The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-03-18


may be taken IA model, has never waged war on
Banks. 1t has looked them useful aid to
industry They have been kept under wholesome
restraints and thus have been of immense advan-
tage to the country We insert here a statement OF
their present condition When Mr.. Gayarr6 sees
this, he will forthwith write another letter, Or
romance The number of Banks is l27
Circulation ssa @ 2t5
Deposits iS 3S
i,nmeIats @ res s,n,ces ~ " 3 749' '7iI
The highest loan during the year was S6J, ,36J, ,7f3,
and the liabilities of the Directors 1854, ,364
The report of the Bank Commissioner states that
the currency OF the State is in sound and healthy
condition. They have personally visited every
Bank in the State, and find but one, the Paw
tucket Bank, the continuance Of which they CON
slider hazardous to the public.
RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.-This bill, which
met with such ignobe treatment by the Senate on
the last night of the Thrty-First Congress, was
remarkably favorable to the Mississippi section of
the Union Here are it chief appropriations to
the Mississippi and tributaries:
iubuqre Landing
Ohio River 4bove Louisville 5000
Lowe, Ohio ATkag'qs asa and Missouri yer49oo9
Cumberland Island ONO .ED
surveys Upper Mississippi 5,QUl
Snag boats, etc, Mississippi. 10000
The census of South Carolina taken under the
authority of the U. s. Marshal for the South Caro-
lima District is published in the Charleston papers
| In 1910 the free inhabitants in the State numbered
| 266, J0j. In 1880 they numbered 2s3, 1871 The
total population, free and slaves in 1910 amounted
| to j94 4439 while in 1850 it reached 66S 457
!
| The population of Charleston has increased 4232
| since the census of 1s40. The increase of popu-
ation Of the State for the last ten years. compared
with that Of the previous ten years, shows an
increase Of over 10000.
GREENvILLE DISTRICT, S. C,-The Southern
Patriot gives synopsis of this fourishing Union
| Districts
"There are in Greenyille District, 20 692 in
habitanis free, l3 52i; slaves, 7l4S; deaths dur
| ing the last year, $50. The number Of farmers IN
the District, $500. We have five cotton factories,
belonging 10 John Weaver, Major Mica IN Berry,
Lester 81 Kigore, Vardy McBse, Esq, and vii,
liam Bates d Co. The amount Of capital invested
is over 100000. These cotton factories consume
annually 1900 bags Of cotton, and produce cloth
and cotton every year valued at sos, 900. They
give employment to more than one hundred opera
| tves, Whose labor, Otherwise, would be Of little
| value. There are also two paper mills in Green
| vile, belonging to Messrs. McBee and Durham
using annually 300 00O pounds Of rags, and making
| paper worth $4,000.
1.-The real estate OF Greenville District is valued
at $4,000, l2S, and the personal property al
So, 1853 ,923, making the total value of District
| s., l69, l5l, exclusive of the moral and physica
worth of our brave men and beautiful women
which Is above all value and all price. Our Stat,
tax is S4959, and our District tax is SlS34
| There are torty-eight common schools in th
| District, with $50 pupils twen,y.nne Baptis
| churches fourteen Methodist churches three q
the Presbyterian, and one of the Episcopal order
and We have three fl iJurishng Academies
5 STEAMBOATS, ON LAKE WINNEBAGo, - Til
} | Green Bay Advocate enum rates seven new Steam
boats on the stocks, designed for the Fox Riv,
and Wnnabago trade. This, with those aread
in the trade, will make twelve steamboats, ne,
season, on the line from Fort Winnebago to Gree
Bay. As the business only began last Spring, tn
> increase is without parallel in the commercial
history of the United States. We grea
country, and daily growing greater,'' may be
very trite, but it is Il sngularly true saying.
New ENGLAND AND SOUTH CAROLINA. =
| The Charleston News has sensible remark
on the relative increase of these two sections of tn
! Union. We delighted to find that in spite
tariffs, Northern aggressons, and the thousand i'll
South Carolina is heir to, she has managed
increase in population rapidly than the pen,
a rious, hard-hearted, selfish Notion makers. B,
r the News must not lament any more about Il
| ruin and desoation OF the d" iated South" The'
. are very moving terms for an editorial, but the
=. cannot look the census report in the face:
. -Four OF the New Enga States viz: Ne
d | Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Co
+ necticut, were OF the original thirteen who fran,
the Confederacy, The of these four States
%, III square miles, and their aggregate popul
If ton at the first OF 1890, S27, SCI The
d | aggregate population by the census OF 1880
: | S2l, ,23i. The increase is little less than |;
o per cent. in the sixty years.
g THE area of South Carolina is 2l 900 squa
miles, or nearly the same as the aggregate of II
n four New England States. Her population by Il
II | census of 1890 was 249073. BY the census
1880 it is 66S, ,557, the increase being little mo
o than l6S per cent"
v Posi- OFFICE APPRoPRIATIoNs.-rhe follow
" ing appropriations made for the service of II
At Posofiice Department for the year ending JuI
d. 30, 1852: