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The actual condition of the bond account is as follows:

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Total value of real and personal.

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The receipts for the year ending September 30, 1865, including $39,283.93 balance from previous year amounted to..

And the expenditures for the same year to..

Leaving a balance, September 30, 1865, of.........

$1,542,353 00

$728,428 61 720,365 12

$8,063 49

The principal sources of income were: taxes $528,849.17; Public Schools, from State $10,512.06, and from registry taxes, $3 112 20: Reform School, from State. $18,528.28; interest from H. P. & F. R. R. Co., $35,000 or less U. S. tax, $33,250.00, interest account $5,800.39; highway account $10,983.37; rents $6,002.12; licenses $24,742.72; police $5,947.96; loan $22,110 86; etc., etc.

The chief items of expenditure were; school department $89.372.04, fire department $41,758 92; highways $45,580.23; police $86,872 83; salaries $16,395.52; health department $5.649.48; lamp department $55,952.46; support of poor $17,301.63; reform school $22,030 98; harbor account $4 810.94; printing $3,616.90; celebration July 4. $5,725 00; aid and relief $33,248 76; State of Rhode Island $168 927.61; sinking funds $15,000 00; interest on H. P. & F. R. R. bonds $35,000 or less U. S. tax $33,220.00: interest on city bonds $49,500.00, etc., etc.

The Sinking Funds are increased annually as follows: that for the redemption of city 6 per cents by an appropriation of $10,000 and that for the redemption of city 5 per cents by an appropriation of $5,000. The H. P. & F. RR. Sinking Fund is increased by the difference between what the city pays on its own bonds issued to said Company, and what it receives from said Company, namely, 1 per cent per aunum, or in the aggregate $5,000, less U. S. income tax. The proceeds of the securities held by each Sinking Fud further increases these funds.

The population of Providence in 1860 was 50,666. If in 1865 it had risen to 52 885, the tax receipts in that year would be $10 per capita. This includes also the State taxes paid by the city, viz, $168,927 61.

Several of the items of receipt and expenditure are mere transfers from one side to the other, thus of the $168,927 61 paid to the State, the city got back $19,512 06 for public schools, and $18,528 28 for the reform school. The receipts on account of H. P. & F. R.R. bonds are balanced by the disbursements on the same account. The aid and relief item is only temporary. These and other items materially reduce the actual charges against the city either now or in the future.

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IMMIGRATION.

The following table shows the number of emigrants that have arrived at this port during the month of January, and the names of the several European ports of their embarkation. It will be seen that there is a large increase over last year:

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Great Britain.

The following statement shows the ports whence emigrant passengers have arFived, together with the nationality and number of vessels; also, the number of emigrant passengers and others from each port landed at Castle Garden for the year 1865 :

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from whence sai ed. Liverpool. London

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THE LINES OF STEAMSHIPS AND THEIR PASSENGERS..

The following is a statement of the lines of steamships and their varied classifications, by which emigrant passengers arrived at this port during the year 1865, with their respective totals:

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COPPER MINING COMPANIES.

The following statistics of the Copper Mining Companies of Lake Superior, have been compiled from official sources by Dupee, Beck & Sayles, stock brokers, 22 State street, Boston:

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The capital
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The capital stock of the Albany and Boston, Isle Royale, and is $1,000,000 each divided into 20,000 shares, par value $50. stock of the Mendota is $500,000, in 100,000 shares, par value $5. tal stock of the Quincy is $-00.000, in 20,000 shares of $10 each. stock of all other Lake Superior copper companies is $500,000 each, divided into 20 000 shares, par value $25.

The capital

The whole amount paid in is $13.109,154. This does not include the original cost of mining location, nor the sums derived from the sale of copper, which have been expended in developing the mines. The aggregate of cash dividend is $5,600,000.

Offices-*New York; +Philadelphia; Boston; Pittsburg.

PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER.

Many questions of interest suggest themselves connected with the relative production of the precious metals. Previous to the discoveries in California, gold uniformly commanded a premium; its influx at that time quickly destroyed this, and the continued demand for silver resulted in its being at a slight premium. The ounce of gold in London in 1848 was 77s 6d, and the ounce of standard silver 594 or 15ğ for 1. With the influx of gold from California, France, as is well known, gradually ex changed her silver for a gold currency, and India absorbed the silver in exchange for silks and other commodities. During the war cotton at high prices has been added to other articles for which silver was sent to India. On Jan. 1, 1866, the price of silver was 62d, or 4.2 per cent rise since 1848.

These facts are of interest in connection with the following tables which we have compiled showing the total production of gold and silver since 1847. The first table gives the estimated amounts of gold yielded by all the producing countries from 1848 to 1865 both years inclusive-the first fifteen years by quinquennial periods and the last three years separately:

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The aggregate for the eighteen years embraced in the statement being $3 841,500,000, gives for that period an annual average of $185,638,888 additional to the world's stock of gold-an average constantly on the increase by the opening of new regions and the adaptation of scientific processes to its extraction.

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