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needed for a goncration, with double or quadruple our present population ; but 

 if tlie amount required for consumption shall be allowed to come in from abroad, 

 it is very plain that the home production will decline. 



The imports at New York city alone, of three successive Novembers, are as 

 follows : 



1864. 1865. 18G6. 



Manufactures of wool $619,586 $885,896 $1,205,661 



Manufactures of cotton 135, 402 815, 253 447, 210 



Manufactures of silk 176, 438 588, 726 655, 221 



Manufactures of flax 186, 862 533, 740 985, 066 



Miscellaneous dry goods 87,824 27,775 177,539 



Total entered for warehousing 1,206,112 2,851,390 3,470,697 



Add entered for consumption 1, 028, 995 9, 836, 557 3, 788, 539 



Total entered at the port 2,235,107 12,687,947 7,259,236 



But the figures for eleven months of the past three years, according to unof- 

 ficial statements of the New York custom-house entries, are still more signifi- 

 cant. It will be seen that the excess of the present year over figures for eleven 

 months of 1864 amounts to more than fifty millions, and thirty-nine millions 

 more than for the same period of 1865 : 



18(54. 1865. 1866. 



Manufactures of wool $14, 272, 965 $7, 409, 031 $18, 628, 967 



Manufactiu'es of cotton 2, 968, 246 2, 571, 890 5, 830, 758 



Manufactures of silk 5, 049, 151 3, 827, 228 7, 940, 323 



Manufactures of flax 4,326,404 3,346,425 6,816,520 



Miscellaneous dry goods 1, 114, 712 502, 151 1, 500, 542 



Total entered for warehousing. . 27, 731, 478 17, 656, 725 40, 717, ] 10 

 Add entered for consumption . . 42, 299, 707 63, 729, 422 79, 516, 014 



Total entered at the port 70, 031, 185 81, 386, 147 120, 233, 124 



THE ISABELLA GRAPE IN SOUTH AMERICA. 



In the vicinity of Rio Grande, in Brazil, about 33° south latitude, wine from 

 the " American" grape (which is said to be our Isabella, cultivated for many 

 years in its South American home, and improved by its acclimation) has been 

 manufactured very extensively, especially within two or three years past. 



The United States consul at Rio Grande, Aaron Young, esq., has communi- 

 cated to this department some interesting facta relative to the success of the 

 Isabella grape in Brazil. lie refers also to the experience of a Brazilian natu- 

 ralist, Fred. Albuquerque, who has experimented with many varieties of European 

 grapes, some of them from France, and has arrived at the conclusiou that grapes 

 from tlie United States are decidedly preferable for that climate. The Isab(;lla, 

 he declares, is so extraordinarily productive that the cultivation of other varieties 

 has beea abandoned. It does not appear that the most popular varieties of this 

 country have been tested there, and the experimenter ;ibove mentioned has 

 applied to this department for a few kinds most approved here for table use and 

 for wine, especially the Catawba, Clinton, llartford Prolific, Dracut Amber, 



