The following shows the price of Corn on the first day of each

month for the past two years:

HOGS. A comparative statement of the business of the past three years, shows the following result:

The following is a statement of the number of hogs received during the past season, and the sources from which they came:

Chicago and Galena U. R. R.....................

45,779

Chicago and Rock Island R. R...

14,225

Illinois Central R. R....

1,242

Michigan Central R. R.....

387

By teams and on foot to be slaughtered in city

12,347

Total.......

73,980

The hogs received here were disposed of as follows:

The following statement exhibits the price of Mess Pork on the

first of each month for the past two years:

....

9,782

Southern R. R..

846

10,503

73,980

The following table shows the range of prices for dressed hogs, per 100 lbs., from light to heavy, on the first and fifteenth of the four packing months:

BEEF. The largest number packed in 1853 by one house was 4,700 head; the smallest 250 head. The total number packed by all parties is 25,435 head, showing an increase over last year of only 772 head.

The number of barrels of beef packed in 1853 is 57,500.

The average weight of cattle packed here last year exceeds that of the preceding by 21 lbs. per head. In 1852 the average was

542 lbs. per head; in 1853 it was 563 lbs.

The number of barrels of tallow rendered was 5,283, which at an average of 250 lbs. per bbl., gives a total of 1,350,750 lbs. The average weight of the hides was a fraction under 80 lbs. each, giving the total weight 2,026,321 lbs.

The barrels required are manufactured in this city, and also in the neighbouring States, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan. They were quite plenty during the season, and were furnished in large quantities at $1.00. The number of men employed in this business is between five and six hundred.

Commencing with the packing season, prices at the first of each month until the close of the year, for the last three years, were as follows:

The following calculation, based upon the facts already adduced, presents the value of the products which arise from this business

The price assigned to each article was its market value at the close

of the season:

LUMBER. The following table shows the amount of lumber received in this market for the last seven years:

WOOL. The following shows the prices ruling in this market for the last three years, the range being from the poorest to the best qualities:

The following is a statement of the shipments for twelve years,

ending in 1853:

Trade between St. Louis and Arkansas.

We copy the following article from the Southwest Independent with a hope that it may induce the merchants and manufacturers of St. Louis to inquire into the nature and value of the Arkansas trade.

We are persuaded that if a few leading merchants of Arkansas would visit St. Louis, that an arrangement might be made to establish a trade between St. Louis and the Arkansas river, which would prove profitable and highly satisfactory to all parties, and we trust that our friend of the Southwest Independent" will urge this suggestion upon the consideration of his readers.

"ST. LOUIS TRADE WITH NORTH ARKANSAS.-St. Louis as a point for the trade of our merchants in assuming the importance that belong to the city. Being destined to become certainly the Srst city in the Mississippi Valley, and the third city in America, she offers and will offer to the purchaser of manufactures and foreign goods advantages that no other city in the valley will be able to present.

Railways are speedily annihilating land-barriers, and by her system of Railroads, St. Louis will soon possess all the conveniences and appliances of commerce that she would have were she situated upon the ocean shore. In a few years she will directly import from the old world all the foreign goods consumed in the Valley, and be able to sell at as favorable rates as New York.

In a very short time St. Louis will be by the South West Pacific Railroad within fifty miles of this town, and by the Border Road at our very doors. To join our trade were our merchants to make any advances, St. Louis would give them "bargains" that would certainly cause goods to be as cheaply purchased there, with the carriage and insurance between the two cities, as in New York, and assuredly underbid Cincinnati. Besides, St. Louis is a city free from fanaticism, and possesses by far more of the customs and manners of the South-west. Merchants from that section could purchase in a more congenial latitude.

Interest will create interest, and all this region is embraced in the Commercial Basin of which St. Louis is the great centre. To secure the trade of this Basin St. Louis manufacturers would do

"good work." That they "slight" their work in Cincinnati is notorious. Perhaps they think in that porky city that any manufacture is good enough for slave-holding countries.

Altho' the St. Louis system of Roads is not yet completed, it will be in at least five years. In that interim, if our merchants would run steamboats direct to St. Louis from Van Buren and Fort Smith, and open trade and intercourse with that city, the step would greatly and profitably bear upon our commercial prosperity, and bring an immense influence to aid our own projected railways.'

LITERARY DEPARTMENT.

From the French of Madame De Stael.

German Philosophy.

Continued from page 69.

One must habituate himself to the practice of the system of reasoning pursued in the science of geometry, in order to understand metaphysics thoroughly. In this science, as in that of calculation, if the least link of reason is broken, the whole chain which leads to the result is destroyed. Metaphysical arguments are more abstract and not less precise than those of mathematics, and moreover their object is vague. In metaphysics, it is necessary to reconcile two of the most antagonistic faculties, imagination and calculation: it is in the requisition of measuring the cloud of the mind with the same accuracy as a piece of ground; and there is no study which demands such an extraordinary concentration of attention; nevertheless in questions of the most exalted order, there is a point of view which the whole world can take, and it is this which I propose to seize at present.

One day I inquired of Fichte, whose head is among those of the strongest thinkers of Germany, if he could not state to me the principles of his morality, rather than those of his metaphysics? -The one depends upon the other, he replied.-And this answer was sensibly profound: it includes every motive of interest which one can possibly have in philosophy.

We are accustomed to consider it as destructive of all the feelings of the heart; were it really so, it would then be the positive enemy of mankind; but this is not the case with the doctrine of Plato, nor with that of the Germans; they regard feeling as an act, as the primitive act of the soul, and philosophic reason as destined only to find out what the act signifies.

The enigma of the universe has been the object of the fruitless. meditations of a great number of men, worthy of exalted admiration, since they felt themselves called to something better than this world. Spirits of a high lineage wander incessantly around the abyss of boundless thoughts; but nevertheless it becomes necessary to leave this sphere, for the mind vainly fatigues itself in these efforts to scale the walls of heaven.