The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-01
LOUISVILLE.

We have received the Report OF the Secreta-
~ of the Louisville (Ky.) Board Of Trade, and
have been much interested by perusal of the
numerous facts and statistics presented, bear
ing on that very prosperous city on the Ohio,
which most of our readers hitherto have only
heard named occasionally in connection with
bacon or whiskey. Louisville now has an i'm
mense trade in corn, tobacco, -four, bacon,
whiskey, and even in cotton, to say nothing OF
many other articles of scarcely less impor-
tanoe, ..and then the great trade in gene
raj merchandise, which has sprung up within
the last,few years, as the railroads oentering
here have been extended in every direction.
Cotton is now sold there every day by auction;
no less than ,7s,8ss bales Of this staple were
received in Louisville during the past year.
The secretary's Report indicates great COM
.mIercial and industrial prosperity during the
past year, and corresponding improvements in
the buildings, public and private, Of the city,
wharyes, storehouses, &c., &c. He says: '"fhe
position .of Louisville warrants the assertion
that q magnificent future is before her, that
she must eventually become the great central
metropolis Of the nation" Population about
:l5O, 0O0.s7,Taxable property upwards Of s76,-
Zoo, 900, clear gain Of one-third in siI years;
and this notwithstanding the loss Of valuation
in slave property. Imports during 1866 Gin
Guiding but one hundred and ten articles) $222,-
4l2,754.- Exports $176,s1s,ss2. The city is
FIVE and-a-half miles long and two and-s-halt
wide ), water works in successful operation,
lforty-four miles of pipe furnishing two mil
lions of water 8. day. The city proper con-
tains two hundred miles of streets, with seven
t y.iys miles of alleys, all paved, with fully
four hundred miles Of sidewalks. The whole
sale. houses during the past ten years have in
ctessedrfrom eighty-fve to'two hundred and
eIghty.seyen. $50 Banking capital Sla,ss s97.
Deposits $8,O1S, $50; loans and discounts Us
Tbs, ,422; circulation $l,172,aa9., Among he
numerous, tables: accompanying this repo: IS
: one giving the Indebtedness, valuation
population of States. In this table South Co.
oiina makes the following 6gure:s' Population
ia 1860, 7O3, ,7OS. Taxable property in 1860,
s4ss, $40; 1928; il: 1885, 500; ;sse, ,4s6. 1ndebt-
ebness in 1860, $s,69l, ,574f in 1866, 5,2o5,
257. The number of hogs killed by the lead
ing pork packers during the wintersof ls66-'67
is III, ,42s against 80; ;4ssof the previous year:
Average weight Of hogs 227a lbs, and average
yield Of lard 264 lbs. The number Of hogs ak
months old in Kentucky, during 1866, was
7Is, 4o4, against 587, ,s47 for the previous year.
Whisksy, imports during s6e,67, 81, 1865 bbls.,
exports 44,Os5 bbls. against 24,2Sl bbls. i'm
ports during the twelyeamonths previous, and
"a, ,25Sbb EXPORTS Total tonnage of boats
I running to- and from Louisville during 1866,
8,2sG-yalue $4,S55. .75O Total, previous year,
34,O7s-yalue ST. $780, Number 'of: steam
boat arrivals thereolsst year 1924; departures
;2,B05 There are many other very interesting
statistics in this report, but We have already
transgressed too much upon cur limited space.
y We hope to see report, equally full and e1-
halusting, embracing every species Of informa-
tion, useful or interesting, connected with our
city, in the next annual report of the Secretary
of the Charleston Board Of Trade. It were
uselesssto indulge the hope that such report
win be equally cheering with the one we have
just passed under review. ..oesr