WHITE PINE.-The supply was 11,915,430 feet, being an increase, as compared with 1848, of 4,783,303 feet; the export exceeds that of the previous year by 912,240 feet; the stock is 6,554,296 feet against 8,974,674 feet, being a decrease of 2,420,358 feet; but still, taking a series of years, a full average. RED PINE.-The supply was ,797,584 feet, against 4,223,952 feet in 1848; export, 4,070,600 feet against 4,365,440 in 1848; the present stock is 4,592,346 feet, being a decrease, as compared with last year, of 299,478 feet. Prices ranged from 5d. a 9d. in the raft, and shipping parcels of 40 feet average fetched, throughout the season, 74d. a 8 d. per foot. OAK-The supply was 270,692 feet less than last year, being 864,487 feet against 1,135,159 in 1848; the export was 1,128,320 feet against 879,040 in 1848, showing an increase of 249,280 feet; the stock is 1,197,958 feet, against 1,800,301 in 1848, which, though a decrease of 602,943 feet compared with 1848, is a full average, and with a very trifling supply, will probably suffice for the export of the ensuing season. ELM.-The supply this year falls short of that of last year 89,381 feet, whilst the export exceeds it by 241,840 feet, reducing the stock to 1,010,615 feet, being a bare average one. STAVES.-The supply of standard having, as will be observed on reference to the tables, gradually fallen off for the past four years, whilst the export of 1849 exceeds that of 1848 by 161,000, the stock is reduced to 250,000, a lower point than for many years previous. BUILDINGS ERECTED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK. We give below a tabular statement of the number of buildings erected in the city of New York in each year from 1834 to 1849, inclusive :— This shows a grand total of 19,872 tenements erected within the last 15 years; but a perfect record we presume would show near 25,000. Besides this, New York has built half of Brooklyn, a good portion of Jersey City, the most of New Brighton and Tompkinzville, the whole of Williamsburg, Green Point, Hoboken, Astoria, Morrisania, New Village, etc. ARRIVAL AND CLEARANCES OF VESSELS, BALTIMORE, 1849. The foreign and coastwise arrivals at the port of Baltimore, during the year 1849, were as follows: The whole number of arrivals during the year were 2,110, of which 519 were from foreign and 1,591 from coastwise ports. Of this number 1,944 were American vessels, and 166 under the flags of sixteen different nations, as follows: British, 115; Bremen, 21; Russian, 10; Danish, 5; French, 3; Sweedish, 2; Prussian, 1; Sardinian, 1; Hanoverian, 1; Eucuadorian, 1; Hamburg, 1; Venezuelean, 1 ; Spanish, 1; Dutch, 1; Genoese, 1; Norwegian, 1. The clearances at the Baltimore Custom-House, for foreign ports, during the year 1849, were as follows: The whole number of clearances for foreign ports were 612; of this number 104 were British, 22 Bremen, 10 Russian, 6 Danish, 3 French, 2 Sweedish, 1 Sardinian, 1 Norwegian, 1 Dutch, 1 Hanoverian, 1 Hamburg, 1 Prussian, 1 Genoese, 2 Eucuadorian, and 1 Spanish. PENNSYLVANIA COAL TRADE IN 1849. In an article on the "Coal Trade of the United States," published in the September number of the Merchantz Magazine, (vol. xxi., pages 266 to 279,) we gave a tabular statement of the quantity of coal sent to market annually, from the commencement of the business in 1820 to 1848, inclusive. We now subjoin a table of the quantity sent to market for the year 1849, and also of the grand total from each mine from the commencement of the business, a period of twenty-nine years: QUANTITY OF EACH KIND IN 1849, and total FOR TWENTY-NINE YEARS. It will be seen, by reference to the table in the September number of this Magazine, referred to above, that the Lehigh was first sent to market in 1820; the Schuylkill in 1825; the Lackawanna in 1828; Pine Grove in 1835; Lyken's Valley in 1836; Shamokin in 1838, and Wyoming in 1842. THE WHISKY TRADE OF PHILADELPHIA. But few persons have a correct view of the amount of whisky annually consumed in the city of Philadelphia in the manufacture of domestic liquors, alcohol, burning fluid, &c., &c. There are four distilleries in the immediate vicinity of that city, which consume about 300,000 bushels of corn and rye yearly, and produce 1,050,000 gallons of whisky, valued at $275,000. These works are all driven by steam, and consume 3,000 tons of coal annually. They employ from seventy to eighty workmen, and the amount of capital invested cannot be less than half a million of dollars. Besides this amount there was received last year by the Columbia Railroad 562,825 gallons, and by the Delaware Canal 1,432,815 gallons, which added to the amount manufactured by the city distilleries makes 3,045,640 gallons, equal to about 101,521 barrels. To this we must add a considerable amount received annually by the Schuylkill and Tidewater Canal, and New York; which would swell the total amount to 125 a 130,000 barrels. COMMERCIAL REGULATIONS. THE NEW JAMAICA TARIFF. We published in the January number of the Merchants' Magazine a brief abstract of the changes made in the Jamaica tariff by the House of Assembly, which had been concurred in by the council, and signed by the Governor. De Cordova's Mercantile Intelligencer, published at Kingston, the seat of government, furnishes us with a more full and complete tariff of the province, which we here subjoin: THE NEW TARIFF PASSED THE HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY AND THE COUNCIL AND ASSENTED TO BY THE GOVERNOR, ON SATURDAY, THE 20th October, 1849. ..per cwt. 3 10 0 Oil, blubber, fins, and skins, the produce of fish and creatures living in the sea. Rice. Peas, beans, calavances, barley, oats, or Indian corn. Rice, undressed... Salt.... 100s. per cent ad valorem. .per bush. 0 3 6 per cent ad valorem. .per cwt. 81022862 3 1 Tobacco, manufactured, say cigars, 50 per cent ad valorem, and.. unmanufactured, 15 per cent ad valorem, and... 0 2 0 1 0 Cavendish and other manufactured tobacco, 32 per cent ad valorem, and.. Wines, in bulk or bottled, per tun, £10, and 15 per cent. Wood... .per bush. ..per M. feet pitch pine, by superficial measure, of one inch thick 12 0 ...per M. feet white pine or other lumber, ditto. shingles, cypress, longer than twelve inches... 