The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-07-29

From statement No. 81, page 31l of the
last annual report of the Secretary of the
Treasury, it will be seen that the revenues for
the last five years preceding June 80, 1893,
derived from all sources except postAges
wac
Year Ending From Customs: Public Lands;
June 80, '54 $64 ,224, 1927 $S,470, 1883
9" '55 53,025, 794.2l l1,497 ,O49.07
$50 64,032,863 8,9l7 ,644.93
+" I" '57 63,875 ,905.05 1895, 486 "a
'58 4l,789, 620.96 3,5l3,7l5.87
Year Ending Miscen's Sources. Total Receipts.
June 80, '54 $1,107, 302.74 $73, 802, 29l. 40
" /" '55 828,531 40 65,351 ,37468
I" /" '56 1,Il6,491.8l 74,056 1899 "a
!" ,57 1903, 820.S8 6S,969,21257
/" '5S 25,O69,329.13 70.372,665.96
Aggregate total, 1852, AS, 443.85
OF this sum 1913, 724, $50 was derived from
loans. mostly during the year 1858. De-
Quoting this from the gross receipts il will
leave &c., 742, 658.77 as the average annual
income, a very large proportion of which has
been paid by the laboring people OF the free
States.
The amount Of money paid for public lands
in the free and slave States respectively for
FIVE years, from 1853 to 1857 inclusive, was,
in the free States, $24 ,O20, 1857 in the slave
States, $9,949,553.
This ratio would probably hold true for
any equal period. But during the year 1858,
in consequence Of the great financial embar-
easements, which oppressed the North more
seriously than the South, the aggregate re-
ceipts from the slave States surpassed those
from the free States. This may have been
accustomed in part by the operation OF the
graduation laws, which threw into market
large quantities of land in the slave States at
reduced prices.
The aggregate cash sales in Iowa since the
passage of the law in 1854 to June 80, 1868,
period of four years, were 6, 064 ,2O6 acres,
yielding 81 ,625 81 ,09, or an average over
81 .25 per acre. The sales in Missouri, lying
BY the side Of Iowa, for the same period,
amount to $780, 300 acres, yielding only
$4,710, 799.lo, or about ffty-eight cents per
acre.
Since the passage OF the graduation law
the sales OF public lands 10 che slave States
have not yielded en- average Of fifty cents
per acre. In the free States the average
has never fallen below one dollar per acre.
During the year ending June30, 1855, i'm
mediately following the passage Of the grad
uation law, the sales Of public lands in the
| free States amounted to more than 8 SOC, 900
acres, yielding an income to the Treasury of
the U. s. of over $3.50, 900. 10 the slave
States over !, 800, 900 acres we're sold, yield
ing about $2,594, 900, or an average Of IS
cents per acre.
The aggregate cash sales in Iowa since the
passage OF the Law 10 1854 to June 80, 1858,
period of four years, were 1904 ,2O6 acres,
yielding ST ,625, 3l1.09, or an average over
SIPS per acre. The sales in Missouri, lying
by the side of Iowa, for the same period,
amount to {, l50, 800 acres, yielding only -,
770,799l0, or about iifty-eight cents pei
acre.
4 1t would be tedious to thus classify the re.
ceipts from customs for series Of years; /
therefore adopt an estimate made by another
from which find that these receipts for the
last ten years, in the free States, amount te
about $460, 000, 900; in the slave States to
less than $50, 100000.
am aware that the amount of the receipts
at the custom house may not be conclusive oil
the relative consumption in each section oil
the confederacy; and as this tax levied on
foreign goods landed on our shores, although
collected from the importing merchant, in
the first instance, is supposed to be ultimate.
ly paid by those who consume them, it is moi
conclusive of the relative amount paid into
the.Ireasury by each. But as the transports
ton by water 10 much lower than by land, i
is fair to conclude that, all things else being
equal, goods paying duties will land at th'
port OF entry nearest their final destination
1t is therefore an important element to b,
considered in the investigation, and becomes
conclusive in the absence of manifest reason,
to the contrary. And when We are reminded
that hsrbors of Charleston, s. c., Norfolk
Va, Baltimore and Annapolis, Md, not tt
mention those on the Gulf coasts, are equal
| III n m far ~ = ho
BY New Orleons there ia uninterrupted water
communication through the great States Of
the Southwest into the very heart OF tn,
swarming population OF the Northwest /; tina
oil these principal ports Of entry on the Gul
and Atlantic and on both banks Of the Mis-
sissippi and Ohio rivers are connected b,
. long lines of railroads with the interior, il i
difficult to imagine why goods destined 70
consumption in Delaware, Maryland, Vir
ginia, the CarolinAs, Georgia, Florida, Ala
: bama, Louisans and Texas--all on the coast
should not land at their own port, as we'll y
goods intended for consumption in the int
: rior slave States Of Kentucky, Tennessee
Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri; or !
: landed at q northern port in the 6rst instance
/. for any reason whatever, Why they would no
!. 60 in bond to the nearest port Of entry, an
thus save the interest on tho amount Of tn
! duty during the transit, and tho cost Of ex
change.
: That the duty paid By the people Of the tw
sections Of the confedsvacy bears some init
: :. mate relation TO the relative amount Of i'm
= portatons in each, 10 fortified by the relativ
= number and what il known Of the habits an
!, modes of life Of the people.
4 In 1850 the entire population Of
' the free States was l3,434,02
: Of the slave States, 9,664,65
. White population Of free States, l3,330,65
i OF slave States, 6,222,4
d Slave population, 3,204,3l
> Thc s.ar.:, being more .han cne third ,
the inhabitants Of the slave States, consum
the plainest food and the ooarsest homespul
II the free colored population in these States