Commerce of Mobile [pp. 199-200]

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.
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portunity next year, if they only have the foresight to see it, and the practical
sagacity to avail themselves of it by gaining and keeping the confidence of the
laborers, who will do their part just and faitlhfully as their employers, and are
justly entitled to the prompt payment of fair wages. Here is the turning
point of the whole matter."
7.-RICE PRODUCT OF THE WORLD.
When will the United States become again a great rice grower and exporter,
and when will the rice lands of Georgia, North and South Carolina, more proli fic than those of the Nile, contribute their vast results to swell the teeming
wealth of the Nation? What these results were the previous issues of the RE'IEWx will show, and our "Industrial Resources," published in 1852, condensed
all the material into some fifty or a hundred pages.
From a circular recently issued by a Bremen hlouse we learn that to 30th
September last, Asia contributed to Europe 156,287 tons against 323,692 the
previous year. Of the Asiatic export for 1864-65S, there were still afloat, on
1st November last 25,534, against 85,414 tons previous year. The Carolina
crop was estimated at 7,000 casks, against 200,000 to 240,000 casks in former
years. Of the new crop but little would find its way to New York, and none to
Europe. Formerly the United States exported to Europe 40,000 to 50,000 tons
of rice annually; now, Europe exports heavily to the United States. At latest
advices, the Burmah and Arracan crop was in good order; from India the re port was, to 30th October, that the Bengal crop had suffered heavy damage.
Java is almost disappearing from the list of rice-producing countries; and China
will again, this season, require a considerable portion of the rice crop of
Buirmall.
ART. X.- DEPARTMIENT OF COMMERCE.
1.-COMMERCE OF CHARLESTON, S. C.
The Charleston Dailq Neies, one of the most enterprising of our Southern Ex changes, has published elaborate statistics of the commerce of Charleston for
the quarter ending 31st December, 1865, which we would gladly give in full but
for want of space. After speaking of the difficulty in comnpiling these tables,
owing to defective methods of arrangement at the Custom House, the Editor
adds:
By reference to the tables it will be seen that the value of fo,reign importa tions amount to $166,333.
The duties on these imports were................$ 83,543.95
Amount of dutiable goods wvarehoused............ 22,509.36
Amount of duties on goods withldrawn fiom ware house..................................12,898.43
Value of exports to foreign countries............. 1,676,534.00
Value of exports to coast wise pots............... 3,529,785.00
iNumber of vessels engaged in foreign trade................35
Number of vessels engaged in coastwise trade.............316
These figures indicate the revival of a commerce, which we confidently anticipate will increase and multiply until Charleston shall rank first among the
cities of the South in the extent and value of her import and export trade.
Of the coastwise exports, which amounted to $3,529,785, $3,103,806 came to
New York.
2.-COMMERCE OF MOBILE.
Tie Prices Current published at the office of the Register and Advertiser,
Mobile, exhibits already the spirit and energy whichll characterized the work