Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1835-12-15

nine millions Among those other causes the more ex
tensive Introduction of power on the western ri
and northern lakes with the public in
their navigation aud the increased facilities ofntefcourse
o roads and canals, have Of late added much the
sales OF the public lands beyond previous years and
yond the proportional increase Of population. To the
force OF this, causes have been joined during the last
three years. as formerly suggested the effect OF the pre-
cption law, the increase the price of cotton and the
unusual ABUNDANCE of surplus capital in 1885, seeking
new investments. But much of the great difference to
be produced by these has, perhaps happened al
ready What extraordinary increase OF population and
demand for lands in the United States NAV here
after by emigration from Europe conpared with
former years, must depend so many contingencies
both here and there, such good bad governme
prosperity or decline of manufactures and a taste for
emigration to new lands in other quarters of the world
as AZ present 10 prevent any person from making safe
estimate
Difficulties ia Estimates as to Customs and Lands
comparative and speculative views, connected with
he SUBJECT oil cur receipts from customs and lands could
DC further extended, bat their practical utility might be
deemed predetermined as sufficient is believed To have
been already stated for all general purposrs Greater
commence is et IN the estimate submitted for the
cepis from customs in 1856, that offered last year for
1885, founded on somewhat similar data has not varied
from the ascertained and estimated actual receips over
million OF dollars; but the actual receipts from lands
nave LOT inc various reasons before explained differed
largely and, united with the failure TO pass some usual
ao appropriations at the last session of Con-
gre nave caused most of the increased surplus now i'm
The Treasury The difficulty in attaining much certain
y ia estimating the receipts from either customs or lands
IN ony particular year country as new cnerprisng
ana prosperous as has been considerable in
sodion to the fluctuations always shall be liable 10
from short crops, pesence, and But this difficulty
VIII De more strikingy exemplfed till IS42, under the
material alteration from credit to cash payments
and under the continued biennial changes TO which the
,, e now suspected. t was shown in le22, in
port OF committee of the House of Representatives,
mat from leO2 to that time the estimates of our whole
receipts diiercd either by deficiencies from
the actual receipts In different years from one tn fortv
hree per cent and in customs alone from three to Sc
ven,y three being average of about per
per annnn The difference since 1922 has careful
Is fro,,
cent to'over averages annuaIv nbout "a
per cent But the effects of the irrcguarity of our ac
tuai receipts INTO the Treasury in any particular wear
whether over under the estimates were less no,icenbe
and were OF less comparative importance before the final
payment OF the public debt at The close of 1884 as that
payment from time to time and
superseded what will often be Inevitable whou
due Precauhon The necessity of to new egisla
uon whenever considerable excess or deficiency han
pens to occur in the whole revenue Beside what has
already been remarked the influence which the in
cultivation OF cotton in this country has in
rlous ways exercised and is likely TO exercise
IN our revenue from customs and lands it mi ght be made
SUBJECT oil further and very interesting inquiry in con-
neNion with the uncertainty of the estimates on those
SUBJECTS ahecung, as that cultivation does more remote
~ not only from lands and customs bu the
Oh trade ana the export of specie well the
continuance by means of mutual dependence among great
interests OF many of peaceful and prosperous rela
tons, both at home and abroad But without entering nm
ths occasions into further details rnnp any of these
points, may be mentioned very striking result con-
neced with the last and furnishing strong pre-
sumption IN favor of greater exemption hereafter from
restrictions.
while the quantity of exported from this country
mas increased from half a million of pounds in 1890 to
over ooo millions IN 1888, and has exceeded in va
lue, during six of the last years all our other ex
ports OF domestic products of every description the
manufacture OF IT at home and chiefly in the Northern
States, has increased from consuming only few bales
more to ninety millions of pounds yearly and 10 that
extent creates and strong bond Of reciprocal adj
vantage and harmony And that while we now fur
nsh instead ofe small quantity in the first years of
government quite fiteen-sixteenths of the whole
consumption OF raw cotton by England, and seven
10 Europe from all the rest OF the world do not proba
y equal II those two nations could obtain the whole
OF what they now consume one-fourth of
what they now import from the United States alone
And thus, while neither of them produces any of the
raw article, except little in some remote dependences
mat they have an annual manufacture now relying on
~ ana chiefly on the United States, equal in France TO
eigny millions OF dollars, and in England to hun
ded and eighty millions of dollars; and CONSTITUTING in
the latter after il supplies her large necessities at
nome over one-half value of her great annual xpors
TO all quarters of The globe.
(Rcmdiader in our neri) iii.