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Show Corron Toh;tcco Rice • Naval S tores S ugar Hemp Total, Appendix. [I; rp o rl rr{, $7 I ,9,,;;-1 ,fi I 6 9,9:>1 ,:l:1:J 2,H:JI ,tl~7 1, 14'2,713 2:1,0:!7 5,6:l:J ----- $85,739,109 lltmtr Consumption. $:l:l,G I !'i,:l-t 5,0 ll'l,777 •l()f) ,0!)0 800,000 12,:1!)f>1 I ;iQ (i90,207 $5:2,930,5 18 Totfll Produc/.9. $ 1 O.),noo,ooo l.i,OOO.IJOO :! , 03 1,1{~<7 I ,!! 12,713 U, IID,!tf/ (j~J.i,illO $ 1:) ,G~!J,G:27 The average value of Indian corn for that year is given a t 4.5 ernts; hut the distance from market and the difTiculty of communication throughout the South, reduce it below the average. If " 'c take it thirty-thrrc ct•nts per bush el, we shall probably be in excess of the truth, and this wuuld give, For rho wholo Sour horn c rop, • • • • $9~,ono,ooo Adcl to this for the anilllals slau !!hterecl, • . • • <17,00.1,000 For tho other prod L~cts of agricul turo, • • • • • 50,000,000 And we ohtain rho total value ofa!!ricultural produrrs, . • . . $:1:J:l,G'i!l,li:!7 If \\'0 now add to t hi s, for manufact uref4, aud for tl1o protlurt of labor in all other pursu it:;, one h alf of this :uuount, say . . . • . • • JGG,310,373 We ohtaiu as tho tn!al :-inuthern prod uct, l'XI'Iu.-iv.:> of the Nr~rocs -- raised, which constitute so ituponant an itc111 of Rollt heru produl'e, . $.'iOO,OOO,OOO This, we think, is rather in excess of the tru th, but if true, it would give an a\·cragc product of about sixty dolla r ::; p r r head. In comparing with this the N orthern pn.~,.'r1ct, it is to be borne in mind that the North ern fanner is, in most cao;:cs, lltuch nrarcr market, and always provided with much better means vr intercoursr . The com that is worth, in Te xas, fifteen cents, bccollles \\'Ol'lh sixty cents by the titne it r each<:>s 1\Inssacltusrtts, and the farmer of the latter obtains as much fo r one uw;hcl as the farmer of the fornwr obtai ns for four; :mel this is tr ue, to a g reater or less extent, with referrnce to all the products of agrirulture. The prices of cotton, tobacco, rice, t ·c., abo ,·c given, a rc their prices at the p orts from which they arc exported, and include all chargrs up to the time of shipment, even to wa rehouse rent mtd broker's commi::.sion on tltc sale. To make a fair comparison of the agricultural oprration of the t\,·o S<'Ction s, it would be r equired to purs nc a silllilar rottrse with the North, t aking the Yalnc of their produ cts a r th<' place of sale; and were this done, it would be fonnd that the excess in that was so far gr eat er tha n in qnantity that it would be safe to estimate its ngricultural production at much more than double the amount above gi ,·en for the South, or at lca<:t $000,000,000, making a total somewhat exceeding $1,'200,000,000. The South, however, ma kes its exchanges but. oncr iu a year, while at the North, becau c of the proximity of markets, ('XChanges arc repeated from month to mon th, throughont the year. The mark <' t-gard ('ncr furnishes cabbages and potatoe:::, peas and beans, to the man who converts them into coal. Thl'n cc t hey go, as coal, to another, who converts them into pig-i ron; thence to the rolling-mill, ·whence they come out as bars; thence to the shops from which they come out as axes, spades, ploughs, or st<'nm-engincs; and thus th ere is a eonstaut and unceasing motion in the produce of the North, and from this m otion come the" power and g:1in," which, by our Southern friends, are att1·ibutcd to the Union. The manufac- Appendix. tures of :Massachusetts an10ur.t to not less than $160,000,000. Her shoe manufacture alone i .$17,000,000. Those of the city ofNcw York, in H).)'), amounted to .'fj;tOJ,OOO,OOO, and those of Philadelphia wrrc fully equal, aurl probably greatrr. Tho::;c of Cincinnati were .'if;lO,OOO,OOO. Pittsburg aud Cincinnati must now consiucrauly exceed a hundred millions. At. the present time they arc all \'Cry far g reater in amount. T he iron tradr, in its various departments, from the smelting of the ore to the fini~!Jing of the stcam-engiuc, cannot ue estimated at the present time at l<•ss than $ 130,000,000, nor the coal t rade at less than .'f/120,000,000; the manufac.: ture of ships is more than .'fi;20,000,000; books, ll Cwspapcrs, magar.ines, and engr avings, amount to m any millions. Add to the infinite quantity of man ufacturrs sea ttcrcd throughout N cw England, New York, Penns.' h·ania, unci other N orthcrn States, the mining of lc·ad anti roppC' r, the enormous prod nct of lumber, the icc tra<lr, the JlrodHc·tiolu of hollsl's, and the quantity of labor aucl manure applic·d to tht· inlpro\C'lllt·Jit c1f land, while the ~outh is every where cxhansting its soil; ancl it will rt':ll1i ly be seen how enormous is the production of the North as comparrd wi th that of the South. The earnings of canals, canal boats, and railroads arc $80,000,000; and if we estimate the value of the property carric•d, at only ten ti111cs the cost of transportation, we obtain .'f/1800,000,000. The tonnage of the ~orth is little s hort of four millions, almost half a milli oH of which is moYcd by steam ; and if we take the g ross earnings of thb at only one dollar p r r ton p er mouth, we ha,·c nearly fifty millions, but they arc probably considerably alJo,·c a. hundred millions. The n('t value of the property transported on the lake. and ri,·rrs, by canals, in coasters, and on railroads, is estimated by Ir. t\ ndrews, in his Report on the Colonial and Lake Trade, (page 005,) at $:3, 1~0,000,000; but a Yery small proportion of which, as our readers ha\'c se<' JJ, co1ncs from the South. '\Vc here con clude for to-day om sur,·cy of the::;c imprcs~ivcand rloqucnt facts. \V c think our rcarl<'l's will agree thn t they ~1\0 w that the North is very powerfu l, and the outh compnrati,·ely very weak, and that if eithrr has reason to dread the day of dissolution it is that which is oppressed nnd debilitated by the curse of Slan:ry. ' Vc Hhall n ext compare the effect of separation upon the commercial relations of the two sections. THE CO DIEJlCE OF NOHTII AND SOUTH. Seven yrars since, 1\Ir. ·,\.alkcr ei'timatecl thr total product of labor at $3,000,000,000. Since then tlw population has iuerca ·cd at lea ·t tWC'ntyfil ·e per cent., and if t·he product had in creased only in the same rate, it would now be .'$3,750,000,000. Estimating it, howc,·rr, at only $3,2.50,000,000, and that of the outh a t .'/Jjt>OO,OOO,OOO, we should have, as the product of the North, $;2,750,000,000, or about $l80 prr head, and this is certainly not in excess of the truth. ' Ve ourselves believe that this view is in a high degree unl'a ,·orablc to the North, and such, we think, will be the opi11ion of all our readers who r eflect to what a wonderful extent Northrrn labor is aided by machinery, and to how small an extent that is the ca::;e with the South. A steam-engine <.:apa- 40 |