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CHARACTER IS AS IMPORTANT TO STATES AS IT IS TO INDIVIDUALS; AND TE GLORY OF THE STATE IS THE COMMON PROPERTY OF ITS CITIZEs."
Ii. Li. IIOI31ES, Eflitor and Proprietor.
FAYETTEVILLE, SATUIDAY, JUNE 22, 1839V
VOL.. lXO. It.':
TERMS.
$t SO per annum, if paid in advance ; S3 if paid at
UK CR n BU uiumuu ) w vf r '
of the year. Advertisements inserted at the rate
of sixty cents per square, for the first, and thirty
"CJ Letters on business connected with this estab
lishment, must be addressed H. L. Holmes, Edi
tor of the North-Carolinian, and in all cases post
paid
Notice is hereby given,
flflHAT I, Peyton R. Parker, have file.I my peti
in the SnDerior Court of Law
for the County of Sampson, for the emancipation of
ld Fftpr. and shall aDDlv av we neat.
J term olsaid Court, to have the prayer of said petition
f-11 i i
Published by order of the Superior Court of Law
for the County of Sampson, at Sprinsr Term, 1839, in
the North Carolinian, at Fayettevillc, for ix weeks.
Wm. McttAY, Clerk.
. t - , - - . - IQ
Silk Worm Eggs.
It is now a good time to commence
a crop of COCOOM S, and a sup
ply of Esss may bo obtained on application this
Yellow the Two Crop White and the Italian i'ea
Nut. Price, one dollar per thousand. June I.
1,000,000 SilJL Worm Egrgs
FOB SALE,
BY the Subscriber. The worms of about one-half
of them reared upon the leaves of the White
Mulberry. W. H. MAFFITT.
June 1 5tw.
WANTED TO HIRE,
FOR twelve months, a first rate WAGON DRI
VER, of cood character, for whom liberal Wa
ges will be given. Apply at this Office, or to the
Subscriber. DONALD McdUElN.
Fayettevillc, June 3, 1333. 15tf.
MERCHANT TAILOR,
AtoEGS leave to return thanks for the liberal pa
ll SB trAnfiffp hna rfvpivrd nn1 f)lc, in infnrm nie
friends and trie public generally, that he still continues
tocarry on the 1 ailorin JJusmess in all its branches.
tie has received the latest fashions lor the bFKINvJ
and SUMMER of 1339, and is always ready to exe
cute orders with neatness and despatch.
P. S. All those indebted to the subscriber either by
note or account, will please call and settle the same im
mediately, as cloths cannot be bought without cash.
May 4, 1839. 10-tf W. L.C.
PIANO FORTES.
An Agency is appointed in
Fayettevillc for the sale of the
most approved New York
Piano Fortes. They will be
sold at the lowest New York
prices, with expense of trans
portation, and warranted. If not satisfactory, they
may be returned. They, may be packed for safe
transportation t ) any part of the Statew They may
be seen at the Female Seminary, where purchasers
are invited to call, or on Col. S. T. Hawley.
- PARLOR ORGAN.
I The Parlor Oriran, or Seraphine, which has been
'fused and generally ad-r jred at the Seminary for the
-I past winter, is now cfFjred for sale at ccst.
June 8. 15tf.
BALTIMORE TYPE FOUNDRY.
THE proprietors of this lon established and well
known Foundry, have made, and are continuing
to make such improvements and additions to the es
tablishment as to enable them to furnish with promp
titude, every variety of types and printin materials
of the very best quality, such as cuts and newspaper
ornaments in great variety:
Flowers and Borders,
Brass Rules,
- Leads and Quotations,
Furniture,
Quoins,
Cases and Stands,
Job Cases,
Wrought and r ast Iron Chases,
Composing Sticks,
Galleys of every description,
Imposing Stones,
Roller Stocks,
Lead cutters,
Parch rents, "
Ball Skins, &c. &c.
Printing Prcsscss of every kind,
Printer's Ink,
Colored Ink, '
Varnish for making Colored Ink.
