THE LUMBER TRADE. From the report of the Lumber Master to the City Register, it appears that the following amount of lumber, shingles, laths, and staves, were received at the wharf during the year 1850:—

Adding to the above table 6,078,205 feet of lumber, estimated by the Lumber Master not measured, and 15,600,000 feet estimated to have been cut by the city mills during the year 1850, and we have, as the total amount of lumber received from all sources during the past year, and manufactured in St. Louis, the quantity of 29,676,099 feet.

We annex, to the above statement, a comparative view of the imports of lumber, shingles, and laths, by the river, for the past six years, ending December 31st, 1850:

WHEAT AND FLOUR. Below we give a tabular statement of the quantity of wheat received by river during the year-showing the aggregate, and the number of sacks from the Missouri, Mississippi, and Illinois rivers respectively; also, the quantity of flour received from all sources. This table is taken from the book of the clerk of the Millers' Exchange, and may be received as strictly correct:

RECEIPTS AT PORT OF ST. LOUIS OF PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF PRODUCE FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS

The census for 1850, just completed, shows a rapid increase of the population of St. Louis. In May, 1821, (see Merchants' Magazine, vol. xvi., page 162,) the place contained 651 dwellings. The population, in 1810, was 1,600; in 1820, 4,598; in 1830, it had increased to 6,694; and in 1840, to 16,496, of whom 1,531 were slaves. The present population, as shown by the census of 1850, amounts to 77,465, of which 2,616 are slaves. It appears, by the returns of the United States Marshal, that there are 1,308 manufacturers, who have a capital invested amounting to $4,377,711, employing 7,321 males, and 1,130 females. The annual product of this branch of industry amounted, in 1850, to $15,400,340.

Since preparing the foregoing statements, we have received, through the courtesy of C. H. Haven, Esq., of St. Louis, a statistical table, made up from the census rolls in the hands of the United States Marshal, presenting a view of the productive industry of St. Louis, which shows a progress in every department of industry, that must be gratifying to the enterprising citizens of that city.

A TABLE, SHOWING THE AMOUNT OF CAPITAL INVESTED, NUMBER OF HANDS EMPLOYED, AND THE ANNUAL PRODUCT OF MANUFACTURING AND OTHER BRANCHES OF INDUSTRY IN ST. LOUIS, 1850.

Capital invested.

Annual

$150,265

Hands Employed.
Male. Female.
557

268

product. $1,171,580

6,90) to nз of iron.

+151,120 bushels of barley. 830 tons of hemp. § 33,673 bbls. flour. **2,375,000 bushels of wheat--569,300 barrels of flour,

| 14,200,000 feet of lumber. †† 1,035 tons of sugar.

$ 78,220,000 of brick.

83 First Ward only.

Art. IV. CURRENCY OF NEW ENGLAND, AND THE SUFFOLK BANK SYSTEM:

CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THEIR EFFECTS UPON THE PROSPERITY OF MAINE AND TO THE SUPERIORITY OF THE FREE BANK SYSTEM OF NEW YORK.

In every country, under every form of government, the monetary system that prevails, exerts, next to an over-ruling Providence, the most searching and potent influence that is felt upon the industry of the people, advancing or retarding their prosperity according as that system weighs with, or against it.

This is so, because every such system makes unto itself a “higher law” than is found in either Constitutional or Statute Laws, however vaunted may be the pride or pretensions of these, or "law abiding" may be the dispositions of the people upon whom they operate.

• 107,800 hogs.

+80,000 pounds of wool.