The weekly Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1852-1855, 1852-12-16

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The account would then stand:
1900 lbs. butter at l6c $2O9 90
$50 doz. eggs at l0c, 10 90
800 cwt. lard at lOo, 80 90
1900 cwt. pork at DC, 10 %
Totalin 1852, S32s 90
Same articles in 1850, $l6l 90
Gain, sl67 90
Look at this, ye doubling farmers. The
increased value on the few items above, in
one year, is sufficient to buy three railroad
shares, and have SIT left to pay the taxes on
the greatly increased value of your farms,
of which we have not yet spoken.
We will not ask you to contrast the prices
of wheat now ard during the past season
with what they were a few years ago, when
it brought 81, 40 or As cents a bushel.
OF course the value of your farm is in
creased in proportion to the value of their
products. Lands in Huron an Erie coun-
ties sell at $50 per acre, while better lands
in Richland sell at 1875 or $40. The diff
ference is owing to the former being handler
to market; the cost oftransporting produce
being saved, the productions of their farms
bring better prices"
Farmers, ponder we'll over the above facts,
and then ask yourselves whether you do not
oppose your own interests when you oppose
the building of these facilities for transporta-
ton. Ask yourselves whether you did not OPP
pose your own interests when you decided by
your votes that the county should not take
stock in these great works of progress
And then ask yourselves whether the stand
taken by the Wing party upon this, as well
as upon all other questions of pnblic improve
ments, is not best calculated to call out the
latent resources of the country, and add to
the prosperity and happiness of the whole
people.
CHANGE IN THE MODE OF ELEcTIEG THE
PREsIDENT.--John w. King has written a
pamphlet in the form Of a memorial address
sed to the Legislature Of the several Stat = Of
the Union, proposing an amendment to the
Constitution Of the United States, in regard
to the mode Of e~lecting President of the
United States. The plan proposed is to
choose the Executive from the members of
the Senate, by lot. The object sought to be
sy stem and its kindred abuses, and to pro-
mote the election Of an officer who shall not
owe his elevation to mere party ambition,
and who shall not, in advance, be committed
to the elevation of any clique, or furtherance
of any platform of measures. This subject
is now exciting much thought throughout
the country, and whether the plan proposed
be a correct one or not, there is, we are as
sured, q wish on the part of many, that a
change of some kind might be accomplished.
The AMERICAN TRACT SocIETY.-From a
condensed statement of the affairs of this So
ciety, we learn that about twenty presses
and $50 operatives are employed in the man
ufacturing department, with a daily produce
of about $4,000 publications. The amount
of printed matter in the periodical form is
equal ANNUALLY to a million volumes of 200
pages each. The gratHitous issues Of tracts
and books amount to more than $45 900 an
nually. besides appropriations CT 100000 in
cash, for distribution in more than one hun
dred languages in foreiga and pagan lands.
The numbes Of colpertcurs in this country,
inclsding nearly 100 for the foreign emf
grant population, is between 400 and $780,
More than 81 900 are required daily to meet
the earnest demand on the treasury.
REPORT OF SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS.
This document is entirely too lengthy for
the columns ofthe Daily. 1t would fill about
two pages of the Weekly G0sette, and is a
highly important document. We may from
time to time make extracts from it; but for
the present it must go by defauh.
STEAMER BURNT.-A despatch from New
Orleans states that the steamer Cleopatra
was burned to the waters edge, on Monday
9Th inst, while on her way down the Blacl
River. She had a cargo OF 900 bales of cot
ton. The Captains son persisted in thu
flames.
FIREiN BALTIMORE CITY-LOSS Of Life
A despatch from Baltimore says the exten.
sive Grocery Warehouse of Messrs. Hays &
} George, has been totally destroyed by fire
Loss $50 ,%oOo,--fully insured. Three mer
were killed by the falling Of the walls.
INDIAN LEcTUREs-George CONWAY. the
Ojibbeway Chief, is lecturing in Pittsburgh
, on the religious belief, poetry and character
istics Of the Indians.
; Hoes.-The Louisville papers say there il
: more hogs at the present time in that cit,
than was ever there at any one time before
~ The Legislature of North Carolinl
4 has not yet succeeded in electing a Unite'
: States Senator.
IN ten ears sixty thousand houses hay,
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