It is presumable that each boat will perform three trips to and from New Orleans per annum, which will make an aggregate amount of freight and passage money of $2,405,700 per annum. From this, some idea of the trade, population, and business of the vast valley of the Mississippi, may be formed. And let it be remembered, at the same time, that the transportation of merchandise is not wholly done by steamboats. The Ohio and Mississippi are still lined with keel-boats and barges; and much of the produce is still carried to market in flat-bottomed boats, of a temporary construction, which are not calculated to ascend the stream, and are therefore generally sold for a trifle, or abandoned.
The following is extracted from a comparative statement of the increase of the principal articles of produce which arrived at the New Orleans market during a period of three years.
| Productions. | 1815. | 1816. | 1817. |
| Bacon and hams, cwt. | 7,000 | 13,000 | 18,000 |
| Butter, lbs. | - | 500 | 1,800 |
| Cotton, bales | 60,000 | 65,000 | 65,000 |
| Corn, bushels | 120,000 | 130,000 | 140,000 |
| Flour, barrels | 75,000 | 98,000 | 190,000 |
| Molasses, gallons | 500,000 | 800,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Pork, barrels | 8,000 | 9,700 | 22,000 |
| Sugar, hhds. | 5,000 | 7,300 | 28,000 |
| Taffia, gallons | 150,000 | 300,000 | 400,000 |
| Tobacco, hhds | 5,000 | 7,300 | 28,000 |
| Wheat, bushels | - | - | 95,000 |
| Whiskey, gallons | 150,000 | 230,000 | 250,000 |
ANTIQUITIES AND INDIAN HISTORY.
SOME ARTICLES OF CURIOUS WORKMANSHIP FOUND IN AN ANCIENT BARROW.
An opinion is entertained by many well-informed persons in the United States, that the country has, at some remote period, been inhabited by a civilized people, prior to its settlement or subjugation by the savages. To the many evidences furnished to strengthen this opinion, by the remnants of fortifications, tumuli, &c., may be added the discovery of several articles of antiquarian value, and of singular workmanship, of glass, or antique enamel, lately made on the eastern shores of lake Erie.
I have had an opportunity of examining a specimen of these antique glasses, and, on the authority of my informant, am enabled to remark that they were taken up about two months ago, from an ancient barrow in the town of Hamburg, where they were found deposited in an earthen pot. Contiguous to this pot were also found a skull, and some other human remains, thought to be of an unusual size. This mound, or supposed repository of the dead, is situated in an uncultivated part of the town, and several trees were growing upon it at the time the excavation was made; some of which were judged to be upwards of two feet in diameter.
The glass relic which I had an opportunity to examine, (and I am told they are all alike,) is in the form of a large barrel-shaped bead, consisting of a tube of transparent green glass, covered with an opaque coarse red enamel. Its length is nine-tenths of an inch, its greatest width six and a half tenths of an inch, and the bore of the tube two-tenths of an inch. Near the circle of the bore of this tube, is an aperture of the size of a large needle, perforating the tube from one end to the other. The enamel which covers the tube of transparent glass appears to have been ornamented with painting, in figures resembling a spindle, or two inverted sections of a circle; but they are now hardly perceptible, as the bead appears to have been considerably worn.