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portance, the wants of its citizens and the adjacent 
country will make it the great mart of supply and 
demand for future millions of intelligent and affluent 
agriculturists. 
Some idea of its rapid increase* and the magni¬ 
tude of its present business, may be drawn from 
a bare enumeration of the receipts of some of the 
leading articles which seek their outlet here. 
The following products were received in New 
Orleans during the years preceding the first of Sep¬ 
tember :— 
Bacon, in casks and hhds. 
1837. 
1,456 
1846. 
37,305 
Ditto in bulk, lbs. 
Bagging, pieces,.. 
1,492,877 
492,700 
96,601 
Bale rope, coils. 
56,678 
Beans, bbls.. 
16,585 
Butter, kegs. 
44,172 
Ditto bbls. 
1,494 
Beef, bbls. and tierces. 
62,231 
Do. dried, lbs. 
98,200 
Cotton, bales. 
1,053,633 
Corn, in ears, bbls. 
....194,013 
358,573 
Do. shelled, sacks. 
1,166,120 
Cheese, boxes.... 
57,392 
Value in 1846. 
j $1,672,000 
917,710 
255,051 
66,340 
| 203,580 
! 580,784 
33,716,256 
[ 1,556,181 
114,784 
3,770,932 
115,175 
309,800 
135,495 
213,810 
37,905 
2,729,381 
1,963,484 
Flour, bbls...253,500 837,985 
Feathers, bags.152 4,607 
Hemp, bundles.450 30,980 
Hides. 22,287 112,913 
Hay, bundles.20,594 71,270 
Iron, pig, tons.415 1,083 
Lard, hhds., bbls., and kegs.... 207,489 442,653 
Lead, pigs.260,223 785,394 
Molasses, bbls.132.363nearlyl,500,000 
Oats, bbls. and sacks.32,180 269,386 202,039 
Oil, linseed, bbls.249 1,135 31,780 
Oil, castor, bbls.905 2,379 45,201 
Oil, lard, bbls.2 606 49,514 
Potatoes, bbls.26,599 107,058 160,587 
Pork, bbls.115,580 369,601 ) 
Do. hhds. 531 9,988 } 3,666,054 
Do. in bulk, lbs.8.939,135 9,740,752.) 
Sugar, hhds...93,109 5,100,000 
Tobacco leaf, hhds.28,501 72,896 2,605,320 
Whisky, bbls.44 790 117,104 936,832 
Wheat, bbls. and sacks.6,422 403,786 807,572 
Making, with other enumerated articles, —■ 
a total value of $77,193,464, 
including the entire crop of sugar and molasses 
made in the State (a part only of which was re¬ 
ceived in this city). The former is estimated at 
9,000,000 gallons, and the latter at 185,650 hhds. 
The crop of sugar is less this year than last, 
owing to excessive rains, frosts, and other causes ; 
and the cotton crop will fall short of the previous 
one received at this port, some 300,000 bales. But 
in many articles, the receipts this year up to the 
present time, against those of the last to same pe¬ 
riod, show the immense stock which can be forth¬ 
coming when prices call it out. Since September 1st, 
there were received at this port, to Feb. 20th ;— 
1846. 1847. 
Bacon, in hhds. and tierces.7,992 22,761 
Ditto in bulk, lbs..'..11,000 244,952 
Corn, in ears, bbls.94,542 195,319 
Corn, shelled, sacks. 340,937 753,151 
Flour, bbls.372,364 697,964 
Oats, bbls. and sacks.102,240 221,885 
Wheat, bbls. and sacks.10,487 78,125 
The quantity of corn that will pour down into 
this market on the rise of many of the tribu¬ 
tary streams, if present prices are sustained, will 
probably exceed the anticipations of the most 
sanguine. Millions of bushels, which at ordinary 
prices are lavishly fed to stock at home, will, at 
the extravagant rates now paid for it, be carefully 
husbanded and brought to market. From 30 to 50 
cents is the usual range of prices for it here. At 
105 to 110, for which it now sells, the Wabash, 
the Illinois, or the Tennessee River farmers, will 
receive from 50 to 80 cents for it at home, instead 
of 10 to 15, an excess of three to six for one of 
the usual price. The temptation of these prices 
will be irresistible, and every road, every by-path, 
and every streamlet, will groan under the load of 
Indian corn, wending its way to the seaboard to 
replenish the exhausted granaries and supply the 
starving millions of Europe. The result of our 
this year’s commercial operations, will fully demon¬ 
strate the value of the progressive improvements of 
the present day ; and the aid, aye, even the life-sus¬ 
taining aid which the new continent has yielded to 
the old. America will have more than realized the 
filial devotion of the young Roman matron, who 
gave back from the exuberance of her own breasts, 
that life she had herself received from her famish¬ 
ing sire. R. L. Allen 
New Orleans , Feb. 2 0th, 1847. 
(а) The legislature meet in the city during its 
present session for the last time, the new Constitu¬ 
tion having established Baton Rouge, 120 miles 
above, as the future capital of the State. 
(б) The Philadelphia and Pittsburg, the Erie and 
Beaver, the Cleveland and Portsmouth, the Maumee 
and Miami, and the Maumee and Wabash canals, 
are already in successful operation; and the Cincin¬ 
nati and Sandusky railroad will be completed during 
the present season. 
(c) The freight from Pittsburg and Cincinnati to 
this place, is about the same that it, will be from 
those cities to the seaboard, after the enlargement of 
the Erie canal. 
( d) Vessels of 100 tons pay about $100 for tow¬ 
age to the city from the mouth, and vessels of 1200 
tons $660, with a varying scale between these 
rates. Something less than half as much is paid 
for towing down. 
( e ) An intelligent commercial citizen estimates 
from authentic data, that the annual tax on produce 
here from inspections and their addenda, to come 
up fully to $500,000 per annum. 
REVIEW OF OCTOBER NO. OF THE AGRI¬ 
CULTURIST. 
Popular Errors, No. 1.—One of the most popu¬ 
lar, or, at least, common errors of the present day, 
is that of too much scribbling about nothing; I pro¬ 
pose to correct my own errors, so far as I am guilty, 
by giving the three last No’s, of vol. 5, a passing 
notice; and hereafter, I hope to be able to review 
each No. as it appears, in which 1 hope I shall not 
be so prolix as to be tedious to my readers. 
As I shall be limited for space, I must only notice 
such articles, as I think I can add value to. The 
whole of these articles upon popular errors, are in 
excellent style, and I hope will be continued. 
Trees and Shrubbery Around the House. —The dis¬ 
tance of “ one hundred feet from the house,” will 
prohibit all the dwellers upon village lots, from en¬ 
joying the luxury of trees, either upon the streets or 
lots; while nothing gives a more pleasing appear¬ 
ance, in the view of a country village, than towering 
trees. Besides, who ever knew a house struck with 
lightning, when surrounded with green trees ? They 
are good substitutes for lightning rods. I consider 
your objections insufficient; for most of them may 
be obviated by improved culture. Therefore, I say 
