Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1868 — The Trade of Canada with the United States—Exports for the Year Ending Sept. 30, '68. [ARTICLE]

The Trade of Canada with the United States—Exports for the Year Ending Sept. 30, '68.

[From the Toronto Globo.] We subjoin a carefully prepared statement of the principal exports to the United State* from this port for tne present year, as compared with 1867. StatemQits of the exports from Port Hope and Cobourg are also given—the three ports being selected as having consular agents attached and having what lias been mapped"out by our American friends as “the district of Toronto." As far as it goes, the results shown are complete. It will bo observed JtESI this year there have beon no exports to the United States in several articles which were sent there in 1.807; and this is partly, accounted for, as far as we can gather, not from any falling off in the exports generally', but from the fact that the traffic im question—with a good deal not here indicated—has sought Canadian rather than American >-ont«lsoi;' travel. Other markets have'probably been found this year in the varying courso pf trade, it is to be hoped they have all bean better. This year the total exports from Toronto to the states reached about $2,198,279, as against $1,929,588 for the same period of 1867, making an increase in the exports of 1868 of *268,691. This year from Port Hope the total value of the exports to the same quarter is set down at $1,627,169.01; and from Cobourg, $478,376, —inakingthe value of the total exports of the three ports foot up to $4,303,824.

~r - -i > i4i Classifying the list of exports m hand, we find it to consist of the following articles: In groin the total shipments from the three ports reached about 2,434,529 bushels, representing a value ol $2,698,955, or within $447,043 of the total exports Barley, which, up to the present, has boon in most active demand at this point, and whioh at one time temahed. the very handsome figure of $1.53 per bushel, constitute the largest export in too year’s qperations, aud toe figure it commanded this year, as compared with last, was such that, though the quantity foil short 1,033,308 bushels, the value represented only shows a decline of $293,425. In 1867, 2,254,-163 bushels left this port for the -states. —This—year— but 1, fitto 155bwwhM*r which are valued at $1,154,3100. Wheat, our next heaviest export, also shows a falling off in quantity and value this year. There were 498,178 bushels sent over, against 872,151 in 1867—showing a falling off in quantity of 373,973 bushels —representing the sum of $009,608. Of cattle and horses, it appears thsvo were exported about 1,878, valued at $117,096. Hogs to the number of 478 went the same road, and are set down as being worth $2,006. Ah far as Toronto is concerned, this yoar’s business shows a falling off in the lumber sent to the states of 17,841,964 feet, worth in the neighborhood of $173,000. The total luihber export for the three places lor which these calculations are made reaches 96,448,107 feet, valued at sl,307.034. The decline in this export, as above mentioned, was anticipated this spring, owing to a depression iu the business on the other side, an<f the inability of dealers to bold over stocks till a more' favorable period. The total amount of wool sent nway is set down at 440,927 pounds for the present year, as against 233,058 in 1867. Tliis evidences a decline in quantity of 207,869 popnds, but the difference in the valuation for the two periods is onlv $1,548. i, ‘ | H In 1867 there were exporta in iron 6re, rags, oats, hams, pelts, refined oil, safes, and shrubbery,— none of which appeftr to have traveled the same road this year.— They represent a united value of nearly 598,000. The sales were ten in number, and found their way to our friends in the lower provinces, by the way of Portland, we sappose. Over $40,000 worth of the bains mentioned, yore sent through to England, in bond.

A PiiuaixN Pnfsu. Donna.—Here ia a portrait of Mortense Schneider, toe Paris primp donna, drawn By a Frankfort journalist, who is evidently no admirer of hen: “Mile. Schneider, of whom so many Parisian petit* emu are enamorned, is a fat, waddling woman, with a shortl neck, a. round, voluptuous face, a crooked, ugly nose, an exceedingly narrow forehead, and very fine bright eyes. There is absolutely nothing very attractive-about her person, except those eye*. Her bust is too expansive, her waist at least three times as large as it ought to be, her hands and feet are plebeian. When you meet her on toe street you would notlook at her, and yet, ' toe is toe queen of toe French opera bouffe, because she dan say nasty things in a ten times nastfor manner than any other French actress. This woman, with her lascivious glances and innuendoes, has done more to demoralize the French stage them all the wretched little clays which are performed at the fewest, eurburban theatres. Wat popularity has (nought; riches to her- She is wealthier tom any of the celebrated prime derma of the Italian opera. Her derlapd* of salary are perfectly monstrous. She receives more' money for Mnging' for into hd««rs than, „thiyty-*ve m toe week, and yet, toe is neither goodiookiog, nor even a passible cantratrice: and hog whole theatrical capital is a skill in doing things at which every honest wfiman . •• • - ~

l'fefl Frlvstc Habits K Jflp* lir. clej- ; »f UAIK TWAIN, Or THK THIuTS s'* ST ATT. Mr. Greeley get* np st three o’clock fc»> health unimpaired and the brain vigorous. He then wakee up all the bouaehold and assemble* them in the library, by Candlelight, and, after quoting the beautiful lines: wts*." he appoint’* each individual's task for the day. sets him at it wttfa encouraging words, and goes back to bed again. I mention here, in do fault-finding spirit, but with a* deference justly due a man Who is older and wiser and worthier than I, that he snores awfully. In s moment of irritation, once, 1 wac rash enough to say I nevor would sleep With him until he broks himself of this unfortunate habit. I have kept my word with bigoted aud unwavering determination. '

