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For the last nineteen years all Brazil is not estimated to have ex- 

 ceeded an annual average of f 1,240,000. Peru, which, from 1752 

 to 1801, had yielded annually upwards of 2,000,000 dollars, by the 

 last accounts, produced nothing worth mention. By a report from 

 the Executive government of New Grenada to Congress, it is stated 

 that the mines in 1822 produced 1,270,000 dollars, as would appear 

 of silver and gold, and this amount has been since greatly diminished. 



North Carolina possesses adventitious advantages, in a healthy 

 country, abundant supplies, cheap labor, and prompt returns. The 

 auriferous veins of North Carolina, crop out at the surface, and in 

 this state, such treasures are obtained by slight movements of loose 

 materials, as in some countries are collected at great depths. 



Great waste has been committed in Mexico ; extensive amalgam- 

 ation works have been destroyed in civil war, and the mines have 

 become filled with rubbish and water. In many of the Hispano- 

 American mines, necessary supplies and aids are obtained with dif- 

 ficulty. At the Etoria Mines in Mexico, a small timber for a stamp- 

 ing mill costs f 600; and to the St. Ana mines in Colombia, now work- 

 ed by EngUsh capital, nothing can be transported except on the 

 heads and shoulders of Indians, access even by mules being imprac- 

 ticable. 



We are not informed whether Congress have acted upon the sub- 

 ject of the North Carolina Mint, the demand for which appears to 

 be reasonable, provided it interferes with no' important principles of 

 national domestic policy. 



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The following facts are cited from the official report of the direc- 

 tor of the mint, (Dr. Moore,) for the last year, 1830. 



The coinage effected within that period, amounts to f 2,306,875 50 

 comprising f 295,717 50 in gold coins, f 1,994,578 in silver, and 

 .f 16,570 in copper, ; and consisting of 7,694,501 pieces of coin, viz. 