Ail orders will be promptly attended to, and exe
cuted in such a manner as to insure satisfaction.
CrIARLES CARTER, Jtenl.
JuneS, 1C39. Baltimore.
SPRING GOODS.
"tM7"E have received and are now opening
our Spring supply, which .comprises a lare
and extensive assoitincnt of
Dry Goods, Hardware and Cutle
ry, Boots and Shoes, Leghorn and Tuscan Bon
nets, F iir, Wool and Palm Leaf Flats, Writing and
W rapping Paper, Cotton and Wool Cards, D.ngs
and Medicines, Faints, &.c.
Also, Groceries, &c.
GO bacrs Pi0 anc Lasuira Coffee.
.0 Unas. New Orleans and Porto Rico Sugars
125 casks Nails "
200 pair Bright Traces
12 qr. casks Malaga and Madeira Wino
100 dozen Weeding Hof-s
2j,,d" ,?a,?nt and Dutch Scythes
5 hhds. Crockery
30 boxes Window Gl.ms
10 do Collins' and Kind's Axes,
for r, h W 'T-r at Wholesale, at ;. small advance
ur cash, or on tune to punctual customers.
F,,. . NOTT & STARR.
JajclteviHr-, April 6, 1839. G-tf
"If Hhds. Prime Porto Rico Sugar,
JLmf 5 Hhds. N. O. do.
50 Casks fresh Thomastown Lime,
30 Hhds. Molasses,
5 Barrels N. O. do.
20 Boxes Bar Soap,
J 00 Sacks Blown Salt,
20 Boxes Fayettevillc Mould Candles,
10 Boxes Smoked Herrincs,
For Sale by GEO. McNEILL.
June IS. 16tf.
E. J. & L. R. CLARK.
Respectfully inform their
friends and the public, that
they have opened a T I N,
SHEET IRON and COP-
I'liK. WARE
Manufactory.
5 doors southof the Market
, House, on Gillespie street,
- Where they will keep, con
stantly on hand, a full assortment of plain and Fan
cy Japanned Tin Ware.
JOB WORK done at the shortest notice.
ICF" Orders from the country, would receive
prompt attention. June 8. 15:6m
H
ClM-a
J". & J. "sETXiB.
AVE Just received a lare a3S..rtment of
Anker Bo.tmg Cloths. Wlixliwitl be sold
April 19, IS39.
SIR PHILIP.
THIS thorough-bred and beautiful Horse,
five years old, will make his tirst season this
Spring, and will stand at the Plantation" of Wm. S.
Latta, (and may be seen f-equenlly at his stable in
Town,) Averasborough and McArthur'sJSridge.
SIS FSXXiXP is a beautiful dark bay, hand
somely dappled, black mane, tail and legs, lull 16
hands high. Sir Philip wan sired by Optimus, and
dam by Sir Archy. For full Pedigree and terms,
see handbills ot the day. ISH AM DRAKE,
mar 30-5; 2in Groom for the Owner.
LOTTERIES
FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, 1839.
For Tickets in the folloxcinsr Schemes,
Apply to S. J. SYLVESTER,
130 Broadway, & 22 Wall st. N. Y.
VIRGINIA WHEELING LOTTERY,
Class 4 for 1833; to be drawn at A lexandria, Va.
July 6: 75 Nos. 12 drawn Ballots.
THE CAPITAL WILL NET
Thirty 'Thousand Dollars.
GRAND CAPITALS.
1 PRIZE of 30,COO Dollars,
1 - - 10,000 Dollars,
1 6,000 Dollars,
1 - 3,140 Dollars,
1 - - 3,000 Dollars,
1 - - 2,500 Dollars,
1 2,000 Dollars,
50 - - 1,C00 Dollars,
20 5,000 Dollars,
123 - - 2,000 Dollars.
Tickets Ten Dollars. A certificate of a pack
age of 25 Tickets will bu sent for 130 dollars
shares in proportion.
$40,000!
