Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-02-21


ing growth Of 3opcr cont. The public
debt has been diminished by Sal 900, COO
which reduction is $10,0O0,O0O more
than the entire present debt: $lu, 900, ,OoO
TO sl5,0U0,UUo have been paid out to re-
deem at 10 and l6 per cent premium
government stocks held in Europe, and
$lo, 100000 have been paid to Mexico
for the Mesilla purchase, a territory equal
in extent to some European kingdoms,
that of Bavaria, for instance. Our trade
with the British Colonies of North Am
erica, under the new treaty, has risen
from 800, ,0or>,yJy,n 1853, 10 $5O,O00,-
900 in 1856. The railroads, which then
{ scarcely counted Is 900 miles, have ad
ded 81 per cent TO their length, and now
number over "a, 600 miles.--The 5170,-
COZ, 600 from the California mines have
served to pay off the balance of trade,
and to leave a reserve in the country ad-
I equate TO the wants of circulation. This
reserve is found by deducting from tie
California gold product the nett export
of specie, leaving Sal 200, 900 to be ad-
ded to The metallic circulation of 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,O0O 200 acres, being
equal to the area OF the State Of Ohio, or
10 that of the Kingdom of the TWO Sici-
lies; the total amount OF sales and grants
is 81, 1000 acres, equal TO The aggrc
gaze areas of the States or New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio, or to the British
Isles and Belgium united While these
Improvements were progressing in the
agricultural sections, villages were be-
coming, as our Western readers we'll
know, transformed into towns, and the
towns were being enlarged and improved
with buildings OF richer and more sub
snn,ial character than those erected Il
few years ago. To convey an idea OF
;he rapidly wi.h which villages grow
1 up, We viii mention the increase of 25
per cent in four years in the number OF
posC-offiees in tbe United c.aJes, say 25,-
sos in 1856, against 2J,9Jl III 1889.
which ind;eates tie creation OF 1 664
Tst s5frr =, y4 70 - ; A,i,alia, j, y.
y such as we have been unfolding, de-
yeloped under tte circumstances thai
have marked the last three years, seems
to establish that this country is now, in
a purely financial point of view, indie
pendent of Europe, and that it can with
out suffering, dispense with the direct
use Of foreign capital.
Such is some of the evidences of our
national prosperity. The hand of God is
in it; he has his own good purposes for
US, and for the world through Us. This
is why we have so elabora;ely referred TO
it. Turn not away from these discus
sions, Christian reader, as irrevelant to a
religious sheet: they have higher sig
niiicance here and for you than they
could have in commercial article
for the eyes of men on Wall street.
q Destiny" is marching in its majesty
!, over the boundless field of this continent,
and is here forecasting, perhaps, the his
tory of the race. You and your children
find yourselves in the mobile army" Of
, "the people," who follow in the trium-
phant march, and your God moves before
the host in pillar of cloud by day, and
of fire by night. Lift up your eyes be-
; hold and bless his mighty presence, and
/ see to it that the moral responsibilities OF
of life under such circumstances, are
not forgotten.
When we remind ourselves that 50
, much of this popular increase is from
abroad, that Europe has been in an eek
odus' toward our shores, that its igno-
rance and vice, wave oyertorping wave,
roll in upon the land, the danger assumes
, a startling aspect. In about forty five
! years from this day, our population shall
/ equal he present aggregate population
OF England, France, switzerland, Spain
/ Portugal, Sweden, and Denmark. A
step further in the calculation presents 4
t prospect still more surprising and i'm
!, pressiye IN about SERENITY .fce gears 1--WE
use exact terms. for we reckon by exac
J data from to-day, this mighty mass 0
! commingled peoples will have swollen t,
: the smpendous aggregate Of two hundred
and iorty-six millions-equalling the pre-
sent population OF all Europe. Accord
|, ing to the statistics of life, there ar,
hundreds of thousands of our presen
. popplatlon--one twenty ninth al least
who viii witness dis truly grand result
What have you, friends of education an,