Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-02-26
Growth of the United States.

Growth of the United States.
The Washington Globe contains an able
article on the growth Of the country during
the past year. From 1t we condense some
interesting statistics:-
During the past year the prosperity Of
the United States has received an unexam-
pied development. The various sources o.
true national wealth, the cultivation of new
lands, the increase of the crops, the extern
sion of manufacturers, the working of
mines, the import and export trade, foreign
and home commerce, the construction and
working of railroads, the growth and estab
lishment OF cities, have all wonderfully in
creased, and have added largely to the capi-
tal of the country. The transactions ol die
New York Clearing House for 1856, show
an increase of 81, 100000 ,0Oo or thirty per
cent on those of 1855, making hestotnl for
Tie year amount to the enormous sum of
$500 100000. The transactions of the
London Clearing House in 1889, amounted
$4,772, 100000. They amount now TO
probably treble that sum. Ifso, the bust
ness of New York is equal 10 half that Of
London. In the imports and exports of
New York, there has been an increase of
33 per cent on those Of 1858. The increase
in railroad traffic has been from twenty TO
thirty per cent. 3
Thiriy-one millions of acres of land have
been sold and appropriated; but the public
lands yet remaining unsold in the Terrific
ries are equal in extent to The present thir-
ty one States, or more than all Europe, ex-
cept Russia. Farming and industrial pro-
ducion has kept pace with other depart
lnents. lis approximate value, as estima-
ted by the Secretary Of the Treasury, from
| the returns of the census of 1910 and that Of
1850, was, during the year 1856, about
/ 50 600, ,000,000, or triple that of $780,
The value of the entire property of the T.
nited States, taxed and not taxed, he esi-
mates at $ll,3l7, 100000, exclusive of the
public domain. He estimates the popula-
tion at $26, ,312.
About 5000 miles of railroad were con-
structed in 1856; there are now 10000
miles of telegraph wires in opsration.-
There have been constructed two hundred
and twenty-one steamers, and seventeen
! hundred and three sail vessels, with an ug-
gregate tunnoge of 459, 1894 tuns.
| Notwithstanding this large addition, tie
official lists show decrease in the mer-
chant marine on that of 1855. During the
year, the Federal Government has reduced
its debt 10 twenty-five per cent. 1t now
amounts to $4,000, 600, with residue in
the Treasury of $22 900 900, after The pay
mcnt of all demands. Our trade with Can
ada, under the new treaty, has increased
from $50, 100000, in 1853, TO $50,000,-
600 in 1856. The gold mines Of California
have supplied us altogether with about
$l7O,00O,000 in gold. While the country
has thus improved, villages have been
transformed into cities and cities have grown
by The construction of buildings uuequaled
by any built in former years. In four
years, the number of potofiices have in
creased twenty-five per cent, or from 2O,-
col in 1862 To 25,565 in 1856, showing
the creation Of 1864 new ceners OF popu-
lation in that short period.
Thus, year after year, are the United
States advancing in material prosperity, as
a natural result of the development OF their
boumdlcss resources.