folk, Virginia. The Register says:-"The fine ship containing this valuable freight is the Allen Ker, the property of James Barnett, Esq., of this town. We understand that it is upwards of twenty years since direct importations of tobacco have ceased. We hope the present cargo will prove the commencement of a regular direct supply of this valuable article, which must add considerably to its original cost by being imported via England or Scotland."

PRICES OF PRODUCE AND MERCHANDISE AT CINCINNATI.

In the Merchants' Magazine for November, (vol. xxxv., pages 608, 609,) we published the average prices of butter, cheese, and coffee, on the last day of each week of the year, commencing with September 5, 1855, and ending August 27, 1856. Also, in the December number, (vol. xxxv., pages 748-749,) we gave the average prices of flour, corn, wheat, and rye, for the same time. In continuation, we now subjoin the average prices of star candles, tallow candles, lard-oil, and barley:

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The following table shows the price of star candles at the close of each week

The following table shows the price of tallow candles at the close of each

NOTE. Unpressed sell one cent per pound below the current rate for pressed.

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The following table shows the price of lard-oil at the close of each week during the year :—

The following table shows the price of barley at the close of each week during

The Chicago Press, on the authority of the Galena Advertiser, gives, as an index of the flourishing city of Galena, the following statement of freight and passengers leaving that place for the twenty-four hours ending May 2d, which will interest many of our readers :

At the same time there were in port the Alhambra, Delegate, Golden Gate, and Greek Slave. It is no unusual occurrence for from six to ten steamers to be in that port at one time, receiving and discharging freight.

EXPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS TO GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

EXPORTS OF BREADSTUFFS FROM THE UNITED STATES TO GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE

LAND, FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1855, TO AUGUST 31, 1856:

A recent number of the Cincinnati Gazette contains an annual statement of the trade and commerce of that city, from which we deduce a brief summary, showing its present standing, with reference to several leading articles of trade, commerce, and industry, compared with the amount of business done in them at a former stated period. These articles are taken mostly in their alphabetical order :

BUTTER. In 1851-52, Cincinnati imported 8,259 barrels, and 11,043 firkins of best butter, and exported 3,253 barrels, and 36,185 kegs. In 1855-56, she imported 11,361 barrels, and 12,422 firkins; in the same period she exported 2,391 barrels, and 28,128 kegs. The highest wholesale price paid within a year past, was 22 cents; the lowest price, 12 cents; present price, 14 cents.

COFFEE. In 1851-52, imports were 95,732 bags; exports, 43,654. In 1855-56, she imported 92,068 bags, and exported 37,903. The year previous, the exports exceeded 114,000, and the imports 42,000. The decline is accounted for by the great advance in the price of sugar and molasses within the past eighteen months.

CHEESE. In 1851-52, imports were 241,753 pounds; exports 150,689. In 1855-56, imports 190,983, and exports 114,607. Present wholesale price of best Western Reserve cheese, 94 cents per pound.

COAL. Receipts during 1853-54 were 8,158,000 bushels; during 1855-56, they amounted to 7,500,000. Prices have raised within a year from 6 cents to 12 cents, and for prime, 20 cents. Should the Ohio River be low this fall, and a supply cut off, consequences will be disastrous.

CANDLES. Exceeding 8,000,000 of pounds of star candles have been manufactured within the past year, together with 53,333 barrels of lard oil. The lard necessary to this, exceeded 33,000,000 pounds. The business has increased 40 per cent within the year. Star candles, wholesale price, 25 cents per pound; lard oil, 90 cents per gallon. About 4,000 boxes opal candles, fetching 18 cents per pound, were also made. A great deal of soap is made and exported.

FLOUR. In 1851-52, imports were 511,042 barrels; exports, 408,211 barrels. In 1855-56, imports 546,727 barrels; exports 509,031 barrels. (The last figures seem to be erroneous.)

CORN. In 1851-52, imports were 653,788 bushels; exports, 51,231 bags. In 1855-56, import were 978,511 bushels, and exports 75,260 bags.

WHEAT. Imports in 1851-52 were 377,037 bushels. In 1855-56 they were 1,069,468 bushels. On the last of August the price per bushel of prime red wheat was $1 10. In five years the imports of rye have increased from 58,000 to 158,000 bushels, and barley from 511,042 bushels imported, and 408,211 exported, to 546,727 imported and 509,031 exported. Imports of oats have increased in five years from 197,858 bushels, to 403,920; in the same time, the exports have gone up from 2,418 to 5,521 bushels.

HEMP. In 1851-52, imports were 18,334 bales, and exports 554; in 1855-56 imports were 10,079 bales, and exports 2,862 bales.

MOLASSES. In 1851-52, imports were 93,132 barrels, exports 48,886 barrels; in 1855-56, imports 65,174 barrels, and exports 37,324 barrels.

LINSEED OIL AND FLAXSEED. In 1851-52, imports of oil amounted to 8,305 barrels, and exports to 9,377 barrels; in 1855-56 imports were 13,083, and exports 3,639. În 1851-52 the imports of seed were 48,074 barrels; in 1855-56 they only amount to 25,849 barrels.

HOGS. In 1833 there were packed 85,000 hogs; in 1840 were packed 95,000; in 1850 were packed 393,000; and last year 405,396 hogs.

SUGAR. In 1851-52 imports of Louisiana sugar were 39,324 pounds, and exports 20,360 pounds; in 1855-56, imports were only 32,354, and exports 21,336 pounds. Refined sugars imported at the former period were 15,237 pounds, at the latter 16,846 pounds.

