Total... $96,916,080 $26,923,277 $105,762,014 $29,297,332 The tables which follow relate to our domestic exports, including cotton, rice, tobacco, breadstuffs, provisions, &c. Cotton, which "is king," comes first in order. The table below shows the quantity and value of that product exported annually from 1821 to 1854, inclusive. We also give in connection the average price per pound in each of the years embraced in this table: STATEMENT EXHIBITING THE QUANTITY AND VALUE OF COTTON EXPORTED ANNUALLY FROM 1821 To 1854, INCLUSIVE, AND THE AVERAGE PRICE PER POUND. Av. cost per lb. 124,893,405 Value. cents. 16.2 1822. 11,250,635 133,424,460 144,675,095 24,035,058 16 6 Total... 307,448,704 17,159,390,935 17,466,839,639 $1,742,103,898 The quantity and value of manufactured articles, produced in the United States, exported to foreign countries for the last nine years have been as follows: STATEMENT EXHIBITING THE VALUE OF MANUFACTURED ARTICLES OF DOMESTIC PRODUCE EXPORTED TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES FROM THE 30TH DAY OF JUNE, 1845, TO JUNE 30, 1854. Refined sugar. 392,312 124,824 253,900 129,001 285,056 219,588 149,921 375,780 370,488 Chocolate... 2,177 1,653 2,207 1,941 2,260 3,255 3.267 10,230 12,257 Spirits from grain 73,716 67,781 90,957 67,129 48,314 36,084 48,737 141,173 280,648 Spirits from molasses 268,652 293,609 269,467 288,452 268,290 289,622 323,949 329,381 809,965 Molasses 1,581 20,959 5,563 7,442 14,137 16,830 13,163 17,582 130,924 1,379,566 1,108,984 1,137,828 1,408,278 $11,139,582 $10,476,345 $12,858,758 $11,280,075 $15,196,451 $20,186,967 18,862,931 22,599,930 $26,179,503 423,851 62,620 2,700,412 956,874 2,046,679 18,069,580 37,437,837 23,548,535 38,062,570 $11,563,433 $10,588,965 $15,559,170 $12,236,949 $17,243,130 $38,256,547 56,300,768 46,148,465 $64,242,078 The quantity and value of tobacco and rice exported in each of the years from 1821 to 1854, with the average cost of each article per hogshead and tierce is given in the following table: QUANTITY AND VALUE OF TOBACCO AND RICE EXPORTED ANNUALLY FROM 1821 TO 1854, IN We give below a summary view of the exports of domestic produce, classified, from the United States during the years from 1847 to 1854—a period of eight years:— EXPORTS OF DOMESTIC PRODUCE, ETC., FROM THE UNITED STATES. Art. IV. COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CITIES OF THE U. STATES. NUMBER XL. THE TOWN OF QUINCY,* IN MASSACHUSETTS. Tows histories, more especially those of New England, are becoming valuable additions to the papers of the American antiquarian. Not a few of their records show in plain but truthful language the changes that have occurred from the first days of their municipal corporation to the present. The frequent public town meetings through the year, the votes passed at those meetings, exhibit a deep interest for the support of religion and education. The Common School system, free to all, and the crowning glory of New England, was nursed into healthful growth by the action of these meetings. A desire to "make the wilderness blossom like the rose," a high-toned love of morality, and profound reverence of Christianity, are characteristics of the New England people, and have been from the days of our Pilgrim fathers. But this is not all; these town journals of our revolutionary fathers show that patriotism had a seat as tenacious in their hearts as life itself. The tyranny and oppression of the mother country were denounced in open town assemblies, by their resolves, in language as eloquent and heart * The following article was prepared by Dr. DUGAN, for many years a resident of this town. Although not an incorporated city, we have been induced to adopt it as one of our series of papers relating to the "Commercial and Industrial Cities of the United States." It has not yet reached in population the number of inhabitants required by the constitution or laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to entitle it to the grant of a city charter. But there are places in the nation of less population, and far less commercial and industrial importance, dignified with the sobriquet of city; besides, its far-famed granite, and its extensive manufacture of boots and shoes, have given it commercial intercourse with almost every State in the Union; and as the birthplace of two Presidents of the United States, the Adamses; the merchant patriot, John Hancock, the first President of the Continental Congress; the Quincys; and Hope, the great European banker, who went from it a poor boy, and amassed in foreign lands a princely fortune; and last and least, the editor and proprietor of a Magazine, the Merchants', the first work of the kind ever projected or published, which has found its way into every port entered by the sail or steam Commerce of the country. Our readers will, we trust, take our view of the subject, and consider our reasons for devoting so much space to a single town in one of the Old Thirteen States as "good and sufficient," especially when we add, that we have curtailed the writer's sketch of some of its fair proportions and minute details. We should also add, as is well known, that within its precincts the first railway was laid. Quincy is a port of entry, and if it has not a custom-house, it has an officer of customs.-Editor Merchants' Magazine. |