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The Journal of Commerce has a comparative 

 vie~« of tin.' growth of New York and Boston for 

 the sixteen years from 1832 to 1847, inclusive, 

 the drift of which appwarS to he, that there is no 

 danger of Boston overshadowing New York anil 

 absorbing all our business— just yet. The fol- 

 lowing tallies present the principal points of 

 comparison 



Increase $30,1086,682 §405,364 



The increase of foteign arrivals at Boston is 

 remarkable, and it' continued at the same rate 

 for ten years, she would, at the end of that lime, 

 have a larger number than New York. So with 

 foreign imports, though the great gain in that re- 

 spect is mainly referable to the imports by t lie 

 Cuuard boats in goods and specie, which last 

 year rose to §17,000,000, (from §4,500,000 the 

 year previous,) and most of which were on New 

 York account. 



Cheese Trade in the United States. —In 

 order to show the increase of this branch of ag- 

 riculture in this country, we give the following 

 statistics of the amount of cheese that arrived at 

 tide water, ou the Hudson river, from the canal 

 collector's hooks: — 



Ve.ir. Poinds. 



1834 6,340,000 



1835 9,586,000 



1886 14-,060,000 



1837 15,560,0(10 



1838 13,810,000 



1839 14,530,000 



1840 18,830,000 



1841 14,170,000 



184 3 19004,000 



1843 34,334,000 



1844 20,673,500 



1845 39,371,000 



1846 34,812,513 



Exported. 



733,713 

 1.748,781 

 2,456,677 

 3,440,144 

 7,433,145 

 7,* 1 1.1*7 

 8,075,390 



Commerce of the N. Y. Canals.— Statement 

 showing the aggregate value of the property 

 which came to the Hudson river on all the canals 

 in 1846 and 1847 :— 



1846. 1347. 



'§8,589.391 §8,798,373 



33,603.818 54 634.849 



4,805,799 0,034,518 



270,872 517,594 



3,770,470 3,127,080 



The Forest.... 



Agriculture 



Manufactures.. . 

 Merchandise. . . 

 Other articles. . 



§51,105,250 §73,092,414 



United Stales annual coinage from the establishment 

 of the branch mints. 

 Charlotte. Dahlnnega. ]\. Orleans. Philadelphia. Total 

 1838, R84 105 R1029I5 §40.243 g3379.2l7 *■ 

 1839,162.761 128,880 263 650 3,021,170 

 1840 127,055 123.310 915.600 2 260 007 

 18U, 133.038 1G:,S85 040 200 1,304.193 



309.648 1,295,750 



582 782 1 .503.000 



488 600 4,208,500 



501,795 1,750.1 00 



449.727 2,483,800 



1812, 159005 

 1313, 287,005 

 1844, 147210 



1815, 



1846, 76.995 

 1347, 487,320 



2,426.351 

 6.530,048 

 2,343 157 



3 416,800 

 3 033,443 



4,206,540 

 3,576,467 

 3,426,632 



2,240,321 

 4.19(1,7.54 

 11,967.830 

 7.637,767 

 5,608.595 

 6 633 905 



Tonnage from tide water for the last fourteen 

 years, and also the total tons arriving at tide wa- 

 ter, and the aggregate value thereof in market, 

 during the same period : — 

 Years. 



371,435 7,469,000 14,348,366 22,657,071 



1834.. 

 1835.. 

 1836.. 

 1837.. 

 1838.. 

 1839.. 

 1840.. 

 1841.. 

 1842.. 

 1843.. 

 1814.. 

 1845.. 

 1840.. 

 1847., 



Tons from 

 tide writer. 

 114,608 

 138,910 

 133,790 

 122,130 

 142,808 

 142,035 

 129,580 

 102,715 

 123,294 

 143,590 

 170,737 

 195,000 

 212,795 

 288,367 



Tons to Value. 



tntt' w;iier. 



