The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-01-16

Insurance Companies, &c. nrein part own
ed there; while our Railroads are mainly
ironed from England and paid for 10 Bonds
Let the present course Of trade continue un
! checked, and ne-fourth Of all the Ffopert,
in the Country will 10 effect be British prop
erty within twenty years. Mr.. Corwin in
deed estimates our Imports for the fisca
year now half spent nt Two Hundred and
Fifty Millions Of Dollars, whi:c our Export,
fCalifornia Gold incIudedJ are mot expected
TO exceed One Hundred and Sixty.fiye Mil
lions--a balance against us Of Eighty.fv
Millions Of Dollars in single year! Can
this continue7 Patriots !are you thinking
How eau you sleep on volcano SO plainly
charged with destruction?
Now in order to demonsirate the solven.
cy Of our National Finances under the sub.
sisting policy, il is necessary to assume an
Importation Of Two Hundred Millions per
annhm custom -house valuation, cquivalen,
to Two Hundred and Fifiv Millions, homes,
measure. This will afford Forty
Millions Income, the average rate Of duty
under our present Tariff being 23s per
cent. u we import 80 much, we must run
in debt at least Fifty Millions per annnm.
But running in debt is not final process
il implies settlement and pay day Unless
we mean TO sell the Country out Ia Europe,
and have it's farms and houses, as we'll as
its public ediices, banks, canals, and rail
roads owned abroad, We must calculate that
what is now borrowed is al some future day
TO DO paid. Now the moinent the process
Of paying shall begin, the Revenue from
Custom must sink down. as il did under a
similar operation in ISlS-l9, and again in
1887. and again in lS41-2, 10 less than
half of' its amount in the preceding glorious
wears Of Unlimited Foreiga credit and un-
bounded Foreign debt. Then the Govern.
mcni, with For.y-eight Millions oi Annual
Expenditure, will hnve less than Thirty
Millions Of Annual Revenue. Then The
land will be shingIed with wriis, executions,
foreclosures and forced sales at merely
nominal prices, sweeping away the bard.
earned savings Of the prudent along with
The nir-pnlaces Of the speculator. Then
will 90 up general Loco Foco yell Of cx-
ecra,ion against the B1nks for ov er- issuing,
the Merchants for over.trading, &c. in
which those who have eaten, drank, worn
out and but half pa id for the excessive I'm
ports whicl, are at the bottom of the mis-
chief will be loudcst Of my. Then viii
Congress be called together, as in ~ and
Al, TO devise WAYS and means to extrica !e
tho Government al least, md perhaps the
Country also, from complication Of disas-
ters. Then it will be plainly seen by the
considerate that the Government is not
paying its way by many Millions per an
mum, but Is spending the duiies on Railroad
Iron imported when il should be made al
home, and on Champagne bought, on tick,
and drank at fivo dollars bottle ON the
strength Of spcculafions now esteemed for
tuna.e but which will turn out quite 9th
erwise al last, il is really anticipating and
eatingup the income Of future years. We
maintain that the Duties collected on I'm.
ports moi paid for do not truly belong to the
current Revenue and ought not 10 be spent
until those Imports shall be paid for, anu
that the Treasury therefore really ran be.
hind Five Millions last year and is running
behind Fen Millions this year.
Are these things 60? II yea, is not ac-
tioni i,nperativelv, prcssingly demanded!
What say you, fellow citizenss ~ w.
a VIRGINIA FARM WoRrH MENTIONING.
-sSandv Point" the property Of Robert
Boiling, Esq, ofletersburg. for lis vast ex-
tent deserves mention. u is situated on
the nortlerly hank Of James River, going
down, and il is said to be ten square miles !
| Al The river shore an excellent wharf is
constructed ofquarter of mile 10 length, 10
enable the produce 10 DO placed on the ves-
sells without the aid Of lighters A railtoad
lis laid from The main depot to the more dis-
iant parts to bring down the produce and
timber on. A steam engine is used to- OBJ
tain power 10 thresh and clean the grain,
land on tire great barn is steepie and bell,
with fiue clock, whose large deal can be
seen cnnspicuousIy from the other side Of
the river. Mr.. B. me year raised 10000
fbushels Of wheat, for which he got $86, 900
for Que crop!
| JENSy LIND IN TEARs.--'The Washing
ton Republic states the following incident
Fin connection with tho fair Swede's depor-
ture from that city:
"When tho boat was about 70 start, Mr..
Reesidc approached her, to tnke leave
She gave him her hand. u,tering a kind
Goodbye and then she said, Oh, have
been so honored BY the people of your
bsautifu' city, by the great and good men
Of your nation, that Jenny said 'hat,
but she said no morc, for Jenny's voice.
that most beautiful Of all voiccs--hsd fait-
| ed her for once, and Jenny was weeping
| like very child; and !. was thus thst Jen-
~ left is. We do not envy her the great
cifi she possesses, bun he will be greatly
enyied who shall everpoesoss herself"
To KEEP EGGs FROM SroILIHG. Eat
them while they are fresh.