132 Statistics. 
Coinage at the Mints. — The coinage during the year 1847 was, 
in gold, $20,221,385; silver, f 2,374,450 ; copper, $61,888. 
Total, $22,659,662. The deposites amounted to, in gold, $20, 
619,662; silver, $2,450,059. 
The Herring Fishery. — It is stated in the American Traveler, 
Boston, that six hundred sail of vessels and 8000 men are em- 
ployed in the Mackerel Fishery. The quantity caught in ]847 
was 235,201 barrels, of which the largest proportion, of 97,875 
barrels were No. 1. The annual value of the fish caught is over 
$1,000,000, and the chief customers are the southern and western 
portion of the United States and the West Indies. 
Consumption of wood by Locomotives. — Few of our readers, we 
presume, are aware of the immense quantity of wood consumed 
by the various rail-roads between Albany and Buffalo. The 
Utica and Schenectady Co., use about 25,000 cords of two feet 
wood, per annum; the Auburn and Rochester road about 15,000 
cords ; and the Tonawanda road 8,000 cords. The other roads con- 
sume probably from 25,000 to 30,000 cords — making the whole 
a,mount upwards of 80,000 cords per annum! This immense draft 
upon our " woods and forests" must soon cause an advance in the 
prices of fuel; indeed, the price of wood has been steadily ad- 
vancing in this place for the last year or two, and will soon come 
to be as important an item in household expenses as it is in the 
cities. — Batavia Times. 
Poultry. — Eighty-two thousand pounds of poultry were taken 
to Boston market, on the Providence rail road, a few days before 
Thanksgiving. 
Hogs. — According to the returns of assessors in Ohio, there are 
more than a million and a half of hogs in that state. 
Audubon the J\''aturnlist. — It is said that when this distinguished 
naturalist arrived in the city of Cincinnati, his poverty w'as so ex- 
treme, that he humbly requested permission of a dray-man to pull 
a few hairs from his horse's tail. The novel request was granted, 
and these hairs Audubon manufactured into rings, which he dis- 
posed of for a few cents, and thus laid the foundation of fortune 
and success in life. Lord Bacon has beautifully remarked in some 
of his works, that " if a man be courteous to strangers, it shows 
he is a citizen of the world; that his heart is no island cut off from 
the rest of mankind; but, on the contrary, a continent that joins 
them." By small acts of kindness, great good is sometimes effect- 
ed, as in the case of the dray-man, who gave graciously, and with 
the true kindness of " nature's nobleman," that which, while it 
did not impoverish him, was the means of making the recipient 
rich. — Hall. Gar. 
