Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1857-03-10

place us, in this respect 'n immova-
Bile basis. There are SO n HAT believe
otherwise, and who act th< ft of alarm
lists at every European cys hat our pro-
gress during the three yea since the in
ception of the Crimeall Stopped the
current of European cap tDward this
country, deserves attention The facts are
so demonstrative as to lea> no doubt for
reasonable man. Dur fbese three
years our foreign trade ia creased from
$499 ,ouO, 600 to $642. .oC loo, being a
growth of 80 per cent III. public debt
which viii % ssdassieai "a, ., s6ofs than.
the entire present debt; $4,000, 900 to
$15, ,OO0 have been paid out to redeem
at 10 and 16 per centpremium government
stocks held in Europe, and SIC, ,ooO,O
have been paid to Mexico for the Mesilla
purchase, territory equal in extent to some
European Kingdoms, that of Bavaria, for
instance. Our trade with the British Col
onies of North America, Under the new
treaty, has risen from 800 ,000, 900 in 1853,
to $50, ,OOO,O 900 in 1856. The railroads.
which then scarcely counted 1000 miles,
have added 50 per cent. to their len 9Th,
and now number over $4,000 miles. The
$l7O, 900, 600 from the California mines
have served to pay off the balance of trade
and to leave reserve in the country ade-
uuate to the wants of circulation. This
reserve is found by deducting from the
California gold product the net amount of
the specie exports, say Sl7O, 900, 900 re-
ceived from the mines, less $129, ,OoO, 900
net export of specie, leaving $S41 ,OOO,O00
to be added to the metallic circulation of
d the country in three years. Our tonnage
has been increased 100000 tons, say 25
per cent. The settlement of new lands,
to Judge from the sales of public lands,
must cover some 27,000,00O acres. being
equal to the area of the State of Ohio, or
to that of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies;
the total amount of sales and grants is 81,-
800, 900 acres, equal to the aggregate areas
of the States of New York, Pennsylvania.
and Ohio, or to the British Isles and Bel
gium united. While these Improvements
were progressing in the agricultural sec
tons, villages were becoming, as our Wes-
,, tern readers well know, transformed into
towns, and the towns were being enlarged
and improved with buildings of a richer
and more substantial character than those
erected few years ago. To convey ar
idea of the rapidity with which villages
grow up, we will mention the increase o
, 25 per cent in four years in the number o
post-offices in the United States, say 25,
, sos in 1856 against 90, ,901 in 1852, which
indicates the creation of 4664 centres o
population in the short space of four years
o A state of prosperity such as we have beer
unfolding, developed under the circum
stances that have marked the last three
h wears, seems to establish that this country
q is now, in purely financial point of view
: independent of Europe, and that 1t cal
: without suffering, dispense with the direc
# use of foreign capital.
S Such are some of the evidences of on
= national prosperity. The hand of God i
It in it.; he has his own good purpose for u
a and for the world through us. This
/; why we have so elaborately referred to ii
e Turn not away from these discussions
o Christian reader, as irrelevant to a relig
u ious sheet; they have higher significanc
!. here and for you than they could have /
= a commercial article" for the eyes of me
n on Wall-street. "Destiny is marching i
Of its majesty over the boundless field of thi
If continent, and is here forecasting, perhap
ID the history of the race. You and you
3 children find yourself in the "noble army
d of ''the people," who follow in the triun
l. phant march, and your God moves befol
ID the host in pillar of cloud by day, and {
er fire by night. Lift up your eyes, behol
e, and bless his mighty presence, and see
> it that the moral responsibilities of III
I'd under such circumstances, are not forgot
e. ten.
} We are not yet done with our fignre
ct though we take leave of our mercanti
IS data and authorities. The most importal
ay statistics await our consideration, those
o. our population. Such are their moral su!
ur gesLiveness, that we know not whether
es rejoice or tremble over them. We haI
on discussed them in their moral bearing her
i'd tofore, but this article would be withol
on its chief lesson were we not to summc
en- them up again, in their gigantic shape
d, to this discussion. Upon the religious ci
he izens of the country-the churches-d
m wolves almost exclusively the work of pr
IL viding for the mental and moral wants
lst the country.
d, In less than half century from this da
h more than ono hundred millions of hum
ast souls will be dependent on these provisio
u for their intellectual and moral nutrimer
lie They bear now no adequate relation to
ia, necessities of the land. Our larger col
.ry munities are continually degenerating; o
new territories make but dubious mo
to progress. Ask yourself, then, the questi
ice Christian citizen, if, after more than t.
mt. centuries of religious and educational
,ur forts under the most auspicious circul
av- stances of the country, we have but pi
Ib- TALLY provided for less than TWEEN ty-sev
ms millions, how shall we in only fifty yea
zen meet the immensely enlarged moral wal
md of nearly four times that number-ol
aid hundred milLionsS Our rapid growth
ra- momentum which will bear down a
ars overleap all the ordinary Instructions
stle population. We cannot want work,
lis cannot want bread; and where these ex