SALT. The imports in 1851-52 were 91,312 sacks, and 58,020 barrels, and the exports 16,314 sacks, and 27,022 barrels ; in 1855-56 imports were 80,719 sacks, and 54,521 barrels, exports 9,928 sacks, and 31,064 barrels.

WHISKY. In the first named period imports were 319,488 barrels, exports 276,124 barrels; in the second named, imports 428,001 barrels, and exports 364,001.

IRON. Pig iron in 1851-52 was imported to the extent of 22,605 tons; in 1855-56 to the extent of 41,016. In Cincinnati there are 32 iron foundries, employing, directly and indirectly, 3,720 workmen. There are ten rolling mills in the city and vicinity, producing iron to the value, last year, of $3,167,000.

DRY GOODS. There are 159 retail dry goods merchants, of whom eighteen are importers from Europe.

BOOT AND SHOE TRADE. Eleven houses are engaged in this business, importing from New England. The cases imported last year were 22,160 in number, of a value of $997,200. Great quantities of boots and shoes are made for the home trade.

FURNITURE. There are 67 manufacturing establishments, 9 of them being on a large scale, averaging 325 hands each. În 1851 one house manufactured and sold $153,336 worth of furniture; last year to the amount of $360,460.

QUEEN'S WARE AND CUTLERY. In this branch of business nine houses are engaged, importing to the value of about $700,000 per annum.

STEAMBOATS AND BARGES. In 1851-52 the total number of these was 263, with a tonnage of 60,452 tons; in 1855-56 the total was 365, of a tonnage of 92,401 tons. Last year 33 new steamers were built, increasing the former tonnage 2,841 tons.

The total value of the principal exports for the last year from the port of Cincinnati is stated at $38,777,394. The total imports for the same time were valued at $67,501,341. Besides these, it is said there should be added, for unenumerated articles, such as furniture, machinery, and agricultural implements, at least 25 per cent to the exports, and 10 per cent to the imports, to arrive at the nearest figures.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

RANGE LIGHTS FOR CHANNELS THROUGH NEW YORK BAY.

In compliance with previous notice, the Range Lights for the channels through New York Bay will be exhibited at sunset on the evening of the 1st of November, and nightly thereafter from sunset to sunrise. They are located as follows:

RANGE LIGHTS FROM EAST END OF GEDNEY'S CHANNEL, BETWEEN SANDY HOOK AND FLYNN'S KNOLL. Two fixed lights located near Point Comfort, New Jersey. The front light will be exhibited from a lantern on the keeper's dwelling, which is located near the beach, and painted white, with the top of the lantern black. The rear light is located three-quarters of a mile distant from the front one, and will be exhibited from a tower painted white, with the head of it and lantern black. The keeper's dwelling is north of it and painted white. The front light is 40, and the rear one 76 feet above the mean level of the sea, and should be seen, under ordinary state of the atmosphere, outside the bar. During the day, the front building can be readily recognized from other buildings in the vicinity, by the lantern on its centre, and the rear one by the lantern of the tower being projected on the sky above the trees.

MAIN SHIP CHANNEL RANGE LIGHTS. TWO fixed lights located on the New Jersey shore, west of Highlands of Navesink. The front light will be exhibited from a tower near the beach, painted with two white and one red horizontal bands, and the roof of the lantern also of the latter color. The keeper's dwelling is west of the tower, and painted white. The rear light is located on the north side of Chappel Hill, one-and-a-half miles distant from the front light, and will be exhibited from a lantern on the keeper's dwelling. The dwelling is painted white, and the top of the lantern red. The front light is 60, and the rear one 224 feet above the mean level of the sea, and both should be seen, under ordinary state of the atmosphere, the entire length of the range line. During the day they can be readily recognized by the shape and colors of the towers of the front light, and by the lantern of the keeper's dwelling, and isolated portions of the rear one. It is about one mile east of Pigeon Hill.

SWASH CHANNEL RANGE LIGHTS. Two fixed lights located on Staten Island, N. Y. The front light will be exhibited from a tower near the site of the "Old Elm Tree" Beacon, painted with two white and one red horizontal bands, and the roof of the lantern also of the latter color. The keeper's dwelling is south of the tower, and painted white. The rear light is located on a hill, near New Dorp, about one-and-three-quarter miles from the front light, and will be exhibited from a lantern on the keeper's dwelling. The dwelling is painted white, and the top of the lantern red. The front light is 59 feet, and the rear light 189 feet above the mean level of the sea; and both should be seen, under ordinary state of the atmosphere, well outside of the bar at Sandy Hook. During the day they can be readily recognized by the shape of the tower, and colors of the front light, and by the lantern on the dwelling, and isolated position of the rear one.

SAILING DIRECTIONS. Masters of vessels intending to enter by Gedney's Channel, around the S. W. Spit Buoy, should run on a N. W. W. course from the light-vessel for the black and white perpendicular-striped Nun Buoy at the outside of Gedney's Channel, and from it W. by N. through the channel, keeping between the buoys, until the Range Lights near Point Comfort, New Jersey, are in one, when haul up for them, and continue upon the range until the two main channel lights are brought in range, which will also be shown by the main light at Sandy Hook, being a little open to the southward of the West Beacon. From this point the Main Ship Channel range will take them up clear of the "West Bank" and Craven's Shoal. Masters of vessels intending to pass through the Swash Channel, can bring the lights in range outside the bar, and run for them,