VOb. Xtl. NO. 94. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



189 



Pork, (pickled.) bacon, lard, 



live hnrrs, 2,661,547 



Horses and mules, 2i>.%143 



Sheep, ■•IS.rC? 



egetable food — 



Wheat, 829,881 



Flour, 7,7.59,646 



Indian corn, 312,9.54 



Indian meal, 662,457 



Rye meal, 138,505 

 Rye, oats, and other small 



grain, and pulse, 1.59,893 



Bi.scuit, or ship bread, 378,041 



Potatoes, ' 64,402 



Apples, 48,396 



Rice, 2,010,107 



4,360,180 



Tobacco, 

 Cotton, 



11 other agricultural products — 

 Flaxseed, 50,781 



Hops, 28,823 



Brown sugar, 23,837 



12,377,282 



16,737,462 

 12,506,703 

 54,330,341 



IX and hemp — 



Cloth and thread, 



Bags and all manufactures of, 

 Wearing apparel, 

 Combs and buttons, 

 Brushes, 



Billiard tables and apparatus. 

 Umbrellas and parasols. 

 Leather and morocco skins not sold 



pound. 

 Printing presses and type, 

 Fire engines and apparatus. 

 Musical instruments, 

 Books and maps, 



per 



2,764 

 10,636 

 77,907 

 47,548 



2,590 

 906 



7,699 



38,689 

 561 

 22,439 

 16,119 

 40,620 



Paper and stationery. 



Paints and varnish, 



Vinegar, 



Enrtbcn and stone ware. 



Manufactures of glass, 

 Tin, 



Pewter and load, 

 Marhlo and stone, 

 Gold and silver, and gold 



Gold and silver coin, 



Artificial flowers and jewelry, 



Molasses, 



Trunks, 



Brick and lime. 



Domestic salt, 



Articles not enumerated — 

 Manufactured, 

 Other articles, 



6,481,502 



626,857 

 823,566 



1,450,423 

 Total domestic exports, ,$106,382,722. 

 Treasury Department, Register's Office, July 7, 

 1842. T. L. SMITH, Register. 



THE GROWING INTEREST IN AGRICUL- 

 TURAL PURSUITS. 

 With our neighbor of the New England Farmer, 

 in his remarks on this important subject, we con- 

 cur in the sentiment expressed, " that it is matter 

 of rejoicing, that much ia yet to be learned — and 

 may the time never come when man shall be com- 

 pelled to till the earth without having it in his 

 power to learn how to do his work better." 



Should the editorial corps, by the diffusion of 

 practical truths and the lights of science, be the 

 happy instruments of hastening the world towards 

 a state of perfection in the cultivation of the earth, 

 even until it should groan under the burthen of its 

 productions, and man become surfeited with its 

 riches and luxuries, still would we say, in the spi- 

 rit of the age, go ahead. Man's destiny is not li- 

 mited to 



" Tliis mouldy vesture of decay," 

 that feeds upon material stuff. He was not made 

 for a mere tiller of the soil, to muddle in the dirt. 

 This ball of earth is but a foctfhold, a stopping 

 place, to refresh his mortal self in his career through 

 time, and purposely made for the benefit and use of 

 intellectual beings, and to be governed by moral 

 and intellectual power. The development and ex- 

 pansion of those powers to their utmost limits, is 

 the grand purpose of his compound existence. And 

 scientific agriculture is the field wisely adapted to 

 the exercise and discipline of his physical and in- 

 tellectual energies, and to capacitate him for that 

 more etherial and exalted sphere of action to which 

 he is destined. But the material results of agri- 

 cultural skill afford no sustenance for the intellec. 

 tual man ; that thrives only on the Tree of Knowl- 

 edge ; a perennial plant, which is the food of an- 

 gels — a plant susceptible of everlasting culture. 

 -Conn. Farmer's Gnz. 



Duelling — Dr. Franklin. — When Franklin was 

 in England, prior to tho American revolution, ho 

 was one night in ono of the coffee-houses in Lon- 

 don, in company with a number of literary and sci- 

 entific gentlemen, who greatly admired his conver- 

 sational powers, both for their force and originality. 

 A stranger, who was afUjcted with a most offen- 

 sive odor, and who seeined pleased with the Doc- 

 tor's conversation, came into the box in which the 

 party was assembled. Franklin proposed that his 

 friends should remove to another box to escape the 

 horrid smell: they did so, but the stranger followed 

 them : again, at Franklin's instance, lliey removed, 

 and again he followed ; when, the Doctor's patience 

 getting exhausted, he said to the stranger that he 

 would be obliged to him not to follow them again, 

 for his scent was so offensive it could not be borne. 

 He of the smell took this as a gross insult, and 

 challenged the Doctor the next morning to a duel. 

 The Doctor replied thus: "If I accept your chal- 

 lenge, and we fight, and you kill me, I shall in a 

 few days smell as bad as you do now : — If I kill 

 you, you will, if possible, smell worse than you do 

 at present: in neither case can I see how Any be- 

 nefit can result to ourselves or others, and there- 

 fore decline the challenge." — Selected. 



Ingenious Expedient to Evade the Post Office 

 Law. — The Postmaster General has recently writ- 

 ten a letter, stating that the writing of any thing 

 upon the margin of a newspaper, other than the 

 name of the person to whom it is sent, subjects it 

 to letter postage. Also, that any hieroglyphics 

 come under the same head. 



" The many ingenious devices to evade the pe- 

 nalty of the law," says the Postmaster General, 

 " may be inferred from the facts in a single case 

 which was brought to my notice. A man had 

 been in the habit of writing on the margin of a pa- 

 per to his father, to save letter postage. When ar- 

 rested by the application of the provisions of tho 

 act of 1825, he adopted atspecies of singular hiero- 

 glyphics. His object was to let his father know 

 that his family were well, and would be up in a 

 few days ; so he sent a newspaper with nothing 

 but his name written on it : but he had penciled 

 on the margin a fac simile of a saddler's awl, point- 

 ing towards the representation of a well with a 

 sweep and bucket going up — thus distinctly con- 

 veying the message to his father that 'all his fam- 

 ily were well, and were coining up to see him.' " 



There is this difference between health and mo- 

 ney : money is the most envied, but the least enjoy- 

 ed ; health is the most enjoyed but the least envied ; 

 and the superiority of the latter is still more obvi- 

 ous when we reflect that the poorest man would 

 not part with health for money, but that the rich- 

 est would gladly part with all his money for health. 



Worse than the Toothache. — A Dutchman, pro- 

 ceeding to a place from whence he heard cries of 

 distress, discovered one of his countrymen lying 

 under a stone wall which had fallen upon him and 

 fractured his legs. " Veil, den, neighbor Vander- 

 diken, vat ish de matter vid you .'" " Vat de mat- 

 ter I vy do n't you see mine conditions, vid all 

 deesh pig stones upon me, and poth mini^ legs 

 proke off close py mine poddy.'" '' Mine Cot !" 

 said Honie, "ish dat all ? you hollered so like tun- 

 der, I thought you wash got de toothache !" — Se- 

 lected. 



Be slow to believe you are wiser than all others : 

 it is a fatal but common error. Where one has 

 been saved by a true estimation of another's weak- 

 ness, thousands have been destroyed by a false ap- 

 preciation of their own strength. Napoleon could 

 calculate the former well, but to his miscalculations 

 of the latter, may be ascribed his roin. — Lacon. 