553,590 §13.405,033 



753,191 20,225,446 



Amount and Value of Wool. — An Albany 

 correspondent of the Detroit Advertiser, gives 

 the following statement of the amount and value 

 of wool which arrived in Albany, by the canals 

 from the year 1834 up to the close of the naviga- 

 tion in 1847 : — 



ARRIVED AT TIDE WATER, HUDSON RIVER. 



Sagacity of the Elephant. — The tragical 



event at the menagerie, resulting in the death of 



poor Kelly, has made the elephant the chief lion 



of Philadelphia. A morning or two after this 



terrible occurrence, the daring Driesbach took 



him into the ring for the purpose of dressing his 



wounds, made by sundry thrusts of pikes, lances, 



and pitchforks, in the efforts to subdue him. — 



The elephant appeared to be ill at ease, and 



sought to attract the attention of Driesbach by 

 gently fondling him with his trunk, and then 

 pointing to bis foot, slightly raising it from the 

 ground, and in various ways challenging particu- 

 lar notice. This roused Driesbach's curiosity, 

 and, on inspection, he discovered he had run a 

 large splinter of white pine into his foot. Pin- 

 cers were procured, and the piece extracted, at 

 which the joy of the monster knew no hounds; 



ami he repeatedly thanked Driesbach in the only 1 fg]|o" ... 2'.880,080 



way that an elephant can thank any one. It is 

 curious that he is quite friendly now with Dries- 

 bach, although for six years he sought repeatedly 

 to kill him. — Philadelphia paper. 



630,347 

 611,781 

 640,481 

 602.128 

 009,012 

 774,331 

 600,626 

 836,861 

 1.019.094 

 1.204,943 

 1,31 12,3 I! I 

 1,744,383 



26,932,470 



21.822,354 



23,038,510 



20,163.199 



23,213,573 



27,225,322 | 



22,751,013 



28,453,408 



34,183,167 



45,452,331 



41,105,256 



73,092,414 



tiny other office on the line of the canal — the 

 sum of §1,216,700 — being about oue-third of the 

 whole. 



The breadstuff's alone, to say nothing of beef, 

 pork, lard, butler and cheese, exported from the 

 United States, ending the fiscal year on the 30th 



of .1 , 1846, amounted to $15,987,186; in 1847, 



to §51,664,475, making the enormous increase in 

 a single year, of §35,077,289 ! The largest share 

 of this immense sum has gone into the pockets 

 of the farmers, anil if they will act judiciously in 

 the stile of their products, they may realize an 

 equally large amount the present year as they 

 did in 1S47. Quick sales at moderate profits we 

 have always found to be the best. — Agriculturist. 



Burroughs' Cave in the White Mountains. 

 — We find in one of our exchanges the annexed 

 account of the cave among the beautiful moun- 

 tains of Vermont, which was once the place of 

 of seclusion of the celebrated Stephen Bur- 

 roughs. 



" We visited a cave located in a spur of the 

 Green Mountains, famous in this vicinity as the 

 ' Cogniac Den,' (Cpgniac being the name used to 

 designate counterfeiters,) and though I have visit- 

 ed most of the remarkable places in New Eng- 

 land, I am fain to confess that this exceeds them 

 all. It is composed of four compartments — the 

 outer one being in the form of an ellipse, 52 feet 

 by 27, and 19 feet in height; the second com- 

 partment is somewhat smaller than the first, and 

 of a more irregular form, and so also is the third ; 

 the fourth is the grandest ball that 1 ever beheld, 

 and of a circular form, the diameter of which is 

 321 feet, over-arched by a magnificent dome, the 

 extreme height of which apparently exceeds the 

 diameter of the floor; the walls are composed 

 of brilliant iron ore, and the light of our birch 

 bark torches was reflected in a thousand hues, 

 lighting the whole with the brightness of a sum- 

 mer's day. The regularity of the wall could not 

 have been improved by art. In this cave the no- 

 torious Stephen Burroughs carried on his illegal 

 occupation for some years. He had a good eye 

 for the beautiful — there is no denying that. 



"Burroughs is said to have preached his fath- 

 er's old sermons on Sunday and engraved plates 

 for counterfeiting bank bills through the week. 

