New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-14

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item Of Southern 800 co., oo
This we think is rather in excess Of the truth but
if true it would give average product of about fifty
dollars per head
In comparing with this the northern product it is
TO be borne il mind that the northern farmer is in
most cases, much nearer market and always provided
with much better Of Intercourse. The corn
that is worth in Texas, fifteen cents, becomes worth
sixty cents by the time it reaches Massachusetts, and
the farmer OF the latter obtains much for one bush
ell as the farmer OF the former obtains for four and
this is true to greater or less extent with reference
TO all the products of agriculture The prices Of cot
Iou tobacco, rice, &C. above given are thar prices
at the ports from which they are exported and in
cude all charges up to the time OF shipment even to
warehouse rent and brokers' commission on the sale
10 make fair comparison of the agricultural op.
eratons of the two sections it would be required to
pursue d similar course with the North, taking the
value of their products at the place of sale and we're
this done it would be found that the excess in that
was so far greater than in quantity that it would be
safe to estimate its agricultural production at much
more than double the amount above given for the
South or at least 100000 600, making total some
what exceeding 81 20O,O0O,00O.
The South. however, makes its exchanges but once
in year, while atthe North because Of the proxm-
ity of markets exchanges repeated from month to
month, throughout the year The arket-gardener
furnishes csbbages and potatoes, peas and beans to
the man who converts them into coal. Thence they
co. as coal 10 another, who converts them into pig
iron thence to the rolling. mill whence they come out
as bsrs thence TO the shops, from which they come
out as axes, spades, plOws or steam-ebgines aud
thus there is constant and uncessng motion in the
produce of the North, ard from this motion come the
power and gain, which by our southern friends are
attributed to the Union The manufactures of Massa-
ehusetts amount to not less than S15O,0000O0 Her
shoe raDuiacture alone is 81 900 00O The manufac-
lures of The City of New-YOrk in 1850, amounted to
Sllo,UoOOCO and those of Phiadephia were fully
equal and probably greater Those of Cincinnati we're
s4obUO,UOU Pittsburgh and Cincinnati must now
considerably exceed $lOO,OO0OOO AZ the present
tine they are all very far greater in amount. The
iron trade, in It's various departments from the smet-
ing Of the ore to the finishing of the steam.ensne
cannot be estimated at the present time at less than
SlpOO0OOO, nor the coal trade a. less than S2O.O00
uoO The manufacture of ships is more than $50 OOO-
COVi books DeTspsIers, magazines. and engrayings
amount to many millions. Add TO the infinite quau-
uiy oil Manufactures scattered throughout New-Erg
lard New York, Pennsylvania, and other northern
States the mining Of lead and "copper" the enormous
product OF lumber the ice trade, the production of
houses the quantity OF labor and manure applied to
tie improvement OF land, while the South ia every
where exh.usting its SOIL and it VII readily be seen
how enormous 10 the production of the North as COM