Statement showing the amount of Postage received at the Post Offices, in the several States and Territories, during the years ending on the 31st of March, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831 and 1832. Canada Mail.) 1988,676 10 1,058,204 34 1,115,220 721,219,034 93 1 315,638 09 1.471,371 04 Statement exhibiting the gradual increase of the Post Office establishment, at different periods from 1790. Dec. 31, 1795 18,207 453 75,359 30,272 Dec. 31, 1800 20,817 903 128,644 69,243 Dec. 31, 1805 81,076 1558 236,635 111,552 495,969 Dec. 31, 1815 43,748 8000 487,779 241,901 1,043,065 748,121 MINT OF THE UNITED STATES. Samuel Moore, Director, $2,000 00,J Cloud, Melter & Refiner, 1,500 00 WWm. Findlay, Treasurer, 1,200 00 William Kneass, Engraver, 1,200 00 1,500 00 John S. Benezet, Clerk, d. Eckfeldt, Chief Coiner, John Richardson, Assayer, 850 00 1,500 00 J. Eckfeldt, Assist. Assayer. 600 00 The coinage effected within the last year amounts to $3,401,055, comprising $798,435 in gold coins. $2,579,000 in silver, and $23,620 in copper, and consisting of 9,128,387 pieces of coin, viz. Of the amount of gold coined within the last year, about $80,000 were derived from Mexico, South America, and the West Indies; $28,900 from Africa; $678,000 from the gold region of the United States; and about $12,000 from sources not ascertained. Gold was first received at the Mint for Coinage, from North Carolina, in 1804, from which State, alone, of the gold region of the Unsted States it was received previous to 1829. From 1804 to 1823, inclusive, the amount received, did not exceed $2,500 yearly: from 1823, the amount received in each year was,-in 1824, $5,000; in 1825, $17,000; in 1826, $20,000; in 1827, $21,000; and in 1828, $46,000; amounting, in the five years, to $109,000. Since 1828 it has been received from other States, viz: From Virginia South Carolina Georgia Tennessee Ai ma Total, In 1829. In 1830. In 1831. In 1832. Total. 2,500 24,000 26,000 34,000 86,500 134,000 204.000 294,000 458,000 1,090,000 $140,000 466,000 520,000 678,000 1,804,000| Which, including the $109,000 received from North Carolina, in the five p evious years, makes the whole amount from that State $1,199,000;| and the total amount received since 1823, $1,913,000. It is rendered highly probable, by estimates entitled to great respect, that the quantity of gold of the United States delivered at the Mint within the last year does not much exceed the one half of the production from the mines-nearly an equal amount being supposed to have been exported uncoined, or employed in the arts. If this conjecture be nearly correct, the production of gold from the United States during the year has not been less than a million and a quarter of dollars. This may be regarded as equal to one-sixth part of all the gold produced, within the same period, from the mines of Europe and America, estimated according to the results of recent years, as given by the best authorities. Relative Value of Gold and Silver. When, at the commencement of the Mint in 1792, the ratio of fine gold to fine silver was established as 15, to 1, it was supposed to be conformable to their relative value in the principal commercial nations of Europe, and it probably was nearly conformable to the mint regulations then prevailing How for the value of those metals in the foreign market deviated from the Mint proportion during the interval from 1792 to 1821, is not known. No deficiency, however, in the Mint ratio of gold to silver in the United States became early apparent. The first notice of a premium on gold measured in silver, in the United States, appears late in 1821. Before the end of that year it had advanced to 5 per cent. Since that time it has occasionally been as high as 7 per cent., and, at intermediate intervals, as low as 2 per cent. During December, 1832, it was from 3 to 4 per cent. The average relative value of gold and silver bullion in London, for 12 years, (1821 to 1832, inclusive,) s 15.77 to 1, so that 371 1-4 grains of pure gold would be of the value of $15 77—the dollar unit consisting of 371 1 4 grains of pure silver. The average of the last three years is 15.85 to 1. The relative value for the last yea alone has been 15.96 to 1. The average in France, during the last seven years, has been 15.68 to 1, so that the value of 371 1-4 grains of fine gold would be 15.68-the dollar unit being as before. The average of the last three years gives the proportion of 15.78 to 1. The relative value for the last year is 15.79 to 1. The average in the United States, for the whole period, is 15 63 to 1, so that the value of 371 1-4 grains of pure gold would be 15.63-the dollar unit consisting, as before, of 371 1-4 grains of pure silver. The average of the last three years gives the proportion of 15.59 to 1. The relative value of the last year alone is 15.70 to 1 Gold and Silver Coin of the United States, Exported during each year ending Sept. 30, from 1826, to 1831. inclusive. |