, 1868-10-09

The Public Debt-SHiking Illustrations.
The Louisville Democrat has taken to il
Illustrating the public debt, with view of
showing up its immensity. 1t says that the
statemaut Of the public debt published Au-
gust !, 1868, confesses that the amount of
the great national blessing foots up 81, ,523,-
534, ,48O These figures represent an amount
of indebtedness that few can comprehend.
Its immeDsity is barely within the bounds of
human calculation, and would prove appall-
ing to a nation of Rothschilds, Barings and
Peabodys.
II stands upon the ruin of the Constitution,
amid the crumbling pillars of the American
Republic, monument of radical misrule,
iucompetency, villainy and despotism. While
it represents the price of our national ruin
and degradation, it is eloquent of national
bankruptcy, intolerance, and eternal taxation,
and of selfish subjugation of the poor to
the rich.
The -gatherers, of whom it is the fer
tile parent, are now busy: in every street,
lane, highway and by>way in the land, aud
are as disastrous to the prosperity of the
country as the seven plaques to which Pha~
roah was compelled to succumb. They de-
mand taxes for
The hat on your head,
The boots on your feet,
The clothes on your person,
The food you eat,
The tea aud coffee you drink,
The pot it is cooked in,
The cup you drink it out Of
The implements on your farm,
The tools you work with,
The paper you write on,
The pen and ink you use,
The papers and books you read,
The furniture in your house,
The gas or oil YOU burn,
The coal you consume,
The stove you burn it in,
The match you light it with,
The medicine you take,
The tobacco you smoke,
The pipe you smoke it in,
The dishes on the table, and
All you eat off them.
Those of our readers who deal in money,
and who are in the daily habit of inspecting
piles of greenbacks, may be interested with
the following illustrations, which we find in
the Frankfort Yeonadn:
The highest mountain in the world is
peak of the Hmaaya Mountains, in India,
which reaches the altitude of 20, l78 feet. or
a little less than FIVE and a>half miles.
The public debt of the United States, ac>
cording to the official statement of the Sec,
retary of the Treasury, amounted, on the first
of the present month, to the sum Of 81, ,523,-
53l, 48O. Now, let US fO- illustration sup
pose this debt to be in one dollar bills, and
piled up before us. Do you imagine it would
reach mountain heightY Let us see:
Allow one hundred notes to the inch. and
we have its height
To be............25, 1886, ,344..... inches
or........... 2,l02,9 ,945 .....feet!!
or...... ......... 700, ,9Sl....... yards u!
or............... 3984....... miles !.
Or, if the Botes were of the denomination of
500 each, Instead of 81, we should have a
pyramid OF money reaching about four miles
high whilst the highest mountain peak in
North America (Mount St. Elias, in Russian
America) is but IL 900 feet, or less than
p miles.
Still further; let US suppose the debt to
be in silver instead of notes, aud estimating
SIG to the pound, we have weight of debt
amounting to just Isl, 720905 pounds or
1857 car loads (at 5000 pounds to the
carr which would make train of cars Sc
miles in length, allowing but thirty feet to
the car
But let us illustrate a little further; and
suppose it were necessary to take the silver
dollars from the mint, employing porters for
that purpose, requiring each man to carry
forty pounds. In that case it would take
about 1900, 900 men, who, standing. three
miles long and marching at the rate of three
feet apart, would make line about 5000
miles long; and marching at the rate of three
miles an hour it would require about forty
days for this debt-burdened army to pass a
given point And the task of counting the
debt, in silver dollars, would be one Of al
most endless duration. Let us see A
man commencing August lst, 1868, and
working ten hours each day and counting
sixty dollars each minute, would accomplish
the job A. D. 436S.
But there are other illustrations of the
magnitude, of this great 'dational blessing.
which cannot fail to arrest the attention of
farmers, to whom the following is saddressed
At 81 per bushel the public debt repre-
seuts 1851 ,767, ,245 bushels of wheat, OF
37,o53,O tons. To transport this amount
In two horse wagons, allowing one ton to
each, would require 81 ,S56,Ol7 wagons and
75,7O6,O3i horses Give each team thirty
feet space, and you have cavalcade which
would encircle the globe
But we tire of these illustrations, as we
90 OF everything pertaining to radical rule,
which in brief period has crowned their
work with immortal infamy by monument
OF debt which, like the pyramids, are more
conspicuous from the desolatiou that sur.
rounds them.
HORSE TAMING.-Professors Wallace and Will
son, both celebrated horse trainers, have arrived
In town, and will give exhibition of their
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