------------------------------------------------------------------ 1815. Power Loom first used in United States. 1816. First steamboat crossed the British Channel. 1816. Power Loom brought into general use in England. 1817. Colonization Society organized. 1819. Florida annexed. 1820. Slave trade declared piracy by Congress. 1820. Emigrants to Liberia first sent. 1821. Benjamin Lundy published his "Genius of Universal Emancipation." 1823. United States export to France, 25,000,000 lbs. 1824. Do. do. do. 40,500,000 lbs. 1825. New York and Erie Canal opened. Production and manufacture of cotton now greatly above the consumption, and prices fell so as to produce general distress and stagnation, which continued with more or less intensity throughout 1828 and 1829. The fall of prices was about 55 per cent.--_Encyc. Amer._ 1826. Creek Indians removed from Georgia. 1829. Emancipation in Mexico. 1830. United States export to France, 75,000,000 lbs. 1831. Slave Insurrection in Virginia. 1832. Garrison declares war against the Colonization Society. 1832. Ohio Canal completed. 1833. Cotton consumption in France, 72,767,551 lbs. 1834. Emancipation in West Indies, commenced. 1834. Birney deserted the Colonization Society. 1835. United States export to France, 100,330,000 lbs. 1836. Gerrit Smith repudiates the Colonization Society. 1836. Cherokee and Choctaw Indians removed from Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. 1837. American Anti-Slavery Society had an income of $36,000, and 70 agents commissioned. 1838. Colonization Society had an income of only $10,900. 1840. Cotton consumed in the United States, 106,000,000 lbs. 1844. Value of cotton goods imported into the United States $13,286,830. 1845. Texas annexed. 1846. Mexican War. 1847. Gold discovered in California. 1848. New Mexico and California annexed. 1849. United States export to France, 151,340,000 lbs. Do. Other Continental countries, 128,800,000 lbs. 1850. Cotton consumed in United States, 256,000,000 lbs. 1851. Value of United States cotton fabrics, $61,869,184. 1853. Value of cottons imported, $27,675,000. 1853. United States export to England, 768,596,498 lbs. 1853. Do. do. Continent, 335,271,064 lbs. 1855. United States export to Great Britain and North American Colonies, 672,409,874 lbs. 1855. Do. do. Continent, 322,905,056 lbs. 1855. Value of Cottons imported, $21,655,624. The remaining statistics of this column can be found in the other Tables. ------------------------------------------------------------------ NOTE.--Our commercial year ends June 30: that of England January 1. This will explain any seeming discrepancy in the imports by her from us, and our exports to her.