At hats-past il o'clock Mr. Greeley new again, lie shaves himself.' He consider* that there is great vrrtno and economy in shaving himself. He does it’ with a dull razor, sometimes humming a pnrt of a tune, (he known pArt of a tune, and taken ap innocent delight in regarding it as the first half of Old Hnndred; bnt parties familiar with the hymn havo felt obliged to confess thpt they conld not recoguizo it, and, therefore, the noise he makes is doubtless *u unconscious original composition of Mr. Greeley’s, ) and, sometimes, when the razor is especially dnll, he Acooiiqiniiies himself with a formula like this: “Damn the damned razor, and the damned outcast who made it"—H. G. He then goes oat into his model garden, and applies bis vast store of agricultural kfii’mcdge to the amelioration of his cabtiages; after which he writes an able agricultural article for the instruction of American farmers, hi* soul cheered the while with tho reflection that if cabbages were worth eleven dollars apiece his model farm would pay. The next goes to breakfast, which is a frugal, abstemious meal with him, andconsists of nothing but jtist such thing* as the market affordH, nothiug more He drinks nothing bnt water—nothing whatever bnt water, and coffee, and tea, and Scotch ale, and lager beer, nnd lemonade with a fly in it—sometimes a house fly and somotimes a horse fly, according to the amount of inspiration required to warm him up to his daily duties. During breakfast ho reads the Tribune all through, nnd enjoys the satisfaction of knowing that all the brilliant things ill it, written by Young and Cooke, and Hazard, and myself, ore attributed to him by a confiding and infernal public. After breakfast he writes a short editorial, and pnts a large dash nt the beginning of it, thus (— —), which is the same as if he put H. G. after it, and takes a savage pleasure in reflecting that none of us understrappers can use that dash, except in profane conversation when chaffing over the outrage. He writes this editorial in his own handwriting. * He does it because he is so vain pf his penmanship. Ho nlways did take an inordinate pride in his penmanship. He hired out onoc. in his young days’, as a writing master, but the enterprise failed. The pupils could not translate his remarks with any certainty. His first eopy was “Virtue is its own reward," and they got it “Washing with soap is wholly absurd,” and so the trustees discharged him lor attempting to convey bad morals through the medium of worse penmanship. But,ns I was saying,he writes his morning editorial. Then, lie tries to read it over, and cat do it; and bo sends it to the printers, and they fry to read it, and can’t 40 it; and so they set it up at random as you may say, putting in what'words aground on a long word, they put in “reconstruction" or “universal suffrage," and spar off and paddle ahead, and next morning. if the degraded public can tell what it is ail about, they say H. G. wrote it, and if they can’t, they say it is one of those imbecile understrappers, and that is the end of it On Sundays Mr Greeley sits iq a prominent pew in Mr. Chapin’s church, and lets on that he is asleep, and the congregation regard it as an eccentricity ot genius. When he is going to appear in public, Mr. Greeley spends two hours on his toilet He is the most painstaking and elaborate man about getting, up his dress that lives in America. This is his ohiefest and his ploasantest foible. He puts on his old white overcoat and turns np the collar. He puts on a soiled shirt, saved from the wash, and leaves one end of the collar unbuttoned. He puts on his most dilapidated hat, turns it wrong before, cants it on to the back of his head, and jams an extra dent in the side of it He puts on his most atrocious boots, and spends fifteen minutes tucking the left leg ofnis pants into the boot-top in what shall seem the most careless and unstudied way. But his ernvat—it is into the arrangement of his cravat that he throws all his soul, all the powers of his great mind. After fixing at it for forty minutes before the glass it is ever perfect—it is askew

every way—it overflows his coat-collar on one side and sinks into oblivion _on the other—lt climbs and it delves around about his neck—the knot is conspicuously dispayed under his left ear, and it stretches one of its long ends straight out horizontally, and tho other goes after his eye, m the good old Toodles fashion—and then, completely and marvelously appareled, Mr. Greely strides forth, rolling like a sailor; a miracle of astounding coslumery, the awe and wonder of the nations! But ! have not time to toll you the rest of his private habits. Suffice it that ho is an upright and an honest man—a practical, great brained man—a useful man to his nation and his generation—a fr.mous man who has justly earned his celebrity—and withal the worst dressed man in this or any other country, even" though he does take so thundering much pains and pnts on so many frills about it— Wilkes' ~ iipiril of the Times■ tr