The Arkansas banner., 1846-01-07
Fer the Banner. Scraps of Uselui Information.
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Mir. Edtor:=-i see that many of the news papers ol the country are copying into their columns "Scraps of Curious inlormaton," from the New ' ork Gazette. While read- ing the interesting mcdly of facts they em- brace conceived the idea, that few scraps Of more specific and sober information, if prepared with unimpeachable fidelity to truth might make q salnlary impression on the pub lie mind. Here, then, Mir. Editor, are few
 tems of such information, which have col lected with some care, and for which would humbly solicit an admission into some cor ner ot your paper.
 The mercantile shipping of the civilized world amounts to about S,000,060 tons, which is worth, new and old $50 per ton, and nets. clear ol interests, insurance &c. l0 per cent, or 2i,060,000, per anaum. The appropriation h the Bdfiisb Mary, for he current year, IS S}3,620, ,290!! Is not this a sober lact2 that the annual expense of one noten's navy exceeds the net profit fail the mercantile shipping owned by the civilized world?
 The war-dob;s of the European nations amount 10 SlD,000,0 0,000,090. Il would re- quire the labor of four millions of men, at l D l55 per anuum Tor each man, te pay the
 interest of this sum at per ceut To eay l the principal, 1t would he necessary te iesy 1 tax of at least TEN DOLLARS en every in- habiant of the globe! Another laet Fena4r- ing this more impressive, may be ionnd iH 1 the sscrap ofeutieas iniormntieasH il4at nas ,hea,aen nations are in arrears for llge bHssa cries they have perpetraed on tho ifuman race They pay cash down for all lhaA s done for the devil under their hands. Ghris-
 tan nations alone ''go on ticll'' for that kind
 of service.
 From March 4th l789. to June 38ih lSi8 our Government expended oil lhe 8aF He-
 partment 5663, 3,438,8jl. The iaiefess os
 this sum, at 6 per cent, wonld baila v hlt-
 ney's great rail-road from the Lases to ftle
 Pacific, of 25J0 miles in length aa r I50Ge per mile, and thus erect highway for inc s commerce and communion Of the lamiiy of l iiations, which should, be reckppedsia all [ coming time one of the greatest aatefpfsses
 that ever blessed the race.
 In 1912, there were produced n the tns~
 ted States, l00,000,000 bushels oi wheat sAs.
 l40,000000 bushels of Indian corn; whieN
 at f per 6ushel for the former & a5 Cts. foh
 the latter, were worth S35,500,000 FiiieeH per cent, clear of the interest of iFIe capital
 invested in lands, implements, hiroe and pef~ , sonal labor, is liberal estimate of the profit of this amount of grain would be s2o, ,325, ; GOO. The appropriation to the army aud navy, during the same year, was 70, lJ0.
 50l. In other words, the army and navy l ate mp the whole harvest of wheas and corn ! throughout the Unionl Will not the iafa- working farmers lhink on this fact? The government, though carrying on ex- ' tensive armories of it's own, has recently con- tracted with a private company in Connecti-
 cut for the supply of 30,000 pistols, atS6,5 each; or 195,000 dollars, worth of those weapons so much in vogue with duelllsts and
 assassins. The American Bible Society con , graduates itself on receiving, the past year, Sl66,G52, the aggregate ol all that has been ; given through the Union for ihe dissemIna- , ton of the Word of Life at home and
 abroad. So it goes; Chrisendo,n expends more iu eas ~car on the means and instru- ments O hamaa si W& given to ths p5 e,isS a n l
 since Jesus Ch &a
 Worceste f9
 It Lrr k ,. tlse
 circu -aats t.- eei Nas re- / galcd during aa entire term wl,l, ,he various e members of huge porker, badly prepared, 'f and which was scarcely tasted through the | week On the last day ofthe court, this hon. u or took the following method of reproving
 his host.
 e s Looking gravely at the clerk who sat near ! him, said he: .'Mr Clerk, dismiss that hog . upon his own recognizance until the first day
 of February term. He has attended so faith
 fully this week, that no security can be nec- fl essary to secure his return,n
 y CONGRESSIONAL ANEeporE.-DuringM Mir. = Jeiierson's administration, syrup was provi-
 ded in the capital for the relreshment of the ;- members of Congress. This was furnished IS and charged under the head of stationary V The National lnlelligencer tells us, that a .