Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-07-17

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Ign y" '"e O"iu''ion ahu prospects
pop "s e% Witnessed patton" ba and DEERE of
s'ee' "'nesseu, 10 winch 'he "oId can
Of thar ~ p pa,a,'e,. as we revue" .ne course
arrest our attention at every s,en The
present occasion. allowing Of NO heightened ID
remarks, may yet, perhaps admit Of short
comparative statement between imDortant
subjects or r,,ionaI ;n,o,es, ,"Po .. 'a"s
Su'Je0's oi hdl,ohai interest, as they existed
a. ""a' udy' aiu as 'hey now exist. L have
adopted Tor TINS purpose, the tabular form
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~ ''"'S'"e"'' ds peing Tue most Drlei anu
Wv ''O'' "'o"' a'e'
00"'"N"'i' fable,
/ Number Of State. IS IS al
H'P 6,",a.. and Senators :" -.
Population Of the u. states, 1850 ao2a 81 a3267 sos
10 go't,"sre. a"' g93 i i, q;
Do rbiadiepha, do. il5o sni5
/ DO Wa.6ias,on, Do. ''''-l 90 t1S S5
Amgu"' Of receipts Ia Treas .. ...--....
Aaiua, expenditure, U. s do. 75s5I5 os,59 s5
B no i3Don' Ga' si'9 9od r. l3s 3ls
DO Tongsso. do 500 .74 55i5i5I
Raak and 6le ori5o a,a'r no. SUI si5i a,,o3
Mita. lenwi .ell 9Ool456
DO Araaasai. to,islaeej a1i3
Nu .fi o. .I'aI'.. and eon'oaion'
Number of lighthouse, and light
esoeed,ur.. 70, do s,9oei 500 5 55
Area ct the 6,'' eapi'oI buildogtin
DO present esei,ol (iaelu8ins er,en.
.mol ,,.,. 4l3a acres;
Do Te,egmpb. 0o5
Manner Ns'pe, Of Of POI, o,n ,o,,o w, 2aSi
Amount Of revenue from post Office. slo477 s'552s 81
aiee depaf ,aent :" '"' PO'' 72o,, saaesa
Ng ,.,ie Of miles, ("aii "an'Poaa- .e,.
pubir libraries 50 69i
sgnoei q, ,ou"e' 10 do 1000 sslGS52
Nuubei Of volumes 10 do eoooooO
short note is here added respectiHr the
growth of Western trade and commerce.
extracted from an address before the H,>tor-
zeal Society of Ohio, by William ID. Cal
higher, Esq, lSj0--''A few facts viii ex-
hlbii as well as a volume, the wonderful
growth of Western trade aud commerce.
Previous to The year 1900, some eight or ten
keel boats, of evenly or twenty-five tons
each, performed all the carrying trade be-
tween Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. In 1902,
the first Government vessel appeared on
Lake Erie. In ISL, the first steamboat
tine Orleans) was launched at PUsburgh
In 1876, the waters of Michigan were first
ploughed by the keel of a steamboat, plea
sure trip TO Green Bay being planned and
executed 10 the summer of this year. In
1882 a steamboat first appeared at Chicago
At the present time, the entire number of
steamboats, running on the Mississippi aud
OHIO aud their tributaries. is more probably
over than under SIX hundred, the aggregate
tonnage of which is not short of one hun
bred and forty thousand-a larger number
4
a greater steam commercial marine than
that employed by Great Britain aud her de-
Tendencies" In the department of inyen-
ton, there has been wonderful application
of science TO arts, within the last sixty years
The spacious hall of the Patent Office is at
once the repository aud the prop OF Amerl-
can inventive art and genus Their results
are seen in the numerous improvements by
which human labor is abridged Without
going into details it may be sufficient TO
say that many of the applications of steam
to locomolion and manufactures, of clectrl-
city aud magnetism to the production of
mechanical motion, TO the electrical tele-
graph. To the registration of astronomical
phenomena, 10 the art of multiplying en-
cravings, the introduction aud improve
menis among US of all the important lnven-
tons of the old world, are striking indIca-
tive of the advance of this country IN the
useful arts. The network of railroads and
teleUraph lines by which this vast country
is relicuIa.ed, have not only developed It's
resources. but united emphatically in metal.
lie bonds all parts of the Union. The by
dranlic works of New York. Philadelphia
and Boston. snrpass m extent aud import
ance those of Ancient Rome. But we have
not confined our attention to the immediate
application of science to the useful arts Il,
we have entered the field Of original re-
search, aud have en- arged the bounds of
scientific knowledge. Sixty years ago, be-
sides the brilliant discoveries of Franklln IN
electricity, scarcely ANYTHING had been done
among us IN the way of original invention
Our meu OF science were content with re-
pealing the experiments, aud dHuslng