Months. Pork. Cut Meats. Lard. Dressed Hogs.
Bbls. Pkgs.100 lbs. No.
1863.—May 119,302 38,587 149,966 ....
June 112,343 21,401 75,966 ....
July 10,155 6,633 15,396 ....
August 6,879 2,870 3,784 ....
September 7,115 3,967 5,233 ....
October 6,921 4,501 35,128 881
November 6,916 11,066 35,997 755
December 21,864 18,843 31,775 21,208
1864.—January 39,364 34,469 25,145 48,276
February 32,144 42,593 43,245 59,894
March 33,687 92,710 83,122 4,600
April 12,346 49,399 90,496 67
Total 409,036 327,129 594,853 135,481

Deducting from the total supply of each of these six staples such amounts as were exported during the year, we find a remainder, for annual metropolitan consumption, amounting, in the case of

Flourto1,908,671 bbls.
Wheat"2,276,257 bushels.
Corn"8,540,490 "
Cured Beef"89,209 pkgs.
" Pork"209,279 bbls.
Cotton"238,124 bales.

We have no room for the details—which would embarrass us, if we should attempt a statement—of the cost of clothing the New York people. We will merely remark, in passing, that one of the largest retail stores in the New York dry-goods trade sells at its counters ten million dollars' worth of fabrics per annum, and that another concern in the wholesale branch of the same trade does a yearly business of between thirty and forty millions. As for tailors' shops, New York is their fairy-land,—many eminent examples among them resembling, in cost, size, and elegance, rather a European palace than a republican place of traffic.

The most comprehensive generalization by which we may hope to arrive at an idea of the business of New York is that which includes in tabular form the statistics of the chief institutions which employ and insure property.

On the 24th of September, 1864, sixty-three banks made a quarterly statement of their condition, under the general banking law of the State. These banks are at present the only ones in New York whose condition can be definitely ascertained, and their reported capital amounts to $69,219,763. The national banks will go far toward increasing the total metropolitan banking capital to one hundred millions. The largest of the State banks doing business in the city is the Bank of Commerce, (about being reorganized on the national plan,) with a capital of ten millions; and the smallest possess capital to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars.

Mr. Camp, now at the head of the New York Clearing-House, has been kind enough to furnish the following interesting statistics in regard to the total amount of business transactions managed by the New York banks in connection with the Clearing-House during the two years ending on the 30th of last September. Figures can scarcely be made more eloquent by illustration than they are of themselves, I therefore leave them without other comment than the remark that the weekly exchanges at the Clearing-House during the past year have repeatedly amounted to more than the entire expenses of the United States Government for the same period.

Clearing-House Transactions.

1862. Exchanges. Balances.
October $ 1,081,243,214.07 $ 54,632,410.57
November 874,966,873.15 47,047,576.93
December 908,135,090.29 44,630,405.43
1863.
January 1,251,408,362.76 58,792,544.70
February 1,199,249,050.07 51,583,913.88
March 1,313,908,804.14 60,456,505.45
April 1,138,218,267.90 53,539,812.46
May 1,535,484,281.78 70,328,306.25
June 1,252,116,400.20 59,803,975.44
July 1,261,668,342.87 62,387,857.44
August 1,466,803,012.90 53,120,821.99
September 1,584,396,148.47 61,302,352.35
$14,867,597,848.60 $677,626,482.61
306 Business days.
Average for day, 1862-3.
Exchanges $48,586,921.07
Balances 2,214,415.63