A Table showing the Period when the Hudson River opened and closed at Albany, since 1817, taken from Records kept at the Albany Academy, for the Use of the Regents of the University. As the river, throughout to New York, has not opened on the days stated above, the time at which the first steamboat passed either from Albany or New York, or vice versa, is also added for a few years. .March 25. 1835.. NOTICE TO MARINERS. London, February 4th, 1840. Light at St. Catharine's Point, Isle of Wight.-Notice is hereby given, that the light tower, which has been for some time past in course of erection on St. Catharine's Point, in the Isle of Wight, being nearly completed, the light will be exhibited thereon on or before the evening of the 1st of March next, and thenceforth continued every night from sunset to sunrise. It will burn at an elevation of 178 feet above the level of high water, and will appear as a fixed bright light in all directions seaward. Light at the Needles Point.-In order to distinguish this from the new light at St. Catharine's, it will, on and after the exhibition of the last mentioned, assume a red color, and will be continued. J. HERBERT, Secretary. STATISTICS OF RAIL-ROADS. Cost, Receipts, Expenditures, and Income, of the following Rail-Roads, derived from Official Reports for the year 1839. The following table shows the number of passengers and tons of merchandise carried over the Camden and Amboy rail-road, and the gross amount of receipts, expenditures, and nett profits, for several years. The total amount of capital paid is $1,650,000. For fuel, salaries, repairs on the road, engines and cars, and other expenses, there have been paid $92,151 44. The amount received is, from passengers, $135,C59 45; for transporting merchandise, $105,183 49; for transporting United States mail, $1,000; making a total of $241,219 94. Two dividends, of four per cent. each, have been paid during the year. BOSTON AND PORTLAND RAIL-ROAD. This road, extending from the Boston and Lowell rail-road to the line of the state of New Hampshire, thence to connect with the Boston and Maine rail-road, has just been completed. The amount of capital paid in is, by stockholders, $278,165 26; state scrip, $150,000; total, $428,155 22. The income during the year has been $49,001 13; namely: from passengers, $53,885 20; for merchandise, $12,804 23; United States mail, $1,900; rents, $411 70. The expenses have been $43,322 67. Two dividends, one of two per cent., and one of four per cent., have been paid. BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE RAIL-ROAD. The capital of this corporation is $1,782,000. The expenses of the year have amounted to $194,411 48, of which $90,000 were for the purchase of the Seekonk branch road, the construction of a second track to Roxbury, and other permanent improveThe amount received is, $313,907 44, of which $234,237 42 were for the trans ments. portation of passengers, $72,939 11 for merchandise, and $3,000 on mail contract. Two dividends, of four per cent. each, have been paid. BOSTON AND WORCESTER RAIL-ROAD. Capital stock, $1,800,000. Income from passengers, $122,445 92, from freight, mail, etc., $106,251 16; rents and storage, $3,050 10. Total expenditures have been $126,384 83. A dividend of 31 per cent., January 1, 1840. EASTERN RAIL-ROAD. This road, it is expected, will be completed as far as the New Hampshire line during the ensuing summer. The cost of the road, thus far, has been $1,306,194 89, for which the state has furnished its scrip for $500,000. The income from transportation of passengers has been $113,068 63; of merchandise, $7,375 67; United States mail, $1,31050; rents, etc., $3,865 35. The current expenses have been $53,176 17. NASHUA AND LOWELL RAIL-ROAD. This road, extending from Lowell to Nashua, N. H., fourteen miles in length, has been built at a cost of $299,000. The receipts, from the opening of the road, October 8, 1838, to November 20, 1839, were, from passengers, $36,646 92; for freight, $18,198 73; rents, $207 92; total, $55,053 58. The expenses during the same period were $28,658 43. Two dividends, of three and four per cent., have been paid. TAUNTON BRANCH RAIL-ROAD. The capital of this branch of the Boston and Providence rail-road is $250,000. The expenditures during the year have been $40,711 78; the receipts, $58,018 78. Two dividends, of three per cent. each, have been paid. WESTERN AND WEST STOCKBRIDGE RAIL-ROADS. The Western and the West Stockbridge rail-roads are not yet completed. Upon that portion of the former which has been in