Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-12-06

is sometimes installed by mass of atsutdties, but
then who has made up his mYd, after esamina-
ton, TO be prot, con;si, Is ripe tor any absurdity-
IS specimen Of the manufacture Of figures of the kind
alluded to, an extract is here gwen from the "Wh;g
Almanac for l-I3, prepared by the editor OF the Tf
bunc:
# re ,econ goods required far IA years
Ges Of rhe eJaa.y
''rnpgg rRapr"
i''Snmnal cos, S-o,fG),uW'}
5aoooooo bushels wheat. at 50 per bushc 10000
r,"oo Of ashes. at s6o per ION, i,suocJ
5nooo0oO pounds Of wool exported al 90 cents o,G1,o3
~ oo0,voo bushels aplieS, in the ahsence OF a ZONE -
lc1 co1 oco bnsheI- potatoes, an adequate home
%siSs' wo o. ,%fF H. ~ sta.' PC, 'is
Total PREDICT Of tic farmers, ssa,.os9,S
.'sat eomfs the 'era's,'s estimate Of fos.
"uNDrH PROTECTION"
80 o1o,oao ha.hel. wheat, NJ 81, 100000
10 o y ashes, n q 25 l,2,o,oJ
Gents, eo,ccoNo
wor;., \, rast y cents 5.ccoGco
n,a,ksi, worth . cents per h.s.si, ~ 100000
1000 tens coal the :! 10, 5,u10r,J
Total, slos5;Sao
The author Of this array of figures, adds, with grea.
self pacency, have endea TO state the prices
in each instance at least favoraby TO free trade as
truth and the experience of the country will warrant
would be we'll .o the credit and character of the
thor of the ''Whig Almanac 10 quote from price
his book goes to another edition But a slight snaly
sis Of lbs statements will exhibit how much real know
ledge he has the subject which he pretends 10
write
Instead, then ofcighty millions Of woollens imported
from abroad annually there has not been for several
years eight millions (see the Report OF the Secrctaryes
the Treasury nor, average SIX millions Instead
of G.iy millions Of wool, either exported or raised, the
asst census shows that there only thirty five millions
of pounds raised III the U. S. altogether, and that from
twelve 10 fifteen millions annually imported free OF
duty by those American manufacturers vino have such
an abhorrcucc foreign products.
The reader led 10 infer, also, that these American
ma rufacturers consume hundred millions oi
bushels Of potatoes annually, out Of crop of one hun
dred and thirteen millions, which all that ma
raised according the census, in tho u. States The
quantity that would be left for all the animals and
veneen millions of people besides those who
pied in manufacturing wooiens, would be about thr
teen millions oi bushels.
And them again, what gratifying reflection 10 think
that there arc consumed The manufacture of wooens
twentY millions Of bushels Of apples By the census
Of Ic4n there employed, in wooen manufactures
and ulling mills, twenty-five thousand eight hundred
md seven PERSONS according 10 which, if the Editor Of
the Tribune be correct, they consumed the following
quantities of domestic productions.
TaJc If articles by fa ir3rHGl employed in Failing
.HiGs and Heepsp .Na""fi.tgries.
81 bushels Of Wheat
4,2.J Potatoes
7a97 or nearly $50 bushels per DAY c hak for
Tie quantities. OF beef, pcnilry, &c, are not gwen,
but is he hoped that they will be furnished come
The official tie quantity of wheat raised
in he United sas IN he year 1910 va: br'.es 9i.7a2'
OF which handful Of manufacturers Of
wcntn, consumed 5JfOnm0
There exported about s!'1oJo ...