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 -- -------- 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.