THE CATAWBA VINTAGE OF 1858.

The yield of vinyards in Hamilton County for 1858 is 14,000 gallons; Brown County, 17.000; and Clermont, 2,500--a total of 33,500 gallons in the three counties. Mr. Fourmier, the director of W. Longworth's wine house, states that the wine of 1858 is of a superior quality, being as good as the celebrated vintage of 1853, and the yield is considerably greater than that of 1857. The price per gallon ranges from $1 to $1 20, the latter being the current quotation. The The entire crop is valued at $40,000. Mr. F. has purchased 25,000 gallons of the new wine. The Commercial makes the following note of the yield of several of the vinyards :

"The largest quantity produced in any township in this county is Storrs. T. H. Yeatman, Esq., who produced 1,400 gallons last year upon eight acres, made but 800 gallons this year. His neighbor-Mr. John Brent, reputed one of the best vintners in Ohio, produced 513 gallons, against 1,200 last year--on five acres. In 1853 his vinyard yielded 1,100 gallons per acre! and during several successive years the crop was very small. Mr. Rentz likewise made 1,100 gallons per acre that year, and during several years after his vines failed. It is obvious, therefore, that heavy crops are injurious.

Near Ripley, (Brown County,) many vintners realize a full crop this year. Mr. Brumback, near that town, made 1,500 gallons from eight acres, and his neighbor, Mr. Hoffman, made 1,700 gallons on a similar area. An evidence of the difference in crops resulting from careful and careless culture, is exhibited in the cases of Mr. Fee, near Moscow, Clermont County, who made but 300 gallons from a vinyard of 22 acres, and of Mr. Tattman, who made 400 gallons from two acres. Both vinyards have a south-westerly slope; and are close together. Mr. Foarmier esteems Brown County the best vine-growing district in Ohio."

HOG STATISTICS OF KENTUCKY.

We have already, in previous numbers of our magazine, published the Assessors' returns of hogs in Kentucky, so far as they had been received at the Auditor's Office. Having now received the returns from the remaining counties not before reported, we are enabled to lay the total aggregate before our readers :

STATISTICS OF POPULATION, &c.

POPULATION OF THE GLOBE.

The population of the globe has been estimated variously by different authors :-

Malte Brun, (the geographer) gives.

Balbi, (a French statistician)..

Hopel, (German).....

M'Gregor, (English) on the basis of the Almanac Von Weimer...

M. de Reden.

633,000,000

737,000,000

938,421,000

812,533,742

1,135,488,000

Most of these great differences are founded-1st. On the degree of credibility given to the Chinese Emperor; 2d. On ignorance of America; and 3d. On ignorance of Africa. But our recent travelers and geographical discoveries have enabled us to correct much of this speculation and error.

1st. The recent knowledge acquired by the English in China, assures us that the Chinese censuses are authentic, and as reliable as such documents generally are. 2d. African travelers, such as Drs. Livingstone and Barth, have ascertained that the interior of Africa is much more populous than was supposed.

3d. The population of America we have almost exactly--it is 64,417,677. The population of America, as estimated by statisticians, is as follows:—

Malte Brun, (1825)

M'Gregor, (1828)...
M. de Reden

.....

46,000,000

42,164,440

50,000,000

Now, at this time, we can arrive tolerably near the population of America, allowing for the slow progress of Spanish America, and the rapid progress of the Anglo-American. The result is as follows:

We believe the above is rather an over-estimate. It will be seen that we have allowed but little more than twenty millions for South America. Is there any evidence that there is more? For each country specified we have allowed more than authentic returns will justify.

Let us now look at Asia. The last authentic Chinese census, recently taken, makes China and its dependencies over 400,000,000.

Fair estimates for India and dependencies, with those for Persia, Turkey in Asia, and some minor countries, make 763,000,000, and we have a full estimate for Asia.

From Africa, according to M. de Reden, the recent travelers have found millions of people where, it was supposed, there were none; and the estimates of M. de Reden is 46,000,000.

Europe, as censuses are taken in every country, may be taken at what it is estimated above at. The result, then, is as follows, giving the superficies and population according to M. de Reden :

PROGRESS OF POPULATION IN CALIFORNIA.

The California Price Current remarks :--The figures which we present below, showing the arrivals and departures by sea during the quarter, exhibit a loss of population more apparent than real; since really our coast has gained, and thousands of those who have left us for the north during the summer, are already returning, or preparing to return. We predicted at the outset of the Frazer River phrenzy, that such would be the case, and we feel every confidence that the statistics of the quarter on which we are just entering, will, when presented to our readers three months hence, show a pretty full list of the present missing. The extravagant stories also, promulgated abroad, must greatly swell the emigration to the Pacific coast, and the new comers will just as surely make California the terminus of their journey, as did the last large number of Frazer River bound passengers by the Sonora, and more recently by the Golden Gate.

