The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-02-13

e The annualreport of the agricultural bureau
y of the United States for the past year reveal
i many interesting facts. We regret that tn
length of the tables preclude the possibility Q
!, our publishing them. According to the offieia
: statement, the total value of the vegetable pro
S ducts for 1855 was 81, 1855, I 97, 500, and TIL
!, value of the animals and animal products ar
: put down at 81 1852, oo5oo making the tota
: value of the agricultural products of the yea
e the enormous sum of SO, 7o7, 892, 500. For
: correct appreciation of the agricultural prosper
: ity of our country, it is necessary to compar
g the fruits of 1855 with the estimate of the SAM
S nature made for the years 1849 so, which, &C
e cording to the census reports amounted to onl,
: 81 ,299, ,982, showing an increase of owe
one hundred and eight per cent in five years
An incident unparalleled in the history of ma
S TONS The crop of corn for 1855 is estimated
at 6oO, O00, 900 of bushels. valued at three hun
, dred and sixty millions of dollars Wheat
: 165, 900, 900 bushels, valued at two hundred
, and forty-seven millions of dollars. Sugar
from cane, 3O5 900, 900 fbs., valued at thirty
FIVE million three hundred thousand dollars
Rice, ZOO, 600 900 lbs, valued at ten millions
of dollars. Cotton, ], zoe, 600, 900 lbs, valued
at one hundred and thirty six millions Of dol
lars Tobacco, 1870, 100000 lbs, valued at
nineteen millions of dollars. This estimate is
highly fattering to the agricultural condition
of the south The value of the cotton crop
against the estimate Of $50, s98 sos, 72O, pre-
sents an increase Of SO per cent. The value of
the rice crop has increased in the five years,
$4,000, 900, or $50 per cent. Tobacco, from
1882, 6s6 to $40, 900, 900, or nearly So per
cent Sugar from s12, 568, $50 to s55, 1856, 900.
Or 1870 per cent. Within the same time the
production of wheat at the south has increased
from s106, 4s5, 934 to $247, 500, 944, or from
1OO, 485, 944 to 1865 600, 900 bushels.
We CLEAN the following particulars in regard
to the population and products of Louisiana,
from the annual report of colonel S. F. Marks,
auditor of public accounts Total value of pro-
perty in the State, $319,854, 654; increase in
one year, $19 1858, 478; total amount of taxes
assessed, $1,000, 475; increase in one year,
$3.50, 565; acres of uncultvated land subject to
taxation, 1916, $50. This latter item is some
what singular, as the auditor in his report for
1855, set it down at 5, ago, 254 acres, and the
increase in cultivated land is only a few thou
sand acres. The amount ofland planted in SUI
gar cane is put down at 346, 2O5 acres; in cot
ton, Sal, 912; corn, 566, 944; rice, 1896; total
acres in cultivation, 1,46O, 457; being an in
crease in one year of 42,378 acres. No. of
hogsheads of sugar produced, 561 $50; barrels
of molasses, Ga, 376; bales of cotton $40, 585;
bushels of corn, 9,915 ,75o; bbls of rice, SO, 400
Total population, 575922, viz: free whites,
2O9 626; free colored, 90, 49, slaves, 252, 693.
This shows decrease of 10 900 from the audi
tors preceding report; although there appears
to be an increase of free negroes. The report
was made up from the returns of the assessors
Of the various parishes during the year 1855,
and the totals of agricultural products of course
belong to the previous year. The information
is not worthy of much attention, as, like all
other State matters in Louisiana, it is general |
ly inaccurately and carelessly attended to. A
Of the reports for 1855 and 1856,
will show no marked progress has been made
in developing the resources of the State. In
some productions there has been falling off.
The OLD SoLD1ERs--The convention of old
soldiers of the war of 1925, which reassem-
bled at Washington, on the 9th January, adopt
ed the following among other resolutions:
Cd. Resolved, That we have witnessed with
pleasure the efforts now making in congress for
the final settlement and payment of our revolu
tionary debt. We consider that our govern
ment is under the most solemn obligations to
carry out the promises of the continental con-
gress, as contained in the resolutions of October
81, 1880; January 7, 1881; and March 9Th,
1885, by allowing to the officers of the revoiu-
tionary army the half pay for life to which they
were entitled under those resolutions, for the
of which the faith of the nation was
pledged, and all those senators and members
who have taken an active interest in behalf of
the officers of the revolution, their widows and
are entitled to the thanks and graft
tude of the country. . .-
Senators slidell and Benjamin have given the
measure hearty approval, and we trust that
the hon. John NJ Sandidge will also support it.
The old solders-the men who defended and
watched over our country in its infancy-de
serve to be rewarded and cared for.
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We are indebted toMr. T. B. Peterson, lO2
Chestnut street, Philadelphia, for copy of the
holy Tree" Dickens new Christmas and
Newly Years Story for 1856" It has been re-
marked by one of the ablest reviewers of the
day that, 'the productions of no other writer,
living or dead, have been SO generally read and
admired by all classes as those of Charles Die
kens," and We believe no one will dispute the
therefore it would be useless to re-
the new candidate for public favor.