The Freightage of a boat to convey the flour to Low Louifiana cofts about a hundred dollars. hey contain from two hundred and fifty to three hundred barrels, and are navi gated by five men, of whom the chief receives a hundred dollars for the voyage, and the others fifty each. They take, from Louifville, where nearly the whole embarkations are made, from thirty to thirty-five days to go to New Orleans, They reckon it four hundred and thirty-five miles from Louisville to the embouchure of the Ohio, and about a thousand miles thence to New Orleans, which makes it, upon the whole, a paffage of fourteen hundred and thirty-five miles; and these boats have to navigate upon the river a space of eight or nine hundred miles without meeting with any plantations. A part of the crew return to Lexinton by land, which is about eleven hundred miles, in forty or forty-five days. This journey is extremely unpleasant, and thofe who dread the fatigues of it return by fea. They embark at New Orleans for New York and Philadelphia, whence they return to Pittsburgh, and thence go down the Ohio as far as Kentucky, An infpector belonging to the port of Louisville inferted in the Kentucky Gazette of the 6th of Auguft 1802, that 85,570 barrels of flour, from the ift of January to the 30th of June following, went out of that port to Low Louifiana. More than two thirds of this quantity may be confi. dered as coming from the ftate of Kentucky, and the reft from Ohio and the fettlements fituated upon the rivers Monongahela and Alleghany. The fpring and autumn are principally the seasons in which this exportation is made. It is almost null in fummer, an epoch at which almost all the mills are ftopped for the want of water. Rye and oats come up alfo extremely well in Kentucky. The rye is nearly all made ufe of in diftilling of whiskey, and the oats as food for horfes, to which they give it frequently in little bunches from two to three pounds, without being threshed. The culture of tobacco has been greatly extended within these few years. The temperature of the climate, and the extraordinary fertility of the foil gives, in that refpect, to this ftate, a very great advantage over that of Virginia; in confequence of which tobacco and corn form the prin cipal branch of its commerce. It exports annually feveral thousand hogfheads, from a thousand to twelve hundred pounds each. The price of it is from two to three dollars per hundred weight. Hemp, both raw and manufactured, is alfo an article of exportation. In the fame year, 1802, there has been fent out of the country, raw 42,048 pounds, and 2408 hundred weight, converted into cables and various forts of cordage. Many of the inhabitants cultivate flax. The women manufacture linen of it for their families, and exchange the furplus with the trades people for articles imported from Europe. These linens, though coarse, are of a good quality; yet none but the inferior inhabitants use them, the others giving a preference to Irish linens, which comprise a confiderable fhare of their commerce. Although whiter, they are not fo good as our linens of Bretagne. The latter would have found a great fale in the wefterm ftates, had it not been for yielding Louisiana; fince it is now clearly demonftrated that the expence of conveying goods which go up the river again from New Orleans to Louifville is not fo great as that from Philadelphia to Limeftone. Although the temperature of the climate in Kentucky and other western ftates is more favourable to the cul ture ture of fruit trees, these parts have not been peopled long enough for them to be brought to any great perfection, Befide, the Americans are by no means fo induftrious or interefted in this kind of culture as the European ftates. They have confined themselves, at prefent, to the planting of peach and apple trees. and fix pence halfpenny per hundred of the third clafs. Although thefe taxes are, as we must fuppofe, very moderate, though nobody complains of them, ftill a great number of those taxable are much in arrears. This is what I perceived by the numerous advertisements of the collectors that I have feen pafted up in difierent parts of the town of Lexinton. Again, thefe delays are not peculiar to the ftate of Kentucky, as I have made the fame remark in thofe of the east. The former are very numerous, and come to the greatest perfection. There are five or fix fpecies of them, fome forward, and others late, of an oval form, and much larger than our garden peaches. All the peaches grow in the open field, and proceed from kernels without being pruned or graft- POPULATION OF NEW YORK. ed. They fhoot fo vigorously, that at the age of four years they begin to bear. The major part of the inhabi tants plant them round their houses, and others have great orchards of them planted croffwife They turn the hogs there for two months before the fruit gets ripe. Thefe animals fearch with avidity for the peaches that fall in great numbers, and crack the ftones of them