Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-05-30
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al from an apoendix Ia a Report Oh the Dee
rotary Of the Treasury to the United States
ssoa,e ON The Colonial and Lake Trade OF the
United States, present at a glance a picture o.
our great resources: 90.
Gu average imports from 1871 10 loSo,
s,ecie included. were ss0.S7S, 3iS; from lo4o
- 1852 they were 1881 ,966, $40, showing thai
,bev have more than doubled IN thirty years.
On average exports from 1921 TO 1870 were
$50 436 7S5 and from 1913 TO 8 SiI3'slo
500. In 1921 the tonnage of the Unl'rd States
was only 1928. 95S tons,in 1852 1t was 4,l3o'
AL ions, showing that it has more than ire
bled in thirty yeas. Next 10 Great bri'aln'
we have a larger tonnage than any nation I'D
the world and 10 five years,at the present rate
of increase. we shall surpass Great Britain.
The value ofnur annual products exceeds
three thousand millions of dollars oil which on
" about $40, 900, 600 are sent abroad leav-
inc So. $50, 900, 900 to be consumed at home
and interchanged among the States. AT least
5000. 600. 900 is thus in,erchanged between the
States Of the Union.
The total debt of the several States in 1851
was S201, 81, G24. which was less by some
millions than it had been during the previous
ten years. The value of property assessed IN
the same States uas 1888, l49,407, the real
value being however. SIC. 068 .157, 779-a pref
~ good security, we think, for their debts
whether owing at nome or abroad.
The total population Of The cities towns and
villages Of the U.States is only 1000, 00O, " hlle
the rural population, 'the honest peasantry,
their country's pride. is 10, 100000. The four
cities of New York, Boston, PhiIadelp hia, and
baltimore contain a population of ,2li,0OO the
a,nount of whose real ard personal property Is
$702 000, 900, Or $57S each. The property
Of The rural population is $2.312,000, 900 or a
bout Sl2O each.
From returns from the agricultural crops, 1t
appears that we raise annually $l43. 900 900,
ir wheat, 1891 200. 900 in Indian corn. $780,
275,000in hay. $40 sac, 900 in oats, 1913, 1926,
900 in Irish potatoes, and $l29 600, 1000 in cot
ton, the whole crop being $1,752,5S3 ,O42.
The animals slaughtered ar, worth quite as
much as the cotton, bringing some $ls3.O0O,
600 per annum. One of the most useful OF
our crops--wi no,is yet in its infancy,th West
having made only a little over 900, 900 Of gal
Ions in 1851, worth about $500 900; but the
cultivation is increasing, and in a few years
will be immense; especially when New Mexl
co and California, which are admirably adapt
ed to it, shall 60 into the business.
No portion of the trade of The Union has
grown more rapidly within a few years than
That connected with the steam marine. The
total number of stean. vessels now employed
on our coast is 625, with a tonnage OF 2l2,5OO,
ant employing ii ,770men as officers and Crew.
In the Interior the lumber of steam vessels Is
765, with "A tonnage Of 204 1926, and employ
ing II COY men.
Our Whole steam marine, therefore, am
mounts to 1890 vessels, with a tonnage of
III 226, ranncd hy 29,377 men, and carry
ing, besides freight, about 40, 900 600 of pas
scngers every year. In this vast travel only
$50 lives we're lost in lS52-fdr 100 many, but
not 20 many as some people, who fancy every
steamboat IA powder house, are prepared TO ex-
pect.
The amr unit of money paid in the Treasury
OF the United States, as duties on foreign goods.
in the year 1852, was at New York 1913. 772,.
55S; at Philadelphia $3,715.126; at Boston
$6,250,5SS; and at Baltimore ST. ,063, $40
1t will be seen that New York more than ire.
bIes all the other cities.
Thereare 12.S0S miles Of railroad in operation
in the United States, and 12,612 in progress
more than in all the rest Of the world.
OVERWHELMING ARGUMENT DIR. Lathrop.
in one OF his sermons says:
"Ifs it were true that there is no God, what
evidence can the Atheist have that he shall
not live and be miserable after death? How
Came he to exist at all Whatever was the
cause OF his existence here, may be thu. cause
of his existence hereafter. Or if there is no
canse he may exist in another estate as well as
in lhis. And ifhis corrupt heart and abomina
lie works make him so unhappy here that he
had rather be ahnihillated than run The haz
ard of the future existence, " that hindersbut he
nay be unhappy ioreyerl The man then is a
DOL who wishes there was no God hoping thus
o be secure from future misery, for admitting
there Is no God, still he may exist hereafter
as well as here and If he does exist his corrup
tons and vices may render him miserable e.
ternally as well as for the present.
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