VIRGINIA NORFOLK LOTTERY,
Class o for 1839 to be drawn at Alexandria,
July 13 78 numbers: 14 ballots.
GRAND CAFITALS.
40,000 Dollars! 12,000 Dollars!
6,000 Dollars! 5,000 Dollars!
3,000 Dollars! 2,500 Dollars!
2,000 Dollars! 1,769 Dollars!
20 prizes of $1,000, 20 of 500, &.C. Stc.
Tickets, only Ten Dollars, Shares in proportion.
30.QOO DollarsI
VIRGINIA LEESBURG LOTTERY,
Class No. 4, lor 1339. to be drawn at Alexandria,
Va. on lh. 20:h of July, 1839. 78 No. Lottery:
13 drawn b 1 1 lots.
30,000 dollars. 10,000 dollars. 83C00 dolls.
4,L00 dollars. 2,500 dollars. 1,747 dolls.
SjCjr 30 Prizes of 1,500 Dollars!
fO 50 " 500 Dollars!
0r- 50 " 400 Dollars!
DO- 50 " S00 Dollais!
One Hundred Prises of 200 Dollars!
&c. &c. &.C.
Tickets 10 'Uiirp; r hart s in proportion.
t
lOO Prizes of a Thousand Dols.
VIRGINIA WELL&BURG LOTTERY,
Class 4 for 1S39; to be drawn at Alexandria,
Va. on the 27th July, 1839.
75 jumbc. s 12 Drawn Ballots.
Splendid S-heme:
1 PRIZE of 30,000 Dollars.
1 - 8,000 Dollars.
1 - 4,000 Dollars.
C3- 100 Prizes of One Thousand Dollars'
Besides a great variety of smaller prizes.
Tickets Ten Dollars Shares in propor
tion. A certificate of a package of 25 tick
ets will be sent for 130 Shares in proportion.
S. J. SYLVESTER,
132 Broadway and 23 Wall st. JV. Y.
June 15. 16-3t.
THE
North. Carolinian.
PUBLISHED IX FAYETTEVILLE,
BYH.L HOLMES,
Has nearly doubled its subscription list (amounting
now to EIGHT HUNDRED) within the first three
months. It will continue to support the Administra
tion of the General Government, so Ions as Mr. Van
Buren adheres to the Democratic Republican course,
which he has so tar, consistently pursued as Jfresi
dent. TERMS.-Two Dollars and Fifty Cents per ann.
if paid in advance; Three Dollars at the end of Six
Months; or Three Dollars and Fifty Cents at the ex
piration of the year.
POETICAL.
A NAME.
BT MRS. L. H. SICOCKXET.
Make to thyself a name,
Not with the breath of clay, "
Which, like the broken hollow reed.
Doth hide itself away;
Not with the fame that vaunts " '
The tyrant on his throne,
And hurls its stigma on the soul
That God vouchsafes to own.
Make to thyself a name,
Not such as wealth can weave,
Whose warp is but a thread of gold
That dazzles to deceive;
Not with the tints of love
Form out its letters fair;
That scroll within thy hand shall fade,
Like him that placed it there.
Make to thytelf a name,
Not in the sculptured aisle;
The marble oft betrays its trust,
Like Egypt's lofty pile;
But ask of him who quell'd
Of death the victor strife,
To write it on the blood-bought page
Of everlasting life.
tt ostentation, honor, honesty, and firmness,
yell calculated to perpetuate the free initi
ations, of our happy country. The truth
f the eloquent panegyrics of the ancients
tpon this employment may be more easily
calized here than in any other country up
m earth. We confidently hope to see pub
ic opinion SDeedilv rio-htinc itself unon 'this
I C3 o 1 x
"subject, and to find people seeking their per
manent interests, and advancing the prospe
rity and glory of our wide domain, by en
gaging more generally in this healthful,
inonesi ana independent business.
Important to Farmers. Jt JVew Plough.
