The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-02-23

Wonderful GroRTth and Resources
Of the Halted States.

OF the Dntsed States
The following Summary Of the Lead
ing facts in the report Of the American
Delegate 70 the international Statistical
Congress, ct Berlin-HOn. s. B. Roggles-
is worthy Of the widest Circulation, aud
viii st once crafty snd interest Che
reader;
= During the last go years, while the
population Of France has increased but
q per cent, and that Of England III
per cent, Prussia increasing 70 per cent.
Ia IS years the increase IL the United
States has been 500 per cent
The food-produeing Western States,
embracing an ares Of 282 134 688 acres,
form, says the report, an immense nat
ursl garden, in > salubrioas and desiFs-
bic portion Of the temperate zone, into
which the swelling stream Of population
from the ol6ar Atlsalic States and from
Europe has steadily flowed during the
last decade, increasing It's previous pop
uistion from 5 403 sos 70 8 957, 800, an
accession Of 3 .554, 035 inhabitants, gain
ed By the peaceful conquest Of nature
fully equal 70 Che populstion Of SilesiA,
which cost Frederick the Great the seven
years war, and exceeding that Of Scot.
land, the subject Of struggle for centu-
ries.
The rapid influx Of population into
this group Of States increased the guam
tity Of the improved land, thersby
meaning farms more or less cultivated,
within their limits, from $3.50, 361 acres
IN 1850 TO 81 ,826, 1856 10 1860, but leaving
residue yetio Be improved Of 230, 308,-
293 acres. The area Of 25, LAG 054 sores
thus taken ia zen yesrs from the prairie
aud the foress is equal 70 seVen-eights Of
the arabic area Of England, stated By its
political economists to be % coo 600 Of
acres.
"The area embraced in the residue will
permit & similar operAtion to be reapeat-
ed eight times SUCCESSFULLY, plainly de-
nnonstrating the capacity of this group
Of States to sxpzud their present popu-
lstion Of 1861, 900 to 81 least 1000 600,
II not 40, 600 600, of inhabitants without
Inconvenience.
"The effects Of this inaux Of popuia-
lion in increasing the pecuniary wealth,
IS well IS the agricultural products of
the States IA question are signaIlY man
ifest in the census. The assessed value
OF their resi- and personal property as
csnded from 81 116 100000 1850 70 So
1926, 100000 In 1850, sho wing q clear in
crease Of S2,s10O0000O. We can best
measure this rapid and enormous access
sion Of wealth by comparing il with an
object which all nations value, the COM
msrcial marine. The commercial tun-
mage Of the United States in 1910 was
2,160,764 tuns; in 1850 Was 1856. 434
tuus; in 1860 was 8, 1853 800 tuns."
"At $50 per tun, which is q full esii-
mate, the whole pecunisry value of the
5,358 BOB tens, embracing sll our con-
mercial fleets on the oceans, and the lakes
and the rivers, and numbering nearly
10000 vessels, would be but S267, &c.,
600; whereas The increase in the pecu-
MARY value of the States under consid-
GRAFTON. IN each year of the last decade,
was 1851 600 600. Five years increase
would purchase every commercial vessel
in the Christian world"
The capacity of these States fer the
production Of vegetable and animal food
is dwelt upon By Mr.. Ruggles with much
force. he says:
sIn the last decade their ceresl pro-
ducts increased from sos. 950. 295 bush
els, considerably exceeding the whole
cereal product Of England. and nearly, If
not quite, equal 90 that of France. In the
same period the swine, who play . very
imPortsnt part In consuming the large
surplus Of Indian corn, increased in
number from $685. 1872 TO Il, 039 352, and
the cattle from 4373,712 to 2O4,81e
Thanks TO steam and the railway, the
herds Of cattle who feed on the meadows
of the Upper Mississippi, are now carried
in four days through Is degrees Of lon
gitude, to the slaughter houses of the
Atlantic"
be adds:
at is difficult to furnish any visible
or ADEQUATE measure for mass Of cereals
so enormous as 558,000000 of bushels.
About One-fifth Of the whole descends
the chain of lakes, on which 300 YES.
sells are constantly employed in the sea-
son Of navigation. About one-seventh of
the whole finds its way to the ocean
through the Erie Canal, which has been
once enlarged for the purpose Of passing
vessels Of 200 tons, and is now under
survey by the State Of New York for q
second enlargement, 20 pass vessels of |
900 tons. The vessels called canal boats, |
now navigating the canal. exceed ,Oo0 |
in number, and IL placed in line would |
be more than so miles in length.
"a general famine is now i'm |
possible; for America, if necessary, can
feed Europe for centuries te come Let |
the statesman and philknthropist ponder
we'll the magnitude Of the fact, aud all |
it's far reaching consequences-political,
social and moral-in the increased in
dustry the increased happiness, and |
the assured peace Of the world"
In regard 10 the metalliferous deposits
of the country, Mr. Ruggles presents
some interesting statistics, and concludes i
with the following paragraph:
From the documents and other evil /
dences now before the International |
Statistical Congress, il must be apparent |
that the metalilierous regions OF the Uni !
ted States OF America are destined, sooner
OF later, 90 add materially to the supply Of |
the precious metals, aud thereby to effect
the currency Of the world, especially If
taken in connection With the capacity Of !
the aariferous regions Of Russia, Austria
liza, and British America, and the posi-
bilisy Of increased activity in The mines
McKee,"
The concluding reference, in this pas
sage, to tho possibility of increased &C.
tiFity in the mines Of Mexico, created
sensation among the French delegates to
the Congress, who subsequently, took oc-
eesion to disclaim for France any inten-
ton Of occupying Mexico permanently.
FOrney says, IN the Washington ChrOn-
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