Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1837-07-15


From Evansville journal.
BOARD OF INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT.
Mr.. GRAHAM, one of the Board Of Internal In,
) provement, has just returned from = meeting o
tho Board, and we rejoice to learn from him tina
they arc not 'EPanic struck, >" but arc determine,
: toprosecute the works with erorgy, having full
: faith in the ability Of the State % make anothe
loan, when 1t shall become necessary, and d
complete all the works she has undertaken. Thi.
frmness on the part of the board cannot be to,
highly commended. We learn, too, that the ex
element got up by a few Govenor-makcrs and
Of Internal improvement, by alarming the people
about high taxes, is fast subsiding The farmer.
upon whom these nullfcrs and disorganizers wert
mostly cndcavoring to operate, arc beginning te
understand the object Of the cry against 'shigh
taxes" They learn now that for purposes Of in
ternal improvement, they pay only five cents Oh
a hundred dollars Of taxable property, instead Of
fifteen as they have been told, and that in sup
porting the system they arc only paying cents for
dollars. Who is the farmer Of Indiana, howcves
remote from any Of the works Of improvcm
who has taxable property to the amount Of five
thousand dollars, and who, consequently, pays
two dollars and fifty cents yearly for the system,
that will not be enriched fifty times that amount
by the accomplishment of the works-thc money
their construction will diffusc through the coun-
try, the life and activity they will give to BUSH
ness, and the facilities they will give for getting
their produce to market, and Of obtaining their
mercha ndizc, and the increased population and
wealth they will bring to the State? The fact
is, these very mon who are endcavoring to raise
an excitement about 'high taxes, }" know-if they
have not the stupidity of asses-that the prosecu-
ton ofthe works of improvement will diminish the
burden Of taxation in a few years. instead of in
crcasing it,
e
these works goes into the pockets Of the people.
Some portion of it will reach the Pocket of every
Industrious man in the communicable farmer,
the carpenter, the blacksmith, tho halter, the
shoemaker, in fact every man who labOrs or pros
ccutcs any business, gets portion. 1t gives q
home market for the productions Of the farm and
workshop and the factory-for the enterprize Of
mind and the labors Of gcnius. When our State
shall have become chequercd by the canals, rail-
roads, and clay turnpikes contemplated by our
liberal and glorious system of internal improve
ment, then ask the farmer with his five thousand
dollars OF taxable property, and who. on that, pays
two dollars a,d fifty cents per annum for the ma
king of the works, whether hegans or Iooscs by
tAs@s Mhssssd he 6as five thousand
lbs of pork for market, and by tho facilities given
him by railroad, or canal. or clay turnpike, he
make a saving Of only twenty-five cents on a
hundred lbs, in its transportation, he has 4 net
gain of twelve dollars and half. If he have
twenty five bbls. of flour and in transporta-
ton fifty cents on a bbl.--the same amount is
gaincd--so Of every other surplus product. But.
in this, the half is not told. He can have his
or west, instead of being confined to market,
as he now is. He can go, too, Mt any season of
the year and embrace tho best time for market,
instead Of waiting for a spring food to wait him
down some one of the streams Of country,
rushing into market, simultaneously, the whole
S,f nd oSflx u1o1l
country, and Cutting the market; and that. too,
Mt an unhealthy season of the year, and when he
should be at home, pioughing and sowing for an
other crop.
Again, the merchant always charges for his
merchandise in proportion to the difficulties he has
to encounter in obtaining his goods. 1t is not
mild calculation say the facilities to be given by
lndiana's works Of improvement WILL on an aver
lge through the state, reduce the price of mer-
;handze five per cent. Suppose the farmer whom
We have had in contemplation, purchase, yearly,
hrce hundred dollars worth of goods for his fami-
y and his workmen-hcrc is saving of fifteen
loars. Take the article Of salt, Of which such a
armer would probably use fifteen bushels yearly,
md for which is now paid, in many parts Of the
tate, seventy five cents per busfel, and ut some
easons of the year one dollar and a quarter; but
vhen these Improvements shall be accomplished,
his article car be taken to any part Of the State
or forty cents per bushel. Bat the half the ben
e told in Newspaper sheet; no, not even an in
cx to them can be given. While these works are
Indiana will be increasing, yearly,
population and wealth at the rate of thirty per
ent. while the exp.nse of supporting the State
ov crnment will not be materially increased, and
instead of the burden of taxation becoming great
r, as Indiana prosecutcs her splendid scheme Of
Improvement to a consumnlation, it will be dimin-
shed, and the gratitude and blessings of future :
enerations will rest upon her patriotic and en-
ghtened statesmen Of 1885, while the choris Of
nc rabblerousers, nuilifiers disorganzcrs, and vi
Iators Of public faith Of 1887, will be remember
4 only with pity or contempt.
THE HUNDRED LARGEST CITIES IN THE WORLD =
recent (lS29) German paper gives the following !;
llculation respecting the hundred most PoPulous
tics in the world:-These are Jeddo, in Japan, !"
$4,000 inhabitants; Pekin ], lOO,OOO; London, !.
5000; Hans lschen, 100000; Calcutta, !.
10000; Madras; Sl7y 600; Nankin, 100000;
ogno Ischem, 100000; Paris TIT 600; West
hans, 100000; Constantinopie. $4,000; Be
arcs, $50 900; Kio, $40, 900; Su Ischcn, 500 900;
oungh Ischen, 100000, &c. The fortieth in =
e list is Berlin, containing 1913 600 and the last
Bristol, 81 600. Among the hundred cities two >
,ntain million and halt, two upwards Of
iIlion, nine from a half million to a million, 2