Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-05-06
FaoN rnE nAlrInonE AMEaIeAx.

Smithsonian Institute at Washington seems 10 proer very
suitable agency Such establishment to lave been
contemplated BY WAsHrSSToS when he recommend the
interests Of agriculture 10 the consideration of Congress.
sAmong the which have been employed this end =
said the first President aludng the encouragement Of as
culture by Governments, none have been attended with
greater than the establishment Of boards composed
proper characters charged with collecting and dusng nfo
nation, and enabled by premiums and small pecunay aids
to encourage and assist spirit Of discovery and Improvement
This species Of establishment contributes douby the in
Of improvement by stimulating enterprise and expert
ment and BY drawing the results every
where of individual skill and observations and spreading them
thence the whole nation Experience accordingly has
shown that they very cheap instruments Of immense
tional benefits"
FROM THE APRIL no. OF THE FARMERS LIBRARY.
EXTRACTS.
We should weary the reader were we to present all the re-
makabe points Of contrast that have been produced in
condition Of these Middle and Eastern States by their
different policy and legislation and ideas money and
manufactures for it be alleged that Massachusetts and
Rhode Island possess any natural advantages their larger
sisters in respect either Of water power materials or re-
sources mineral agHculrual quite the contrary. But
look Tor moment how the result must bear upon the landed
interest of these States respectively
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island united have in
vested in ,cooitett manufactures ...... S4, ,S65, 900
Ia COTTON .....-........ 24,140,0S9
Total. s29, Cos, ,299
Virginia and Maryland in lco0ilen$ 229, $50
In eotto,as. Observation-Disclosures. 2,6O3, 4s0
Total. ..................... s., ,s33, AGO
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island mote than Mary
land and Virginia $780, S52s SIS
Now, who tail see the 0hvous effect upon the landed
interest OF these sections In the East they
home all they draw Of their land, and it, 10
sustain its fertility, only the oa and manure they make
blt draw m ha
and from the Mary land and Virginia farmers who send
every thing and consume comparatively nothing leaving their
lands TO recruit themselves be out they inevitably
must The Maryland and Virginia farmers send their hides
out Of the State TO be tanned their wool ouf Of the State
be woven their beef he eaten their flour be eaten
their corn 10 be eaten while the Yankee temp the
% come 10 the woolgrowe the to where the
hides grown all, IN fact whose labor il employed il fac
tories, producing S52 5s 6s3 20 there and eat his bread
and his meat and bis milk and butter and cheese and fruit
all on the spot Every thing is kept and consumed home
nat wanting, as seems 70 as, despising the thought
o. speaking as dwelling partisan IN this journal and such
question:, is that the American people in body, and as
~ one roc should determine 10 break the colonial
age which eevates industry to-day ard sinks o-mo
row, according 10 the accidental and vacatng policy
and tariffs offoregn that England
wno eeasing to be mother has become stepoher
or goyeness In vast extent embracing every soil and
climate, we may adopt American policy independent Of
The world, States reciprocaly supplying and demand
ing Of each oher all they and all they procure and
force the capital and the machinery employed in
the fabrication of the $780, 600 600 that we buy abroad 10
come and be employed here; citizens seeing
their way secure, will occupy their place Then would
people instead OF scattering rich swamps and
pocoson would he drained and brought under the spade and
plough and with dense population would education
and power and prosperity and increase in the value Of lands
We should first thken the seaboard, and gradually swell
and spread around the circumference Nature spreads the
forest by natural expansion, and she intended society to
grow by natural accreon, and not by having lis limbs torn
off and lis seeds scattered 10 distant and ungena Soils by
iphtninu and and mo
constantly driving from fathers and daughters from
mothers.
'The first and great desire of Man." says H. c. Carey,
in that extraordinary andpowerfu work. The Past the Pre-
sent and the Future" isis that Of maintaining and mpov
ing his condition With each step in the progress Of
aton his physical condition would improve, because he
would cultivate fertile lands and obtain increased power
over the treasures Of the earth His moral condition would
improve, because he would have greater inducements steady
and regular labor and the reward Of good conduct would
steadily increase. His intellectual condition would improve
because he would have leisure for study and power
10 mix with his felow-men at home abroad 70 learn what
they knew and what they possessed while the reward
Of talent would steadily increase and that of brute wealth
would steadily decline. His political condition would inn
application Of his labor and Of its proceeds He would he
governed better governed and more cheapy governed and all
because more perfectly self governed"
Heaven bear witness that find pleasure in the
contemplation of the picture Of native State which truth
tells draw if would sketch with her pencil
Yet we must proceed to give il few touches by Of
fling-up.
The population Of Baltimore in 1880 80 625 in 1910
II was 02,3l3. Deduct that increase from the total in
in the whole State during the PERIOD and there
remain, to be divided among all the counties in these ten
years, only 1890, about sixty to county but far
from of them having increased al ALL nine out Of twenty
have actually refrigerated within the twenty years prior to
lsi0 and this has happened well on the Western
the Eastern Shore. Those which have held their
are Caroline, Kent Queen Annes Somerset aud Talbot,
(on the Easen and Charles Frederick, Montgomery, and
Prince Georges Frederick fell of probably not in fact but
because Carroll had been detached and Of that county there
Is in the statement before (Darbys account What
surprises is the diminution in Montgomery How has
been lost there the example of the Bookses and Spes and
many cthers exempas Of intelligent industry and gacious
management Have they water power, have they no
capital to bring into play, and is much lost bad roas
otherwise in the work Of exchange
On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in the time above
named
Caroline lost 22s5 Worcester gained. !. 9le
Kent. do GIL Dorchester. do. loss
Queen Anne do. 1919 Cecil. do. lIs4
Somerset. do. ......7l -
Talbot. do. ....- 1899 Total. .3lsS 1
- Gross loss. ...... $685.
Total. ......... 6535 Gain. n.............. 3ls3 1
-
Nen loss on the Eastern Shore. ore.................3 33s7
Now, s not state Of things exhibited here that impen-
ously demands the anxious investigation Of every landhode
Tuf