The number of bales of cotton received in Charleston by the railroad, from 1st January to 31st December, 1846, was.........

186,271

GENERAL STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE YEAR 1846.

The following is given by the Auditor as the property statement of the South Carolina Railroad Company, December 31, 1846:

By purchase of Charleston and Hamburgh Railroad, embracing road,

$2,714,377 50

59,741 30

11,963 19

By lands purchased since January, 1844.........
By less to credit Aiken lands...

$5,083 83

35 35

By amount due on pay-rolls and bills not charged, but forming part of the balance of indebtedness......

Total......

$2,736,081 99

2,863,654 49

5,048 48

800 00 8,490 00

15,773 97

8,680 29

30,437 49

40 00

9,210 60

$5,728,216 91

Freight Rates.-Iron, 25 cents per 100 pounds, through; lumber, $150 per M. feet for first ten miles, and 25 cents every additional ten miles; corn and grain, 7 cents per bushel, through; heavy merchandise, such as sugar, salt, and butter, 25 cents per 100 pounds, through; light and bulky merchandise, 8 cents per foot, through; horses, $8 each; two-wheeled carriages, $6 each; four-wheeled, $10 each. No parcels are taken on this road for less than 25 cents.

FREIGHT TARIFF, INCLUDING STATE TOLL,

ON THE LINE OF RAILROAD BETWEEN ALBANY, OR TROY AND BUFFALO, FOR THE WINTER OF 1847-8.

This tariff is made by the several companies between Albany, Troy, and Buffalo, with reference to the law of the Legislature, which requires the railroad companies to pay to the State canal tolls, distance being reckoned by the canal distances from place to place.

1st Class.-Merchandise generally, including the following articles, viz: Furs, sheep's pelts, butter, poultry, sheep and hogs, oysters in kegs, leather (loose), stoves,† hollow waret and castings generally, boots, shoes, wool, glass ware,t sheet and hoop iron, cotton waste,† eggs,t lemons,t oranges,† medicines,† machinery,† wooden ware,† mineral and Congress water,† carboys,† and all unspecified articles.

2d Class.-Domestic manufactured articles, on account of the manufacturer, including cotton and woollen cloths, carpeting, warps, leather in boxes or rolls, paper,† paper hangings,† hides, cotton and wool pressed in bales, hemp, cheese,† lard, tallow, sumac, spirits turpentine, sugar, molasses, oils, nails, rags, camphine, hops, fresh fish,† dried fruit, oysters and clams in shells,† oakum, flax, clover and grass seed, spikes, bar and boiler iron and steel, domestic salt in bulk, crockery in casks or crates,t window glass, peas, beans, oil cake, tar, pitch, rosin, tobacco, unmanufactured.

3d Class.-Salted fish, pork and beef in barrels, fresh pork and beef,† domestic spirits,† live cattle, pot and pearl ashes, pressed hay, water lime, sand, pipe clay and plaster in barrels, marble,† grindstones, wheat, rye, corn, oats, flax seed, and barley in bags or casks.

SPECIAL RATES.-Piano fortes, each, 4 cents per mile; horses, in lots of six or more, 4 cents per mile each; in smaller lots, 6 cents per mile each; furniture, and all light and bulky articles, per 8 cubic feet, or 100 pounds, at option of the Company,cent per mile; double carriages and sleighs, each, 6 cents per mile; single carriages and sleighs, 4 cents per mile each, which must be properly secured from damage by fire and weather, or will not be received by the Companies, except at the owner's risk of fire, weather, or chafing. Flour, green apples,† and potatoes,† per barrel as 100 pounds first class rates. Twentyfive cents will be charged for receiving and delivering any article without regard to weight, and each single article will be estimated to weigh not less than 100 pounds. Cattle, sheep, and hogs, for less than one eight-wheel car load, cent per mile per 100 pounds.

MISSOURI RIVER-ITS TRIBUTARIES AND ITS STEAMBOATS. The Missouri River rises within one mile of the head waters of the great river of the Oregon. It opens the "gates of the Rocky Mountains" at a point 411 miles above the head of its navigation. The following are some of its principal tributaries, each navigable from 100 to 800 miles:

* Undetermined. At owner's risk, as to damage from fire, weather, breakage, chafing, decay, or other circumstances, from which the articles are liable to receive injury.

