CORN MEAL, WHEAT, &c.-The re ceipts of corn meal for seven years past ven years past have been as follows: have been as follows: The exports of corn and wheat for se Corn, bush. Wheat, bush. 25,187 ..10,262 1851. 13,838 1850. 28,185 1849. 41,144 1848. 1852. 1851. 1850. 1849. 1848. 1847. 1846. The exports have been: 1852. 1851. 1850. 1849. 1848. 1847. 1846. 25,080 1847. 8,637 1846 10,917 19,327 .44,903 OILS.-The prices of linseed oil from Bble. January to August were comparatively 20,605 uniform, ranging from 59 a 65c. for American, and 60 a 67c. for English, the 32,788 prrncipal sales of American having been -42,849 at 60 a 62c. per gal. Since August the 8,651 price has been quite fluctuating, ranging from 60 a 77c. per gal. The present current rates are 67 a 68c. The range of prices in 1851 were 61 a 85c., in 1850 Bushels. from 66 a 96c., and in 1849, from 50 a 353,345 90c. There is every reason to believe 404,945 that prices will rule high for some months. 165,453 The amount of linseed on hand and to 688,014 arrive before the first of March is not 39,847 sufficient to supply all our crushers, and in Great Britain the supply of seed is also known to be short. This will, no doubt, reduce the quantity of oil on the market for spring sales, and keep up a high range of prices. The quantity of .849,173 linseed oil taken for consumption in ....2,116,744. 339,801 this vicinity, for some years past, has New-York & Western Rail-road.... Total 1852...... 31,300 .2,118,338 It will be seen by the above that the amount of oil manufactured in this city Shorts. has materially increased, and the article .bush.... 18,751....149,474 is also noted as being of very pure and 52,833....116,933 superior quality. Olive oil in casks has 40,478... 66,258 ranged from 90c. a $1 12% per gal. dur65,189.. 48,988 ing the year, and lard oil from 70c. a $1. 50,256.. 83,620 The following statement shows the 24,184.... 65,530 amount of sperm and whale oil import30,352....105,025 ed into the United States the past ten 25,953.... 40,750 .... 17,160.... 96,711 The receipts for wheat show a very years: large increase over any previous year, 1852, bbls. 1852. 1851. 1850. 1849. 1848. 1847. 1846 115. 1850 1849 1848 1847 ...bush....762,939 1846 .... .510,671 1843 " .336,247 ....171.127 83,962 LEATHER, BOOTS AND SHOES. — The 27,524 receipts have been as follows: Corn Meal-Grains-Oils-Leather-Naval Stores, Iron, &c. 257 Sides. Bundles. The receipts of tar and turpentine for ....180,109... 2,686 ten years have been as follows: 19,314....20,137 Northern Rail-road.. Boston & Maine Rail-roads Total 1852.. 1851. 1850. 1849 1848. 1847 1846 1845. 9,708.. 7,367 The exports of naval stores from this 791 port for three years past have been as fol 397,628....93,447 lows: .476,036....74,262 25.791 Spirits Turpentine Tar 1,243.... 1,143. 1,665 5,075.... 5,081.... 7,184 5,509.... 6,241.... 4,863 440.... 43.... 3,008 .582,053. ..603,730. The boot and shoe trade has been unusually active, and shows a considerable increase over any previous year. Both the South and West have purchased more goods than the most sanguine in the trade expected, while a favorable reaction in the California market has called for increased shipments to that quarter. The number of buyers have, at times, been very large, particularly from the West, many of them new-comers. The stocks on hand at the commencement of the active business seasons, were quite large, but at the close of the fall trade there was a smaller stock of goods on hand than for many previous years. Our manufactures are now engaged on spring work, of which there is a fair supply in market, and the prospects of the trade are quite encouraging. Below is the quantity cleared at the custom-house for some years past. The bulk of the supplies for the West are forwarded by railroad, and would materially increase these figures could they be obtained. cases..195,120 ..153,912 ..147,769 ary to September last, sold from $19 a IRON.-Scotch pig iron, from Janu$21, the principal cargo sales having been from $19 a $20. During September and October prices rapidly advanced, owing to the small supplies expected from Great Britain and the increased consumption, and sales from vessel have been made, for some weeks past, at $30 a $31 per ton, the highest prices obtained for some years. In 1851 the range of prices was from $18 50 a $24, in 1850, from $20 a $23 50, and in 1849, from $21 a $28 per ton. been as follows: The imports have 1852 1851 1850 66 Bars.. Do. tons... RR bars. Do. tons. Bundles 1852. 696,042.. 1851. 1850. 691,469....775,477 Plates.. Blooms. NAVAL STORES.-The imports for three Do. tons........... years have been as follows: 3,717.. 2,804. 2.144 18,622.... 16,626.. 22,607 4,870.... 2,927.... 6,360 185,191....209,752....141,004 20,508.. 33,876.... 19,938 1,382.. 4,677 53.. 240.. ICE.-The export of ice, as cleared at 9.322. 10,764.... 8,458 the custom-house the past year, has been 355.... 1,976.... 