Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1853-05-27
MISCELLANEOUS.

les STATISTICS.-An article in a late
number Of the New York Post presents The following very
interesting statistics, compiled from an appendix 10 d report
of the Secretary of the Treasury 10 the is Senate, on the
Colonial and Lake trade Of The United States:
Our average imports from 1921 10 1926, specie included
were $50, s7S, SAC; from 1913 10 1852 they were $751; 500 579,
showing mat they have more than doubled IN mlt!y years
Our average imports from 1921 10 1896 were soy 439 IS5, aud
from ls4s TO 1852, sl75, 943, $50 In 1921 The Tonnage OF The
United States was only l.29S,955 lous; 10 1852 il was
4,l3S,44l tons. showing tLut it has more than tfeoied IN
thirty years. Next to grea; Britain, we have a larger ton
mage than any other nation in The world, and IN he years,
at the present rate of increase, We shall surpass Great Bri.
lain. Y,
milions OF dollars, of which only about Sic, eOO OOO ae
sent abroad, leaving 81. 5000 600 10 be consumed at home
and interchanged among The States. Al leas! souu,0UO,O0O
is thus interchanged between the States oi the Uninn.
The total debt vi the several States in 1851, was
s20l, b4l .624, which was less by some millions Than j. had
assessed in the same States was 81, 965, lag, 4O7, the real
value being, however, 81 .O65, lo7 ,779-a pretty good security,
we think. tor their debts, whether owing AT home OF abroad.
The total population ut the villages, Towns, and cities oil
the United States is only 100000, while The rural populn-
tion, ".he honest peasantry their %countty's pride" is
and Baltimore contain a population Of l,2l4,00O, the amount
of whose real and personal property Is SIO2,00O,OOO, or S5I6
each. The property Of the rural population is 1882. 100000,
or ABOUT sl20 each.
From returns from the agricultural crops it appears that
we raise annually SLAB 100000 in wheat, 1891. 200 goo in 10,
dian corn, $50, 215 700 In hay $40. SAC, 600 in oats, s73. l2o, UOu
in Irish potatoes, and l29,OUU OUO IN cotton; the whole crop
being 81 1852, $50, 0i2.
The animals slaughtered are worth quite as much as the
cotton, bringing some Sl93, O0O, 900 per annum. One of the
Inoat naeful OF our creps-%ine-is yet in its infancy, the
West having made only a little over 81. DOC, 900 of gallons in
1851, worth about $500, 600, but the cultivation is increas.
ing, and in a few years will be immense, especially when
New Mexico and California, Which are admirably adapted
20 il, shall go into the business.
No portion of the trade Of The Union has grown more ra.
pidly within u few years than that connected with The steam
marine. The total number of steam vessels now employed
on our cr1st is 625, with a tonnage of PIP $500, and employ.
ing ll,773 men as officers and crew. In the interior the
number of steam vessels is 765, with q tonnage Of 2O3,7 25.
and employing Ii, COZ men.
Our whole steam marine. therefore, amounts 10 1890 yes
sells, with a tonnage of All 226, manned by 1887 men, and
carrying, besides freight, about 10000, UUO Ut passengers
every year. In This vast travel, only $50 lives were lost in
l6b2-far TOO many, but not SO many as some people, who
fancy every steamboat a powder-house, ae prepared TO ex-
pect.
The amount Of money paid into the Treasury Of the Uni
ted States, as duties on foreign goods, in the year 1852, was
at New York S25. 772 $50; at Philadelphia. So. 7lo, l26; at
Boston, SC, 2250, 5SS; and at Baltimore, 81 ,063. $50. IL will be
seen that New York more than trebles all the other cities.
There are 2,60S miles Of rail road in operation in the
United Siates, aud II 6l2 in rrogress-more than in all the
rest of the world.