COTTON GOODS. A TABLE of the imports of cotton goods into the United States for the last three fiscal years. IMPORTS OF COTTON GOODS INTO THE UNITED STATES. A STATEMENT showing the value of the domestic and foreign Exports from the United States, exclusive of specie, for each fiscal year from 1821 to 1850, and the tonnage employed. A TABLE of the articles of domestic produce and manufactures exported during the year ending on the 30th June, 1850. LEAD. SHIPMENTS of lead from the Upper Mississippi Lead Mines the past four years, commencing with the month of September, and ending with the month of August, in each year. N. B.-No shipments are ever made in the month of January, and but rarely in the months of December and February, our navigation generally closing in the latter part of November, and opening early in March. COTTON PRODUCED AND EXPORTED. The following is the total cotton crop of the United States for the year 1850, and the three previous years : Exported to foreign ports from September 1st, 1849, to August 31st, 1850 * August 22-Shipments to date this year 30,020; same time in '49, 51,552. TABLE showing the quantity of Coal sent to Market annually, from its commencement, in 1820, to 1850, inclusive.* Total Total Lacka- Pine Lykens' Shamo- Wyo. Total Increase & The area of coal formation in the United States is equal to 133,132 square miles; while the total area of these formations in Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton and Newfoundland, is less than 30,000 square miles. Nearly the whole of this vast area is occupied by bituminous coal. The total area of the anthracite region of Pennsylvania is estimated at less than 400 square miles, yet more tons of fuel are now annually produced from this small area, than from the almost boundless fields of bituminous coal scattered over twelve States. As early as 1847, the railroads and canals built to develope the wealth of this region, had cost about $40,000,000. Anthracite seems to have superseded bituminous coal on nearly the whole of our sea-board. Anthracite has now been successfully intro 6,176 181 22,154 |