New York Egg Market
-It has beenascertained that over half a million of eggs are consumed every monlh n New York. They are brought down the Eri Canal in Barréis, and New Jersey and eten Pennsylvania, suppliea the Golhamite8 wilh tfais essentiul articlt of domeslic utility. One woman in Fulton recentIy-soldsüld 195,000 egg3 in ten weeks - supplying the Astor House wilh 1000 eacii day, but 2,500 on Saturday. Lieut. Litilehales,commanding the Brit i sh brigantine Dolphin, on thecoast of Ãfrica, off YVhydash, captured tbe Brazilior. slave vessel Firme, of one hundred and scventy-nine ton?, by boarding her from a cutter and gig, wilh the lo$á of tvro men Uilled. The Firme wa direct from Baliia, and had just made the land. Slie was a oew vessel, built at B=ltimore, and had regular papers proving her to bo Brasilian property. Tt is stated that the greater part of lbo six milhons of dollars paid by Ãhe Chineas for the redemptioa of Cantón turna oul to be bad eilver. I appears from a'btalement in tho Cincinnati Gazette, that there are now 371 steamboats running on the western waters Jhe tonage of which reaches 64,928 tona. The same paper adda a list of the stearaboais built at that place, the present year. It numhers 24, compyising 4430 tons. Of this nutnber, 7 were built for aod owned at St. Louis.Within a year ihere wiH be betwcon Boston and BuÃFalo, a raiiroad of six hundred miles.
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New York
Agricultural Markets
Slave Trade
China
Steamboats
Railroads
Old News
Signal of Liberty
Littlehales