The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-06 00:00:00

CONSUMPTION OF ICE IN AMERICA.

(eras the Nay York Daily Time.)

Ia is an American Institatioa--the n of it an
Animism luxury—the skew slit as American ASI
in the matter et laseries, as hi government, WO Ni dear
math sad popular, the great mess of people inovial6Oving.
sad having a being is sea sad do en these
emalare eamione existeme daily, whisk an in uremia
nations the Sabbath wonder of the humbler demeans Medea
The statiatice of les are exemodiegly interesting, and
illustrate the go-aheed priseiple and enterprise which
obarsetsries every bran& of oar ementereial tree. It lel
i=itz pea. dose (he 111611 of dispensing tee to Southern
endered the kola of a Boston meramet, Mr.
Tudor. It was a thereughlg worthy mike el a mild man
of that City of Notions Few twenty yam eseeldarable
diaappointnient with mikes sasses, &Wale! his sans, bat
ultimately his pmietaisay end atidellg furnished thelliengMea
ittates sad the West 1141.. with the freers delimey, and a
leorative butes.' opened sm. In 1834 the Rate Indies and
Brasil became his beelesse Meats. Other large \mess en-
gaged in the ice farming in Idessealesette and New York,
sad at present the valise of reuse Irmo of these state' belly
"eels, if it does not exceed, the valise of the rue crop of
HthV•
n chiefly smelled the soggbant port' wlik
are of the trade in that city may be seas from
' them facts. In 1832 the whole amount shipped from that
port we. 4.362 toes ; in 1846 there were 48,422 tons ax-
r; in 1863, 100,000 tons ; and in 1854, 166,540 tom.
fr :Mud that " the railroads receive muss 90,000 dole.
fkr transporting ice, and those who bear it ever the ma from
480,000 dole. to 500,000 dole." In Hears Mereltatas' Mort
sine for the present month there are a mass of very interest-
Msitaatisties ea the ice trade, from which we compile the
which we shall present to oar readers. Boston finds
favourable markets in Ravensah, Rio Janeiro, Callao,
Demerara, Bt. Thomas, and Pere. Its beet ens-
Poem however, are the &ethers Staten of the
Tale, and the Bast Indies. Boston mint last year—
To southern states, 110,000 toss ; to East Indies, 14,284
tens; to other places (named above), 31,361 tow; to ling.
lend 895 tons; consented in Boston, 60,000 tow:
216,640 tons.

.
la the we bouts in the vicinity of Berton there were
300,000 tons stored last year. In the exportation of the
amounts given above, there were 620 vessels engaged,
the heaviest tonnage in the Boston trade being in the ice
betimes..

la New York nearly the entire crop of les is Reed at home.
It is gathered at the following play's, and in the annexed
proportions:—Rockland Lake, 120,000 toes ; Kingston
Creek and vicinity, 00,000 tom; Ilighised Lake 30,000
toss; Rhinebeck, 18,000 tons; Catskill, 20,000 tons;
Athens, 16,000 tons; Burytown, 12,000 tons ; New 140.1
shell', 10,000 tons : total, 286,000 tons.
Besides this for the general home market, the following
amounts are secured and laid up in the ed towns cm
the Radom for their own use :—Albany, 20,000 toss ; Troy,
10,000 toms; Poughkeepsie, 8,000 toss; Hudson, 4,000 tons;
Newberg, 4,000 tons; total, 44,000 tuns.
Central sad Western New York is supplied from Once.
digs Lake. The whole amount secured in New York may
be estimated at about 340,000 tons, of which only about
30,000 are *sported. The value of this crop is fully fof a
million dollars annually—the lowest price being 2 dole. per
ton ; large quantities being sold at 2 dais. 50 o. sad 3 dole.
The Wooten markets—Cincinnati, Chicago, &o.—are sup-
plied from the great lake, and the markets on the Mak-
sippi River, principally from the town of Peru, in Illinois.
la Boston there are between 2,000 and 3,000 persona
employed in the badness season. In New York the amount
is lam, as the exportation is little. About 9,000 persons are
employed in the entire States by ice, and it is somputed
that a espial of over sin sallies dollars la invested in it.