Detroit does not alone reap the benefit of her advantageous position. It is shared by all interests, but perhaps by none others to so great an extent as the tillers of the soil. It is a most significant fact that breadstuffs and provisions not unfrequently bring as high prices here as in New York, giving producers all the advantages at home of a seaboard market, and virtually putting the cost of shipment into their pockets. Thus a farmer whose land possesses a nominal value of ten or twenty dollars per acre, can enjoy all the pecuniary advantages of a location near one of the largest eastern cities, where farms are valued at one to two hundred dollars per acre. This fact alone should go very far toward transforming our northern wilderness into cultivated fields. As a matter of interest, and to some extent of curiosity, we present a comparative statement exhibiting the ruling prices of extra Michigan flour twice a month throughout the year, in Detroit, New York and Liverpool, and also the prices in the latter market, for the corresponding dates in the year 1858: Liverpool, '58. Liv'L, '59. N. York, '59. Detroit, '59. Jan. 1st. 5 76a6 74 4 80a5 04 4 95a5 15 5 00a5 12 " 15th. 5 76a6 24 4 80a5 04 5 60a5 85 5 00a5 12 Feb. 1st. 5 76a6 24 4 80a5 04 5 90a6 40 5 75a6 00 " 15th. 5 52a6 00 4 80a5 04 5 90a6 25 6 25a6 50 Mar'h 1st. 5 52a6 24 4 80a5 04 6 30a6 50 6 25a6 50 " 15th. 5 52a6 24 4 80a5 04 6 50a6 75 6 50a6 75 April 1st. 5 28a5 52 4 80a5 04 6 30a6 75 a6 75 " 15th. 5 28a5 76 4 80a5 04 6 00a6 60 a6 50 May 1st. 5 28a5 52 5 04a5 28 6 25a6 75 a6 50 " 15th. 5 28a5 52 6 00a6 24 7 30a7 85 a8 00 June 1st. 5 04a5 28 a5 76 7 00a7 40 a7 50 " 15th. 5 04a5 28 a5 76 6 70a7 05 7 12a7 25 July 1st. 5 04a5 28 a 6 00a6 50 a7 25 " 15th. 5 08a5 40 5 04a5 28 5 45a6 00 7 00a7 12 Aug. 1st. 5 28a5 40 4 80a5 52 4 90a5 50 4 75a4 87 " 15th. 5 04a5 28 5 04a5 52 4 30a4 65 4 50a4 75 Sept. 1st. 5 16a5 40 5 04a5 52 4 40a5 00 4 62a4 75 " 15th. 5 16a5 40 4 80a5 52 4 65a4 85 4 25a4 50 Oct. 1st. 5 04a5 28 5 28a5 76 4 75a5 10 4 62a4 75 " 15th. 5 04a5 28 5 28a5 76 4 80a5 20 a4 75 Nov. 1st. 5 04a5 28 5 52a6 00 5 00a5 30 a5 00 " 15th. 4 80a5 04 5 76a6 24 5 24a5 45 a5 12 Dec. 1st. 4 80a5 04 6 76a7 00 5 45a5 65 a5 12 " 15th. 4 80a5 04 6 76a7 00 5 48a5 65 a5 12