The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1853-06-01
Interesting Statistics.

Interesting Statistics.
The following very interesting statistics,
compiled from an appendix to a report of
the Secretary ofthe Treasury to the United
States Senate, on the colonial and lake
trade of the United States, presents at a
glance, a picture Of our great resources:
Our average imports from 1891 to 1895.
specie included, we're $50, 1878 .348; from
l848 to 1852, they were $181 ,966, 579.
showing that they have more than doubled
in thirty years. Our average exports from
1921 to 1926 were 500 ,439,785 and from
1848 to 1922, $175.943.36O. In 1891 the
tonnage Of the United States was only H.
298 ,958 tons; in 1852 it was 4.l38,441
tons, showing that it has more than trebled
in thirty years. Next 10 Great Britain, we
have a larger tonnage than any nation in
the world, and in five years, at the present
rate OF increase, we shall surpass Great
Britain.
The value of our annual products ex-
ceeds three thousand millions oil dollars Of
which only about $17O, 600, 900 are sent
abroad, leaving So, $50, 900 ,OOOto be con.
sumed at home and i~nterchanged among
the States. At least $500. 600, 900 is thus
interchanged between the States Of the
Union.
The total debt Of the several States in
1851 was $2O1 .541 .624, which was less
by some millions than it had been during
the previous ten years. The value of.pro-
perty assessed in the same States was 49,
983, l49 ,4o7, the real value being however.
$lO,O66, 157 ,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 100000 while the rural population,
''the honesl peasaniry,. their country's
PRIDE" is 19.263. 600. The four cities OF
New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Bal.
timore contain a population of 1,214.OOO,
the amount of whose real and personal
property Is $7O2. 100000, or $578 each
The property Of the rural population is
SO, 1919 ,OQO, OOO, or about $3.50 each.
From returns from the agricultural crops
it appears that we raise annually $l43,
900 900 in wheat, 1891 200, 900 in Indian
corn, l9o,275.O0O in hay, $40, $40 ,OoG
in oats, $73. 1875. 900 in Irish potatoes, and
$129, 100000 in cotton the whole cror
being $1,752, 583, O42.
The animals slaughtered are worth quite
as much as the cotton. bringing some
SI83, 900 900 per annum. One Of the
most useful Of our crops-wine-is yet il
its infancy, the West having made only
little over 1000, 900 1fAgallons in 1851
worth about $50O.oOo; but the cultivation
is increasing, and in a few years will b,
immense, especially when New Mexico
and California, which are admirably adap
ted to it, shall go into the business.
No portion Of the trade Of the Union hai
grown more rapidly within a few year,
than that connected with the steam marine
The total number ofsteam vessels now EN-
ployed on our coast is 625, with a tonnag,
Of 2l2,50o and employing f1,77O men a
officers and crew. In the interior the nun
OF steam vessels is 765, with a tonnage o
9o4, 1875, and employing 1907 men.
Our whole steam marine, therefore, a
mounts to. 800 vessels. with a tom age o
4l7,226, manned by 39,377 men, AM
carrying. besides freight, about 10000,
900 Of passengers every year. In thi
vast travel. only $50 lives were lost il
l852-far too many, but not so many a
some people, who fancy every steamboa
a powder house, are prepared to expect.
The amount Of money paid into tn
treasury Of the United States, as duties Of
foreign goods, in the year 1889, was a
New York. $28. 772 $50; at Philadelphia
$3.715,126: a. Boston, sc. $50. 588; and a
Baltimore S ,O63, $50. II will be seen tina
New York more than trebles all the othe
cities.
There are 2,8O8 miles of railroad ii
the United States. and 1862 in progress
moro than all the rest of the world.