2,123 22,419....14,364....19,685 as follows: BRITISH AN AFFECTIONATE RESPONSE TO THE LADIES OF ENGLAND, ETC., FROM THE LADIES OF THE [WE recommend this spirited and able paper, from the pen of a Southern Lady, to the attention of our readers on both sides of the Atlantic. The author, though known to fame, prefers the discharge of domestic duties to the noisy applause of the world. Her protest against the miscalled "Woman's Rights" movement at the North, which we published in our September number of last year, asserted and maintained the dignity, the elevation, the beauty of female character in its relation to that of the male, in the present constitution of society, and without any resort to Amazonian conventions.] Fire! fire! fire! bawled, one day, an cry continues, though he vainly strains officious neighbor, as he pointed to the his eyes to catch a glimpse of the red heavy smoke, whose black volumes rose flash. "Fire! fire! fire!"-The flash, somewhat threateningly from an adja- the noise, the crash is behind him. While cent chimney. "Fire! fire! fire!" Street he, poor meddling fool! is watching for boys soon echoed the cry. Town-bells it in his neighbor's house, his own is rang. Rattling on rushed the engines. blazing. "Fire! fire! fire!" There stood the of- Most noble and honorable ladies! ficious neighbor, watching the smoke, most sapient and learned reviewers! and rather in hopes that the greedy fortunate would it be for your own sakes flame might start up at last to prove him and ours, could you but fix your eyes a true prophet. "Fire! fire! fire!" The upon the stifling smoke issuing from *1. North British Review, Nov. 1852. Article-"American Slavery and Uncle Tom's Cabin." 2. The affectionate and Christian address of many thousands of the women of England to their sisters, the Woinen of the United States of America. Real Evils in the World-Sickly Philanthropy. 259 your own homes, instead of keeping road side. For heaven's pity, then, them busy with your spy-glasses in crush not beneath your chariot wheels, watching our motions across the Atlan- in a wild chase after phantasmagoric tic. These spy-glass reports, by-the-way, evils, those whom God has given you to play wild work sometimes. We have relieve. You trample over real flesh lately had a droll explanation from a and blood, while you gaze weepingly learned professor,* of a report concern- toward the painted pictures of a magic ing certain views of the inhabitants of lantern. the moon. It seems that the learned Evils there are, alas! God knows, gentleman, while indulging a pretty strewn thick enough through our world; young lady with a peep at that lumi- and prophets too there are, whose Godnary through his telescope, chanced to inspired genius may sometimes help to mention in conversation with a by- guide us through the labyrinth, and stander, that in casting his telescopic point a ray of hope, shining midst the sight over the surrounding sublunary darkness. But, fair ladies, they are not landscape, he had once chanced to such as you who can grapple with God's bring into the view a washerwoman at mysteries. Nor, learned reviewers, are her tub, whose evolutions had much amused him. The wonder-loving young lady understood this remark to refer to the moon, and forthwith behold in circulation a perfectly well-authenticated story of washer-women in the moon, and for aught we know to the contrary, the world might have been soon agog for the improvement of the condition of these ladies, and some philanthropic society would have imagined a method for sending them the last invention in washing-kettles, if unfortunately the learned professor had not spoiled the wonder by revealing the truth. Ladies and reviewers, may it not be worth inquiring whether the "Uncle Tom" view of your transatlantic brethren be not as wide of the truth as this young lady's lunar washerwomen? Let us advise you to cast aside your "Uncle Tom" spy-glasses. Look with your own eyes; hear with your own ears, and do not too easily credit stories about washerwomen in the moon. Fire! fire! fire!-When the cry is in your ears, look at your own house first. Perchance you may see the sorrow and the anguish there. Perchance you may see the black smoke of suffering steaming forth from the sweltering sacrifice of broken hearts within your own soil! Hangs it not over you, that great sorrow-cloud, thick, dark, dense, -even as the fog of your own great London, casting its gloom over pomp and palaces? Sin and sorrow are the badge of mortality; and, gentle ladies, believe us, if you would act the good Samaritan, you will find your sick and your wounded, even as you pass along by your own * Professor Olmsted, of Yale College. ye yet learned enough for the holy task. Your conventions and your appeals,your Uncle Tom corollaries and Wilberforcian apings, are but the filthy scum which, forcing itself uppermost, hides the deep truth beneath. There is evil in God's blessed world (why, God only knows), but there is also good,-deep, earnest good,-for those who will seek it deeply and earnestly. Below the nauseous froth-scum of sickly philanthropy and new-light Christianity, runs, quiet but clear, the pure stream of God-given reason and common-sense humanity. Ladies and reviewers, God is God, but ye are not his prophets. Deeply must the heart have felt, deeply must the brain have thought, laboriously must its problem be worked out by the giant mind whose destiny it is to turn the fate of nations. Who are these who now start up with gibbering, mopping, and wringing of hands, to guide the peoples of the earth to righteousness, and to dictate to the consciences of nations? What know the