COMPARATIVE EXPORT OF ROUGH RICE AND LUMBER, FROM THE PORT OF CHARLESTON. IMPORTS INTO CINCINNATI FOR FIVE YEARS, COMMENCING SEPTEMBER 1St, and Ending August 31st, VALUE OF SPECIFIC ARTICLES IMPORTED INTO CINCINNATI FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1850, TO SEPTEMBER 1, 1851, AND THE CORRESPONDING TIME LAST SEASON., Last season .16,841. 4,836 9,776 White Lead, kegs. .40,294. 50,857 54,399.. 36,266 2,385.. ..1,121 $11,278 11,010. 7,209 90. .100,131. .103,443 Butter, barrels. Butter, kegs. Blooms, tons.. 2,727 .60 00. Corn, bushels.. .195,662. .246,706 Cheese, boxes. Cotton, bales. Coffee, sacks 398,206 .40 00. .286,720 384,795 Flour, barrels.. .482,772. 10 3 50. 91,177. .1,310,633 Hemp, bales. 13,254. Hogs, head. .334,000. Lead, pigs. 59,413 Lard, barrels. .36,889. .15 00 Lard, kegs.. Molasses, barrels. Oats, bushels. 11,140. 57,577 Bacon, hogsheads. 249,579 Bacon, tierces. 28,296 Pork, barrels. .31,595. 12 00. Pork, pounds. Pig Metal, tons. Rice, tierces. Sugar, hogsheads. Sugar, barrels. Sugar, boxes. Wheat, bushels. Whiskey, barrels 195,075 57,208 272,062. .1,952,376. The total value of the above this year is $13,146,348, against $12,668,379 last year. DESTINATION OF SPECIFIED ARTICLES EXPORTED FROM THE PORT OF CINCINNATI. .588,660. 70. 302,756 .1,680,102 To New-Orleans DESTINATION OF SPECIFIED ARTICLES EXPORTED FROM THE PORT OF CINCINNATI continued. COMMODITIES port s river ports By Canals and By Flatboat AVERAGE PRICE NEW-ORLEANS SUGAR AND MOLASSES, RIO COFFEE, CORN, FLOUR, AND WHEAT, AT 1,426. .56,164.. 4,378. 7,196 .31,231. 3,268.. CHICAGO INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT CONVENTION-1847.-The following propositions, prepared by the Hon. John C. Spencer, of New-York, were adopted by the Convention : "1. That the Constitution of the United States was framed by practical men, for practical purposes, declared in the preamble regulation; and hence resulted the constitutional grant of power to Congress, 'to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the states.' "3. That being thus possessed both of the means and of the power, which were denied to the states respectively, Congress became obligated by every consideration of good faith and common justice, to cherish and increase both the kinds of commerce thus committed to its care, by expanding and extending the means of conducting them, and of affording them all those facilities, and that protection which the States individually would have afforded, had the revenues and authority been left to to provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty;' and was mainly designed to create a government, whose functions should be adequate to the protection of the common interests of all the states, or of two or more of them, which could not be maintained by the action of the separate states. That in strict accordance with this object, the revenues derived from "4. That this obligation has ever been commerce were surrendered to the General recognized from the foundation of the goGovernment, with the express understand-vernment, and has been fulfilled partially, ing that they should be applied to the promotion of those common interests. 2. That among these common interests and objects, were 1st, Foreign commerce, to the regulation of which, the powers of the states, severally, were confessedly inadequate; and 2d, internal trade and navigation, wherever the concurrence of two or more states was necessary to its prosecution, or where the expense of its maintenance should be equally borne by two or more states, and where, of course, those states must necessarily have a voice in its them. by erecting lighthouses, building piers for harbors, breakwaters and sea walls, removing obstructions in rivers, and providing other facilities for the commerce carried on from the ports on the Atlantic coast; and the same obligations have been fulfilled to a much less extent, in providing similar facilities for 'commerce among the States;' and that the principle has been most emphatically acknowledged to embrace the western lakes and rivers, by appropriations for numerous lighthouses upon them, which appropriations have never been questioned in Congress, as wanting in constitutional authority. "5. That thus, by a series of acts which have received the sanction of the people of the United States, and of every department of the Federal Government, under all administrations, the common understanding of the intent and objects of the framers of the Constitution, in granting to Congress the power to regulate commerce, has been confirmed by the people, and this understanding has become as much a part of that instrument, as any one of its most explicit provisions. "6. That the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the