The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-11-23
Observation-Disclosures.


! lands had not averaged more than three millions
per aRnuin In the year 1886, however, IN
consequences of the speculation mania of that
nericd. the sales of single year amounted to
about fffIeen millions and forned one OF the
nr,ncinsl items in the vast increase of the pub
| lie revenue. In 1887, they were suddenly re-
duced TO about the usual amount
So vast. however, is the public domain, 20
great the emigration, both foreign and dornes
tic. anil so very fertile and tempting The broad
plains ofIllinois, Indiana Iowa, and Missouri,
that the permanent average amount oI public
land sales is now very much increased.
It appears thatin the year 1888, the number
Of acres sold was 3,4I4,9g7. The purchase
money 81 S06.56t. During the three sirs' quar-
ters Of Il e wear 1899. the returns show ed, the
following results.
Acres sold, J,7TI.994
Purchase money, S4,706,s52
Averaging the 4th quarter, we have receipts
for is39-$5,9 5S, 800.
The year 1889 was not deemed prosperous
year, and yet in that year, we have the large
amount of about ste millions OF dollars, recelv-
ed into the treasury or account OF public laRds.
This may be deemed something like the future
average receipts from this source of revenu1.
If we suppose 100 acres TO be the Average
quantity bought h. each Yerson, land we sup
pose it is vefY near it,l here must be about
81, 900 persons who buy public lands each year.
This number. as heads OF families, represent
100, geo persons. OF this aggregate, ahout TO-
900 are foreign emigrants, and the residue do
nestle population, changing residence.
The result corresponds very nearly, we be
lieve, with the actgal fact. Such fact as this
shows how rapidly our population is changing,
and with what gigantic strides the vast waves
of the people move over the face of our country.
l., has, nfY hox
moved from the shores of the Hudson, the Con-
necticut ana the Delaware, or the still more
distant lands ofEngland ireland and Germany,
to settle on the plains of the West. And in
tey wears more TO this million add from three to
four hundred thousand to their number, by
natural increase; and thus is the Great Western
Empire extending its limits and multiplying its
numbers in constantly increasing proportion
Cincinnati Chroa.
THE CoAL TsADE--A letter from Pictou,
n. S. dated Nov g. 1910, TO the editors of The
New York Express, says:
''The expectation of Coal hence TO the Uni
ted States tins season has been comparatively
diminutive Not half the usual quantity has
been shipped This win seem rather unac-
countable when you are informed that there
never existed such facilities for successful
prosecution OF the trade as has been afforded
during the present season.
cat an expense of ES0,000 1920, 0003
a substantial Rail Road has been laid from.
the mouth of the pits to the depot at which
vessels are loaded. Three superior LocotaO-
tiyes ran Oh it, the maXnnum speed of which,
is equal to mile per minute. This Rail Road
was never in entire operation until the pres
ent season. Tile consequence is that vessels
can noY be loaded in few hours, instead of as
many days as was formerly the case. In adj
dition to this, il was not unusual for ships to
be detained three weeks or month,-arrange
lnents were also made previous to the last
opening of the navigation, TO prevent reeur
renee of these detentions.
sit is needless to mention that after making
these arrangements, and at such All enormous
expense the Company feel not little discour
aged al the disappointment they nave thus ex-
GEN. JOHN ARMsTRoNG.-Thisv venerable
gentleman, now in his 6ith year, and still in
the iull possession OF his uncommon faculties,
is in this city on a visit TO his son. law, VIM.
5. Astor, Esq. One of his objects is, 10 revise
the proof sheets OF the concluding volume, now
about to appear, of his History OF the last War.
Gen. Armstrong is one of of the few remain
ing links that connect us with the men of
other days, with the heroic race of the ReYolu-
ton He has, too, in our DAYS, filed high and
Offices. Senator in Congress, Min
lister to France, Major General of our armies,
Secretary at War--he has occupied a space
allotted to few men--aud now, in vigorous old
age, has become the historian of part, asd not
the least eyentful part of the scenes in which
he was prominent actor-N. J.. .fme'icdR.
THE King or HoLLAND.-At he interview
between the King of Holland and the Members
oGf ba do. tod 70 ID
him not to abdicate, the Minister Of Justice in
his address said-"sire, your Majesty ought to
Iecollect that you the FIRST magistrate of The
To this the King replied-''If this
be so, | claim lis immunities, and solicit nay re-
tifement. After service of twenty five
years think | deserve it
BEAUTIFUL APPEAL TO AN ATHETsT.-I
cannot believe that a mind like yours, can walk
abroad in this beautiful world, beneath lis go-
rous canopy oflight, and not feel and sometimes
trenble, at those evidences of Almighty being
and agency, that fame from the thunder, breathe
in the. winds: murmur in the waters, exhale
from the flowers, from the groves. And | am
sure that sometimes in your hours of depression
and sorrow, your desolate spirit signs for bright.
er hopes and surer foundations than any one
on which you can now repose. lou are be.
ginning TO take the downward path of life; the
hey-day Of youth ana enterprise Is past you
have tasted about all that this world has 10
give, death has again and again invaded your
domestic circle, and evey year as age approach
cs, one star after another will drop from your
sky.
To the Christian, surrounded by the sharers
Of his hopes, these loved and parting lights
of life glide away to wait his arrival in purer
sphere; to you they are sinking to the black
ness Of darkness forever. And as each year,
your passage TO the tomb becomes more desc
late and din, no gIimcr ofhope arises to cheer,
hut all around is darkness, silence. and inteE,
ininA9le 81" ON,
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