The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-05-27
INTERESTING STATISTICS.

An article in late number of the New
York Post presents the following very inter
esting statistics, complied from an appendix
to report of the Secretary of the Treasury
to the u. s. Senate, on the Colonial and Lake
trade of the U. States:
Our average imports from 1921 to 1926
specie included, were S80,S78, 848; from l84S
TO 1852 they were Sl6l,966,579, showing
that they have more than doubled in thirty
years. Our average imports from 1921 to
1926 we're 500, 439,785, and from lS48 ia
1852, Sl75,943, $50. In 1921 the tonnage OF
the United States was only l,298,958 tons;
in 1852 it was ,l3S,44l tons, showing that
It has more than trebled in thirty years. Next
TO Great Britain, we have larger tonnage
than any nation in the world, and in five years
at the present rate of increase, we shall sur
pass Great Britain.
The value of our annual products exceeds
three thousand millions of dollars, of which
only about Sl7O,0OO,O0O are sent abroad
leaving $780, 100000 to be consumed at
home, and interchanged among the States.
At least $6O0,0OO,OOO is thus interchanged
between the States of the Union.
The total debt of the several States in 1851
was $20l Sal ,624, which was less by some
millions than it had been during the previous
ten years. The value of property assessed
in the same States was $5,9S3, l49,4O7, the
real value being however, 81, 068, > 1877, 779-a
pretty good security, we think, for their debts,
whether owing at home or abroad.
The total population of the villages, towns,
and cities Of the United States is only 4,000,-
900, while the rural population, "thc honest
peasantry, their country's pride" is l9,263,-
900. The four cities of New York, Boston,
Philadelphia, and Baltimore contain popu-
lation of l,2l4,000 the amount of whose real
and personal property is $702,0000OO or
1878 each. The property of the rural popu-
lation is $2,8l2,000,000, or about 100 each.
From returns from the agricultural crops it
appears that we raise annually $l43000,0OO
in wheat, 1891 100000 in Indian corn, $780,
275,OOO in hay, $7O,S4O,O0O in oats, S73,-
$4,000 in Irish potatoes, and Sl29,00O,00O
in cotton; the whole crop being $l,752,
5S3,O42.
The animals slaughtered are worth quite
IS much as the cotton, bringing some $685.
100000 per annum One of the most useful
of our crops-wne-is yet in its infancy, the
West having made only little over 100000
Ol RdlIOUS III 1901, WORTH aUOuI SOUU,UUUj
but the cultivation is increasing, and in few
years will be immense, especially when New
Mexico and California, which are admirably
adapted to it, shall go into the business.
No portion of the trade of the Union has
grown more rapidly within few years than
that connected with the steam marine. The
total number of steam vessels now employed
on our coast is 625, with tonnage of 2l2,-
500, and employing ll,770 men rs officers
and crew. In the interior the number of
steam-vessels is 765, with tonnage of 204,-
725, and employing 1907 men.
Our whole steam marine, therefore,
amounts to 1890 vessels, with tonnage of
417,226, manned BY 29,377 men, and carrying,
besides freight, about 40 100000 of passen
gers every year. In this vast travel, only $50
lives were lost in l852-far too many, but
not so many rs some people, who fancy every
steamboat n powder-house, are prepared to
expect.
The amount Of money paid into the treasu-
ry of the United States, as duties on foreign
goods, in the year 1852, was at New York,
S28,772,558 at Philadelphia, S3,7l5,l26; at
Boston, $6,250,588; and at Baltimore, ST.
O63,530. II will be seen that New York
more than trebles all the other cities.
There are l2,80S, miles of railroad in ope-
ration in the United States, and 1863 in
progress-more than in all the rest of the
world