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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 49, 3 May 1873, Page 3

The United States Economist gives an almost startling estimate of the rapid growth of the American commerce within the last twelve years in spite of many impediments. The journal finds that the total number of manufacturing establishments increased from 140,433 in 1860 to 252,148 in 1870, or nearly two for one; that the number of “ hands ” employed was almost doubled in the same period, the aggregate in 1860 having been 1,311,346 and in 1870 no fewer than 2,053,988. The annual cost of labor in 1860 was 378,878,966 dollars, in 1870 it had amounted to 775,621,593 dollars. It notices further the fact that there is, a demand for the services of 323,000 female operatives in different branches of manufacturing industry, an increase of more than 42,500. The strong. attachment of .subscribers to well-conducted newspapctrt is fully confirmed by publishers. “ Stop my paper,” words of dread to beginners ip business, lose. their terror after a paper has been, published' for a term of years. So long bs a paper pursues a just, honorable and judicious course, meeting the wants of its customers,in, all respeqts, the ties of friendship between it and the ' subscribers are as hard to break by-an -outside third party as the links-wliich bind old friends in business or social - life., Occasional defects and errors in a newspaper are overlooked by those who have come to be attached to it through its persual for years. They sometimes become disgusted with it on apcojpit ofsomething which had slipped -into its columns, and. may stop taking it; but the absence of the familiar sheet alii their homes or'offices for a fow weeks becomes an insufferable deprivation, and they hasten to take it again, and possibly apologise ‘for haring had it stopped. No friendship on earth is more constant than that contracted by the reader of a journal which makes an honest and earnest effort to merit his continued support.