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Loans. Import.

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Capital. Export. Total imp. & exp. business. New York. $25,439,990 52,877,371 $94,525,141 $53,351,157 $141,876,298 1 to 3

5,732,233

42,067,406 1 to 1 17,909,817 1 to 7

7,129,782

12,473,424 1 to 1

50,351,800 1 to 4

Boston.... 19,577,495 31,014,933 29,647,707 13,419,699
Philadelphia 10,670,000 20,224,928 12,147,584
Baltimore.. 6,975,814 10,924,113
N. Orleans.. 15,575,970 11,122,081

5,343,642

9,380,439 40,971,361

Of the northern cities New York does by far the largest amount of business on the smallest amount of bank loans; that is to say, for one dollar of loans three dollars of business is done. In Boston for one dollar of loans one dollar

and a half of commerce. The proportion of loans to business is double what it is in New York; yet money has been more abundant and cheaper in New York than in either of the other cities! At New Orleans the amount of business compared to loans has been much larger than in New York. The imports were, however, small, and the bills drawn against exports are always cash, and command it in New York. Hence there is less need of loans. Now, when we find that the demand for bank capital is greater in those cities where the greatest proportion already exists, we infer a radical defect in their mode of business.

The competition of river routes to the Great West has, of late, much interfered with the business of the State of New York, as conducted through the Erie Canal; when that work was the only avenue West, the State had the power of charging almost any rate of toll without fear of injuring the business of the State. That period is now, however, long since past, and it now requires the most constant vigilance to graduate the toll so that the New York route shall continue to be the most profitable route to the West from the Atlantic. A committee of Buffalo gentlemen have kept this object in view, and have represented the matter to the canal board, and a reduction has been made in accordance with those suggestions. The charges, as compared with last year, are as follows for 1,000 lbs. per mile :

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On sugar, molasses, coffee, iron in bars, nail rods, nails and spikes, railroad and boiler iron.

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On threshing, mowing, and reaping machines, fanning-mills,

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On packets, on all canals.

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Packets may commute for tolls upon passengers by paying an additional toll of one cent per mile.

The changes are all reductions excepting on stovepipe and furniture for stoves, which has been increased 100 per cent. The tolls on foreign salt, it will be seen,

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has been reduced 50 per cent. These reductions will no doubt have a favorable effect upon the trade in these articles. The change on provisions is equal to 45 cents per barrel reduction from Buffalo to Albany; and on railroad iron the reduction is equal to $7 per ton. The necessity of this reduction is evident in the following extract:—

IMPORTATION OF RAILROAD IRON.-We are informed, says the Quebec Morning Chronicle, that 20,000 tons of railroad iron is expected at Quebec on the opening of navigation, from England, for a Western State.-Montreal Herald, March 8.

The State trade lost at least $200,000 in profits, freights, and tolls, on that one lot of iron, for not making the reduction sooner. Salt also goes by the St. Lawrence, and produce goes down that way to the great injury of New York interests; and yet the insane policy of preventing northern railroads from carrying freight and of charging too high tolls is persevered in through mistaken political views. To the activity of Mr. Barton, of Buffalo, may be ascribed the present reduction; and we doubt not but the effect upon the revenues will be such as to warrant further reductions next year.

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

FOREIGN IMPORTS INTO ST. LOUIS IN 1849.

REPORT OF THE SURVEYOR OF CUSTOMS FOR THE YEAR 1849.

Foreign value of merchandise imported into St. Louis during the year 1849, and entered for consumption

$273,759 44

Duties paid thereon at St. Louis...

83,111 47

Foreign value of merchandise imported into St. Louis in 1849, and remaining in public warehouse 31st December, 1849.....

7,357 41

And duties payable thereon..

7,166 53

Total foreign value of merchandise imported......

$281,116 85

Of the above, was imported from England, goods, wares, and merchan

dise, (foreign value)..

$186,444 00

France.....

33,569 60

Germany and Holland

18,709 25

Spain (Havana).

42,394 00

Total foreign value.......

$281,116 85

The general description of merchandise so imported is as follows:

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LEADING ARTICLES OF PRODUCE RECEIVED AT ST. LOUIS IN 1849.

The following table, from a review of the Trade and Commerce of St. Louis in 1849. as originally compiled for the Missouri Republican, furnishes an estimate of the value of thirty-one of the leading articles of produce received at the port of St. Louis for the years 1848 and 1849, commencing on the 1st of January and ending on the 31st of December:

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* Per hhd., box, ton, bushel, bale, etc., as in first column. From the above table it appears that the total estimated value of the thirty-one articles received at St. Louis in the two years (1848 and 1849) amounted to $20,375,783 82. The difference in favor of 1848, as compared with 1849, amounts to $201,127 84.

IMPORTS INTO ST. LOUIS IN 1849,

We give below a table of imports, comprising nearly all the important and many of the minor article of produce, groceries, and merchandise, received at St. Louis by the river during the year 1849. This table was compiled by the editors of the Missouri

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Republican from the most reliable sources of information, with all the care and labor usual in the statistical compilations of that journal. By reference to this table, and a similar table published in the Merchants' Magazine for April, 1849, (vol. xx., p. 427,) it will be seen that the receipts of many articles, namely, lead, wheat, corn, flour, bar~ ley, &c., were not so great in the year 1849 as the year previous, and on the other hand the imports of provisions, tobacco, hemp, bale rope, hides, and other important articles, increase in a corresponding degree, thereby rendering the value of the agricultural imports of St. Louis nearly equal for the two years past:

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10,287 Lemons

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12,336 Molasses..

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PRICES OF PRODUCE IN ST. LOUIS MARKET IN 1849.

A COMPARATIVE STATEMENT SHOWING THE CLOSING PRICE OF SPECIFIC ARTICLES ON THE LEVEE IN THE MONTHS OF JANUARY, JULY, AND DECEMBER, OF THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31st, 1849.

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July.

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Hemp, prime D. R.per ton $105 00 a 108 00 $125 00 a 127 00 $120 00 a 121 00

Lead, U. M., soft.p 100 lbs.

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Oats, prime..

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Barley, prime.

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Rye, prime.

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bulk, should'rs, h'ms,

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Onions, prime.

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Hay, prime.......100 lbs.
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Dried apples, prime..bush.

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Coffee, prime Rio.. ..lb.

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RECEIPTS OF CUSTOMS AT ST. LOUIS.

GROSS AMOUNT OF RECEIPTS OF CUSTOMS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, PORT OF ST. LOUIS, FROM SEPTEMBER, 1842, TO DECEMBER 31, 1847.

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