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women appear as though they were a portion 
of the human family set apart for that particu¬ 
lar calling; and long usage in it has unfitted 
them for any other. Here is one, who has been 
known to the old residents, for at least forty 
years. She was one of the fixtures that was 
removed from the Old Fly Market, when the 
Fulton Market superseded it. Judging from 
her healthy and robust appearance, she may 
still sit in the same stall through summer heats 
and wintry blasts, for forty more long years—a 
fit emblem of patience on a monument not 
“ smiling at grief,” but still peddling potatoes. 
But who comes here, rustling in silks and 
laces, with jewels glittering in the sun? She 
stops to talk with the old market woman; she 
is about to purchase something, more out of a 
charitable feeling, perhaps, than a want of the 
article. No, instead of giving, she is recieving 
money—a large sum too—what can it mean ? 
“Thank you, mother.” Is it possible? That 
word explains the whole. This is the lady’s 
daughter in her silk-velvet mantilla, that the 
old market-woman mother in the same old-fad¬ 
ed camlet cloak, sitting in the same old chair 
which she sat in before Miss was born. 
Across the street, alongside the East River, is 
the wholesale fish and live-poultry market. We 
have seen sweeter and more pleasant places for 
a morning walk. In fact, the whole market is 
most notoriously free from all appearance of 
neatness, convenience, comfort, or adaptability 
to the purposes of a great mart of human food. 
Yet, what a motley crowd throng hither every 
morning for their daily provisions. Lessons of 
economy may be studied here advantageously. 
Here comes now a woman in a tattered shawl 
and weather-beaten bonnet, carefully counting 
her scanty stock of change, studying as she 
walks, how to expend it to the best advantage. 
Let us follow silently and observe whether her 
skill is equal to her necessity. First she buys 
a coarse-grained, worthless fish, because she 
can get a large one for a shilling. Her next 
purchase is half a peck of potatoes, at the rate 
of a dollar and a half a bushel —the dearest food 
in market, unless it is the half of a half peck of 
turnips, at half the price of potatoes, which she 
next buys. The large cabbage head, at ten 
cents, will do but little better. How much bet¬ 
ter, how much more economical it would have 
been for that poor woman, who has a large 
family to feed, if she had purchased a soup 
bone of beef, or a scrag of mutton, in place of 
the fish; and instead of the potatoes and tur¬ 
nips, the same value in dry beans, or some of 
that sweet-looking hommony, so temptingly 
spread out upon the next table to that where 
she bought the potatoes. Yes, and at a less 
price per bushel than those; but she knew 
nothing of the economy of buying one, instead 
of the other, and therefore followed the course 
that long habit taught her, when potatoes were 
cheap and corn dear. As we pass up Fulton 
street, you will be struck with surprise at the 
enormous piles of baskets and brooms, which 
pass daily through the ordeal of buying and 
selling in the immediate vicinity of Fulton 
Market. 
At some future day, we will accompany you 
through Washington Market, where more farm 
produce is bought and sold in the course of the 
year, than in any other provision mart in 
America. 
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
We subjoin a list of the imports and domes¬ 
tic exports from the United States for the year 
ending June 30th, 1850:— 
Products of the sea,..... $2,824,818 
do forest, including wood, timber, 
and its manufactures, pot and pearl 
ashc3, furs, ginseng, pitch, &c.,. 7,442,503 
Products of Agriculture. 
Beef, tallow, hides, horned cattle,.$1,605,608 
Butter and cheese,. 1,215,463 
Pork, bacon, lard, hogs,. 7,550,287 
Horses and mules,. 139,494 
Sheep,. 15,753 
Wool,. 22,778 
Wheat, bush.,..«... 608.661 643,745 
Flour, bbls.,. 1,385,448 7,098,570 
Indian corn, bush.,. 6,595,092 3,892,193 
Indian meal, bbls.,. 259,442 760,611 
Rye meal, bbls.,. 69,903 216,076 
Rice, tierces,.. 127,069 2,631,557 
Rye, oats, and pulse,. 121,191 
Ship bread,. 334,123 
Potatoes,. 99,333 
Apples,... 24,974 
26, 371,756 
Cotton, Sea-Island, lbs., 8,236,460 
“ Upland “ 627,145,141 $71,984,616 
Leaf, tobacco, hhds.,_ 145,729 9,951,023 
All other agricultural products,. 152,365 
$82,088,004 108,459,760 
Manufactured Articles. 
Cottons, printed and colored,. $606,631 
“ uncolored,. 3,774,407 
All other manufactures of,. 353,386 
$4,734,424 
Iron, pig, bar and nails,. 154,210 
“ castings,. 79,318 
All manufactures of,. 1,677,792 
$1,911,320 6,645,740 
All other manufactured articles,. 8,498,640 
Coal, tons,.38,740 $167,090 
Salt, bush.,.319,175 75,103 
Ice,.. 107,018 
- 349,211 
Raw produce not specified,. 679,556 
The exports for the year previous, amounted 
to $132,666,955. 
Foreign exports for the same period. 
Specie—gold, . $2,511,786 
Silver, . 2,962,367 
Tea, 1,662,399 pounds, valued, . 733,757 
Coffee, 15.287,479 “ .... 1,299,540 
