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an elaborate description of the city of Worcester, embracing, among other matters, the progress of wealth and population from 1763 to 1850. The value of property assessed for taxation had increased from $296,542, in 1800, to $10,750,282, in 1849. The assessment of taxes for 1852, recently completed, shows the assessed value of property at the present time to be $12,575,566. In the previous year (1851) it was $11,925,055, showing an increase in the valuation in 1852 over 1851 of $650,511. The rate of taxation on property is $6 50 on the $1,000. In 1851, it was $6 75, showing a reduction of 25 cents on the thousand. This taxation, it will be understood, includes the County, School, Highway, and Water taxes. The amount of appropriations by the city, for all purposes in 1851, was $75,500. This year (1852) it is $85,700. Stephen Salisbury pays a tax of $3,830, and his property is valued by the assessors at $589,000.

CONDITION OF THE BANKS IN MAINE.

By the official abstract of the returns of the banks in Maine, as they existed on the first Monday in May, 1852, it appears that there are 39 banks in the State, 7 of which are in Bangor, 6 in Portland, 3 each in Augusta and Bath, 2 each in Saco, Waterville, Brunswick, and 1 each in Topsham, Biddeford, Belfast, Calais, Eastport, Gardiner, Wiscasset, Waldoboro', Hallowell, South Berwick, Skowhegan, and Thomaston.

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The last semi-annual dividend varied from 3 to 5 per cent-averaging more than 4 per cent. Acts were passed at the late session of the Legislature to incorporate new banks at Bangor, Hallowell, Lewiston Falls, Winthrop, Orono, Bowdoinham, and Richmond.

UNITED STATES TREASURY NOTES OUTSTANDING SEPTEMBER 1, 1852. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Register's Office, Sept. 1, 1852, Amount outstanding of the several issues prior to 22d July, 1846, as per records of this office..... Amount outstanding of the issue of the 22d July, 1846, as per records of this office....

Amount outstanding of the issue of 28th of January, 1847, as per records of this office.

Deduct cancelled notes in the hands of accounting officers, all under acts prior to 22d July, 1846... . . . .

Total....

$107,861 64

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8,350 00

$127,911 64

150 00

$127,761 64

PROGRESS OF BANK STOCKS IN BOSTON.

The following table, prepared by JOSEPH G. MARTIN, broker, and a correspondent of the Boston Evening Gazette, will give the readers of the Merchants' Magazine a correct idea of the gradual and steady rise in bank stocks for several years, but it is not claimed that the figures given are the exact price of actual sales, though care has been taken to have them as near as possible a fair representation of the market value at the several dates mentioned:

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By a Revised Law of the State of New York, the following damages on bills drawn or negotiated in this State, and protested for non-payment, are allowed, viz:—

Bills drawn on the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, or District of Columbia, 3 per cent.

North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, or Tennessee, 5 per cent. Any other State or Territory of the United States, or any other place on or adja cent to this continent, and north of the Equator, and any other British or foreign pos- ( sessions in the West Indies, or elsewhere on the Western Atlantic Ocean, or any port or place in Europe, 10 per cent.

SEC. 19. Such damages shall be in lieu of interest, charges of protest, and all other charges incurred previous to, and at the time of giving notice of non-payment, but the holder of such bill shall be entitled to demand and recover lawful interest upon the aggregate amount of the principal sum specified in such bill, and of the damages thereon, from the time at which notice of protest for non-payment shall have been given, and payment of such principal sum shall have been demanded.

SEC. 20. If the contents of such bill be expressed in the money of account of the United States, the amount due thereon, and of the damages herein allowed for th

non-payment thereof, shall be ascertained and determined without any reference to the rate of exchange existing between this State and the place on which such bill shall have been drawn, at the time of the demand of payment, or of notice of nonpayment.

SEC. 21. If the contents of such bill be expressed in the money of account or currency of any foreign country, then the amount due, exclusive of the damages payable thereof, shall be ascertained and determined by the rate of exchange or the value of such foreign currency at the time of the demand of payment.

COMMERCIAL STATISTICS.

STATISTICS OF THE TRADE AND COMMERCE OF NEW ORLEANS.

In preceding pages of the present number of this Magazine, we have given the annual statement of the Trade and Commerce of New Orleans for the twelve months ending August 31st, 1852, as originally prepared for the New Orleans Price Current. The subjoined statistics of imports, exports, arrivals and clearances of shipping, prices of produce and merchandise, &c., &c., are derived from the same reliable source. In the Merchants' Magazine for November, 1840, (vol. iii.,) we published tabular statements of the trade of New Orleans from 1830 to 1840, which in connection with similar statements in succeeding volumes forms a complete statistical history of the commercial growth of that city from 1830 to 1852:

TABLE SHOWING THE RECEIPTS OF THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLES FROM THE INTERIOR DURING THE

YEAR ENDING 31st August, 1852, WITH THEIR ESTIMATED AVERAGE AND TOTAL VALUE.

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106,924,083 96,897,873

EXPORTS OF COTTON FROM NEW ORLEANS FOR THE YEARS COMMENCING 1ST SEPTEMBER

Whither exported.

London..

AND ENDING 31st August.

1851-2. 1850-1. Whither exported.

15,418 Providence, R. I.. 7,211 4,678 Philadelphia.

2,159

Baltimore.

183,054 125,067 Portsmouth..

1,554 1,164 Other coastwise ports.
4,131 Western States......

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Total........... 1,435,815 997,458

RECAPITULATION.

24,562 10,366 Great Britain...... 772,242 582,378

562,277 New York..

Boston...

Hamburg

17,694 3,235 France....

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Gottenburg.

6,634 8,180 North of Europe.....

75,950

47,786

Spain and Gibraltar..

47,645

41,018 8. of Europe & China.

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EXPORTS OF TOBACCO FROM NEW ORLEANS FOR TWO YEARS COMMENCING 1ST SEPTEMBER, AND ENDING 31ST AUGUST. 1851-2. 1850-1. Whither exported.

Whither exported.

1851-2. 1850-1.

Liverpool

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7,844

6,457

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13,347 10,087

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659 Portsmouth...

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EXPORTS OF SUGAR FROM NEW ORLEANS FOR TWO YEARS, (UP THE RIVER EXCEPTED,) FROM

1ST SEPTEMBER TO 31ST august,

93,715 54,501

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EXPORTS OF MOLASSES FROM NEW ORLEANS FOR TWO YEARS, (UP THE RIVER EXCEPTED,) FROM

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