The Arkansas banner., 1844-05-29

representing for the proceeding year, for each 2 State, the imports and exports of each, dis . tinguishng the domestic from the foreign exports; also the number of American ves- sels which entered and cleared from each State; the American crews employed; the , foreign vessels which entered and cleared from each State; the vessels built in each State, and tonnage owned by each. Table No. ,, compiled from the same report, ex- hibits, for the same year, our exports to each of the countries of the world, distinguishing the foreign and domestic exports, with the number of American vessels and foreign yes sels employed in our trade with each country, together with the imports from each, and the excess in our trade with any of them, of ex
 ports to over imports from them. Table No. 6. compiled from the same report, presents all the exports of our own products that year to Texas, ranged under the heads of the pro
 ducts of agriculture, manufactures, forest and fisheries, distinguishing the articles thus eX- ported, and their value. With these facts be- fore us, which are all official, let us proceed to the examination of this great question: Our chief agricultural exports to Texas, as the table shows, were pork, ham, bacon, lard, beef, butter, cheese, flour, bread, and bread stuff, amounting to S161,64l In looking at the census of 1910, the population of each State and section, and the amount of these products in each State, we will find th'f the chief surplus of these products raised for sale beyond their limits, were in the middle States, composed of New Y ork, N eW Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland, ih- ciuding the District of Columbia; and i'll the northwestern States, composed of Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michi- gan, including also, Wisconsin and Iowa. The middle and north western States derived, then, the principal profit in the sale of agrl- cultural products to Texas, the New Eng land States came first :; and next in their or der, the middle, and the northwestern States; and in looking at the principal items, of which these exported manufactures to Texas were composed, find that of the surplus produced and sold to Texas, Massachusetts stood first, and Pennsylvania second. Next as to commerce, as connected with Texas, the middle States stood first, and then the New England and northwestern States; and here New ' York stood first, Massachusetts second, and next Pensylvania, Maryland, and Ohio. But here we must remark the special interest which Louisiana, through her great port of New Orleans, has in commerce as connected with Texas. The total products from commerce in Louisiana in lS4G were 7,868 ,899, being one-tenth of that et the whole Union, and consequently the interest of New Orleans, as connected with the re- annexation of Texas, must soon be measured by millions every year. The great city ol New York, into which was received, Ill round numbers, one hundred millions ol the one hundred and torty-thrce millions ot aIl our imports in the year referred to, aud one- third of the exports, has a vast and transcen- dent interest 1T. this question to be settled ln our favor by the remuneration of TeXas, whether New ork or Liverpool shall com mand her commerce. Next as to the products of mining, the middle stands first; and next the Northwestern and New England States. And here Pennsylvania stands at the head of the list, having S17,666, l46, or nearly one- half of the whole mining interest of the Union Texas, having no mines of coal or iron. must become a vast consume; q :::.9 products of the mines of Pennsylvania. In cables, bar-iron, and nails, and other manu- features of our iron, Texas imported from us, in the year referred to, the value $ l20-
 ISL Now, of cast-iron, Pennsylvania pro duced, ill l840, 98,395 tons, being largely more than one-third of the whole amount produced in the whole Union; and next came Ohio, Kentucky, New ' ork, Virginia, Ten ncssee, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Ma ryland. Of bar-iron, the amount produced in l Pennsylvania, was 87,244 tons, being nearly one-half of the whole produced in the Union; and next came New ' orh, with 53,693 tons, or more than one-fourth of the whole; and
 then Tennessee, Maryland, Ohio, NeW6rsey, Massachusetts, Virginia, Kentucky, and Con- nectcut As connected with her vast inte- rests i'll iron, must be considered also the coal in Pennsylvania, not only as an article | of sale abroad, but as consumed at home, Ill producing her iron; the number ot tons thus consumed in 1910, of her own mines, being 355,903 tons, or very nearly one-iourth of that of the whole Union. Coal and iron are
 scattered in juxtapositon, throughout nearly the whole of Pennsylvania; and, as the
 markets for her iron are augmented, in the same proportion will increase the cOnsump- ton of the coal used in producing that iron. Now, in 1S10. the amount of anthracite coal
 produced in the whole Union was S63,6S9 tons; of which Pennsylvania produced 859,
 786, or nearly the whole. Of bituminous coal, the total product of the Union was 27,603,1 ,191 bushels; of which Pennsylvania produced ll,620,65i, or nearly one-half the whole. Let us observe here, also, the re- markable fact, that the three adjacent States
 of Delaware, New Jersey, and New I ork, produced no coal, either anthracite or bitu- minous and the future interest of Peunsyl- mia, as connected with that great article, be- comes of uanscendent importance; and this, together with iron, and the manufactures con nected with them, is to determine the value
 of her public works, and fix her future desti- ny. Up pto certain point of density, an ag-
 ricultural State, with a rich soil, advances
 most rapidly; but when all the lands are
 cleared and cultivated, this augmentation