, 1862-06-19

Total -101 .Sl9,596
The proportions may not be entirely &C.
curatc, but they suffice for the main purpose,
which is to bring boldly out the one, giyan-
cereal wealth, yearly tloated On these waters,
NOW exceeds 100, Cox, 900 Of bushels. It is
difficult to present distinct idea Of queu-
tity go enormous Suffice to to say that the
pcr.ion Of it {ahout tWo-thlrds) moving to
market on the Erie and Oswego canals re-
qulFes line Of bouts more than forty miles
long to carry it. The wholc hundred millions
Of bushels, it placed in q single line Of barrels
Of fire bushels each, would span the A,neFi-
can Continent from New York to sau Fran
cisco, With remnant nearly long enough to
cross the Pacific Shall not the American
fleets. which yearly carry Z mass Of food SO
enos nous, be protected from maratfu3e as
sar;t md devastation?
TIE limits OF the present communication
forbid the full consideration Of the transcend
cnt Importance Of cereal wealth, so immense
ard capable Of such enormous increase, It's
existence is new fact il, the history OF man.
In quantity, it already much exceeds the
whole export Of cereals from the Russian Em-
plre, the great compeer Of the United States.
Under the comprehensive and magnanimous
craftsmanship OF that truly continental pow
CT, Il magnificent system Of canals and river
improvements, and railways, steadily prose-
cutcd through every political yic!ss1tnde, from
the days Of Peter the Crest down to the reign
| VI lnE t{tEElk E1AlEuAElEu GHHETUEs EUu-
I meets its vast agricultural interior with the
| octsn and the Mediterranean, through the Bal
tic, the White, and the Black aess-enc'rellng
the Empire with points OF agricultural export,
stretching round from Odessa to Klsa and
St. Petersburg, and thence away to 4rchaugt:l
aud yet its total yearly export Of cercals
was, in 1854, but 81, ,0D0, eco Of bushels, and in
| 1857 only ~ ,00d, eco, being little less than
halt TIE amount carried in 1861 upon o1r Amer
! icaIl lakes.
It vas the constant aim and effort Of ancient
| Rome, even in the zenith Of its po Ter, to pro-
vision the espitsl and the adjacent provinces
from the outlaying portions Of the empire.
! The yearly crop contributed BY Egypt, under
I PieIemJ PhiIade1phus, was Il, ,0n0, ,000 bushels.
| Under the prudent administration of the En-
| neror Seyer1ls, a large store Of cntu Was accu-
| Inu1ated and kept on hand, sufficient to guard
the empire from famine for seven years. Tue
total amount thus provided was but 190, ,000, :
eco Of bushels. The product in 1862 Of ce-
reals in the Eve lake States Of Ohio, M1chi gan,
Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, was $50, 600. :
and OF Indian corn 17,o00. 600 In ten years,
as shown by the census Of 1850, it increased
to Ssh eco Zoo bushels: being Of wheat, 78,
oG0,Cc0, and corn, 2.5, ,oW'e goo, the residuea
consisting of the smaller grains.
Nor is this all 4 prospect far more grand
and national is just opening Oh the commerce
| Of the lakee. The great and long-cherished
: measure Of connecting their southwestern eT
tremity, by an adequate Water communicate IN
dirt city with the Mississippi, near its conhu
+nce With the Missouri, and thus uniting
in one yast continental system, the broaf
BASIN of the l1kes with the great network
Of nay7gahle riyezs, ou1spread for thousands
Of mics over the wide eypanse Of the grea
| | central interior Of the Unlon is noW awaiting
[ the deceion of the national Legislature, which
in view Of responsibilities SO august, nigh
IL we'll resume the significant title of '' Cont
. | mental Congress- adopted by their fathers
r Let us rot atten1pt to lift the vail from a IN
t tuse SO stupt n1ous, inevitably destined to re
pest, on jet grander scale, that immcusc ag
, rieuliusal Development around the Lakes whie|
has now become historical The rich cereal
: Of Missouri, and Iowa, and Minnesota, au
i | Kansas, States just creeping from their ers
} dies, are already numbered by hundreds c
r millions OF bushels, much Of it perishing Q
= Iastefully consumed for fuel, merely for tn
want Of 1nIs new avcrne to the Atlantic.
e The prediction In 1855 that our great lnterio
d States must eventually "beeome the com no
i g1auary Of the Un1oD, and discharge the dut
/; Of supplying subsistence to the surronndin
t com,nlnities,' - though seriou-ly qusstiane
Il at the time. i already nearly, 1t not cnire]
Il | verified. The fundamental 1aE of demand Al
o supply, necessarily causing tbs most advan'
= eet,us dis,1ibutlon- of l.bor especially in
r. continental natlon united like ours, under