The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-03-25
Total value Of grain.

10 inns amount otner agricultural products must De
added.
1t appears by the census Of 1850 that portion of the
hop crop Of this State employed in the manufacture Of
ue amounts to 5S1 tons 1871 40 pounds. which, at
20 cents per pound is S23 432 From the anthem
tic it that 5OO hogsheads of moascs
annually consumed for purposes of distillaon The
value Of 500 gallons OF moasses at % cents the sup
posed average price would amount to S63750 adding
therefore these sums have aggregate of four mil
lions three hundred and eighty nine thousand six hun
bred and ninetysix dollars being the amount to which
extent agriculture would be annually affected deducting
the moasses the products of the State used for such
purposes amount to three millions hundred and
fifteen thousand nine hundred and forty-sx dollars.
In the barley crop Of the State thus principally appro
priated to brewing which there is probability
Of demand for any other mode Of consumption almost
every county in the State is interested there being but
three counties in which it is not produced The thirteen
counties Albany Cayuga, Genesee, Uerkimer Jefferson
Livingston Madison, Montgomery, Onondaga Ontario
0tsego. Schenectady and schoharie, annually produce
1s74447 bushels, worth million four hundred and
forty four thousand five hundred and seventy dol
lars independently Of the value Of their rye and hops
used in the process Of brewing and distillation
The whole barley crop of the State of Maine is much
the united value Of the barley and consumed in this
State for those purposes exclusively amounts to conde
rabe than Of the united value of the whole
Of these two descriptions of grain raised throughout
the state.
But there various interests besides these affect
ed. The coopers and other mechanics would be seri-
ously injured Independent of the forfregh,
ontiansmittng by railroad and canal grain, moasses,
foreign and domestic wines and liquors, the mere
items of manual labor carriage amount to several
hundred thousand dollars. In the various cities and
counties of the State upwards of $l0O0ooOO is per-
manenty invested in distilleries and breweres Civ
ing employ to thousands. From the nature of
the buildings and apparatus, the passage of this law
would involve sacrifice of 81 900, 900. The amount
Of investments in hotels, taverns and groceries, in
Guiding stocks Of wines, ales and liquors. may be
4. Il
ton of which is invested in the city of New York.
This property would be reduced SO per cent at one
fell swoop.
Such is summary of the principal facts, argu-
ments, and statistics produced in this able document;
and it is no wonder that the organ of the Holy ALI
should feel the intoxicating effects on its brain,
and reel, and foam and curse, and rcve worse than
the most degraded drunkard found q the lowest
haunts and purlieus Of vice. But overwhcm-
ing as is this report, there is one point which
it has oyerlooked---it is the Internal stool pi-
geon system which such a law would entail upon
the country In case recently brought be-
fore Judge Fitch, at Portland. against a citizen.
for violating the statute, it came out on the trial
that the author of the law, Neal Dow the fanatic
Mayor of Portland, employed common informer
as stool pigeon to convict him, and that the
wretch received twenty dollars as the reward of his
infamy. This Neal Dow is the "honorabl man" to
whom was lately presented gold medal in this
city, by the hands Of the hero of San Jacnto. If
the Maine law should be adopted in this State, what
crop Of spies, infomcrs, stool pigeons and double
dyed villains will spring up like rank weeds under
the patronage Of the leaders of the Holy Alliance,
to swear away, for hire, the property, the liberty,
and the character Of the citizens Of New York.