by Congress
for aTerriturial Penitentiary. Thee overnor,
after giving this dark side Of the picture,
adds, that the country is one Of the very
healthiest on the globe. The agricultural
products are various; the soil rewards labor
abundant!y, and the tillable lands may be
increased perhaps more than a thousand
fold by improved acequiGs and by tanqueS.-
Besides, at a cost within the reach Of all,
ucequias may be carried upon higher levels,
and enlarged into canals, thereby affording
water for navigation, water power for ma
chinery, and highways for commerce. The
facilities for stock raising are unequalled;
and q well organized volunteer militia force
will protect stock from red thieves, and a
penitentinpy will rid the country OF white
thieves. The rich mines Of gold, silver, cop.
per, lead, and iron, and abundant supply oil
common salt, coal, gypsum, marble, nitre
and soda. only requires time, capital and in
dustTy, with good roads, to make them avail.
able as great sources OF public and private
wealth. Cleveland Herald.
A Long LIsE.-In advocating a direct
th%oroughfare through our own territory
from the Mississippi to the Pacific, instead
Of the Tehuantepec route through a foreign
territory, Mr.. Seward states that the rail
roads Of New York alone, il stretched out in