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pleted for a distance of nearly two miles. New wharves and cotton presses 
have been erected at a vast expense. Two National Banks have been established 
with a capital of 200,000 dollars each. Several lines of steamships have been 
put on to New Orleans and to New York. Twenty large, handsome, tiiree- 
story iron-front buildings have been built, besides over 1200 habitations. 
The streets present an air of bustle and activity not often seen in much larger 
cities. 
Rents, however, are very high, and so are all kinds of laboxir, building 
materials, and the necessaries of life. 
NEW ORLEANS.— Report by Mr. Consul Donohoe for 1866.— The 
export of cotton from New Orleans, during the last five years, has been as 
follows : — 
Years. Bales; 
1861-2 27,678 
186-2-3 23,750 
1863- 4 128,130 
1864- 5 192,351 
1865- 6 768,543 
There has been an improvement in the tobacco export trade during the past 
year. The production in the United States is very large, but it reaches New 
York — the great emporium of the trade of this country — by other routes than 
that of the Mississippi river. Very little of the tobacco produced in Kentucky 
and Tennessee, which formerly used to reach a market via New Orleans, now 
comes this way. 
The export of tobacco from New Orleans, with destination, during the past 
ten years, has been as follows ; — 
Years. 
Great 
Britain. 
France. 
North of 
Europe. 
Ponth of 
Europe, 
Mexico, &c. 
Coastwise. 
Total. 
Hilda. 
Hhds. 
Hhds. 
Hhds. 
Hhds. 
Hhds. 
1865-66 
1,509 
839 
1,566 
870 
2,137 
6,921 
1864-65 
185 
19 
1,627 
1.831 
1863-64 
7 
123 
3 
664 
797 
1862-63 
569 
3,969 
2,094 
2,383 
3,541 
12,556 
1861-62 
100 
536 
1,248 
340 
2,244 
1860-61 
7,464 
4,544 
6,577 
18,915 
2,306 
39,806 
18.59-60 
17, 165 
8,419 
23,322 
24,335 
9,448 
82,689 
1858-59 
20,144 
9,876 
23,599 
19,910 
6,445 
79,974 
1857-58 
13,733 
16,164 
6,306 
26,081 
9,931 
72,215 
1856-57 
11,446 
1,288 
15,150 
13,665 
8,632 
50,181 
The production of sugar and molasses in this State shows an improvement 
upon last year, but there is no foreign export of these articles. 
The other articles exported, or sent coastwise, from this port, are flour, pork, 
bacon, lard, beef, lead, whisky, and corn. The quantity sent to Great Britain 
of the above articles from this port is merely nominal, though a large shipment 
used to take place in former years. 
Large quantities of dry goods, wine, crockery, and beer, have been received 
by a line of steamers running direct from Liverpool to New Orleans ; but 
still larger quantities of the same articles are received via New York. The 
amount of duty received at the New Orleans Custom-house, during the year 
ending 31st December, 1866, amounted to 5,439,989 dollars and 80 cents 
specie. 
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