Des Arc citizen., 1860-01-04

| TIE NORTH AND THE SoUTH.--Re-
 cent events which have presented them-
 selves to the minds of the South, having a direct tendency to the dissolution of the | Union, has directed the attention of all parties to the strength, commercially and
 otherwise, of the two great divisions of
 the country. Northern AboIitionists have
 boldly proclaimed that the South could not
 exist, in any point of view, as separate confederacy. The Washington Consttau-
 tion publishes a statement, furnished it from official sources, which shows the amount of produce exported from the Uni ted States during the last fiscal year, and contains many interesting facts in refer ence to the exports of the two sections of the Union.
 " From this statement 1t appears that the whole amount of produce exported from the
 United States for the fiscal year 1S5S-9, ex- elusive of specie, amounted, in value, to two hundred and seventy ght million three hun dred ninety-two thousand and eighty dollars.
 Of this amount the free States furnished in productions exclusively their own, l. c., fish, oils, coal, and ice, five million two hundred and eighty-one thousand and ninety-one dol lars.
 The slave States furnished in productions, exclusively their own, one hundred and eighty eight millions six hundred and ninety-three thousand four hundred and ninety-six dollars, as follows: in cotton, one hundred and sixty one millions four hundred and thirty-four ,,t, ,,l tIrak1 l1l lars; in tobacco, twenty one millions seventy four thousand and thirtv-eight dollars; in rosin and turpentine, three millions five hun dred and iifty-four thousand four hundred and sixteen dollars; in rice, two millions two hun dred and seven thousand one hundred and forty-eight dollars; in tar and pitch, one hun dred and forty-one thousand and ffty-eight dollars; in sugar, one hundred and ninety-sx thousand nine hundred and thirty-fve dollars; in molasses, seventy-fve thousand six hundred and ninety dollars; and in hemp, nine thou sand two hundred and seventy-nine dollars.
 The free and slave States together furnish ed, in productions common to both, eighty four millions four hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred and ninety-three dol lars; the slave States, according to the esti- mate Of the Consultation, furnishing one-third of this amount.
 Thus it appears that the slave States fur nish, principally in products of slave laSnr, more than two-thirds of the exports of the United States; that their exports of produc- tions, exclusively their own, are worth thirty or forty times as much as those Of the so- called free States; and that their exports are worth more, even if their great staples of cotton and tobacco are left out of the calcula- tions."
 Commenting on the foregoing, the Au- gusta (Georgia) ConstHutionaiist says:
 s'This is the exhibit which stubborn figures make of the relative wealth of the two sec tons of the Union, as it is illustrated in their exports. It shows that the foreign commerce of the Union, and the prosperity of the manu- featuring North, are both based upon the pro- ducts of the slave labor of the South; that the South is the most independent and prosperous section of the Union, despite ''the bighting curse of slavery" and indefinitely better able than the North flo meet the IF sults of A dlssn- 1