American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1866-11-14
American Progress.

plates with wonder the STATISTICS q peru
DDS dating by thousands ofyears anterior
TO our own. With all our boasted mod
.rn advance in the arts and sciences, ne
finds that. in the numerical strength OF
armies and fleets. the costliness qt eduip'
ments, the splendor Of private palaces, as
we'll as of public temples, the vastness
and nondlousness of cities, and the stu
pendous grandeur of maa OLGA aud mon
nments. Europe, at least, was far sur
passed by Asia and even Africrn Egypt,
at times when what is now the most re-
fined portion of the modern world, was
literally bowling wilderness. In Amer
ica only do the aatic proportions OF things
Seem 10 have revived, and within the
last thirty years to have assumed incom.
parable grandeur. Commencing onr ca
reer with less than three millions OF pop
ulation, we have, within term of time
covered by the existence of human beings
still alive, attained the aggregate OF 36
100000. which, estimating intelligence
as we'll as numbers, places us as a peer
beside the greatest Power on Earth =
This mass contains, commingled with II,
some of the best elements of the Old
World gathered in by irmigraslon' In
the ten years immediately preceding the
commencement OF this century, only about
$4,000 persons fitted from Europe 70
seek permanent home in the United
States. In the ycor 1900, our total pop
ulation was 5,305,9 925 souls according to
the Census, and from then up to 1870,
about 1874 900 migrants joined US. The
next ten years, however, brought us 3O,-
900, and between 1910 and 1880, at least
three tim s that many more came In, the
40 years ending with 1860 adding fully
$500 600 human souls to the cohorts OF
liberty-a total more than our whole
census estimate in 1900 During the
past six years, Notwithstanding the dis.
enlargement cf fierce civil war, at least
q million more have Joined us, the esti-
mate for 1866 alone being 100000 Be
tween 1850 and 1860, such was the pros
perity of the foreign born inhabitants of
our country, that, in addition to the i'm
mense capital and resources created by
them here for themselves, they were able
to remit $50, 100000 in cash to their
relatives in Europe through bankers and
merchants, over and above what they
sent through mere private channels
From an excellent address delivered
recently by the Hon. John A. Andrew
before the Agricultural society of Yer
mont, af the fair held under their auspi-
ces, and those of the Agricultural Society
of New England, we condense briefly
some facts that bear directly upon our
subject from among the rich and varied
store collected by the speaker. .sE
As a. people, we have brought under
culti9TTtion more than SO 600 acres
Of virgin soil, causing our agricultural to
outstrip our numerical increase; have
completed $4,000 miles of railroad, aug,
menting the capital therein engaged
from S296,6f0, ,l4S in 1886 to 81, ,l5O,-
500, 800 in 1S60.s Within 40 years, II
States have been added to our domain,
whilethe6ndiyidual commonwealth have
in many cases exhibited the most sur
prisiDg growth. For instance, Indiana
with population Of III, 17S in 1920,
had 1,350,42S in 1860 Illinois FROM
34,l62 grew to 1TIl>951. Wisconsin
with but 5,3lS in 1880, had 766,SSl in
1860, and Missouri rose rom 66,557 to
J ,182,312.
The cash value of the farms and lands
occupied, multiplied in ratio that left
q i the other elements of increase far be-
hina. Take the distant Northern State
of Vermont as an example. The census
returns of 1850 made her falms worth
S63, ,367 ,239. Tn ten years they grew
so per cent and were computed at S9l,-
511,678. The total real estate of the
Union in the same lapse, assembled from
S3,271, ,575,426 to 63S,414,2 ,221, or
twice the former amount. Not only have
the machinery and implements used in
every species of labor augmented in mum
Der, variety and convenience, but the case
aud economy of their production have
exceeded all anticipation.
Farmers live stock have run up from S5>
100000 0tosl, 100 900, 900; the products
Of their orchards from S7,700,000 to al
most S19, 700, 900, their slaughtered ami
n ais from less than Sill, $50 900 to S2l2,
900 600 and more: their market garden
stuffs from 50 $50, 600 to $15, ,54I,0 900.
The growth Of grain from 707 100000
bushels of wheat, rye and corn in 1889,
became 100000, 600 in 1860, or 33 bus
for every inhabitant, prices at the same
time rising to the most remunnTative
standard. In 1860 -four cost double
what it brought in 1926; Indian corn four
times as much; hogs three times, aud lard
double. While our population increased
35 per cent, the quantity of wheat in.
creased 70 per cent, and our live stock,
keeping pace in numerical expansion
with the population, doubled it value
The proceeds of animals slaughtered for
food did likewise, and all the manutac-
tures from that source received proper
tionste development, Shhe amproved
lands gaining 80 per cent in area rose
l03 per cent in price. What remains
to be done may be CLEANED from the fact
that in 1860 for every Iwoacres improved,
there we're three on the same farms still
uncxitivatsd, and that the whole ra IL
of untitled territory, comprises an area
three-times as large as all the plantations
and farms.
With this retrosnect of wonders achiev-