The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-30
STATISTICAL.
The Report of samuel Ii. RnggIes ut the Sta
tiSItcui Congress-.

tisttcal Congress.
On the 10th instant, in the International
Statistical Congress at the Hague, Mr. Samuel
B. Ruggles, official delegate from the United
States of America, presented the following
report
The duty was intrusted to the undersigned
as the delegate from the United States of
America to the Fifth International Statistical
Congress, held at Berlin in September, 1868,
to present report exhibiting under separate
heads, first, the territorial area; second, the
populations; third, the value of property
assessed for taxation; and fourth, the gold
and silver bearing portions of the United
States with reference to the public works of
intercommunication affecting those inte-
rests. To avoid repetition, he now respect
fully asks to refer to that report, copies of
which are herewith furnished for the more
convenient information of the present Con-
gress. The report now submitted will mainly
seek to bring forward to the present year,
1869, some of the statements made to the
Berlin Congress of 1863, and also supply
some deficiencies i'll the report then presented.
1t will seek to show more fully and precisely
the realproduct Of the American Union as the
cardinal and dominant element in its material
resources, and also the relative Importance of
that element when compared with the cereal
products of the nations of Europe, as a conti-
mental unit, occupying territorial area diff
fering in extent but little from that of the
United States The broad continental rela-
tions rapidly increasing between these two
important portions of the globe, Interviewing
both in one common civilization, plainly rem
der it desirable, If not indispensable, that both
should be represented in the novel and i'm
portant series of International or, more
properly speaking, intercontinental Congress,
| which has now reached its seventh session.
| Whatever narrow or timid theories may have
been entertained in any portion of the United
States, at earlier periods of its history, favor
ing policy of isolation from the commerce
and civilization of Europe, they are
now fully abandoned. In every inter-
national movement of humanity, seeking the
! benefit of our common race, the New World
will be found in full accord with the
| Old. In the great providence of God the Ame-
rican continents, in the fulness of time, be-
| came the common receptacle of the overflow
ing population of Europe. That New World
fully recognizes its origin. The intervening
ocean, subdued by steam-the monarch of
our age-to the use of man, no longer
weakens but greatly strengthens the ties of
lineage, of religion, of literature, on science,
of commerce, and of all the varied interests,
moral and material, by which the two worlds
are now bound in one. The full solution of
the sublime problem of wise Christian in
ternationality is to be the crowning achieve
ment of our nineteenth century. 1t can only
! be solved through the instrumentality of
periodical meetings of the common family
of civilized nations, fully represented
and freely interchanging their opinions
in a liberal and conciliatory spirit. The
Delegate of the United States of America, in
submitting the report at Berlin, did not seek,
nor does he now seek, to attain the power of
acute, scientific analysis, which so distin.
tinguishes the learned statisticians of Europe
but rather to sketch in outline the broad sta
tistical features which may aid the Congress
in comprehending and defining the compare
tive importance, present and future, of the
two great continents of the Christian world
For the purpose, then, of supplementing the
report to the Congress at Berlin, the under
signed respectfully presents the following
statement of the cereal product of the United
States, to be considered in connection with 6
comparative estimate of that of the nations Of
Europe taken separately and also in the ag
gregate. That estimate has been made from
the highest official sources within the reacl
! of the Government of the United States
through its diplomatic officers in Europe.
1t is now submitted with the request tha
the experienced and learned delegates repre-
senting the European Governments, may give
it thorough scrutiny and expose the errors, i
any, which will be promptly corrected in the
final report, to be published in the C0mpt
Reddu of the congress.
I. CEREAL PRODUCT OF THE UNITED STATES.
The information officially collected and re
ported by the Department of Agriculture" o
the United States shows the product of cereal.
for the years 1850, 1860, 1867, and 1868 t,
have been, in ''Winchester bushels, as fol
lows-
yas. S2s sfsss. f 8$Rs % $ib & sIssS sSS
Barley. 5,l67 0l5 l3S26698 25,7270O0 23696, IL
Oats. 146,5S4179 l72643135 27s,796000 254,960,8
b. Wheat 8,956,9l2 l7,5n,2l8 2l,359OOO lsS63,7C
Maize. .5ssO7l lO4 sss 7s2744 76s,5sOOOO 9O65s7,OC