180,000 Barrels of Pork, 196 lbs. each 35,280,000 lbs. 
Bacon 25,000,000
No. 1 Lard 16,500,000
Star Candles, made by Hydraulic pressure. 2,500,000
Bar Soap 6,200,000
Fancy Soap, &c. 8,800,000
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94,280,000
Besides Lard Oil, 1,200,000 gallons.

Some idea of the activity exhibited may be formed, when I tell you that the season for these labours averages only ten weeks, beginning with the second week in November and closing in January; and that the annual number cured at Cincinnati is about 500,000 head, and the value of these animals when cured, &c., was estimated in 1851 at about 1,155,000l.  What touching statistics the foregoing would be for a Hebrew or a Mussulman!  The wonder to me is, that the former can locate in such an unclean atmosphere; at all events, I hold it as a sure sign that there is money to be made.

They are very proud of their beef here, and it is very good; for they possess all the best English breeds, both here and across the river in Kentucky.  They stall-feed very fat, no doubt; but though generally very good, I have never, in any part of the States, tasted beef equal to the best in England.  All the fat is on the outside; it is never marbled as the best beef is with us.  The price is very moderate, being about fourpence a pound.

Monongahela whisky is a most important article of manufacture in the neighbourhood, being produced annually to the value of 560,000l.  There are forty-four foundries, one-third of which are employed in the stove-trade; as many as a thousand stoves have been made in one day.  The value of foundry products is estimated at 725,000l. annually.

If commerce be the true wealth and prosperity of a nation, there never was a nation in the history of the world that possessed by nature the advantages which this country enjoys.  Take the map, and look at the position of this city; nay, go two hundred miles higher up, to Marietta.  From that port, which is nearly two thousand miles from the ocean, the “Muskingum,” a barque of three hundred and fifty tons, went laden with provisions, direct to Liverpool, in 1845, and various other vessels have since that time been built at Cincinnati; one, a vessel of eight hundred and fifty tons, called the “Minnesota:”  in short, there is quite an active business going on; shipbuilders from Maine coming here to carry on their trade—­wood, labour, and lodging being much cheaper than on the Eastern coast.