The Hawk-eye and Iowa patriot. (Burlington, Iowa) 1839-1843, 1840-05-21


! f1ourishes. Next in Importance are
: cleanliness and ventilation. Fire and
) smoke have been found of great util
ity. In the low districts of Carolina,
emigrants, Transfers, &c., find no in
:, jury from sleeping in the open air,
because they build large fire of logs
) and lay themselves beside it.-Cin.
: Chronicle.
t IN noticing an article on the Gre
: venue System of British India" in
the last Edinburgh Review, the Gin
clnnati Chronicle says:-
"As we may not recur to this arti-
, Gle again, we shall briefly note one
fact, which will exhibit, in it's true
light, the real cause why large masses
of mankind are kept in subsection
and misery. This cause is sIgno-
rance" here stated explicitly to be
'the great source of most of the evils
under which India now labors.''
''Many of the higher classes in In
dla are well informed and even learn
ed; but the mass are in the darkest
:. ignorance. Tables before us show
that in certain cities, not one in
twelve of the youth receive any in
struction; and that Of the adult pop
ulation not one in thirteen are at all
instructed. The ignorance of the
many is gross and dark"
POST OFFICE REFORM--PRI-
CES.-We recently discussed, in
some particulars. the nature of price.
We then supposed the scale left free
to be influenced by all the circum-
stances of the market. There is an
other relation Of price, however,
which is attended by some singular
facts.
Suppose the price to be fred, how
i does it affect the consumption? This
is the precise question to be determ-
med in the Post Office Reform. The
Post Office is monopoly, fixing its
own prices; but the Government on
~ wishes to pay its expenses by its
receipts. @.a
Experience has in all such cases
ascertained that consumption is in
versely as price, down to a certain
limit, which only experiments can
determine. This has been the result
of very curious Investigations.
In the Belgian Rail Roads, the cars
are classified and the prices fixed at
four different rates. 1t is found that
those who go at the cheapest rate are
much more than proportionally grea-
ter in number, than those at the high.
est rates.
In England the postage is fixed as
IN this country, at different rates for
different distances. 1t is found that
in London half of all the letters there
received are from within twelve miles;
three-fourths from within one hundred
miles; and only one-fourth from all
the world besides.
The dinburgh Review gives the
following strong examples Of the in
creased consumption ON the reduction
of prices: st
81. The price of soap for instance,
has recently fallen by about one
eighth; the consumption in the same
time has increased by one-third. Tea,
again, the price of which, since the
opening of the China trade, has fall
len about one-sixth, has increased in
consumption by almost half. The
consumption of silk goods, which sub
sequently to 1928, have fallen in price
by about one-6fth, has more than dou-
bled. The consumption of coffee,
the price of which, subsequently to
1928, has fallen about one-fourth, has
more than tripled. And the con-
sumption of cotton goods, the price
of which, during the last twenty
years, has fallen by nearly one-hall,
has in the same time fourfolded.' -
Post Office Reform, p. 70.
9. The sale of newspapers for the
twelve months before the late reduce
ton in stamps was 35,57G,O5e, at an
average price, say Id, costing the
public $l,037,6s4.
For the twelve months subsequent
to the reduction it was-53,496,2O7,
at an average price, say of AID, cost
!. ing the public f1,958,779.
8. The annual number of adver-
tisements before the late reduction in
the advertisement duty was-1,OlO,-
600, at an average price, say of IS.
costing the public f3o3,ooO.
\ 1t is now-1,670,000, at an aver
age price, say As. costing the public
!, f334,O0O.
:, 4. The number of persons paying
for admission to the Tower was, in
, the ten months prior to the late re-
; duction-95O8, at IS. each (ncluding
the warder's fee)-f1496.
In the ten months subsequent to the
reduction it was-37, 431, at Is. each
-f1871.
The rule established by these facts.
, viz: that the demand for the article
II IL