States, and with the Indian tribes,' is, on its face, so palpably applicable in its whole extent, to each of the subjects enumerated equally, and in the same manner, as to render any attempt to make it more explicit, idle, and futile; and that those who admit the rightful application of the power to foreign commerce, by facilitating and protecting its operations, by improving harbors, and clearing out navigable rivers, cannot consistently deny that it authorizes similar facilities to commerce among the states.' "7. That foreign commerce' itself is dependent upon internal trade, for the distribution of its freights, and for the means of paying for them; so that whatever improves the one, advances the other; and they are so inseparable, that they should be regarded as one. That an export from the American shore to a British port in Canada, is as much foreign commerce as if it had been carried directly to Liverpool; and that an exportation to Liverpool neither gains t nor loses any of the characteristics of foreign commerce, by the directness or circuity of the route, whether it passes through a custom-house on the British side of the St. Lawrence, or descends through that river and its connecting canals to the ocean, or whether it passes along the artificial communications and nataral streams of any of the states to the Atlantic. and of the Western rivers, from snags and other obstructions, there are no parts of the United States more emphatically demanding the prompt and continued care of the government, to diminish those dangers, and to protect the property and life exposed to them; and that any one who can regard provisions for those purposes as sectional, local, and not national, must be wanting in information as to the extent of the commerce carried on upon those lakes and rivers, and of the amount of teeming population occupied or interested in that navigation. "10. That having regard to relative population, and to the extent of commerce, the appropriations heretofore made for the interior rivers and lakes, and the streams connecting them with the ocean, have not been in a just and fair proportion to those made for the benefit of the ports, harbors, and navigable rivers of the Atlantic ports; and that the time has arrived when this injustice should be corrected in the only mode in which it can be done, by the united, determined, and persevering efforts of those whose rights have been overlooked. "11. That independent of this right to protection of commerce among the States,' the right of common defence,' guarantied by the Constitution, entitles those citizens inhabiting the country bordering upon the interior lakes and rivers, to such safe and convenient harbors as may afford shelter to a navy, whenever it shall be rendered necessary by hostilities with our neighbors; and that the construction of such harbors cannot safely be delayed to the time which will demand their immediate use. 12. That the argument most commonly urged against appropriations to protect commerce among the States,' and to defend the inhabitants of the frontiers, that they invite sectional combinations to insure success to many unworthy objects, is founded on a practical distrust of the republican principles of our government, and of the capacity of the people to select competent and honest representatives. That it "8. That the General Government, by may be urged with equal force againt legis extending its jurisdiction over the lakes and lation upon any other subject involving navigable rivers, subjecting them to the various and extensive interests. That a same laws which prevail on the ocean, and just appreciation of the rights and interests on its bays and ports, not only for the pur- of all our fellow-citizens, in every quarter of pose of revenue, but to give security to life the Union, disclaiming selfish and local purand property, by the regulation of steam- poses, will lead intelligent representatives boats, has precluded itself from denying to such a distribution of the means in the that jurisdiction for any other legitimate treasury, upon a system of moderation and regulation of commerce. If it has power to ultimate equality, as will in time meet the control and restrain, it must have power to most urgent wants of all, and prevent those protect, assist, and facilitate; and if it jealousies and suspicions which threaten denies the jurisdiction in the one mode of the most serious dangers to our confedeaction, it must renounce it in the other. "9. That in consequence of the peculiar dangers of the navigation of the lakes, arising from the want of harbors for shelter, racy. 13. That we are utterly incapable of perceiving the difference between a harbor for shelter and a harbor for commerce, and |