New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-29

thousand million dol!sn.
With Is47, however, there came change OF this
benefcen. polcy-and the nstiOn wa called upon
Anew by the Slave Power to carry that cross of
foreign trade under which it fell PROSTATE in 1910.
Protection was repudiated. The consequences
were speedily seen in the facts that within three
years the gold and silver few out of the country
faster than il came in under the Tariff of ls42-
that manufacturing establishments were lO:ked up
or levied on-snd that skilled labor was disper.ed
seeking for bread or had joined itself to that eter
nal resource Of the desperate in America-emigrs-
ton to the West. The excess specie export Of
those three years amounted, a. is shown above, to
$4,000, 900. If to this be added SIS, 600 900 for
consumption, the reduction in those three fatal
years will be seen to be equal to the total increase
under the previous system. Circulation was eve
1where being suspended, and a crisis was close at
hand, when, fortunately for the advocates of the
system which exports food and imports goods, the
gold deposits of California we're discovered. The
quantity of gold received from this new source in
the year 1881, was more than $40 OOO, 900, of
which nearly half was retained at home. The
rate Of interest was speedily reduced, and domes-
tic commerce was reestablished. In the following
year, S37 ZOO, 900 of gold were exported leaving
with US eight or ten millions, which, added to that
we were enabled to hang on to in 1851, m,de an
addition to the currency of probably $50 OoO 900.
This produced universal life and motion. In l-52-
SO, there was still slight increase; but in the
two years following, the export Of specie was S97.
600, 900, ard if to this We add domestic consuup-
ton in the arts, that probably was fully s25.-
OOO, 900, We will have a total amount distracted
from the circulation exceeding the receipts from
oil the world. The later Treasury Reports are not
Low at our hand, and We cannot state the quantity
Of specie exported Ence the date lsst named. But,
that the steamers which 60 weekly to the ports OF
England, France and Germany, have for the last
six years carried away, and do now carry away,
the gold Of California about as fast Is it II 70
ceived, is notorious. Looking to the Union
East of the Rocky Mountains, it may well be
doubted if the effective addition to the stock OF the
precious metals remaining in the form OF coin, ex.
Deeds single dollar per head of the population
whereas, if the country had been wisely ruled, We
would have had substantially all of it not absorbed
with US Mr.. Carey estimates at from $50, 200 900
TO S35, coo, OCO; and small is that sum, it would
have produced benefcent effect in promoting the
rspidity Of circulation, had it not been that, stimuli
taneousy herewith, the indebtedness to foreign
countries for money lent and railroad iron and silk,
linen, wooden, and cotton goods bought had so
much increased, as to require an annual remittance
Al. ,hnIa of fonJ 70 oil fha
for the payment of interest alone. This bore its
inevitable fruits-doubt general distrust extensive
boarding up of money, and at last Q paralysis Of
commerce There will be no difficulty now, says
Mr. Carey, in understanding that most extraordi-
nary spectacle presented by this country to the
world-thst of a community owning one of the
most fruitful sources of the supply of money, yet
in which the price paid for the use Of money is
generally three times, and in many parts, six or
eight times great, in those countries of Europe
whch find their gold mines in their furnaces their
rolling mills and their cotton, wooden and linen fac
torres
The space which We have given to notice of
Mr. Carey's mastery treatment Of tho subject Of
Protection, and the effect upon country of its OK.
portstion of the Precious Metals compels to brew
ity in the consideration Of the other topics in his
great work. OF ths unchristi.n, and indeed the
atheistic doctrine, promulgated by Nautilus against
the poorer classes in England, Mat the reproduc-
tive energy Of the human race would eventually
exceed the supply of food, unless it were held in
check by moral restraints, and provideutsly abated
from time to time by war, pestence, and famine,
Mr.. Carey makes summary disposal. All who read
his chapter on Population, will adopt the conclu-
sion he has SO carefully arrived at that the general
law of life may thus be stated.
1.-The nervous system varies directly as the
power to maintain life
1.-The degree of fertility varies inversely as the
development of the nervous system-anm.ls with
larger brains being always the least, and those with
smaller ones, the most prolific:
The power to maintain life, and that of pro-
creation, antsgonize each other-that antagonism
tending perpetually toward the estsbIshment Of an
equilibrium" 1t is, therefore, not by moral re-
sistance and prudential restraint alone that the
ends of providental order are to be secured. law
woven into the very texture Of the organs Of repro
duction viii maintain the social harmOnies-a law
b. which mental activity, whether in literary, mill
tary, political, or trading life, is unfavorable to re-
productions self adjusting law, BY which the re-
productive power of man diminishes, as bis various
faculties are more and more stimulated into action
as employments become diversi6ed-as the So
cietsry action becomes moro rapid-as land be-
comes divded-and as be himself becomes more
free.
The conclusion of bis discussion of the subject Of
Taxation is, that Land and Labor being the ulti-
mate payers of oil contributions for the support Of
Government, the more direct the application to
them, the lighter will be the burden Of taxation
that Protection look TO increasing the value Of