 He wrote a book detailing his life and made mo- 

 ney from the proceeds. His daughter is still in 

 the nunnery at Three Rivers. Burroughs' last 

 days were spent in comparative honesty. The 

 cave described above, was long- occupied by this 

 extraordinary personage." 



Year. 



1834 



1835 



1836 



1837 



1838 



1839. 



Founds. 



984,000 

 1,730,000 

 2,510,000 



146,000 

 3,216,000 

 2472,000 



Honor and Honesty. — A farmer called on 

 Earl Fitzwilliam and complained that, in his 

 hunting excursions with his hounds he had trod- 

 den down a field of wheat so as to do it damage. 

 The Earl told him if he would procure an esti- 

 mate of the loss, he would pay it. The. man re- 

 plied, that he bad done so already, and it was 

 bi li, veil that the damage would be 50/. The 

 Earl paid it. But as spring came ou, the wheat 

 which had hem trodden down grew up, and be- 

 came the best in the field. The farmer honestly 

 returned the 50.'. " Ah," said the Earl, " this is 

 what I like. This is as it ought to be betweeij 

 man and man." After making some inquiries 

 about his family, the Earl went into another 

 room, and returning, gave the man a check for 

 100(., saying. '• Take care of this, and when your 

 eldest son is of age present it to him, and tell 

 htm the occasion that produced it" 



1841 3,316.000 



1842 3,356,000 



1843 6,034.000 



1844 10,182,000 



1845 12,143,000 



1840 10,574.000 



1847 to Nov. 30, 11,224,384 



Value. 



§446,787 

 752.354 

 1,377,543 

 338,454 

 1,400,719 

 1,038,753 

 1,150,490 

 1,410,659 

 1,006,544 

 1,678,428 

 3,424,015 

 3,751,002 

 2,829,790 

 3,330,407 



Canal Tolls. — Amount of tolls received on 

 all the New York State Canals, in each of the 

 following years, viz : — 



4th week in Nov. Total to 1st Dec. 



1840 §20,190 37 $1,773,582 5.1 



1811 31,734 11 ,364 77 



1*43 5,380 09 1,748,869 88 



1843 14,746 67 2,083,145 60 



1844 13,449 03 3,116,037 94 



1845 35,584 88 3.616,117 55 



1846 21.707 46 2.751. 167 25 



1*47 24,654 75 3,634.817 53 



The increase over the season of 1846 may he 

 stated in round numbers at §880.000. To the 

 pros'* amount Buffalo ha a . contributed more than 



Be active. — The body was made for use. 

 Every part of it is made for activity. But any- 

 thing made for u^e will suffer injury to lie still. 

 The human body especially, if suffered to remain 

 inactive, becomes useless. Activity strengthens 

 the parts. If you would have more strength, 

 you must use what you have, and it will increase. 

 The right use of your members also must he 

 learned by practice. Much practice is necessary, 

 for instance, to train the fingers to the various 

 uses in w diic.h they are to be employed, so as (to 

 use a homely phrase) to make them handy. The 

 body likewise needs good exercise to keep it in 

 a healthy state. The various parts of its ma- 

 chinery have a great work to do every day, in 

 turning your food into blood, and in sending it 

 a great many thousand times, in a vast number 

 of little streams, to every part of the body. _ But 

 this machinery will not work if tho body is all 

 the time inactive. It requires motion to give it 

 power. There is nothing, therefore, so bad for 

 it as laziness. It is like a dead calm to the wind- 

 mill, which stops all its machinery. 



Benefit of Cleanliness. — A London gold- 

 smith saves §200 a year, by the gold and silver 

 in the sediment of the wtiter tanks in which the 

 workmen are required to wash before leaving 

 the premises. The. workmen have clean hands 

 and their employers make a clean penny. 



Smithfield Cattle Show. — This great an- 

 nual show of fat stock commenced in London 

 on the 8th of December last. We observe that 

 the Short Horns took the first prize in classes 

 1st, 2d and 8th; and the second prize in classes 

 1st, 7th nnd 9th. The Herefords look the first 