We would invite the attention of farmers
and others interested in. the cultivation of
the soil, to a new and useful improvement
tn this impbrtant farming article, lately in
vented by a mechanic of this town. It is
calculated for the side hill, but it is construct
ed as to work on the level equal to the Iden
plough, and with as little trouble to the
ploughman, besides having the advantage of
being much lighter. As a corn plough, it is
considered infinitely better than any other,
as it will at pleasure turn the furrow both
ways. It can be seen at the furnace of
Messrs. Vail & Moors, at the Ithaca Falls.
Ithaca Journal and Herald.
AGRICULTURAL.
FROM THE NEW TORE SCX, 1S37.
We observe with astonishment and resret,
the conclusive evidence which appears in
every direction, thit the business of Agricul
ture does not receive the attention due to it
in this country, but is treated with absolute
neglect, compared with other pursuits.
This ought not to be, and the. inhabitants of
this country will yet learn, that they have
committed a gross error by abandoning the
cultivation of the soil for less independent
and more precarious modes otJtaining a iivii-
hood.
Who has ever heard of such a state of
things as now exists here? We have a soil
as fertile as any that the sun ever shone up
on, a country almost boundless in extent, and
so cheap, that any man mny purchase a farm
with the proceeds of a few months1 labor,
yet we are actually importing, for consump
tion, immense quantities of agricultural pro
ducts from foreign countries! A people,
thinly scattered over a land unequalled in
fertility, and exhaustless in its resources, are
buying their bread, at enormous prices, from
countries, so overburthened with inhabitants,
that political economists have feared that the
earth would fail to produce sufficient to sup
port them. Such an extraordinary and un
natural circumstance should excite attention,
and awaken the inquiry as to its cause.
The fault, as we have seen, is not in the
soil, nor is the country overrun with inhabi
tants. It is, therefore, evident, that the cul
tivation of the soil is neglected, otherwise
we should be exporting, instead of importing,
agricultural products, but it is easier to show
the fact, that agriculture is neglected, than
to find a sufficient reason for such neglect.
We apprehend, however, that it will be
found to spring, in a great measure, from
the same causes which have produced much
evil in this countrv, and the bitter fruits of
which we are now reaping. The first and
chief of these causes, i the inordinate thirst
for wealth which pervades every class of so
ciety, and induces men to abandon their leg
itimate business to nage in some wild, haz
ardous'speculation, in the hope of becoming
suddenly rich. It is also too often the case
that the firmer becomes tired of the moder
ate and gradual accumulation of property by
the products of his land, and leaves the cul
tivation of it, to entajre in the business of
commece or manufactures. He finds out
his eirrejiious mistiike when it is loo late.
The property he had accumulated is often
squandered and lost; in consequence of Ids
ignorance of new business, and he again
sighs for the cheeiftii and independent mode
of life which he has abandoned, when it is
out of his power to resume it. We have, in
our mind numberless instances of this kind,
were industrious and prosperous farmers
have been lured to their ruin, by being in
duced to lay aside the implements of hus
bandry, and engage in the universal scram
ble after sudden wealth.
There is another great, error prevalent
upon this subject, and that, is, the business
of agriculture is generally looked upon as
less respectable than that of commerce,
manufactures, or the professions; and weal
thy farmers, instead of teaching their sons
their own business, most usually transform
them into merchants, lawyers, doctors, or
dominees. This is all wrong. Agriculture
i3 the very back-bone of ail business, the
main-spring of all wealth, andshould be re
garded as a profession of the highest respec
tability. It gives those engaged in it a feel
ing of independence, genuine nobleness with-
GENERAL SELECTIONS.
Tortesa the Usurer, a play, by N. P,
Willis. Coleman of New York, has issued
a beautiful edition of this playa as one num
ber of his Dramatic Library.
Speed. Travellers reach Chicago in sev
en days and a half from New York city
three days and a half to Cleveland, and four
days from thence to Chicago. Perrysburgh
(Oito) Whig.
