PRICES ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 9TH FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES:

The market for the week ending Sept. 16, recovered a portion of the decline of the previous week. We sales we estimate at 4,000 bales, one-half of which was taken for home consumption, the balance for export. The foreign advices received this week being of a more cheering character, and the heavy rains enabling spinners to start their machinery, gave the market more steadiness, and holders had the advantage to the extent of a c. per lb. The market closed, with but little on sale, at the following rates:—

PRICES ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 16TH FOR THE FOLLOWING QUALITIES:

The general reports in relation to the growing crop are of a favorable character. It would be strange, indeed, from the large extent of country occupied by the cotton plant, if there were not some complaints; but thus far, we hear of none of import

ance.

The following figures we gather from the official statement of the cotton crop for 1853-4. The total amounts to 2,930,027 bales, or 332,855 less than the one preceding:

The quantity taken for consumption in the United States is 610,571 bales, or 60,438 less than last year. The amount on hand in the ports of the United States, including Augusta and Hamburg, as well as Boston, &c., is 135,603 bales, against 135,643 bales last year. The stock on hand in the usual shipping ports is 116,727 bales, against last year 107,340.

UNITED STATES COTTON CROP.

TOTAL RECEIPTS OF COTTON INTO THE VARIOUS PORTS OF THE UNITED STATES.

TOTAL FOREIGN EXPORTS OF COTTON FROM THE UNITED STATES.

1,603,750

1,736,860

374,058

1851-2. 1,668,749

1,206,771

301,358

289,627

72,156

426,728 421,375 165,172 171,176 168,875 129,492 176,168 193,636 184,647 139,595 121,001

2,319,148

2,528,400 2,443,646 1,988,710 1,590,155

STOCKS OF COTTON ON HAND IN THE UNITED STATES ON 31ST AUGUST.

The consumption here given is the quantity taken by spinners from the out-ports. The consumption in the interior was given by census for 1850 at 67,460, and it must now be at least double.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, June 26, 1854. From a conviction of the facility with which goods ordered to warehouse, and goods ordered from warehouse for lading and re-exportation may be diverted, and prevented from reaching the places to which ordered, or the contents of the packages changed, and with which goods in bond may be withdrawn or removed without permit and payment of duty, unless the regulations of the department are strictly observed, and great vigilance practiced by the officers of the customs; and from the knowledge that many and serious frauds of this kind have been committed, it is deemed proper, in order to guard more effectually against these alarming abuses, to call your particular attention to the subject.

You will, immediately upon the receipt of this circular, cause a full and exact inventory to be made, of all goods in each and every warehouse in your port; and cause the following accounts of the said goods, and others bonded from time to time, to be kept:

1st. An account, by double entry, of all goods now in bond, and hereafter from time to time bonded, and of the goods from time to time withdrawn, for consumption, transportation in bond, or re-exportation, showing, on the one hand, the whole of said goods so on hand, or bonded and withdrawn, and on the other the whole of the goods, on hand or bonded, and withdrawn, in each warehouse, with the location and owner, or other description of such bonded warehouse, and the officer or officers, from time to time in charge thereof.

2d. An account to be kept by each officer in charge of any bonded warehouse, of the like particulars in respect to such bonded warehouse.

And in order further to insure security, you will

1st. Require each officer to whose bonded warehouse, or under whose charge for lading for re exportation, goods are ordered,—to transmit his certificate of the receipt or lading thereof, as the case may be, and will each day tompare these certificates with the permits and orders granted, on the same day, and file and preserve said certificate in your office.

2d. You will, at the close of each month, cause to be compared the accounts of each keeper of a bonded warehouse, with the accounts of each warehouse kept in your office.

3d. You will cause, at the close of each quarter, an inventory to be made of the goods in all the warehouses, and the said inventory to be compared with the accounts in your office.

4th. Upon comparison of the accounts of the several warehouses with the accounts in your office, if they do not agree, you will cause the proper inquiry, investigation, and correction to be made. If found correct, or when so corrected, you will certify the same, and transmit them at the end of each month, and the inventory at the end of each quarter, to this office. I am, very respectfully,

JAMES GUTHRIE, Secretary of the Treasury.

OF RETURNS OF STATISTICS OF FOREIGN COMMERCE.

GENERAL REGULATIONS. NO. 27.

TO COLLECTORS OF THE CUSTOMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 13, 1854.