for the kernels. The immenfe quantity of peaches, which they gather are converted into brandy, of which there is a great confumption in the country, and the reft is exported. A few only of the inhabitants have stills; and others carry their peaches to them, and bring back a quantity of brandy proportionate to the number of peaches they carried, except a part that is left for the expence of diftilling. Peach brandy fells for a dollar a gallon, which is equal to four English quarts. In Kentucky the taxes are affeffed in the following manner: they pay a fum equivalent to one fhilling and eight-pence for every white fervant, fix-pence halfpenny for every negro, three-pence for a horfe, two fhillings hundred acres of land of the first per clafs, cultivated or not, feventeenpence per hundred of the fecond clafs, confiderable pleasure by the following document, the progrefs, which the free and United States of America have made in population. Notwithftanding the prophecies of the British writers, that the independence of America, would produce nothing but incivilization, poverty and Anarchy the reverse is the confequence. The men who expelled the British after beating them, though bred in the humble ranks of life have evinced as much talents for managing an Empire as they exhibited abilities in the art of war. The Irish Reader will fee with The following Table exhibits the population of this City, as taken at different periods. Periods. 1697 1756 1771 1783............. 1791.... Inhabitants. .4.S02 ..21,863 ..23,614 By which it appears, that our popu lation has more than tripled from 1783 to 1805, a period of twenty years. Should the progrefs of increase continue at the rate of five per cent. per annum, the population of this city in 1855 will amount to 705,650, a rate exceeding the doubling of our number every twenty years, during the period of a century. IMPORTANT EXTRACTS FROM THE NEWSPAPERS. Among the fashionables at Lucan, we have to notice in the late arrivals, Justice Godfrey and Major Sandy's ; Doctor Trevor did not arrive at the date of the laft difpatches. Beef and mutton are at very extravagant prices in the village, which is extremely inconvenient to officers out of the army, and juftices out of commiffion. Indeed the high prices of the neceflaries of life, with the vigilance of bailiffs, tend confiderably to diminish the comforts of life. Yesterday, nine veffels loaded with dragoons, and a competent number of British ladies, arrived in the Bay. The gallantry of the one part, with the national character of virtue of the other, will have confiderable effect on our civilization: this may be faid to be the only commerce we have we import foldiers and whores, and maintain them for their fine manners. Mr. Fofter, by the new duties impofed on printing in Ireland, has punifhed the prefs nearly to extinction. The prefs was of late years very imprudent in its treatment of certain great men. The names of Claudius, the Major, and the fufferings of Hamill, Delahide, Bird, and Fay, have not been handled with proper reverence to power. The regularity of payments to tradefmen, inn-holders, and domeftics, not being much atten ded to by fome of our masters, were frequently made the topic of public difcuffion; and to this we must attri bute the prefent chaftifement. The coach-owners and inn keepers on a certain line of the northern road, have been regulated by a kind of difcretion that would not disgrace a more refined rank of life: they never furnish an account for horfes, carriages, or refreshments to a certain great man, as they think it cheaper to confer fome occafional obligations than encounter a tax-gatherer. Lord Caftlereagh in one of his fpeeches recommending the measure of Union, remarked that a shopkeeper in Dublin lived better than a banker in London. The fhopkeepers particularly the loyal ones, are not the fame luxurious men they were in 1798. After affifting the Noble Lord in the fubjugation of their country, by flogging their fellow-citizens, they are abandoned to the fame mifery, in common with the other part of the degraded people, fhivering in prifons, or begging where they bullied. Mrs. Jordan, and her whiteheaded offspring, and the illuftrious father, are highly exafperated at the indifcreet and furious temper of their le gal friend in Dublin; too much zeal often does as much mischief as the deepest malignity. It must be very unpleasant to the feelings of the royal part of Mrs. Jordan's family, to have the early days of her amorous life, fo long in obfcurity, raked up again, by a man who is feeking favors thro their interest. If Moll Flanders, Peg Woffing ton, Sally Hayes, or Sally McLean, had the advantage of being cotemporaries with a certain Knight, they might be refpectively accomodated with a virtuous character, teftified on oath. Ladies in their amusing ranks of life, would not have to regret like Mr. Burke, that "the age of chival ry was gone." Knights in former ages were fworn to defend the fair; their