Of human relics there remain many. The
bones of the dead are perpetually turned up
by the plough. They say that the field of
Waterloo has been remarkable for its fine
corn since the battle. The year after the
fight, the corn all came up of a dark green;
human gore had made the land much too
rich.
South America. Ah arrival from Jamai
ca brings information that the people of Bo
livia, having revolted against the Govern
ment of General Santa Cruz, he had made
his escape, and arrived with some of hi3 fbl
lowers at Guayaquil, and that Calla J had
tallen into the hands- of -the- chwano. "
are unable to judije of the authenticity of thi3
ocean are now superseded, and as a fugy no
nuunu vtTd v.au uavo sutu MU1U UI UIB
water."
The Southern Literary Messenger for
June. ThU beautifully printed work has
reached us for this month, and we have not
ed its contents with unusual pleasure. They
are more varied than common, and from the
pens of some of the readiest Avriters of our
country; among whom are several belonging
to our own city. Mr. White certainly does
manage to jrive us a Magazine inferior to
no other at home, and second to none abroad,
with the exception of Blackwood's; and it is
no unusual thing to see articles in his pages
which would do ample honor even to that
prince of periodicals. May the most complete
success erown his efforts. -JVew YorA: Even
ing Star.
KINDNESS IN CONVERSATION.
There is no other wav in which men can do
good to others, with so little expense and trou
ble, as by kindness m conversation.
"Words," it is sometimes said, "cost noth
ing." At any rate, kmd words cost no more
than those which are harsh and piercing. But
Kind words are often more highly valued than
the most costly gifts, and they are always re
garded among the best tokens of a desire to
make others happy. We should think that
kind words would be very common, they are
so cheap; but there are many who have a large
assortment of every other language, except
kindness.
They have bitter words, and witty words,
and learned words in abundance, but their
stock of kind words is small. The churl him
self, one might suppose, would not grudge a
little kindness in bis language, however close
ly he clings to his money; but there are per
sons who draw on their kindness with more
reluctance than on their purses.
Some use grating words because they are
of a morose disposition. Their language, as
well as their manners, show an unfeeling
heart. Others use rough words out of an af
fectation of frankness. They may be severe
in their remarks but then they claim that
they are open and independent, and will not
be trammelled. They are no flatterers, they
say, and this they think excuse enough for all
the cuttins speech which they employ. Others
wish to be thought witty, and they will, with
equal indifference, wound the feelings of friend
or foe, to show their smartness. Some are
envious, and cannot bear to speak kindly of
others or to them, because they do not wish to
add to their happiness. Others are so ill-bred,
that they seem to take delight in using unkind
words when their intentions are good, and
their feeling are warm. Their words are
rougher than their hearts they will make
sacrifices of ease and property to promote
comfort, while they will not deign to employ
the terms of courtesy and kindness. Of those,
the Scotch have an expressive proverb, that
"their bark is worse than their bite." Many
a man would be loved for his liberal deeds, if
his tongue, by his harshness, did not repel
affection. And he often wonders why hi3
friends seem to care so little for him, when
they are very grateful to others, from whom
they receive not half so many favors. Some
are caustic and severe in their language, for
ttto mko of shcvwiug their acuteness and dis
crimination. They would rend in pieces a
cloth of gold to detect a defective thread which
had escaped the less keen ob servation of oth
ers. 1 hey are always on the watch, to spy
out some fault in character, or in composition,
which others overlook, that they may appear to
have uncommon discernment and rare skill id
criticism.
If the happiness of others is not a sufficient
motive for kind words, we mav find a motive
in their influence on ourselves. The habit of
using them will at length conform our feelings-
to our language. We shall become
kind, not ouly in our speech, but in our man
ners and in our hearts. On the other hand,
to make use of carping, harsh, and bitter words
seldom fails to sour the disposition and to in
jure the temper.
Advices from Jamica to the 8th instant,
received at Havanah, says that the sugar
cane fields are entirely abandoned, and more
than one half of the crops will be lost. On
the coffee plantations, where the labor is less
arduous, the planters have succeeded in re
taining the greater part of their negroes.
