Rags

Vwo thirds of the raga annually imported into the United States from all foreigu countries, come from Italy. Tho circumtance is duo to two causes, lst. Italy is in fact the receptado of all )lio old rags in the Levant. The Turks, the Greeks, and Syrians use vast quantities of choap ootton cloth; and the Arohipelago and the whole Levant is swept by Greok and Italian coasting smacks, about the si&e of boats that bring clams to Hartford, who trade for rags whieh country peddlers colleet. These rags ultimatelyget to Genoa, Trieste, etc. , and are shipped to America. '2d. Thore being no f ree press and few books printed, thcro is no home demaud to work tho rags up into paper. The population can neither read nor write, and of courso epistolary corrospondonce is rare. No country wliere the mass of tho population read and Write can afford to export rags. Heneo rags and custom. house re,turns yield a clue to the actual state of Rociety.