SIR: It is deemed necessary to modify and amend the Circular Instructions of this Department of 1st June, 1847, issued in pursuance of the act approved February 10, 1820, entitled an act to provide for obtaining accurate statements of the foreign commerce of the United States, in order to insure greater uniformity, accuracy, and promptitude, on the part of Collectors, in keeping the accounts and making the returns required, and greater facility and dispatch in the register's office, in making the entries thereof, and exhibiting their results. With this view, I annex a copy of the act and the following tables:

1. A table of foreign articles imported and exported from and to foreign countries; 2. A table of articles exported, the growth, produce, and manufacture of the United States; 3. A table of countries and places from and to which the imports and exports are to be entered and reported; and 4, a table of flags, designating the nationality of foreign vessels.

The register will transmit to you a supply of blanks for the purpose of making the proper returns, which are to commence with and include the transactions of the present fiscal year. You will observe the forms heretofore prescribed for making returns of the navigation of your district, both foreign and coastwise, as well as of vessels engaged in the fisheries.

The tables annexed you will regard as authoritatively established, and not to be changed or modified without the consent of this Department. If any new article of import or export, or any new country to or from which any article is brought, not named in these tables, should occur, you will report the fact to the Department, in order that it may prescribe a general rule in relation to the one or the other.

The forms to be transmitted by the register will enable you to report separatelythe imports of foreign goods in American vessels; the imports of foreign goods in foreign vessels; the exports of foreign goods in American vessels; the exports of foreign goods in foreign vessels; the exports of domestic produce in American vessels; the exports of domestic produce in foreign vessels.

At the bottom of the abstracts, showing the exports of foreign goods, you will state the amount from warehouse and the amount not from warehouse.

The indorsements on these abstracts will indicate these several descriptions of trade. But it will be necessary to fill the blank left in each abstract, to indicate the quarter to which it applies and for which it is rendered.

The first column of tables 1 and 2 contains a series of numbers from 1 to 68. Table 3 contains 77 numbers. It has been found that, in no port is there trade in any one quarter with every country named in the list; and hence, in entering the countries with which you have transactions, you will use the numbers in the abstract as you may find occasion, indorsing on the abstract the names of the countries so used, and affixing the numbers which are respectively to represent them on the abstract.

The time at which any article is, in these returns, to be taken as imported, is the date of entry-that is to say, when the duty, if the article is dutiable, is paid or secured; or, if not dutiable, when the article is entered and the quantity and value ascertained. In like manner, the time at which the exports are to be taken as made, is the date of the manifest thereof.

In following, as you will do, for obtaining the proper results, the rule for collecting duties, prescribed in the Circular of the 15th June, 1853, touching the accounts of collectors, there will be excesses and deficiencies in quantity and value on the amount of duties entered, arising in cases of subsequent liquidation of the invoices, and of the allowance of claims for damage, leakage, &c., whether made by authority of the collector or of this department. Regular accounts of these excesses and deficiencies are to be kept, and the balances carried into the abstracts of the quarter next succeeding that in which the duties may have been received. These excesses and deficiencies will be shown by your books, and statements of them may, from time to time, be requested; but they will not appear as a distinct item in the returns now required. The amounts will be deducted or added, as the case may be, to the other transactions of the quarter, and the balance or result only appear as the imports of the quarter.

The time for transmitting these returns will be within the same period for the close of the quarter, as that prescribed for the monthly accounts after the close of the month, namely, within three days in the smaller ports, and within seven days at other ports, from the close of the quarter.

If any returns are received which are not made in conformity with the instructions, or are otherwise inaccurate or defective, and are returned by the register for correction, the collectors will make such correction in not more than three days from the time of their receipt, and again transmit them to the register.

No change is intended in the form of the returns of navigation, but only in the time of the rendition thereof. This will hereafter be the time when the returns of imports and exports are by this instruction required to be rendered.

JAMES GUTHRIE, Secretary of the Treasury.

SUPERVISION AND INSPECTION OF STEAMBOATS.

GENERAL REGULATIONS. NO. 32.

CIRCULAR TO SUPERVISING AND LOCAL INSPECTORS OF STEAMBOATS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, August 7, 1854.

For the purpose of limiting and restricting the expenditures under the act of August 30, 1852, relating to steamboats, to the necessary and proper objects thereof, it has become the duty of this department to apprize the supervising and local inspectors that no allowance for contingent and incidental expenses will hereafter be sanctioned, unless estimates showing in detail the articles required and their cost, shall be transmitted to and approved by this Department, previous to their purchase or procure

ment.