The owners of the ship Memphis, launch
ed on Saturday at New York, having caus
ed to be built, instead of the long boat, a
larre life boat, thirty-two feet long, and
seven feet wide, so prepared with cylynders,
as to sustain four thousand pounds dead
weight, even with her bottom stove in. This
is worthy of consideration. There is in
this city a boat builder, who has a patent for
life boats, said to be very valuable. Penn
sylvanian. Aout 200 U. S. troops arrived at New
Orleans the 27th ult. in the packet ship Ya
zoo, from new York, destined for the posts
on the Arkansas and Red Rivers.
The New Haven Herald says, among
others now in Hartford, who are present to
testify in the case of Mrs. Jarvis, is the wi
dow of Alexander Hamilton. She is more
than eighty years of age.
The "Watchman of t':e South" states that
the Rev. Mr. Hutchinson, lafe Pastor of the
Presbyterian Congregation in Petersburg has
left the Presbyteriau and joined the Episcopal
Chnrch.
A new Mode of Pronellins ships. By the
following extract from a letter, dated Loudon,
Mav 17. which we find in the Journal of Com
merce, it seems that the new plan of propelliug
vessels by means ot screws, nas succeeded.
"The ship 'Archimedes, nas arrived at forts
mouth after a cruiss in the chaunel, having
heat a woverirmeut steamer. The great value
of the screw is now fully tested. The water
thrown by it on the rudder makes the ship an
swer her helm to the astonishment of naval
officers. She turns in double her length; her
first action on starting is to answer her helm.
Thfl shin has encountered hard weather, but
has met it beautifully. Paddle boxes for the
era rop which is shipped directly from tiW
Southern ports to foreign countries. The'
tonnape re?'ntor ofs !, : . t r ;
the shipping employed belong to Northern
-M ow let us bring this calculation home to
Alabama. Her estimated
the year ending 30lh Senfpmhor leso . im
309,807 bales. This calculated at 400 lbs.
to the bale, ffives I23.d23.snn riming Ana
and a half cent freight is $1,868342 r
commissions, snipping, insurance, -
v.. mi. pc, tCUU UU iUMUUUl (II i
crop, is, viz: $12,392,280, at
40 ner bale., ia Mnnl fn . AIQi ftIA
. - I , - -
Add one and a half cent per lb.
- tor baggage, factor's commis
sions, transportation to Mobile,
which b , 1,868342
Total, $4,337,298
Deduct this from $12,392,289, tho valae
of our crop at home, and we have left tw
88,054,982.
"The time was, when the people of the
South were the largest importers in the coun
try. "In 1769, the value of the imports of die
several colonies was as follows:
Of Virginia, 851,1402. sterling.
New England States 561,000 do.
New York 189,000 . do
Pennsylvania 400,000 do
South Carolina 555,000 do.
"The exports were in about the same pro
portion; Virginia exporting nearly four times
as much as New York; and South Carolina
nearly twice as much as New York and Penn
sylvania together, and five times as much as -all
the New England States united.
"The same relative proportion of imports is
preserved until the adoption of the Federal
Constitution, when we find them to be in the
year 1791, as follows:
OfJNewYork $3,222,000
Virginia 2,486,000
South Carolina 1,520000
"There are no data to show the imports into
the several States from the year 1691 to 1S20,
but the genera fact may be assumed, that the
import trade of New York and other Northern
States, has been constantly progressing while
that of Virginia and South Carolina has as
regularly diminished. From 1821, to the
present time, we have sufficient data, and they
exhibit the following, as the state of the import
trade:
Ao York.
1821, $23,000,000
1S22, - 35,000,000
1823j 29,000,000
1524, 38,000,000
1525, 49,000,000
1S27, 39,000,000
1829, 43,000,000
1832, 57,000,000
COMMERCIAL.
