The Virginian

THE FISHERIES.

One fact is worth a dozen theories.-

The importance of the Northern States, and to the Union as a nursery of seamen of the fisheries which Mr. Adams so anxiously vindicated at Ghent, and which Mr. K thought so lightly of, may be estimated, in part, by the naked fact, that a Manchester schooner, which lately arrived home from the Bay of Chaleur fishery, with 23,000 fish, reported having left twelve other schooners, all belonging to Manchester having on board no less than 587,500 fish! Our neighbours, in Canada, noticing this fact, say, 'It will show the value of the fishery which the citizens of the United States carry on in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, at a distance of five or six days sail from this port. it must be considered that the vessels mentioned below are employed from one small sea port town of Massachusetts, that they may and probably always do make two trips in one season. The number of hundred weights of Codfish stated below is 15,000, which at twelve shillings and six pence, gives the sum of £9875.'