The daily union., 1852-12-14

In cotton there has been gain OF 100, ,97O 325 pounds
The returns OF 1880 give 9S744e600 pounds The guam
uty cultivated. Alabama occupies the first place as d cot
ton.cfowng State, having almost doubled its produen
IN ihe ten years Mississippi appears almost stationary
while there has been heavy falling of ia Llsisiaus
the nundations oil the Mississippi and lis tributaries be
assigned as the prime cause in both In Vifgna
and North Carolina the culture has largely diminished
The product of potatoes has fallen from los 2Qs
o6o bushels in ls4o 10 04o55 9s9 bushels in 1850 IA
prevalent disease, or rot" being unquesQnably bs
cause The quantity OF potatoes raised I'M fs59
was 80 1858, 1876 bushels,
OF wine the total product in 1850 was 22 gallon,
California and New Mexico gave 60 IT'S gallons TN
laeIease N other portions OF the Union has been m
$4,000 gallons fact which conflicts with The ordina
received opinion IN regard TO the production OF this a
Gle IN OHIO and other States.
Ihe quantity OF ale and spruous liquors produced IN
the United States IN the same year amounted TO S6
gallons-being at the rate OF nearly four cations per
head -
The increase In the culture of hops has been nearly
Ia the Stale OF New York
The returns of is4o exhibited s5,25ls tons ar rav
and hemp as the quatny raised IN the United States.
OF flax Mr. Kennedy suggests that in the former case
the marshals may have written tons where pounds were
intended
In The culture Of silk there has been large decrease
having been only l4,763 pounds in 1850 against 763
pounds in ls40. Connecticut is the only State Which
has conInued the culture wiihou, suspension.
The cane sugar made, according 10 the census al 1880
was 2l7,5s 900 lbs, besides IL 100000 gallons o oas
ses maple sugar "a 1853, ,ss6 lbs; being an aggregate in
CREASE III ten Yeas Vi ioo,UIi los.
rsam the New York Courier and Eoou;n,
The report of the Superintendent, OF the Census il be-
yond comparison the most important of the late official
documents. IL literally OF uia Importance since mn
like the others, which deal with modes OF administrator
aions 1t has to do with the very rial elements Of Ee
nation II not merely sets forth the amount of the non
ulaton which the sole object OF the ancient cenas
but analyses the blood which flows in its veins and avs
bare IT'S whole physical, moral and intellectual stamina
to the inspection oil the world 1t exhibits moi only he
limbs, the slnews, the stature. bulk and big assem-.
blance" OF the nation, bat unmsakea eaby reveals its
"sprf also. II is work TO iniercs, not the satisr
or the student OF social economics alone il has its in
slructon and significance for every thoughtful mind
Though notation rather than event. /, marks an
epoch IN the lie OF the Daon Ii not only accunuaies
and casses existing facts, but furnishes the only SURE
grounds or political prophecy II answers only the
momentous question. Waat bnt also that other
inquiry OF lar mightier concernment Hhh tend.
i"ga a. !. !. r.. .,.., ], .
man nature and the successive Iise and fall OF ma.
hons IN the past--specuate please upon The
relative merits of different types Of ciyilizaiionnav
denounce as we may the materializng tendencies and
the subtle malignant influences OF modern progress-e.
call to mind that in days OF yore there greater in.
ellects, greater achievements reasoning in eoquence
IN poetry, and in art greater personal strength greater
energy IN government more devoted loyalty the gov.
erned, and grander displays OF national and individual
heroismand yet the fact remains ndsputabe that there
are social forces now IN operation such the world has
never before seen since its birth from chaos This planet
OF ours is now six thousand years old and. without The
least risk OF exaggeraton, II may be affirmed that no
public document exists or ever has existed in its archives
OF such significance regard 10 its future desnes
as the census OF the United States of America made i
the year OF our Lord thousand eight hundred and
nifty. Never before has such record been made Of
things that are and 10 be- This nation wonderful as
has been its past progress never before exhibited such
decennal increase oil population, either absolutely or pro-
porionaely; and no other naiion either modern or an
cleni, ever experienced thing approaching The Ru
man empire was the most extensive and populous in The
third century after the Christian It's subjects al that
time, as estimated by Gbbon (he computation is poha
mol h-l yUaQn hmm draIa
Yet for the two centuries preceding the increase OF the
population OF Italy, Spain, and Portugal was, according
10 the most reliable data only about five ar thirty
per cent each hundred ssars our Increase during the
last ten years was nearly thirty per cent. 0ur de-
csnnia increase IS three times great the
NAL increase OF The European population at any time
prior 10 the crusades al the twelfth century, and twice
great the cenknna increase OF the same popu
laiion from the twelfth 10 the middle OF the eighteenth
century. Italy has not mach larger population
than Il had IN the days oil the elder Plny Spain has
positively less population than II had iieen hundred
years ago. and scarcely than II had three hundred
years ago. France has not fve times many il had
in the days OF julius Cesar three times as many il
had in the reign OF Francis First Eng land herself not
withstanding her wonderful development since the
formation, is moi four times more populous than il was
in the reign of Henry the Eighth What ratios are these
10 compare with our growth during the last years.
any ten years since our existence As a nation
Our vast increase is not 10 be mainly attributed the
creon OF ioreign population The extent OF the foreign
element Is greatly oyerraied OF our entire population Of
ssi only 22l0o o2s were born in foreign countrts
Unless Official figures lie it cannot be denied that our
increase rs 10 be ascubed chiefly TO the productive and
expansive enegies OF the Saxon stock OF this con
tnent-precisely The same agency that mpelled US
rapidly forward IN our earlier history, when immigration
was comparatively unknown. From 1912 TO 1871 at.
eordng 10 Official documents printed by the House Of
commons, toe enlire emigration from The Unite King
dom TO this country only 6s ,9Ss and from othtr
paris OF Europe Il was comparatively insignificant and
yet our population m that period augmented two Millions
or hirgtree and third PER ID 4. not without good
grounds that bancroft estimates in his history that al
least one third OF the population OF the whole United
States is formed OF The descendants OF The New England
Purlians, who were all OF pure Anglo-Sax origin
The natural increase OF our white population from births
alone, inf,sadsni Of immigration, has averaged thirty
per cent every ten years during the present century
Without ioreign immigration the nation would have
doubled once IN twenty yseven years, though with III
has doubled once 10 twenty-ihree Spaniards began 10
colonize this continent coRcuuenily with the English
and for two hundred years they occupied larger extent
OF Il and yet there are now in all America not more
than FIVE millions of actual Spanish descent while there
are at least fifteen millions Of EDgsh and Scotch De.
scent.
It's becoming rather unpopular, know, this side O
the water 10 attach any particular superiority 10 ibe
Ango-Saxon race Demagogues would have our adopted
citizens OF other descents believe that the praise OF tbs
implies The disprase OF other So much the
Tor the demagogzes We too, have a liking for the
rich Irish brogue and the strange German accent
bat facts are not to be galpsad We do not believe ibs
there Is IN this country an intelligent member o the Gel
tic, or the Ieulonie or the Frank family who does noTe
spcet The stock that calls itself AngloS Saxon Three
hundred years ago this numbered less than three
mlilonsj " = now the most numerous in the wod
the Slavic alone excepted II is not only Tie most
metous, but incomParaby the most energetic and nG
entail II IS gradually taking possession OF all the ports
and coasts OF the world II Is supersedng every obg
language, and breaking down nthsr