Extracts from the Report of the Committee of
twenty one appointed by the late Con
vention at Charleston.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
If we take the article of cotton alone, and
enter into a calculation of the loss occasioned
to the planting interests of the South and West
by ah indirect trade, we will be astonished at
the result. The estimated crop of cotton for
the year endiug 30th September, 1S38, is
1,891,497 bales. This cotton is transported
by sea, either to the Northern posts, or direct
ly to Europe. Of this number, 1,165,155
balcs'o to England; 321,4SJ to France;
63,IC9 to the North of Euiope; and 25,895 to
other foreign ports; making a total of 1,574,
629 sent abroad. Deduct this number of
bales from the entire crop, and we find that
226,S28 bales are used at home, and returned
to us in domestic manufacture?. It is but
reasonable to estimate the freight paid upon
the number of bales shipped abroad at one
and a half cent per pound. If this be calcu
lated upon 1,574,629 bales, supposing each
hale to contain 340 pounds, which alone gives
535,373,S60 pounds it is shown that the pro
ducing States pay for freight alone, $S,030,
607 9J. Other charges, such as commis
sions, shipping, insurance, may be said to
amount to at least five per cent. Now the
amount of the crop xhipped valued at $33 per
bale, is 847,238,870,
Fiva per ceut. upon that amount
i3 . - - $2,361,943 50
To which add the freight, which
j3 - - S,C30,607 90
i
And you have a total of $10,392,551 40
This immeuse amount deducted from a
crop of the value of $17,23S,S70, is distribut
ed among those who act as tho transporting
and selling ageuts of the producer, all of whom
live Noi tli of the Potomac river. 'I he South
thus stands ia the attitude of feeding from her
owa bosom a vast population of merchants,
ship owners capitalists and others, who with
out the claim ot her progeny, drink up the life
blood of her trade.
It cannot be here asserted that a deduction
should be allowed for that portion of the South-
1S21,
1S22,
1823,
1824,
1825,
1827,
1829,
1S32,
Virginia.
$1,078,000
S64,000
681,000
639,000
553,000
431,000
375,000
650,000
South Carolina.
1821, $3,000,000
1822, 2,000,000
1523, 2,000,000
1524, 2,400,000
1525, 2,150,000
1827, 1,800,000
1829, 1,240,000
1832, 1,213,000
Thus, the import trade of New York has
gradually increased from 189,000 sterling,
about $840,000, in the year 1769, and from
about three millions of dollars in 1791, to the
enormous sum, in 1S32, of fifty seven mil
lions of dollars! Vhile Virginia has falHen
off, in her import trade, from two and a .half
millions of dollars, in 1791, to $375,000 in
1829, and 550,000 dollars in 1832, not a great
deal more than the freight of half a dozen
ships!
"From these calculations, a few curious
facts appear. The imports of ' New York,
were in 1S32, seventy times as great as they
were in 1769, and nearly twenty times more
than they were iu 1791. Virginia, on the
other hand, imported, in 1829, about one
eleventh of what she did in 1769, and about
one seventh of what she did in 1791. In a
period tco of eight years, the aggregate im
ports of New York amounted to three hun
dred and eleven millions of dollars; those of
South Carolina to about sixteen millions, and
those of Virginia to about five millions! New .
York imported, therefore, in 1S32, eleven
times as much as Virginia did in eight years
preceding, and nearly four times as much aa
V irginia did in eight years preceding, and
nearly four times as much in the single year
of 1832, as South Carolina imported in a pe
riod of eight years. Agun, New lork im
ported in one year, (1S32) nearly fifty times
as much as Sbuih Carolina in the same year,
and abont 110 times as much as Virginia.
"In 1S35, the loug endured national debt
was extinguished, and having absoibed from
the treasury about four hundred and twenty
two millions cf dollars. The larger portion
of this sum was paid to the citizens of the U.
States; of whom, those residing north of the
Potomac, were to those residing South of it,
in the ratio of 165 to 11; and those in Massa
chusetts, New YoTk and Pennsylvania, to
those iu all the other States, is 150 to 176.
Whence, but from their commerce, did the
Northern States acquire the mean? of loaning

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