New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-10-06


Some fscal statistics have recently been made
public, which We fear may have the effect OF damp
enng the ardor of the gallant Brooks Of Carolina 10
Lis high emprlse against the treasury and archives
Of the nation in the event OF majority Of the peo-
ple having the assurance to elect whom they like
President According to these Statistics had the
sack Of Washington taken place on the 10Th OF AL
gust last past. which is considered an average
time. only the paltry sum of S72,72 d would
lave been icund in Uncle Sans strong box-s tr-
fe which would hardly repay the trouble OF break
ing i. open. 1t seems that cunning old relative vi
us all never keeps much money by him where he
chief, resides but leaves it deposited in the different
uarts Of the country where it is collected. Thus 1t
nppears that the entire sum he had on deposit IN
the Slave States, on which we at the North depend
for permission to live, amounted only 10
trife over four millions while that col
lected and subject to his draft IN the
Free States lacked but about hundred thousand
dollars of twenty.one millions. The single city OF
Boston had IN hani for him on that day consider
ably more than two-thrds of the entire amount of
all the Slave Sta es, while this city held good
deal more than twice as much as they ALL so that
il appears that, when the scramble comes, we shall
have the best chance altogether, and we shall not
lie surprised if such an opportunity should work
miraculous conversion from patent Democracy OF
cur present incorruptible civic Chief Magistrate
and his compeer..
These proportions tell of the comparative Produc-
tiyeness of the two portions of the country, and OF
tine energy of their inhabitants. The city of Boston,
the capital Of region of which the only ex-
ports as Senator Preston once said are " rocks
md zee, has in crib for the nation more than all
tie Slave States put together, if we deduct the
sub Treasury at 81. Louis, which Is something over
million. We rather think, il Boston, with all
tie drawback which New-Engand soil and
climate can present, can DO so much toward taking
care of herself, that New-York and Pennsylvania
and Ohio and all the mighty West will be able to
scrape together scany subsistence, even II tie
Save States should withdraw their protection
from us and leave us 10 shift for ourselves. We
should at any rate, save the SUMS we now pay Tor
,alrying their mails-nO single Slave State but
Louisiana paying its postage bill, and she only By
the Northern merchants in New-Orleans-and also
Tor building and maintaining the fcriicstions along
tLer coasts and frontiers, which MAKE mp so large
p part of our public expenditure. SIch are some
Of the cancellations we should have to lay to our
souls in ease this calamity should oyertake U.s.
In the mean time, while Brooks is rally his
f rces and preparing to cooperate with Fillmore in
case Fremont should have the temerity to be
eected, we see that the South is still busy in laying
tlans fer the utter destruction of our Northern
business. We have long and often trembed under
tie action of her Commercial Conventions, as they
II solved and re-resoyed us into bankruptcy and
humiliation. If those Conventions never built
Zip they at least supplied wind enough to fill the
sails Of whole fleet. But though they could sup
ply wind, they could not raise it, aud so we have
escaped thus far the swift destruction with
=, hich We are threatened. There is one arti-
,e, however which We had thought We
made up to the satisfaction Of our customers
in those latitudes-and that is school-bOoks.
knowing the scupulous pains which have been
i,ken by digent publishers to eliminate from their
Publications whatever might faint the morals OF the
infant chiyalry we were surprised at seeing in The
Mar Orleans Pedyune, the other day, the assertion
that nearly every school-book contains some OF the
IDDlltll pOleOu II - Ala am thel S""Pri PDt'
NV has been cut out OF the School Readers, in
hich il had held is place mere than Fifty years; it
il 10 10 purpose that illusions 70 the Peculiar In
.itution. when they could not be avoided, were
dressed in the most decorous drapery Of words the
language could afiord; nothing short of unequiyo-
el laudation could content the fastidiou, criticism
,,stered in that Southern sky.
The Pieayune goes to the root Of the matter at
cree and proposes the great and only remedy, viz:
tie establishment OF large publishing houses in New
Orleans; "but," il goes On sadly to observe, the
time appears not to have fully arrived when j:
BE done, judging from the little inclination shown
by capitalists 10 enter upon such undertakings
j. thinks, however, they are mistaken, for that
Il ere are adv antages which would attend the pub
r.hing business in New-Oreans which would over
ar the trifirg objection that it can be done
iuch cheaper elsewhere. One Of these supericri-
It's is tie advantage there enjoyed for editing,
writing and translatng works in foreign languages
Another is that such houses would have the mpnop-
,'v of school.books fcT the Southern States. We
G. nd NOT ccnscientiously recommend the capitalists
# New Orleans. Nose caution TIE Picdyuae de-
llores Ia invest in this business with any confident
expectation of quick returns. Ii they will examine
The retur,s Of the Census and study the laws of the