8 0 ...per M. 6 Boston chips, and all shingles not otherwise enumerated or described. woodhoops.. Jewelry, perfumery, carriages not used for agricultural purposes, clocks and watches, and furniture, for every £100 value, £10, subject to 10 per cent drawback on exportation. All goods, wares, and merchandise, plantation supplies, clothing, and effects of every description, not previously enumerated, 4 per cent ad valorem, and 4 per cent drawback on exportation. Except the following, which shall not be liable to any duty under this act :-Coals, coke, coin, bullion, books and printed papers, diamonds, fresh fruits and vegetables, hay, straw, oil cakes, whole or in powder, malt dust, rock salt, mulberry and other plants, cotton wool, ice, fresh fish, turtle, poultry, fresh meats, leeches, gums, beeswax, rosins, tortoise-shell, guano and other manures, singing birds, dogs, specimens of natural history, army and navy clothing, slates, regimental and naval necessaries, raw hides, hemp, flax, and tow, sarsaparilla, and dyewoods. TAX ON SHIPPING, PAYABLE AT ENTRY OF EVERY SHIP OR VESSEL. THE NEW DECREE AND TARIFF OF THE HAYTIEN GOVERNMENT OF JAN. 10, 1850. Faustin I., by the grace of God, and the constitutional law of the State, Emperor of Hayti, to all present and to come, salutes With the advice of our council of ministers, we have ordered, and do order as follows: Art. 1. Is and remains suspended, the execution of the law on the monopoly. Art. 2. The merchants have the liberty of buying coffee, at such prices, and in such quantities as they may judge proper. Art. 3. Out of the quantities of coffee purchased by the consignee merchants, there shall be taken for the account of the government one-fifth of the same. This fifth shall be settled for at the market price, by the government, who shall not, however, pay more than fifty dollars per hundred pounds. The market price shall be fixed by the commission of control, spoken of hereafter. Art. 4. Foreign merchandise shall not be sold, either wholesale or retail, above the prices fixed by the tariff annexed to our present decree. Art. 5. Shall only have the right of purchasing coffee, for exportation, those merchants who shall make importations of merchandise by suitably assorted cargoes, to be sold on the market. The importation of specie shall give no right to the purchase of coffee. Art. 6. The refusal to sell, or the suspension of sales, or the act of selling above the fixed prices shall forfeit the right to purchase coffee, as well as the right of patent. Art. 7. Every week, a committee of control, named by the government, shall verify in their warehouses the guarantees of coffee purchased during the week by the merchants, and shall take away the one-fifth part coming to the State. This one-fifth, paid at the market prices, as ordered by the article 3d, shall be received in compensation of customhouse duties, chargeable on all coffee exported. A duty of one dollar per hundred pounds shall be paid to and collected by the commission of control on all coffee shipped. Art. 8. The coffee belonging to the government shall be deposited in the warehouses destined for the purpose, under the supervision of the committee of control. Art. 9. Coffee, before being transported to the custom-house, shall be weighed by the committee of control, in order to take from it the one-fifth part, and compare the weight of the balance with its re-weight at the time of shipment. Art. 10. No quautity of coffee shall be permitted to be weighed and shipped from the custom-house, without being accompanied by the certificate of its having been weighed by the committee of control, which certificate shall be returned by the custom-house to the committee of control, with a note of the re-weight attached to it. All surplus found on re-weighing at the custom-house, shall be seized for the benefit of the State. Art. 11. The present ordinance shall be printed and published, and our ministers are charged, each in that which concerns him, with its execution. Given at our Palace at Port au Prince, the 10th day of January, 1850, and 47th of Independence, and 1st of our reign. L. DUFRESNE, Minister of Justice. FAUSTIN, by the Emperor. Madras 66 66 66 66 duty cotton socks.. Checks, 24 inches wide Prints, fine quality, narrow. Bleached Madapolam cotton, 29 inches. 66 Blue Tm. Romal handkerchief... India handkerchiefs, per piece of eight... Imitation India Madras handkerchiefs, fine quality. per dozen Fine white cotton stockings, for ladies.. Common white cotton stockings, for ladies Colette of Brabant.... Ordinary cotton drills or denims Cotton sewing thread 1 20 125 0.90 1 00 1 00 1 12 24 66 52 00 54 00 Common bleached cotton.. · per ell 2.00 225 Black bombazine ... Fine linens, according to quality... Manchettes, horn handles..... .per dozen 26.00 from 200 from 225 to 6 00 to 6 25 30.00 |