RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA.

New Zealander, Volume XVII, Issue 1638, 28 December 1861, Page 5

RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN STATES OF AMERICA.

Many statements having been published relative to the paucity of the resources of the Southern States respecting breiulstulfs and provisions generally, the following statistics taken from the Official Census Report of 1850 will afford the means of forming an opinion upon the subject of starving the Secessionists into sub*

According to this census, South Carolina produce five-sixths nearly of all the rice grown in the country » besides this, she produced wheat to within 3,000 bushels of all produced by the six New England states. She produced almost as much Indian corn as the great state of New York, and six millions of bushels of that grain more than all the New England states, ohe produced more oats than Maine, more by 1,100,0000f bushels than Massachusetts, more than 4,000,000 of bushels of potatoes over and above what Maine produced, more beans and peas by 180,000 bushels than all the Northern states together, except New York: more beef cattle than Penns) Ivania by 1,740, and almost as many as all the New England States ; more sheep than lowa and Wisconsin by 10,699 ; more nog® than New York by 47,251, more than Pennsylvania by 25,137, and 86,000 more than all the New England States together, with New Jersey, Michigan,Wisconsin# and California in the bargain. What a splendid showing for the often slandered but glorious little tr> ai« metto state ! Virginia and North Carolina produced jointly of wheat 13,363,000 bushels, or 241,000 more that the great wheat state of New York, or a quantity equal to the whole product of the six New England states, with New Jersey, Michigan, lowa, and Wisconsin all put together. Virginia, North Carohnaand Tennessee produced 115,471,593 bushels of Indian corn, a quantity exceeding by 300,000 bushels . e joint product of New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. Tennessee alone produced 16,306 more hogs than all the six New England states, with New York, Pennsy • vania, New Jersey, lowa, and Michigan ; for t a state produced 3,104,800 hogs, while the eleven Northern states named produced but 3,088,394, The six states of Soutn Carolina, Georgia, Alabama Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi produced 45,1 more beef cattle than the six New England States, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin all together ; the census o 1850 also tells us that these states produced 3.35i,48J beef cattle, while the thirteen Northern states named produced but 3,312,327. . The Southern states produced four millions ot bushels of Indian corn morC than the Free states ; ana in many other products the superiority of the South, population considered, was surprisingly manifest. From the returns already sent in to the different marshals, it is expected that the census of 1860 will exhibit a considerable increase of cereals and live stock over the quantities of 1830. It is presumed that the accumulated crops of cotton, rice, sugar, and tobacco in the Southern states will soon reach the value ot 275,000,000 dollars.