The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1857-12-08
From the Richmond Dispatch.
MATERIAL PROGRESS OF ENG
LAND.

LAND.
A Northern contemporary remarks that
the material progress of the United States
has always been so great that it is difficult
to realize that any other country, even
Great Britain, has advanced also. Our
new settlements extend so rapidly, rail-
roads multiply; cotton, wheat and corn
crops increase at such rate; population
swells and wealth accumulates so rapidly in
orr cities. that we fancy there is no coun-
try under the sun to compare to our own.
Yet Great Britain has thriven in some re-
spect< even faster. Her commercial ma
rine, within the last four years, has been
more prosperous than ours. Her manufac-
lures have enriched her more rapidly. In
but few things, indeed, does she fall behind
US !; and her inferiority in these she owes
probably to her dense p"pula:-ol AMI her
aristocratic form of government. Liver
pool grows nearly as fast as New York !;
London accumulates wealth even faster
side of the Atlantic, the British people are
hardly less so, i'll spite of many disadvan-
tages.
Nor does this prosperity show any sign
of diminution. unless the present monetary
troubles shall put Il check to it suddenly.
On the contrary, trade exhibits u steady
increase, pauperisrn decreases, the accumu
lations of the PEOPLE in wealth move on in
IN or;tl,ont;oo1
The first nine months of the present
year exhibit an increase in exports over
the first nine months of 1856, of fifty five
millions of dollars, and of one hundred and
thirty millions of dollars over the CORES
ponding months of 1855. The increase, in
fact, over 1855, is nearly so per cent. The
shipping entered inwards and outwaI is dis
plays an even more favorable result. In
the first nine months of 1855 it was eleven
thousand four hundred tons in the first
nine months of 1856, thirteen thousand two
hundred and sixty-fve tons; to the first
nine months of 1857, fifteen thousand three
hundred tons. Transports, with govern
ment stores are not included in this esti-
mate, SO that no portion of this increase
has arisen from the war. The United
States, pre- sperous as they have been. connot
show better balance sheet than this.
1.-The welfare of the people at large has
advanced in proportionate ratio. On the
first of July 1857 the population of Eng
land and Wales, according the Registrar
General, was two hundred and fifty nine
thousand more than on the first of July.
1856. The number of paupers, during the
statistical year. which ended in the middle
of 1857, had diminished by more than
twelve thousand, decrease of over one per
cent. In able bodied paupers, the falling
off was even greater, or nearly three per
cent. showing how much easier employ
ment was to be had than formerly. Il
would be well for US to ponder over these
facts. They show that the thoroughness
with which everything is done in Great
Britain does not retard her prosperity, but
that she grows, IN most material affairs,
this, where nothing hardly is thoroughly
done. Perhaps we might learn lesson. if
we chose, from this very progress. The
time has come, probably, when it would
pay us to initiate England, in more than
one matter connected with material ad-
vance,"
THE central AMERICA" CATAsTRO-
PHE.-The committee appointedto examine
as to the cause of this disaster have report
ed at some length--their conclusions being
in brief, that negligence and want of pro-
per organization of the crew, together with
the independence of the several departments
of each other, were at the bottom of the
calamity. There appears to have been no
material defect in the vessel or machinery
the leakage ascribed to other causes.
The deck pumps were not in working order,
and those connected with the donkey, en-
CINE were IN questionable condition.
A MODEST REoUEsT.-In the Tennessee
Senate, Mr.. Goodpasture presented a
memorial from citizens of Scott county,
asking to be released from taxation on &C
count of the hard times, and that the ap-
prop riation of from $4,000 to $4,000 be
made for their benefit.
WESTERN HOG TRADE.--At Chicago
there was a good demand for hogs at 81 to
81 80 per cwt. gross. At Springfield Illi-
nois, small sales at So to So % gross. at
Louisville 5000 have been killed, and they
are worth about S. cash, net; at Nash
vile. dealers are offering from 81 to S. t.; at
St. Louis, few days ago, 200 head brought
81 so per cwt.; and at Madison sales are
making at 81 gross, with IL months inter
est.
CASE OF TRANsFUsIoN.-Tha delicate
and interesting operation of transferring
blood from one person to another has again
been successfully performed by MrJ. Wheat
croft, surgeon of Cannock, assisted by Nj
J. Blackford and Mr. Sam'l Wheatcroft