B.-Rates of Foreign and Domestic Exchange in New York in 1838. 2 a 3 p. 6 a 7 p. 16 50 a 16 60 3 a 4 p. 4 95 a 5 00 16 65 a 16 75 15 65 a 15 75 4a 5 p. 6 a 7 p. 1 a 11 p. a 14 p. 1 a 14 p. par a + p. par a + p. par a + p. 94 a 95 1,566,000 " Literature. To these should be added, Potatoes,.. It appears then, that the main crop of Illinois is corn, most of which is fed to animals. Of wheat, there are about 8 bushels to each soul, or but little more than is ordinarily allowed for the consumption of a people. Illinois, then, has not yet become a great wheat State. The potatoes, however, may be considered a surplus crop, if we allow the consumption of the people as we have done from wheat. In fact however, both are consumed, and both partially exported. Hogs,.. Animals. There are two or three counties omitted, but they will not affect the main items of production, as stated above, materially. Illinois must, on the whole, be regarded as a prosperous .1,258,184 State; but not enough so to run the extravagant career of 164,961 debt, schemes and boasting, which has been undertaken in 337,157 the last few years. After all, the best mode of growth, both It seems, then, palpable enough, that hogs are the chief for individuals and States, is the gradual and certain mode. animal raised In Illinois. and they are the great consumers Neat cattle,. Cincin. Chron. [From the Salem Mass. Register.] VALUATION OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS--1840. The following statistics are compiled from the records of the Valuation Committee, and may be found interesting to some of our readers. All other Works, Buildings, and Edifices, $20 value and upwards,. Tons of Vessels and small craft, of 5 tons and upwards, Securities of the United States, this State, or any other government,. Number of shares in any other incorporated Company possessing taxable property, Ounces of plate, of all kinds, exceeding $20 in value,. Acres of Tillage Land, including Orchards tilled,. . 1,000 1,000 00 2 .... 353 125 44,125 00 Acres of Fresh Meadow,.. 72,495 00 .... 272 00 From the Sandwich Islands. The Polynesian, published at Honolulu, of Sept. 12th, received by the editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, contains some statistics of the trade of the Island. The whole amount of imports into Honolulu for the last four and a half years, is stated at $1,567,000, of which $742,000 in value was from the United States. The value of exports for native produce in the same period was $1,388,100, of which to the value of $65,000 was sandal wood, $59,500 bullock hides, and the rest goat skins, salt, sugar, and various other articles. There are ten vessels owned by residents of the islands, of an aggregate tonnage of 1317 tons, valued at $65,500; seven of these vessels are owned by citizens of the United States, and three by English subjects. On the 5th of September three men deserted from the brig Friend, lying at the wharf in Honolulu, taking with them the ship's boat of six tons burthen, with provisions and instruments. It was supposed they had directed their course to the Island of Ascension. Suspension Meeting. but before the question was put on the resolution as amended Mr. Ingersoll made an earnest appeal in favor of the original On Saturday evening, the 6th instant, a few gentlemen resolution, which excluded the name of the United States met at the United States Hotel, with a view of devising and Bank and against the amendment which included that insti recommending some measures to the Legislature for the re-tution among the others; and when the question was put, it lief of the community under the existing difficulties; when George M. Dallas was called to the Chair, and Jos. R. Chandler appointed Secretary. JOSIAH RANDALL proposed to the meeting a series of resolutions, having in view the objects of the meeting, which, on motion of Joseph R. Ingersoll, were referred to a committee of seven citizens, who should report to an adjourned meeting. A committee was appointed to invite other citizens to the adjourned meeting. The meeting then adjourned, to assemble at the same place on Tuesday evening, 9th instant, at 7 o'clock. ADJOURNED MEETING. was lost, although previously adopted as an amendment. The principal speakers were Messrs. Ingersoll, Dallas, Montgomery, Wiegand, Miles, Kennedy, Watts, Brewster &c. Of the proceedings of the meeting, the speeches, &c. we shall at a time of more leisure speak at large. Meantime, we think there was a majority of the meeting, (among whom been no exception of a particular Bank. was the Secretary) who proposed that there should have A wish to harmonise induced several votes given; and avowedly caused a number of the committee to withold a resolution in favor of allowing the Banks to issue small notes.-U. S. Gaz. At a numerous meeting held by adjournment, at the United States Hotel, Tuesday evening, 9th February MR. DALLAS | Meeting of the Friends of Equal Rights. took the Chair, and MR. INGERSOLL, from the Committee of seven, reported a series of resolutions, which, after modification, were adopted as follows: 1. That this community in its financial concerns, stands at this moment in need of Legislative assistance and relief. 