The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-12-07

0tahste the purple, the yellow the purple banded and
the grey The quantity Of sugar produced ON an
aee varies from five hundred to three thousand pounds
averaging perhaps, nom eight hundred to ons thousand
Hitherto the amount Of sugar and molasses consumed
duosd consequently II ers has been no direct occasion
f their expectation In the year 1915 estimated
that the sugar made the banks Of the Mississippi
alone amounted to 10000 600 lbs In 1878, the entire
crop Of Louisiana only rs 00C coo lbs In 1850 1t had
reached the enormous quantity Of 600 bs pe-
sides about $4,000 900 gallons Of molasses.
According to the of 1910 the amount OF cane
and maple sugar was lt 500 lbs Of which ~
ID. were raised in Louisiana 9s By the
LAO $50 lbs amounting to PSI $50 80 Ids showing an
The balance Of the appropriation Of 1850 was drawn
from the Treasury the 4h Of September last 1t Is
believed that the additional sum a s25 600 will be
quired to complete all he purely statistical portions Of
the and prepare the same for the and to
s the Is the
proposed in my former report and experimenting to its
completion the whole work. The sum Of $4,000 addi-
toDsl will be required to pay all expenses and complete
ahe work by the close Of the next fiscal year.
The particular the analysis the returns Of the
@ more o co
and reliability There Is no question but they pre-
sent the most ample materials for representing with
almost perfect accuracy, the social civil and physical
condition Of the American people While in the ninutie
Of smell details ingenuity discover difcrepen-
an array Of facts and body Of accurate Information
ating to our people and country as exists pesng no
other nation While the Swans of the Old World are
digging into the ruins Of cities removing mountains Of
sand and excavatnR subterranean temples to discover
the most feeble rays pointing out the history Of nations
which the like would soug for in vain in any other
country and which furnish facility for us to know
ourselves and to enable US to transmit our true history
toposterity.
The Importance Of statistical Investigations and publ
cations be strongly illustrated than by the
examples of those nations of the old world where the
power existed in the thrsne, to admit Of their contnu
ance suspend their Development policy in view Of
STATISTICAL researches Instituted By Louis XIV after the
treaty Of Riswck were snnihilaed IN France when 1t
was necessary to smother the OF nsr decay
h succession and the disasters Of Hochstadt and Ro
illies The result exhibited century after
FIRST Consul In 1902 after the peace Of Amens not
allowed exist to make manifest the condition Of the
With reference to the present progress Of statistical
science in Europe late French writer MORGAN de Jonnes
remarks that profound peace whose duration is snex
ampled has caused admirable emulation to spring
among all the nations Of Europe, which, to repair the
misfortunes ocsasoned by their former numerous
s ID IN
basis Of enterprise and from the registers Of which
they obtain instructions in those things affecting the
o. Of the truth Of his remarks furnished by
the National Statistical Congress proposed to be held ct
Brussels in September Of 1858. These illustrations serve
show the value and moral force OF statistical revela
TONS and the duty Of self governing people like to
sustain them and to demand a proper publication Of
their Developments and that 1t should form work
easily comprehended In all its parts not exclusively
for the learned but adapted to the wants Of all who would
wish to consult it.
The preparation of such work Is not only within the
compass Of stability but with the means possessed
70 readily accomplished by industry and reasonable
mount OF ability That the expense necessarily attend
bg the publication has been generally exaggerated will
appear from examination of the correspondence
ktng thereto which has been transmitted to you Many
Geat men Lavoisier vauban Necker, and Young for
want better than they possessed made
much imperfect data than to arrive approx
patey at the truth and the character Of their data i'm
prfect it admitted to be did not ntimidae them
rom making Of the materials they possessed de-
tr their governments from adopting their deductions OF
these permit to present but one illustration, that
exhibited BY Lavoissr, to whom . committee Of the Ma
tonal Assembly In France applied In 1880 for information
enable them to prepare in accordance with the diree
ton of that body rational basis for the establishment
tsxes TO meet the wishes Of the committee, and to
form his calculations respecting the quantity Of land cu
tivated and the quantities OF production and consump
ton this learned used OF arriving OF the
desired facts the Of poughs which supposed
to exist The results thus arrived ut adopted and
subsequent revelations made upon sufficient data,
exhibited In them close and wonderful approximation
to the truth Our materials present such Hypothetical
character but deemed generally accurate and reliable
and of character to warrant their publication
Respectfully submitted
JOSEPH c. G. KENNEDY,
Superintendent of Census.
Hon A. II. H. STUART, Secretary ofthe Interior