The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-16

Total $l34 ,212 ,066
thus i viii be- seen that he vans Of cotton aiooe,
in 1850 exceeded the value OF bay by nearly two mil
lions Of dollars One twelfth Of the value OF the hay
crop-say eight millions worth-was raised at the South
This would leave the of Southern cotton at full ten
millions 0f dollars the Northern hay while the larger
value OF the tobacco, sugar hemp and rice swes
to forty five millions OF dollars ($35 34l 592 so
much for this super false estimate which the
journal has given its columns To disseminate among the
people Of New gland who have not easy access to the
real facts Similar false statements have from time TO
time appeared 10 the New York Tribune and other repub
lcan sheets, and been before shown up, 70 our
kpCSsdse II is more than probable that the statistics
OF Helpers lying book were prepared In the Ttoune
Office, the conductors using Helpers name TO father
faee figures which they would not risk the little repu
taton they have left 10 do openly.
Again, Ho,per's endorser in the Journal wrtss:--
When Mr.. Helper chss and manufactures the
hEnres svno WIN their sarcasm rcnn.gs Of e fse @ sstea
ports i0t
Tonnage Of the tree States, four 10 one" Where
tenpoyedf In carrying the hay crop foreiga ports 70
pay for importatons the cash2 No. For In the
annual report OF the Secretary of the Treasury Congress
for 1872 the succeeding year. does not appear that
porting Northern manufactured articles or the total
ports t$le2 $50 more than one hundred and ninety
two Millions the South exported more than half not
Including specie-say full one hundred millions OF the
balance ninety two Millions nearly two thirds was In
specie $s7 437 s37 and manufactures Of all kinds fur
nshed only 81 less than eight millions. THIS shows
where the tonnage Of the free States was employed, 30
far As wss paying to carry abroad exports and thus
dred and twelve millions Of foreign goods imported during
that year ($2l2 e45, ,442 We said that the hay
paid nothing Northern manufactures paid fraction
and half millions. Vegetable food raised
North and South including wheat, -four, apples,
rice and potatoes, paid nearly twenty millions sl9SS2,
6SS). Here some thsty millions all told paid by the
North in productions that year for our importatons
Where did the balance romS From the export Of
specie and Southern productions The exO0rt OF cotton
was over eighty seven millions ($S7 ,s65 1885, nearly
twice the export Of Northern manufactures and agrcutu
produce The value OF tobacco exported exceeded ten
millions more ($io, ,03l ,2Ss); OF rice nearly and
a half millions ($247l .02s); to say nothing Of the
products Of the Southern forests and making account
Of the South proportion Of the thIty millions Of
specie which exported 10 pay balances against Us,
ess by about i've millions imported during the year.
Our Northern TONNAGE them must have been employed TO
very large extent in shipping Southern cotton and to
bacco TO pay for the iron Tor Northern railroads. wool
for our Northern manufacturing esabls nts, dry
goods for the ladies' nseed sugar Coffee tes hides Ic
10 this view OF few plain facts what then must be
thought Of the sixty eight distinguished republican mem
bers Of the last Congress whe have 1orsed their
SIGNATURES this lying Helper book further excite
the North against the south, and thus make little
"beedng kansas capital for the next Presidential
paign What will commercial think of the Jour
nal and its correspondent who calls Helper the Bcuus
Of the hour the democratic party niggercrats, &C.?
SALE OF SLAVES IN PETERSBURG, VA.
sale OF fourteen slaves was made in Petersburg
the 1lth inst, including men, women and children.
They brought $l5,676.