Mr. Whitehead, of the custom-house at New Orleans, the gentleman who, for many years, has had charge of the export records, has furnished the Price Current, Commercial Intelligencer, etc., of that city, with the following statement of the value of exports from that port, cleared at the custom-house during each month for three years—viz.-1843, 1844, and 1845-with the total for each, and showing a grand total for the three years, of $146,578,569. It will be seen that the total exports of 1844 exceed those of 1845 in the sum of $6,329,101.-This results from the fact that the navigation of the interior rivers was obstructed by low waters or ice during some three months of the latter year, while in 1844, there was scarcely any interruption to the intercourse with the markets of the West. This statement, however, it may be remarked, does not embrace the entire value of the exports from the port of New Orleans, as a large amount is shipped to the neighboring states of Florida and Alabama, without being cleared at the custom-house. STATEMENT OF THE VALUE OF EXPORTS CLEARED AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, NEW ORLEANS, FOR THE THREE PAST YEARS. SUGAR CROP OF LOUISIANA FOR 1845. Mr. P. A. Champomier has published his annual statement of the sugar crop of Louisiana. It is a neat pamphlet of some thirty-seven pages, containing the name of every sugar planter in the state, the product of each plantation, and much other matter, which renders it a work of great value to all interested in the growth and consumption of this important staple of Louisiana. After enumerating the different plantations, with the product of each, Mr. C. furnishes the following interesting statement: RAILROAD STATISTICS. PROGRESS OF RAILROADS IN GEORGIA. THE Milledgeville Journal gives the following gratifying account of the enterprise which the state of Georgia has, within the last two years, manifested in her internal improvements: OF THE RAILROADS ALREADY FINISHED. Central Railroad, from Savannah to Macon,........ Total,.......... TO BE FINISHED IN ŞIX, AND LESS THAN TWELVE MONTHS. Macon and Western Railroad, from Macon to Atlanta,................. Western and Atlantic Railroad, from Dawsonville to Cross Plains,............ Already finished, as above,.................. Total,......... It should be stated that the Macon and Western Railroad has been in operation several years, for the distance of fifty-nine miles, and is now undergoing thorough repair, in the hands of a new and strong company. The Macon and Western Railroad is virtually an extension of the Central Railroad. Atlanta is the common point at which the Georgia Railroad, and the Macon and Western Railroad, terminate. The Western and Atlantic Railroad is the extension of both to the westward; and when it reaches Cross Plains, the works of internal improvement in the state will be completed within fifteen miles of the southern boundary of the state of Tennessee. LITTLE MIAMI RAILROAD, OHIO. The third annual report of this road has been published. It shows the cost and condition of the road up to December, 1845. The length of the road now in use, from Cincinnati to Xenia, is 654 miles the distance to be completed from Xenia to Springfield, where it will connect with the Mad River and Lake Erie Road, is 184 miles—or its entire length will be 84 miles-and its distance to the Lake of Sandusky, 214 miles. The total amount received for passengers, from December 1, 1844, to November 31, 1845, was $25,394 82; and for freight, during the same time, $20,932 76. Total, for freight and passengers, $46,327 58. The expenditures amounted to $30,840 89; leaving a profit, over current expenses, of $15,486 69. The total expense of construction, &c., thus far, has been $937,367. The following is a statement of the principal articles of produce transported on the Little Miami Road, for the year ending December 1st: NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PENANG HARBOR. SINGAPORE, Dec. 3, 1845.-Vessels approaching the island from the southward, intending to enter the harbor of Penang, should be guided by the following directions: 1. There are two lines of beacons; those on the east side, five in number, painted white, in the form of a cross; and those on the west side, three in number, painted red, in the form of a triangle. 2. The first or southernmost white cross beacon is visible from three to four miles, bearing E. N. from the S. end of Saddle Island, and SSE. from the middle of Pulo Rymo, distance one mile. 3. Vessels will be safe in working if they do not stand to the eastward of the white cross beacons. 4. The southern red triangle beacon is off the north end of Pulo Jerajah, and after having passed it care must be taken to keep more to the east side of the channel to avoid a small patch, with 24 fathoms low water, bearing nearly NNE. about quarter of a mile. 5. With this exception, between the first and second red triangle beacons, all vessels can safely work in, if they never go to the eastward of the white cross beacons, or to the westward of the red triangle beacons; each beacon is placed on projecting spits of sand or mud, in two fathoms low water, spring tides. SHOAL IN LINE WITH PULO JANANG. We copy the subjoined from the Singapore Free Press: "The following extract of a letter, from Mr. Alexander Rodger, of the barque Ellen, from China for London, dated, off Anjer, Nov. 17, 1845, contains information of the existence of a shoal in a part of the sea which on the charts appears to be free from anything of the kind. The Dutch charts lately published, may, perhaps, notice it: "On the morning of the 6th inst. (6h. 30m. A.M.) we were so unfortunate as to discover a shoal by touching it. She only struck once, and went over the rock without stopping, but that one blow took away the after part of the false keel, and nearly unshipped the rudder. It was a fine morning, wind light at SSW., and sea smooth, and watch washing decks, and in a place where no shoal is laid down in the latest published charts by Horsburgh. It lies in lat. 0. 40. N., lon. 107. 34. E., the peak of the highest Tamblian, N. 1 E., distant 20 miles, and in a line with Pulo Janang, distant 10 miles. Very soon after, I went in the boat, with three men, and examined the shoal, and found it to be about 100 yards square, and all sharp-pointed rocks, from five fathoms to nine feet, which was the least water; but great part of it had only fifteen to eighteen feet, and in some places twelve feet, and in one place nine feet over it. Had the Ellen got on the middle of the shoal, she would have laid there, and you might have had a visit of us in our boats. There were nineteen to twenty-one fathoms close to and all around it.'" LIGHTS AT THE ENTRANCE OF THE ROADS OF MORLAIX. From the 1st of December, 1846, the direction of the eastern channel of the roads of Morlaix, (called the channel of Treguier,) will be indicated after dark by two lights, which will be lighted, the first on Ile Noire, and the second on the Tour de la Lande. The following statement makes known the geographical position, character, and bearing of the new lights: 1. Light of Ile Noire.-A light varied every two minutes by flashes, preceded and followed by short eclipses. Lat. 48. 40. 23., lon. 6. 12. 48. Elevation, 14 metres above the highest tides, and may be seen at a distance of 10 marine miles. 2. Light of the Tour de la Lande.-Fixed Light. Lat. 43. 38. 14., lon. 6. 13. 23. Elevation of the light above the surface, 17 metres; above the sea, 87 metres; to be seen at a distance of 12 miles. N. B. Besides these two lights, which, brought into one, indicate the position of the eastern channel of the roads of Morlaix, a small fixed light, to be seen at the distance of one marine mile, will be exhibited at the southern side of the Castle du Taureau, (750 metres to the N. 60 W. of the Ile Noire,) to light the anchorage of the northern part of roads. |