The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-02-14
No. 2OS.

once day; they should have warm, clean bedding
at night and comfortable quarters through the day;
a good warm yard to exercise in at pleasure and
a stable or shed to protect them from the weather
at all times If you desire to raise good breed OF
cattle, and to preserve those which so in their
good qualities, you must feed thetn well; bone,
muscle, fat, and the secreting organs, demand to
be kept always in healthfu action, and these things
cannot be done upon any system which merely
keeps the skin and bones together. Four cows,
well kept and well cared for, will contribute more
TO the comforts of family than dozen which may
be so fed as merely to preserve life. Cold and hun
ger destroy the physical powers Of man or beast.
Ban american Farmer.
CoMMERce or New YoRK AND BosroS. The fol-
lowing statistics show the respective positions,
regards commerce. Of the two cities of New York
and Boston:
During the year 1850 there arrived at New York
from foreign ports
100000 tons American shipping,
Al 900 tons foreign "
and the total imports were s 3S, ,OO0,0O0.
Cleared 10000 tons American shipping,
406,00O tons foreign
and the total exports were 500 900 900; duties col
lected 27,000,O 900.
Arrived at Boston during the year 1850 =
229 900 tons American shipping,
255, 900 tons foreign '
and the total imports were about $50 O,0O0,OOO'
Cleared-202, 900 tons American shipping,
100000 tons foreign :"
and the total exports were S9,3O0OCO; duties col
lected $4,000, 600.
We are somewhat astonished at the rapid in
crease Of revenues in Boston, but cast en-
tirely into the shade by the over helming superi
ority Of our great rival, shown by the figures
stated above. The foreign import trade of this
city has doubled in less than ten years, while
ex port no more than in $780, When compare
our commerce with the cities of Philadelphia and
Baltimore, feel some degree of satisfaction;
Philadelphia has but ten millions and Baltimore
five millions of foreign imports, when we have
thirty millions; but when we array ourselves by
the side of New York, dwinde into n mere
pigmy, as regards extent oil business and CONNER
cial operations.
II will be seen that New York had nearly five
times more foreign imports, and over six times the
ex ports of Boston last year. The progress and adj
vancement of this great commercial emporium is
SO enormous that it astonishes any who looks
into the statistics of its trade. A few statements
will prove this.
The imports Of 1850 exceeded those of lSi9 more
than forty millions of dollars and its exports
more than double those of ls40, and even twenty
one millions more than in lS49! No year that has
ever passed shows such an immense business as the
last. In 1885, the year of the great initiation just
be fore the panic OF 1887 the imports reached the
sum Of S SIlS, 900 900, twenty millions lees than the
/ year Just closed; and in lSl7, when Ireland and
England were almost in a state Of famine, the
ports were 52 100000, being 900 900 ess
shipping arrived at New York; in 1850, AL 900
tons, an increase Of more than twenty fold The
New York Journal Qf Commerce. from which paper
some of these facts have been obtained, remarks
| truly that New York is rapidly advancing to that
I position in commerce which will make her i'll
I very few years the commercial centre and me
| trupolis Of the globe.