fucceffors have not in this part of their duty departed from the rules of the inftitution, as we have a modern one who rentures not only his body but his foul, to vindicate them: certainly, though he threatens to fight in their defence, he favears much oftener. By letters from Cheltenham, received at our office, on Saturday, we are informed, that Mrs. Jordan and her fon, Cornet Fitzclarence, had arrived at that fashionable depot. Her Benefit is fixed for the 24th infl. She is particularly happy in her talents and connexions;he ads in Eng ad to augment her fortune, while her friend in Ireland fwears to encrease her reputation. The Major fome days fincé, entertained a few Judges and great Lawyers, at his houfe, with a moft fump tuous dinner. Every loyal man who remembers the age of triangles, must be proud to hear of this tangible property in the judiciary and executive. That patriotic inftitution, the Farming Society, are not fo noify on their improvements as formerly they have been warned of the impolicy of giving public lectures on the fattening of eattle, as it only tends to put people in mind of eating. It is ripping up old fores, creating jealoufies in the breafts of the labouring mob, provoking men to difpute with brutes on the impro priety of emigration. Mr. Fofter has arrived at his feat at Collon. This pleafing intelligence fhould be known to ftrangers, whose bufinefs may bring them through that village, as they would run the hazard of getting a drubbing from the brutal retainers if found uncovered in the freet, as it is an high offence againk the dignity of the great financier, to wear one's hat on while the patriot is at hand. this flourishing city stand before their eyes teftimonies of the ftrongeft conviction. Ano her new barrack on an unnfual fcale is erecting at Kilmainham. No country in Europe exhibitsfo maBy models in this line of architecture. Whenever a new tax is to be levied, there is a point d'appui thought neceffary to fuftain the collectors. The additional duty on windows might caufe fome unpleafant expreffions of popular opinion, on the rapid decay of Dublin; but the apprehenfions that arise from any explanations with a military force are fo unpleasant, that the few who would unwittingly do it. would not require any greater force than the ragged guards of the Major to chastise them. The fale of the goods and chattles of King William's milliner took place a few days ago in College-green The filk peliffe made for his Dutch Majefty's ufe, to be worn on the anniver fary of the day he triumphed over his father-in-law, fold fo low as fivepence to a Popi broker :-this valuable article brought only a triffling price, as no loyal man could with fafety vifit the auction room, without fubjecting himfelt to the unmanly obtrufion of a crowd of bailiffs. The trade of Dublin is confiderably encreafed within thefe few months; if we are not gainers in a pecuniary way, by the prefent rate of exchange, we are promifed much fecurity by our intercourfe with the fifter country, Thirty-four thousand German fol. diers are promised to be furnished on the shorteft notice: in the point of tranquillity we fhall then be fo fecured, that no event can cause any dif. quietude. All that is afked in return is a fufficient stock of fresh provifions liye and dead; this is too reafonable to be difputed. They who protect us are entitled to reward; and as our English brethren fhare with us the military part of their trade; we fhould in good humour fhare our provisions in return. The people of the Earl of Meath's Liberty, are fo fatigued with hard labour and fcanty provifions, and fo charmed with the eafy and well fed condition of the foldiery, that they have it in contemplation to learn the art of war. They obferve, with due respect to our matters, that villages are building for idlers, and streets decaying that were once animated with induftry; the barrack has taken place of the manufactory; the fhuttle is thrown away for the bugle; and the noife of the wheel has been obfcured by the manly shunder of artillery. Letters have been received in town, ftating, that the Bishop of Glaffnevin is labouring under a complication of complaints, arifing from a fevere cold he got by his indefatigable attention to his new employment as turapikeman His Lordthip has taken feveral Scotch medicines without any visible alteration for the better. Several do• fes of ftirabout and treacle were adminiflered in the courfe of yesterday, by Doctor Bonnet Murdoch Mackenzie Frazer, while the colonists in their little kirk, were raifing their pimpled knuckles, calling on the Larde to aid the mon of God with grace and mercy. Doctor Duigenan in his book on Irish affairs, printed by Stockdale, London, among the high crimes he attributes to what he calls Irish Romanilts, in James II 's time, fays they took up arms to render Ireland a itate, independent of Eng and. Would to God, our English matters had the fame odious story to tell of us, as they have |