Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1858-02-09
NO. 6.

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I Fair, 14ss 1885 Ia.
YoRz-cLAssIrIcArIoS, JASrARr l, 1855.
Uplands. florida. Mobile New Orleans
and Teas
81. $.5$."::: $$::::::: Fair. 3: &: 4: g g 8: 8.
The falling off in price is twenty-five per
cent from last wear. Admitting that it goes no
lower than the average of the last five preceding
years and that the same quantity is exported az
last year and your receipts Will be, from cotton.
SOS. .6SI ,S95.
The falling off in PROVISIONS and breadstuffs
will largely exceed, in proportion, the loss or
cotton For the past three or four years our ex-
Eperis of breadstuffs and provisions have been
largely IN excess OF previous years, the result N
the main of the Russian war whereby the ports
of the Baltic and Black sea were closed, and
that greah ahd principal source of supply cut
OF, leaving this country TO supply the dehcien-
cy. That cause Is removed ana all the grain
ports OF Europe are now open and their produce
tIons in free competition with ours In addi-
tIon TO this. all those European countries that
have been purchasers of breadstuffs from us
were last year blest with most abundant har-
vest. The result see not only the greatly
diminished quantity wanted, but also decline
IN price of nearly fifty per cent. Ii, then, we
allow that the quantity exported viii reach
seventy-tive per cent. of last year. and that the
prlce has declined forty per cent the result
Will he that shall export breadstuffs and
provisions this year to the amount of S33 ,600,-
332
49, / ne next largest article OF export Is tobacco.
ne ne quaa'ity exported last year was about six
Ibiit"n collars greater than any previous year,
which Ia never before exceeded Sl4 ~ 46S.
no" itr the quantity tXporied tins year VIII
vary from last, L have had no very good means
Oh Judging out comparison OF last years prI-
ees Win the present, at Baltimore. the great to-
bacco mart, shows falling off of thirty or forty
per cent ana the greatly reduced prlce abroad
leau7 eau 10 Ihe heIieI thaI diminished quantity
WI oe exported tmi' year out allowing that
there Is not. 'he iallInS on IN plce Will reduce
'ic value VI oIi eApo'' vi 'liiS edI twenty -nNe
per cent rom last.
INC Naiue OF rice exported snail put
down the same as last year and also all other
',lou5h iV must oG apparent thae several
ouSi' 70 nc ueuuCtcH' anu our eN ports VIII loot
up IS ioiloWs
Exports of cotton, SOS. .6s5 sos
Exports Of breadstufs and provisions, a3Goos3i
Exports of rice. l,ts.,G,o : 5,,91o
Exborts of AM other articles "a -o" 20
- -o-,oo
Total exports, slSe77s,537
The above will represent our ability Ia pay
f'r lmporlationS for the year ending 30th June
next and all that We buy beyond that must
either run IN debt for or still further reduce our
limited amount of coin.
have net time to take mp and crlticIsc the
estimates from the saics OF the public lands for
the year ending June 30, lS19, and viii only
-
mated al least one and 4 half millions.
There IS one other view OF the Secretary's fig-
urIHg that L desire to present, and then / leave
the subject. 1t appears that, under our cxtrar-
agant lmportatious of last year the amount con-
suned per capita was 50 ID. The Secretary
estimates that our importatlons Will increase tJ
the rate of ten per cent. per anuum and that
our lmportatIonS VIII reach $4,000, 600 worth
OF dutlable goods for the year ending June 30,
leyJ; and a, under the new tariff, the goods
not paying duty will reach at least one fourth
The amount OF those paying duty, the total Il
mount OF imported goods for that ell if the
9tcEe'''IF Is fiSnf' W"iid reach Sio23o0tUp- :
If You would add to that the Secretary esti-
MAJ" "l increase IoT me ten years thereaiter you
VIII hHu 'hat' III looJ' we snail import about
twelve hundred million dollars worth of mer-
chandIse, which, making all due allowance fer
Ihe increase OF our Popuiatlon' would give about
thlr,N GoiiafS Tor each man. woman and child
IN the united Sta'es' b-atk or white. or more
than three tunes The present amount consumed.
content myself by stating tins without COM
meat-
- tHtH, ny eStiihi'tcS are AT All correct, they
disclose the Tact OF a deficiency OF over nIIe
millions Tor this year and twenfy-slX millions
ioT next year PROVIDED you keep your expenses
within the estimates, which, In view of the af-
ialrs OF Utah, Kansas, and Central America,
which you have on your hands, nobody believes
You Will do. If gentlemen on the other side of
the House expect 10 make up the deficiency bv
borrowing, let them say 50 at once The coun-
try Is impatient 10 KNOW What the p"licy OF the
Government Is to be-whe:her you intend to
pay YOU SO, or saddle your eXtravaganc: on
postcrity-
Speaking for myself alone, have to say that.
while hold seat here, It must be an extraor-
dinarv emergency that can induce me to vote
for any scheme to raise money. unless a method
for It's speedy pay rncut shall be at the same
time adopted. II free trade and direct taxation
Is TO be the policy bring it forward. If YOU in
tend to depend oa lmpoirs for revenue, then fix
vour duties at once at such a rate Will give
the required revenue; but do not leave the
country cropping IN It's present state of uucer-
taiuty
Upon Won. gentlemen OF the other side of the
TIorsn GeIoprs the responsibility of TIN, oues-
ton Of currency and revenue. The Republican
- Of This House though rerreseuti1ra Iarre