The length of the Missouri, from its source to its mouth, is 3,096 miles, and no substantial obstruction impedes its navigation from its mouth to the falls, 2,000 miles. Considering the Missouri as one river from its sources to the Gulf of Mexico, it is the longest in the world. Its average rapidity is nearly twice that of the Mississippi, as the average level of its valley is nearly twice more elevated than that of the Mississippi. The first year a steamboat navigated the Missouri, was 1819. The following is an exhibit of the number of steamboats engaged in the trade of that river from 1838 to 1846:

The Santa Fe trade, and the fur and Indian trade, as well as the domestic commerce of that river, are very important and extensive; and there are those who anticipate the period when that stream will be made a great artery of the trade between the United States and China, and the East Indies. The trade between St. Louis and Santa Fe is estimated at $500,000 per annum. The fur trade of St. Louis is valued at $300,000 per

annum.

BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE RAILROAD.

The Boston and Providence Railroad Company was incorporated in 1831, and the road opened for travel in 1835. It is 43 miles in length, and originally cost $2,109,500. The annexed table exhibits the receipts, expenses, nett income, and dividends, in each of the past six years, or from 1841 to 1846, inclusive :

RECEIPTS, EXPENSES, NETT INCOME, AND DIVIDENDS OF THE BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE RAILROAD,

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF THE ANNUAL RECEIPTS, EXPENDITUres, and profits of the WILMINGTON AND RALEIGH (N. C.) RAILROAD COMPANY, TOGETHER WITH A STATEMENT of the RATES OF FARE.

Years.

1841....

1842..

1843.

1844..

1845..

1846.

288,493 45

212,091 20

76,402 25

12.00

317,822 49

289,682 45

28,140 04

12 00

331,480 20

1847....... We commend this table to the attention of the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, as an argument in favor of low rates of fare, seeing that Mr. McLane is in favor of increasing the fare between this city and Baltimore. It is a table of instructive results.

NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN APPROACHES TO THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL.

CHANGES IN THE BUOYING, LIGHTING, AND BEACONING OF THE APPROACHES TO THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL.

THE Trustees of the Liverpool Docks and Harbors do hereby give notice, that the following changes in the lighting, beaconing, and buoying of the northern approaches to this port, will take place on and after the night of Tuesday, the 2d November, 1847:

CROSBY LIGHT-HOUSE.

A new light tower has been erected nearly half a mile N. E. by N. of the present Crosby Light-house. The light therefrom will be exhibited, for the first time, on the evening of the above date, and be continued every night from sunset to sunrise.

The light on this tower will be stationary, of a red color, elevated 96 feet above the sea at half-tide level, and will be visible between the bearings of S. S. E. and N. E. by E. E., which limits will indicate respectively when a vessel is Westward of Mad Wharf, and when she is abreast of the Crosby Light Vessel, and ought to shape her fairway course up the Crosby Channel.

The Formby Light Vessel will be moved 170 fathoms N. by W. W. of her present position, into 35 feet at low water. When brought in a line with the new Crosby Shore Light, she will lead in from seaward through the Victoria Channel, on a course of S. E. by E. E.; and, when brought in a line with the Crosby Light Vessel, she will lead in through the half-tide Swashway, on the bearing of S. S. E. E.

CROSBY BEACON.

The Crosby Shore Beacon will be moved nearly half a mile N. E. of its present position, on a line with the Crosby Shore Light and Formby Light Vessel.

The Bell Beacon will be moved about 170 fathoms S. W. of its present position into 25 feet at low water, with the Formby Light Vessel and Crosby Shore Light in one, and bearing from the N. W. Light Ship N. E. E. four miles.

V. 4. Red (Can) Buoy, with perch, will be moved nearly a quarter of a mile N. W. by N. of its present position, into 21 feet at low water, Formby Light Vessel bearing N. E. by E. about one-sixth of a mile; C. 1. Red, (Can,) S. S. E. E. nearly one and a half miles.

Formby Northwest Sea Mark will be moved one and one-eighth of a mile N. N. E. E. of its present position, and a new Beacon will be erected on the Mad Wharf. These Beacons, when brought into one, on the bearing of S. E. by E. E., will lead from Formby N. W. Buoy up the fairway of the entrance of the Old Formby Channel.

BUOYS ON THE POTOMAC RIVER.

A CORRECT LIST OF THE BUOYS PLACED ON THE POTOMAC RIVER, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF LIGHTS.