2. That the Bank of North America, the Bank of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia Bank, the Farmers and Mechanics' Bank, the Girard Bank, the Commercial Bank, the Mechanics' Bank, the Western Bank, the Bank of the Northern Liberties, the Bank of Penn Township, Moyamensing Bank, the Manufacturers and Mechanics' Bank, Southwark Bank, the Kensington Bank, and the Bank of Germantown, are believed to be in a condition which will enable them beneficially to receive, and to render available to the people, the contemplated relief and assistance. 3. That the requisitions of the Act of Assembly of 3d April, 1840, and the policy of the Commonwealth as made known by the Executive, were met and carried out on and after the 15th of January, 1841, and a large amount of specic has been withdrawn in the abortive effort to give permanence to the same. 4. That the following measures of relief and assistance are called for by the present emergency: Agreeably to a call numerously signed, a meeting of the mechanics, laborers, and other citizens of the city and county of Philadelphia, without distinction of party, was held in the rotunda of the MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE, in the city of Philadelphia, on Thursday evening, February 11th 1811. The meeting was called to order by Charles J. Wolbert, who nominated the following officers to preside, which nomination was seconded, and unanimously agreed to: President ALDERMAN PETER HAY. The call of the meeting having been read, John M. Kennedy on behalf of a Cominittee, submitted the following preamble and resolutions, which were twice read, the sense of the meeting taken on each separately, when they were unanimously adopted. Whereas, This meeting has entire confidence in the value and solidity of the deposits and circulation of all the Banks 1. A suspension of the penalties provided by any statute in the city and county of Philadelphia, and for all the purof this Commonwealth, for the omission of any of the above-poses of trade and business, believe them to be sufficiently named Banks to pay their deposits and other obligations in gold or silver coin. 2. A re-enactment of the provisions of the act of 3d April, 1840, relative to dividends, &c. 3. An arrangement by which each Bank shall be required to pay out its own notes, and not the notes of any other Banks. 4. Such other measures of relief and assistance as the Legislature in its wisdom may enact. 5. That a Committee of seven persons be appointed to proceed to Harrisburg for the purpose of obtaining the necessary relief and assistance. Resolved, That the Committee on resolutions appoint a committee to visit Harisburg. Resolved, That the proceedings be published in the papers of Philadelphia. Adjourned. G. M. DALLAS, Chairman, THE MEETING, In another place we give the proceedings of a meeting held last evening by adjournment in the United States Hotel. The only considerable discussion that arose was on the second resolution, to which several amendments were offered; one of which, by John Miles, Esq., proposed the omission of all names of banks, and such alterations as would make the resolution read thus: "That the banks of the city and county of Philadelphia, are believed to be in a condition which will enable them beneficially to receive, and to render available to the people, the contemplated relief and assistance." This amendment was adopted by a very large majority, convertible to support our industry, and effect the usual exchanges or commodities: wealth are fully competent, and in our opinion, are entirely willing, by proper legislation, to support the Institutions of the State created for banking purposes, in a liberal and proper exercise of their appropriate functions; and one of the chief of these functions is to furnish a circulating medium resting upon the confidence of the community as much as upon the specie in the vaults and other assets of the Banks for its use; and that all legislation calculated to strengthen and support such institutions in that particular, shall have our co-operation and confidence: And whereas, the constituted authorities of the Common Resolved, That in order to enable the Banks of the city and county of Philadelphia to be of service to the community in the present crisis, we would respectfully recommend to the Legislature a repeal of those provisions of the existing laws, by which their charters may be forfeited, or other penalties imposed for the non-payment of their notes and obligations in specie, and the substitution of such regulations as will impose strict responsibility on bank officers, and direct the investment of their capitals into the channels of our own business and industry. Resolved, That while the other States of the Union, with which we have extensive business connexions, permit the issue of notes of a less denomination than five dollars, and thereby have the advantage of a convenient currency for small transactions, the permission to our institutions to issue similar bills seems to be one of the remedies for the existing difficulties, recommended alike by its convenience and simplicity. |