FROM THE

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY,

TRANSMITTING,

IS COMPLIANCE WITH A RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE OF MARCH 8, 1851,

THE

REPORT OF ISRAEL D. ANDREWS,

CONSUL OF THE UNITED STATES FOR CANADA AND NEW BRUNSWICK,

Sonos Of THE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS IN EACH STATE, OP THE GULF OF MEXIOO AND

ETRAITS OF FLORIDA, AND A PAPER ON THE COTTON CROP OF THE UNITED STATES.

WASHINGTON :
BEVERLEY TUCKER, SENATE PRINTER.

1854.

COMMUNICATION

FROM THE

SECRETARY OF

THE TREASURY.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Accust 26, 1852-Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Arero 30, 1852-Ordered, that 5,000 copics additional for the Senate, 1,000 additional for

the Secretary of the Treasury, and 500 additional for Israel D. Andrews, be printed. Aparat 4, 1854.-Resolved, That there be printed, for the use of the Senate, five thousand additonal copies of the Report of Israel D. Andrews, Senate Ex. Doc. No. 112, First Session Thirty-second Congress.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 25, 1852. SIR: The resolution of the Senate of the 8th March, 1851, requests the Secretary of the Treasury to "communicate to the Senate, as early as possible at the next session, full and complete statements of the trade and commerce of the British North American colonies with the l'nited States and other parts of the world, inland and by sea, for the years 1850 and 1851, with such information as he can procure of the trade of the great lakes.” In compliance therewith, I have the honor to transmit a report, by Israel D. Andrews, accompanied by numerous statist:cal tables, carefully compiled from official sources, with maps prepared for, and illustrative of, said report. I am, respectfully,

THO. CORWIN,

.

Secretary of the Treasury. Hon. Wm. R. KING,

President pro tempore II. $. Senate.

NOTE

s the progress of the preparation of the report, it was found necessary to change Part III

un appendix, which contains notices of the trade and commerce of Cincinnati, Louisville, my lous, Pittsburg, New Orleans, the steam-marine of the interior, of the inland water

bles, the increase and value of the foreign and domestic trade, navigation, &c., &c.; as www tables showing the exports and imports of the principal Atlantic States for a series of year, and statements of the increase in the tonnage of the several States from 1836, with

per cent, increase of the total tonnage, and that of the several States. I was oncceived very desirable to publish a particular account of the inland, coasting, and inde of the principal Atlantic cities, and a portion of the materials were collected

p that parpone ; but, for the want of correct statistical data, it was found to be impossible c. are them of a character suited to this report.

k a proper to state in this place my thanks to Mr. N. Davidson, late of the Buffalo AdPost, for has very valuable and intelligent services in the preparation of the report, partisarly in those portions relating to the trade of the lakes and the importance and value of

tral trade. The smportance of the Mississippi trade, through the Gulf of Mexico, to every portion of "sel'mn, at ss presumed, will be regarded by all as a full justification for the copious notices, = the appendix, of the Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida ; and the value of the cotin crop to the whole country called for the extended and complete exposition in regard to it enerted. Similar reasons and to exonerate the report from the imputation of being sliceal-demanded the notices of the commerce, railroads, &c., of the southern States and weber cities. It is believed no one will object that they were not within the strict literal

of the resolution under which the report was prepared. The annexed map of the Gulf . Mence and Straits of Florida, and Isthmus of Tehuantepec, furnished, as before stated, o the Const Survey, is the first one of the kind ever published from authentic sources. It

dhe fand interesting in illustration of the views taken in the paper contained in this sport rcting this American sea, and generally with reference to other considerations. The labor of the Coast Survey are progressing in that quarter, and ere long their results will

poblubed. This map is bat an index of what they will be. Thorough and exact as the mverus labor and the highest order of scientific skill can render them, their usefulness to our emmerce will be unappreciable, and their benefits will extend through ages.

1. D. A. WSHINGTON, 1852.