1. Craney Island Buoy is put down in 21 feet water, Southeast point of the shoal, and West side of the channel.

2. Maryland Point Buoy, 19 feet water, South side of the channel.

3. Matompkin Buoy, on the extreme point of the shoal, South side of the channel, in 18 feet water.

4. Dade's Shoal Buoy, in 21 feet water, South side of the channel.

5. Port Tobacco Buoy, in 16 feet water, North side of the channel.

6. Lower Cedar Point Buoy, on the extreme end of the shoal, in 20 feet water, East side of the channel.

7. Broad Kettle Bottom Buoy, on the East side of the channel, in 30 feet water.

*8. Buoy of Swan Point is in 30 feet water, in the channel.

*9. Centre Buoy is below Swan Point, in 26 feet water, in the channel.

*10th Buoy found already placed.

11. Ragged Point Buoy is in 30 feet water, on the extreme end of the shoal, South side of the channel.

The widest part of the channel from Swan Point to Cobb's Point, lies to the North of the Buoys, the course being North-west by West, from the lower Buoy to the upper, in 4 to 5 fathoms water.

JOURNAL OF BANKING, CURRENCY AND FINANCE.

A LAW RELATING TO BANKING IN NEW YORK.

THE following" Act to amend an act entitled 'an act to abolish the office of Bank Commissioner, and for other purposes, passed April 18th, 1843," passed the legislature of New York December 4th, 1847:

The people of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

1. The third section of the act entitled "An act to abolish the office of Bank Commissioner, and for other purposes," passed April 18th, 1813, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

It shall be the duty of the Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Treasurer, on or before the first Tuesday of January, April, July and October in each year, to fix upon and determine some Saturday in the quarter of the year then ended, in respect to which every incorporated bank, banking association, and individual banker in the State, shall make a report of the character hereinafter specified. Immediately after each determination of such Saturday, the officers hereinbefore named, shall cause notice thereof to be published daily for six successive days in such newspaper published in the city of Albany as shall for the time being have the publication of legal notices under the act entitled "An act to provide for the public printing," passed March 5th, 1846, or shall serve a copy of such notice upon each incorporated bank, banking association, or individual banker in the State, by delivering the same to some officer or clerk thereof, at their respective places of business, or by depositing the same in the post-office, directed to each of such banks, banking associations and individual bankers, or some officer thereof, at their places of business respectively.

It shall be the duty of every incorporated bank, banking association, or individual banker in the State, on or before the first day of February, May, August, and November, of each year, to make and transmit to the Comptroller a quarterly report, which report shall be made on the oath of the president and cashier, and shall contain a true statement of the condition of the bank, hanking association, or individual banker making such report, before the transaction of any business on the morning of the day specified in the notice of the Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Treasurer, next preceding the date of such report, in respect to the following items and particulars, to wit:

Loans and discounts, overdrafts, due from banks, due from directors of the banks or banking associations making the report; due from brokers, real estate, specie, cash items, stocks and promissory notes, bills of solvent banks, bills of suspended banks, loss and suspense account, capital, circulation, (distinguishing that received from the Comptroller from the old outstanding bills,) profits, amount due to banks, amount due to individuals and corporations other than banks, amount due to the Treasurer of the State, amount due to the commissioners of canal fund, amount due to depositors on demand, amount due not included under either of the above heads. And it shall be the duty of the Comptroller to publish such reports together in the newspaper printed in the city of Albany, in this section before named, accompanied with a summary of the items of capital, circulation and deposits, specie and cash items, public securities and private securities; and the separate report of each bank, banking association and individual banker, shall be published in a newspaper published in the county; if a newspaper is published in the city or town in which any bank is situated, such publication shall be had in such papers in which such bank or banking association, or banking-house of such individual banker shall be situated, at the expense of such bank, banking association, or individual banker.

§2. Section four of the act in the first section of this act referred to, is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to wit:

The Comptroller shall publish the reports and summary required by the third section of this act, together in one paper, on or before the twenty-fifth day of August, November, February, and May, in each year; and the expense of such publication shall be defrayed by a per centage assessed upon the capital stock of all the banks and banking associations, and individual bankers doing business under the "Act to authorize the business of banking," passed April 18th, 1838, or of any act amending the same in the State; and if any such bank, banking association, or individual banker shall fail to furnish to the Comptroller its quarterly report in time for such publication, it shall forfeit and pay to the Comptroller the sum of one hundred dollars, to be applied by him to the