Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1853-07-23
Interesting Statistics.

| interesting 0Lat1sUCa.
There are in the appendix to report Of
the Secretary of the Treasury by which i,
appears that communicated to the Senate
on the colonial and lake trade of the United
States, several important and useful tables
of the general trade of the country.
Our average imports from 1921 to 1926
specie included were $50, 1878. 34s; from s4s
to 1852 they were $ls1, 966.579, showing
that they have more than doubled in thirty
years. Our average imports from 1921 tc
1926. were S69.439, 1855, and from 1s4s te
| 1852, $175.943,36O In 1921, the tonnage Of
the United States was only 1.29S,975 tons
in 1852 it was i, 1873, 44l tons, showing that il
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 surpass Great Britain
The value of our annual products exceeds
three thousand millions Of dollars, of which
only about $l70,000O0O are sent abroad,
| leaving S2,831,O 100000 to be consumed at
| home and interchanged among the States.
AT least $600,000,000 is thus interchanged,
| In the glorious free trade system which pre-.
walls between the States of the Union.
The total debt of the several States in 1851,
was S2O1 SAL, 624, which was less by some
millions than it had been during the pre-
viaus ten years. The value of property as
sessed in the same States was SIS, 983. 49,
4o7, the real value being, however, ST ,O68.-
1879.
The total population of the villages, towns,
and cities of the United States is only
100000, while the rural population, "the
honest peasantry, their country's PRIDE" is
19,263,O0O. The four cities of New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore contain
a population of 1,2l4,OOO the amount of
whose real and personal property is $780,
100000, or 1878 each. The property of the
rural population is 81, 312: 100000, or about
$3.50 each.
From returns from the agricultural crops
it appears that we raise annually $l43,O0O,-
900 in wheat, 1891 200 900 in Indian corn,
S19o:275.Ooo in hay, S7Os4o 900 in oats,
S73,125, 900 in Irish potatoes, and 1929 ,O0o,-
600 in cotton; the whole crop being 1852
5S3,0i2. No crop of ours makes more noise
in the world than cotton; yet when it is
compared TO other crops. such as wheat and
Indian corn, and particularly with the whole
annual crop, We see no reason why it should
take on so many airs; but we suppose the
reason is, that it goes abroad great deal,
and, like travelled gentlemen, rather looks
down upon the stay-a t-homeites. Why the
animals slaug htered are worth quite as much
as the cotton, bringing some $3.50, 100000
per annum! One of the most useful of our
crops-wine-is yet in its infancy, the West
having made only little over 100000 of
gallons in 1851, worth about 100000; but
the cultivation is increasing, and in few
years viii! 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 stean-vessels now employed
on our coast in 625, with tonnage of 212.-
500, and employing l1,770 men as officers
and crew. In the interior the number Of
steam vessels is 765, with tonnage of
20i,725. and employing 1907 men. Our
whole steam marine, therefore amounts to
1890 vessels, with 4 tonnage of 417,226,
manned by 29;377 men, and carrying, be-
sides freight, about 4n.00O,o 900 of passengers
every year. In this vast travel, only $50
lives were lost in 1S52-far too many, but
not SO many as some people, who fancy
every steamboat powder house, are pre-
pared to expect.
There are g: sos miles of railroad in opera
ton in the United States, and 1862 in pro-
gress-nore than in all the rest of the
world.