use, the receipts, up to January 1, 1840, were, from passengers, $13,472 94; for merchandise, $4,136 21; total, $17,609 15. The expenditures were, for the same time, $14,380 44; leaving a balance, as profit, of $3,228 51. MOHAWK AND HUDSON RAIL-ROAD COMPANY. The nett earnings of the company, for 1839, were $64,917 6-100, nearly equal to 6 per cent. on the capital. The committee propose improvements and retrenchments which will place the company in a still stronger position, and insure a farther increase of dividends. BANK STATISTICS. Amount of Capital, Number of Dollars per Share, and semi-annual Dividends, of the Banks of the Cities of New York and Brooklyn, for 1839. CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 1840. The sixth census of the United States is to be taken the present year, commencing June 1st, and the interrogatories for the assistants of the marshals, in the different states, have been prepared at Washington. By the late act of congress, for taking the census of 1840, the president of the United States was directed to cause the statistics of the country, relating to agriculture, manufactures, mines, commerce, fisheries, etc., to be taken, as well as the condition of the people with regard to education. Additional interrogatories to those formerly used, which were merely enumerations of the inhabitants, classed by sexes, ages, and colors, freemen and slaves, have therefore been prepared, to be put by the persons taking the census, for statistical tables, in relation to the following among other subjects, namely: Mines.-Statistics of iron, lead, gold, other metals; coal, salt, granite, marble, etc. Agriculture.-Number of horses, mules, cattle, sheep, swine, and value of poultry; bushels of wheat, barley, oats, rye, buckwheat, Indian corn, and potatoes, raised in 1839; quantity of wool, hops, wax, hay, hemp, flax, tobacco, rice, cotton, silk cocoons, sugar, and wine; value of the products of dairy, orchard, and home-made or family goods. Horticulture.-Value of garden produce, nursery, and green-house; number of men employed, and amount of capital invested. Commerce.-Number of commercial houses, commission houses, retail dry goods, grocery, or other stores, lumber yards, butchers, packers, etc., and amount of capital invested in each. Fisheries.-Quantity of dried fish, pickled fish, spermaceti oil, whale and other fish oil, value of whalebone and other products of the fisheries, and amount of capital invested, and number of men employed. Products of the Forest.-Value or quantity of lumber, tar, pitch, turpentine, rosin, pot and pearl ashes, skins and furs, ginseng, etc., and number of men employed. Manufactures.-Statistics of the following branches, including value of articles made in 1839. Amount of capital invested, and number of persons employed. Machinery, hardware, nails and cutlery, cannon and small arms, gold, silver, etc., various metals, granite, marble, etc., bricks and lime, wool, cotton, silk, flax, mixed manufactures, tobacco, hats, caps, and bonnets, leather, tanneries, saddlery, shoe makers, etc., soap and candles, liquors, (distilled and fermented,) gunpowder, drugs and medicines, paints and dyes, glass, earthenware, and potteries, sugar refineries, chocolate, confectionary, paper and paper hangings, printing, binding, newspapers and periodicals, cordage, wagons, etc., musical instruments, carriages, flouring mills, grist mills, saw mills, and oil mills, ships and other vessels, furniture, brick, stone, frame, or wooden houses built in 1839, and the value of all other manufactures and mechanic arts not enumerated. These tables, if properly taken, will furnish a fund of statistical data that must prove highly valuable to all classes of the community, and especially so to the political economist, statesman, and merchant, and it will be our aim to furnish the readers of our Magazine, in a condensed and comprehensive form, the most important of them. AMOUNT OF the public debt oF THE UNITED STATES IN EACH SUCCESSIVE YEAR FROM 1791 To 1835. * Expense of the Revolutionary War, (1775-1785,) $135,193 703. paper money, (1776-1781,) $359,547,027 25. (1778-1783,) $7,962,959. + Purchase of Louisiana, (1803) for $15,000,000. Expense of the Three Years' War. $ Purchase of Florida (1821) for $5,000,000. 1811.... 48,005,587 76 1826.... 81,054,059 99 1827.... 73,987,357 20 1828.. 67,475,043 87 1829. 58,421,413 67 1830.. 48,580,534 22 1831. 39,082,461 88 1832. 24,282,879 24 1833.... 7,001,698 83 1834.... 4,722,260 29 Extinguished. Emissions of Loans and subsidies from France, |