Dutchess of Sutherland, Bedford, or Argyle,-what knows the Countess of Shaftesbury or the Viscountess Palmerston, or any Honble. Lady A. B. or C., of all who thought fit to convene at Stafford-house for the benefit and instruction of the benighted of this land,-what know any of these of the workings of great political systems? What know they of American slavery? They have read "Uncle Tom's Cabin" forsooth, and they have seen that the authoress thereof vouches for the accuracy of her facts, even as did the veracious Baron Munchausen for his. They have read "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and without further question they take it for their gospel, and Mrs. Stowe for their Messiah; and, with the zeal of were the evil of our institutions so new converts, start a crusade to the "enormous," and prevailing with "such land where their Peter the Hermit (the frightful results" as you suppose, long ere Hon. the Earl of Shaftesbury) points them. With hallelujahs to liberty, and dolorous laments over negro bondage, they commence the attack, not in person, with the cross of suffering upon their shoulders, but comfortably lolling upon their sofas, they issue their appeals to their sinning sisters of this sinful land with most pharasaical humility. "Lord, we thank thee that we are not like unto these!" this would we women of the Southern United States, " as sisters, as wives, and as mothers," have raised "our voices to our fellow-citizens and our prayers to God for the removal of this affliction from the Christian world." Believe us, ladies, we have not waited for your appeal "to ask council of God how far such a state of things is in accordance with His holy word, the inalienable rights of immortal souls, and the pure and merciful spirit of the "Fire! fire! fire!" Most loving sis- Christian religion." We can think as ters, be not too much startled by the cry, women, and feel as women, and act as but retain, if possible, your gentle sympa- women, without waiting for the promptthies and nervous terrors sufficiently ings of your appeals, or of Mrs. Stowe's within bounds, to enable you to look with imaginative horrors. It seems to us, the necessary presence of mind to your that you should receive it as a strong own premises. Fire! fire! fire! This proof of how much you have mistaken stifling sorrow-smoke, still slowly rising our system, that so many millions of always as though in solemn appeal to women-mothers, sisters, and daughters, the God of Heaven against heart-break- loving and beloved, civilized women, ing, body-crushing agony; this constant Christian women, have contentedly lived dumb prayer of remediless suffering, in the midst of it, and yet the common whence is it? Is it only from our sugar woman-heart among us has not risen up fields and cotton plantations? Is it the to call it cursed. Are ye women and negro alone whose weary shoulders bend beneath their load? England is a proud country-a great country-a noble and a glorious country; but, proud Pharisee, beware! you may fast twice in the week, you may give tithes of all you possess, and yet you may find, even in happy England, most stringent duties that you leave unfulfilled. The suppliant at your own door is forgotten, while you weep over the unredressed wrongs of foreign lands. Were it not better, gentle ladies, to nurse your own sick, to feed your own hungry, and to trust to the instincts of woman's heart in her own land, to relieve her own weary and her own suffering. Can it be that midst the millions of America, Mrs. Stowe's is the only true woman's heart which has dared to remonstrate against such scenes of horror as you suppose to exist among us. Belie not thus your sex, noble ladies. If duchesses and countesses can sufficiently descend from their high rank to feel like ordinary women, with every-day hearts, and every-day woman sympathies, will they not blush to think what a slander their "affectionate and Christian address" casts upon so large a portion of their civilized sisterhood? Ladies of Stafford-house, believe us, you have not the monopoly of woman-feelings, and mothers, and yet believe that these millions of women and mothers, bearing their babes upon their breasts, could teach their own beloved ones, even with their earliest breath, a constant lie? That for the paltry dollar's sake, we would bid them suck in falsehood with their mother's milk and teach them to barter their consciences for money? Nay, if ye have not, in the luxuries of rank, ceased to know the mother's love for her nurseling, and the pure welling forth of a mother's hope for the child of her bosom-rather will ye suppose that we will tip those breasts with arsenic, and drug their milk with hemlock. However exceptional cases may shock the world, never did a nation of women systematically rear their sons to be villains. Yet such, and no less, is the charge conveyed against us, in your "affectionate and Christian appeal." If we have tolerated the system of iniquity that you describe, if we have taught our children to love it, if we are willing to bid them defend it, even unto blood should it be necessary, as man should defend the dearest rights of his hearth and home, what are we? The heathen kneeling to his "Moloch, horrid king, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice." |