Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1864-12-21


trade between the United States and Great
Britain with our own official returns, it ap-
pears deducting the value of gold and silver
exchanged from both imports and exports
that:
''The average in favor of the United
States for three years before the war is $780,
. l7S, sos; for three years Of the war S42,-
| S4T, ,559, and for six years S34, 81 3, ,Oo2.
! But the true averages are OF the totals IN
Guiding gold which are:
| For three years before the war sci, no, 353
| For three years of war !: 53, 495, $50
| For six years 59,29S, ,6S5
So that by either method of calculation it
| is demonstrated that the balance OF trade
| remains during the years of war as it was
before, with the United States, and not with
foreign countries in general, nor with Great
Britain in particular.
| The second division of Dir. Blodgets S
pamphlet treats OF the increased guam
titles of important articles produced III the
United States )" and its aim Is TO show
that our actual products have not fallen off
in consequence of the war but have been
| in fact largely augmented during its contin
uance. To this view we have no other sug-
gestion to make than that, while we accept
| the evidence Of increased values, we cannot
suppose-and We do not know that Mr..
| Biodget means TO argue-that the condition
OF the country is more favorable than It
would have been had there been no war.
| That it is in advance Of what it was four
years ago is abundantly demonstrated by
the facts WHICH this pamphlet adduces
but We conceive it to be equally demonstrate
ed that this increase is not III consequence
of the war, but in spite of it. TO many
branches Of industry the war has supplied
an unwonted stimulus, but it is impossible
to suppose that on the whole the United
States would not have been richer country
if the energies of million of citizens had
been turned steadily to productive, instead
Of destructive, employments.
We can present Mr.. Blodget's figures on
ly in the most condensed form. He shows
that the eastward tonnage of all classes of
merchandise increased from 4, 734, IA tuns
in 1860 to $3.50, 424 tuns IN 1868 in which
the New York Canals, the New York Cen
tral, the Erie, and the Pennsylvania Rail
roads are included. The total tunnage in
creased in the same years from 1856, 32I to
10, 500, ,24S. Elaborate tables OF different ar
ticles moving at the different important
points are given-at Chicago, Milwaukee,
at Green Bay, at Toledo, at Buffalo. In ev-
cry case the positive increase of 1868 over
1850 and 1859 is enormous; and this wheth-
er the total tunnage, or each specific article,
be considered. AT Chicago, for instance:
''The increase of wheat is nearly twice, Of
corn nearly six times, and OF the total OF
grain much more than three times in 1868
over 1853. An unusual season occurred III
1863, reducing all grain crops largely below
the average Of years, otherwise the ratio Of
increase from 1859 to 1862 would have been
maintained
At the same place the increase in cattle,
hogs, beef, pork, lard, taliow, and bacon,
far exceeds the increase in grain. AT Mil
waukee, the increase in grain is nearly three
fold in five years. AT Green Bay, the III
crease is nearly fourfold in 1868 over 1860 |
At Buffalo the total in bushels of grain in
creased from p, OS9, 46l in 1860, to "a, 1885, |
5l0 in 1868. Pork and beef at the same
point were, in 1859 Al, 0l0, $50 lbs: in 1868, |
I49, ,42S, 1874 lbs; and at the other principal
points where this great movement Of pro- |
duce may be measured, at Cleveland, Erie,
Dunkirk, Niagara, Oswego, 0gdensburg, |
and Champlain, similar results are present
ed Their general result is shown in the
summary Of receipts at the termini of trans
portation to the seaboard, which In bushels
of -four and grain compare as follows In
1889, A, 354, 225 in 1868, ll6, 367, 54S.
The same or similar proportions of in
crease, Mr. Blodget shows to have occurred
in the production of iron, of copper, and OF
coal, while to take one article which has
been almost created as a commodity of COM
mcrce within the same PERIOD petroleum,
the increase is from $50 bbls. in 1859, to q
22O. 900 in 1860 Anthracite iron was in
1859, $50, 332 tuns; in 1868. 430, 600 tuns.
Cincinnati is an inland city, usually tho't
to be greatly dependent on Its connection
with New-Orleans, and with the planting
States generally, for the larger share OF Its
trade. 1t is therefore an extreme case OF
the depression which the war may be thought
to have produced yet its product increases
as follows In 1859, the hogs packed were
3S2. .s26 /; in 1868, COS, 457 Pork, from TO-
565, 200 lbs, increased TO l23, 5l6, III; Oats
from 557, ,70l bushels to 1904, ,430. And
though the Mississippi trade during this pc
riod has almost been annihilated, the gener-
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