398 Lifects of Lemperance. 
counted there were found to be one hundred and sixteen ; and 
what renders the circumstance more singular, there were va- 
rious species, viz: black, striped, and green snakes, and 
house and brown adders, numbers of each. They were of 
different sizes, varying from six inches to two feet.——Salem 
(Massachusetts) Gazette. 
8. Population of New York.—According to an. enumera- 
tionrecently made, the city of New York contains 162,391 in- 
habitants. 
9. Erie Canal.—It is mentioned on good authority, that 
the tolls on the New York canals for this season, will amount 
to at least $500,000. This will be $100,000 more than was 
estimated by the commissioners of the canal fund. Last year 
the amount of tolls was $289,320.58; thus giving an in- 
crease to this year of at least $210,000! 
10. Lead Mines of the Uniied Siates.-—The total quantity 
of lead received from mines belonging to the U.S. is 192,118 
pounds—108,855 from Fever river. 83,255 from Missouri. 
‘The busines is yet in an incipient state, and the product of the 
next year it is estimated will yield the U. S, about 350,000 
pounds. The mines are leased at the low rate of ten per 
cent. on the lead produced. 
11. Education of the Indians.—From the report of the In- 
dian agent, it appears there are no less than thirty-eight 
schools established in the Indian country by different socie- 
ties, to aid in supporting which the U. States pay $13,550. 
The whole number of scholars are 1,159 ; number of teachers 
281, including their families. 
12. Effects of Temperance.—We find from the Registers 
of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, that as a consequence 
of their temperance, one half of those that are born live to the 
age of forty years, whereas Dr. Price tells us, that of the gene- 
yal population of London, half that are born live only two and 
three-quarter years !—Among the Quakers one in ten arrives 
to eighty years of age; of the population of London, only 
one to40. Never did a more powerful argument support the 
practice of temperance and virtue.—Rhode Island American, 