Before presenting our monthly and quarterly tables we shall append the Frazer River statistics, for April 24th to September 30th. Exceedingly few are now departing in that direction :

During the three quarters of the year, the statistics were as follows:

It would appear from the foregoing, that although over 24,000 persons left this port for the reputed gold mines north between April 20th and the present date, the entire loss to the population of the State has been, for three-fourths of the year, namely, from January 1st to October 1st, but 4,180 persons, an aggregate not equal to the gain of the single month of September.

CENSUS OF MINNESOTA, 1857.

The census of the Territory of Minnesota, which Congress, by the act of February 27, 1857, directed to be taken under the supervision of the Department of the Interior, was not finally returned until the 23d of July last. Many causes, inseparably incident to the prosecution of such a work in a new country, combined to produce this delay. The facts returned by the local officers have since been classified and arranged in this department. The most prominent of these may be briefly stated as follows:

A Parliamentary blue book has just been published, being part five of a series of papers containing information in regard to foreign countries, compiled from official sources. The population of Portugal in the year 1854 is stated to have been 3,499,121, and the area 35,400 English square miles. The total population of Spain in 1857 (including the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands) is calculated to have been 16,301,851. The population of Austria in 1846 was 36.950,547, its area 243,472 English square miles. The population of the Roman States in 1853 was 3,124,668. The population of Turkey, according to the census of 1844, was 35,350,000. The total population of Switzerland in 1850 was 2,392,740.

PONTIFICAL STATES.

There are, in the twenty provinces of the Pontifical States, 181 governments, divided into 832 communes, and having a population of 3,126,263 persons, of whom 29,055 must be considered as having no fixed residence in the country.

POPULATION OF CARONDELET, MISSOURI.

Few towns in the Union have increased in population so rapidly as our sister city of Carondelet. In 1853, the total population was 1,580; in 1856, 1,701 ; and in November of the present year-the census having just been taken-the total population is 3,102. In the brief period of one year the population has nearly doubled.

MERCANTILE MISCELLANIES.

SHOPS IN CHINA.

The following description of the shops in China has an interest now that that people and country are coming more into the circle of commercial intercourse:— The plan of shops in China is very much influenced by circumstances. If the depth be not very great, and the street be wide, the light that enters in at the door and a large window is deemed sufficient; but if the street be narrow, and the depth of the shop considerable, an opening is left in the roof of the building. In this case the shop is often divided into an anterior and posterior apartment by a partition. Galleries run round the interior, and serve for the accommodation of different kinds of stores. The partition is often very diffusely ornamented with carved work, gilding, scrolls of colored paper, and above all, with an elegant tablet, bearing the owner's name. In the better kind of shops, the fittings are very pretty, and exhibit a great deal of neatness and taste in their arrangement. The goods are placed upon shelves, laid up in drawers, or displayed in glass cases. For the last, perhaps, they are indebted to a hint obtained from Europeans. It is observable that the most attractive shops are those which are furnished with goods to be sold to foreigners, or with foreign goods for the use of natives. The extent of European influence may be traced in Canton, by obvious signs of improvement, though that influence be oftentimes no greater than what is associated with a transfer of commodities. The superiority of the manufactures from Europe, naturally suggests to a Chinese the propriety of seeking for a shop which, in the order of its furniture, exhibits a superior attention to beauty, and a correspondence of parts. The old and new China streets excel all others in the extensive suburbs of Canton, in the style of paving, the elegance of the shops, and the variety of goods they are stored withal. Now these goods are intended expressly for the accommodation of foreigners, who keep a running account with the shopmen, and give their orders with as much facility and good understanding as they do in their own country. The shopmen speak a language which is a curious mixture of Chinese, Portuguese, and English, with here and there a sprinkling from other sources. The shops which rank next after those in old and new China streets are met with in a new street, not far from them. These are furnished with European wares for sale among the Chinese, and, as hinted above, present a neat and tasteful appearance. The persons who wait upon customers in them, are generally well dressed, and not unfrequently gentlemen, in the grace and urbanity of their address. Most, if not all of these, are strangers to the English language, and have little need of it, as their business lies chiefly among natives. The air of improvement which a European diffuses around him, even in the celestial land, as they fondly term it, is a circumstance worthy of note, as it affords a silent, but powerful reply to pompous and abusive edicts, and shows, in the way of practical encouragement, that the common people of China are not so conceited, or so stereotyped, as not to adopt a useful hint, when placed within their reach.

At the head of the shops which have not hitherto received any improving hints from abroad, may be ranked the apothecaries'. And, if we except the glass window and the showy array of glistening jars, it is a counterpart of our own.