The only charges in the accounts of supervising and local inspectors exempted from the necessity of such previous estimates, are for travel and transportation of instruments, which must be supported as required by the general regulations of May 10, 1853.

The estimates should be accompanied with such proper explanations of the occasion for the proposed expense as may supersede the delay of calling for further explanaJAMES GUTHRIE, Secretary of the Treasury.

tion.

DUTIES OF OFFICERS IN BONDED WAREHOUSES.

GENERAL REGULATIONS. NO. 28.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 18, 1854. Collectors of Customs and Naval Officers are hereby instructed, that, in future, all orders to inspectors and officers in charge of bonded warehouses to send and receive bonded merchandise, as per forms Nos. 12 and 15, accompanying the warehousing regulations of the 17th February, 1849, must be countersigned by the naval officer as well as signed by the collector; and no bonded goods will, hereafter, be permitted to be removed from the warehouse, to which they were originally sent, except on an order signed by the collector and countersigned by the naval officer.

It will also be the duty of the naval officer to examine, from time to time, as often as may be convenient, the goods in all the bonded warehouses at the port where he is stationed, and thus ascertain whether they agree with the accounts required to be kept of such merchandise in bond.

The accounts of the officers in charge of bonded warehouses, as directed by the general regulations No. 26, of the 26th June, after being faithfully compared with the accounts in the collector's office, and before their transmission to the Department, must, in all cases, be attested by the naval officer.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant,

JAMES GUTHRIE, Secretary of the Treasury.

OF DESTRUCTION OF GOODS WHILE IN WAREHOUSE OR IN TRANSITU.

GENERAL REGULATIONS. NO. 29.

TO COLLECTORS AND OTHER OFFICERS OF THE CUSTOMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT, July 19, 1854.

In view of the applications presented to the Department under the 8th section of the warehousing law of the 28th March, 1854, for relief from duties, in case of the destruction, in whole or in part, of bonded goods, while in warehouse or in transitu, under warehouse transportation bond, from one port to another, it is deemed proper to state, for the information and government of collectors and other officers of the customs, that the law proposes relief where actual injury is incurred, or the property is destroyed, in whole or in part, by accidental fire, shipwreck, or like casualty, but does not provide for deterioration from dampness or other like cause in the warehouse or in transitu under bond.

Application for relief, under the 8th section of the act of 28th March, 1854, must be made in writing, under oath or affirmation, by the claimant to the collector of the port where the alleged injury or destruction, in whole or in part, of the goods, wares, and merchandise, by accidental fire, or other like casualty, occurred, setting forth that the same happened while the goods remained in the custody of the officers of the customs, in a public or private warehouse, under bond, or in the appraisers' stores, or while in transportation, under bond, describing the place and manner of the accident, together with the extent of the injury, loss, or destruction, and the precise time when sustained.

This statement must be accompanied by proof by affidavits of two or more credible and disinterested persons, as to the injury, loss, or destruction aforesaid.

On receipt of the foregoing application and statement, the collector will subjoin thereto an official statement of the officers of the customs, connected with the custody of the goods, as to the facts stated by the claimant, together with a statement going to show that the store or building in question was, at the time of the occurrence, a duly constituted bonded warehouse, under the law, or appraiser's store, as the case may be.

The collector will report the foregoing to the Department. giving his views as to the character of the proof and the validity of the claim, stating the date of maturity and parties to each bond, the amount due on each, the amount of duties, if any, paid, together with any views or facts connected with the case he may deem useful in enabling the Department to discharge its duty under the law.

When damage is alleged to have occurred, in the course of transportation from one port to another, under bond, in pursuance of law and the regulations of the Department, the application of the party, sustained by evidence as heretofore prescribed, must be lodged with the collector within ten days after the landing of the merchandise, and while the goods are in the possession of the officers of the customs, and due appraisement will be made of the goods so alleged to be damaged, as in the case of damage occurring on voyages of direct importation from foreign ports.

It will be borne in mind, however, that no abatement of duties, satisfaction, or cancellation of the bonds will be made, under the 8th section of the act of the 28th March, 1854, without the previous sanction of the Department.

Collectors of the customs, receiving entries of merchandise, transported in bond, are further instructed to report such merchandise, in their weekly returns, as the part or the whole (as the case may be) of that included in the transportation bond, giving the name of the person who made the entry for transportation, and the date of his bond as reported by the collector at port of withdrawal in the triplicate entry and certified invoice, in the column under the head of " importer or owner," and omitting the name