Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1872-10-09

onsirating the priceless value Of our form
Of government: its unity and impregn ible
power. What citizen does not feel that
if in the past, he has distrusted, the
strength Of our government in a great
emergency-no such fear exists to-day.
The problem Of the power Of the govern.
ment to maintain itself against all exter-
nal or internal foes has been glOriously
and fully solved by a great war.
We may look at our country at the
present hour in any of its varied relati Us
and it is ful! of absorbing interest and
wonder. ln its area, il comprises 3 204,-
600 square miles. Its territory is nearly
ten times as large as Great Britain aud
France combined three times as large as
the whole of France, Britain, Austria,
Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Hol.
land and Dewark together; onc-and.a
half times as large as the Russian empire
in Europe and only one-sixth less than
The 80 or 60 empires, states and re-
publics of Europe, Its line of ocean
coast extends 5000 miles. From l3 colo.
nies, the uuicn now embraces 40 States
aud Territories, with population little
less than 40, 100000.
In its sublime wants, it has connected
its navigablc rivers, lakes aud commercial
cities with system of canals, comprising
at thus time a total length of 5,l3l miles
costing over 500, ,O00, ,000-glving dis
patch TO the transportation of hundreds OF
millions worth of produce and merchan,
disc.
a net work of railroads has been con,
structed uniting with iron bands every
part Of the couutry-almost annihilating
time and space between east and west,-
the north and south, so that Boston, New
York, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Louis anC
New Orleans seem in close proximity
There are now in the United States ovcl
81, 900 miles Of railroad costing over 1
billion of dollars
Tue whole country has been over
spread with lines Of telegraph reaching
at this time, at least 6000 aiiles, extend
ing from the St. Lawrence to the Gull
and from the Atlantic to thu
Pacific. The trauceDdant utility
of this invention is forcibIy seen II
the fact that from so to loo words cal
: be transmitted over it per minute, or a
: the rate of about 5000 per hour. 1t j
The messenger of thought, holding audi
encc quiet everywhere at the same time
1t enables the people Of vast empire t
converse with each other, quite as famil
!. iarly as if in the adjoining apartments o
q, the same building-while the fuctuatlon
of the markets in Boston and New Yor|
: and otaer cities, and all important event
are known at the same time in almost ev
J. cry hamlet, village and city of the Union
!. The two hemlsphercs have been connected
}, shortening communication from ten day
| to few seconds. The magnitude Of tn
i information thus communicated, as we
as the value of business is seen in tn
O fact that the principal morning paper
O alone pay annually from fifty to one hur
| drcd thousand dollars for the Associate
t Press dispatches, and at least one ha
" this SUN for special and exclusive mes
d sages.
In relation to the industrial pursuits {
the country, we gather the following al
tonishlng facts from a recent census.
y The amount Of wheat produced is III
. 1884, ,3Sl bushels worth 256, 1901 do
y lars of corn, $50, ,451 ,707 bushels wort
" 45l. 225, ,S53 dollars; of cotton, the priI
cipal product OF the Southern States, o
l96. .954 bales, worth at Is cents pc
y pound. 34,816,640 dollars. Adding tn
v other products CT husbandry, as hay, p'
" y tatoes oats rye, stock with those of tn
" orchard and the dairy, it is estimated th'
: the whole will reach grand aggrega'
=" of three billions of dollars.
u In the extent and value and quality {
u its manufactures, we give also few item
Is to show the rapid progress Of this depar
'e ment of industry. The value OF agrlcu
g tural implements made is SIT, ,SO2,5l4
'f that of pig iron, $40 600, 900 of bar an
rolled iron. 100000, 900; of iron cas-
e ipes. s2S.00O, 900; Of machinery, il
n Guiding the sewing machine, S52 900, ,O0(
p We are informed that the value of the Ell
e tire products of manufactures, as returned
J. not including that of any establishmel
q that produced less than $50, 900, reacbe
the amazing sum of nearly two billion
ct while those of 1873, we have no doul
D. will exceed three billions of dollars. The
70 the commercial success of the UDltc
States has been no less marvellous.
lie 1860, the total tonnage owned in Il
n- United States was 5,539,Sl2 tons. SIM
n. then hundreds of new vessels have bee
rs added in the creation of our navy amor
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