The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1853-05-11
Some Interesting statisti q.

There are in the appendix to a report OF
Oh. SECRETARY Of The Treasury, lately COM
muhicIted 10 The Senate, on the Colonial
aud Lake Trade Of the United States, sever
al Impo,lau and useful Lables Of the gener-
al tr&de of the country. The substance of
some Of these We shall give in a condensed
form:
Our average imports from 1921 to 1926,
specie included, we're $50, $40, 3I8; from
l8I8 TO 1852. they were Sl8I, 966, $40,
showing that they have more than doubled
in thirty years. Our average imports from
1921 10 1895 were SO. 439, 785, and from
l848 to 1852. l75.943 500. Ia 1921 the
tonnage of the United States was only L..
298. S53 tons, in 1881 it was A., I33, AL tons,
showing that il has more than trebled in
thirty years. Next TO 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 oar annual products exceeds
three thousand millions of dollars, of which
only about $40, 600, 900 are sent abroad,
leaving So 83J, 0O0, 900 to De consumed at
home and inttrch9pged among the States
At least $GJ0, 000, 600 is thus interchanged,
in the glorious free trade system which pre-
walls between the states of the Union. How
small, after all. is our foreign trade, about
which We legislate SO mich, and for the dc.
FENCE of which, and the collection of the du.
ties upon it we spend SO much, compared
with the inland blsineSsl
The total debt of the several states in 1851
was Sl0I, SAL ,624. which was less, by
some millions, than it had been during the
previous ten years. The value of the prop.
erty assessed in the same States was S.
983, I49, 407, The real value being. however,
S7,068, 147, 779-a pretty g cd security,
we think, for heir debt whether owing at
home or abroad.
The total population OF the villages,
towns, and cities of the United States, is
only 1000, 600, while the rural population,
the honest peasantry, their country's pride
is 10, 263 COO. The four cities of New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore
contain a pop %ulation of l,214,000 the a.
mount Of whose real and personal properly
is $T02. coo, 900, CT S5T8 each. The prop
crty of the rural population is $3.50, 00O..
600, or about 1920.
From returns Of the agricultural crops, ii
appers that we raise annually $l43,O 0O, 600
in wheat, 29l, 200, 900 dollars in Indian
Corn, l90,275,00O dollars in hay, 70, $780,
600 dollars in oats, IS, 1854 coo dollars in
Irish potatoes, and 159, 900, 900 dollars in
cotton; the whole crop being 1852, $685.
042 dollars, No crop of ours makes more
n%oi>ein the world than cotton, yet, when
it is compared 10 other crops, such as wheat
ana Indian corn, and particularly with the
whole annual crop we see n reason why it
should take on SO i.lany airs; but we sup
pose the reason is, that it goes abroad a
great deal, and. like other travelled gentle.
men, rather looks down upon the stay at
homieties. Why, the animals slaughtered
are worth quite as much as the cotton,
bringing some 1872, 900, eco dollars per an
mum! One of the most useful Of our crops,
wine, is yet in its infancy, the West having
made only a little over I,0O0, 600 of gallons
in 1851. worth about 500, 0OO dollars, but
the cultivation is increasing, and in a few
years will be immense, especially When
New Mexico and California, which are adj
mirably adapted to it. shall 30 into the bust
ness.
No portion o fthe trade Of the Union has
grown more rapidly, within a few years,
than that connected with the steam marine.
The total number Of steam vessels now EN-
ploy ed on our coasts is 625, with n tonnage
of 212, 500, and employing 1l,77O men as
off cers and crew. In the interior the mum
Der of steam vessels is 7G5' with a tonnage
2o4, T95, and employing 1867 men,
One whole steam marine, therefore, amounts
TO 1860 vessels, with - tonnage of All, 226,
manned by 60, SIT men, ana carrying, be.
81 des freight, about 10000, 900 of passen-
gers every year. 10 this vast travel only
T5O lives were lost in 1852-far too many.
but not so many as some people, who fancy
every steamboat a p~owderhouse. are prepa-
red TO expect.
The amount of money Paid into the Trca-
sury of the United States, as duties on for.
goods, in the year 1852. Was at New
York %, 772, $50 dollars, and at Philadel-
3,715, l26 dollars, At Boston $780,
500 dollars, and at Baltimore LOGS, $50
dollars. 1t will be seen that New York
more than trebles all tho other cities.
There are IL, sos, miles Of railroad in
operation in the United States, and 1863
n progress; more than in all the rest of he
world. Of those operations. three-f, urths
IRE in the f &c states, and almost the same
proportion holds good in respect to those
are projected.