APPENDIX.

APPENDIX A.

THE following article is taken from the "Boston Evening Transcript," June, 1858:

THE HUMAN RACE.

When Mr. Miller was exhorting our people to be prepared for the end of the world, and gave it as his deliberate opinion that "the day of judgment would be a thousand years," I published the following estimate in the "Boston Courier (1843), first published in the "Quarterly Journal of Agriculture," London, and copied by the "Albion," New York, 1830. It may be an interesting chapter for the study of your correspondent, “A,” and not an uninteresting one for your readers:

"INCREASE OF THE NUMBER OF MANKIND.-On the supposition that the human race has power to double its numbers four times in a century, or once in each succeeding period of twenty-five years, as some philosophers have computed, and that nothing prevented the exercise of this increase, the descendants of Noah and his family would have now increased (1830) to the following number:

1,496, 577, 696, 626, 844, 588, 240, 573, 268, 701,473,812,127,674,924,007,424.

847

"Hence, upon the supposition of such a rate of increase of man kind as has been assumed, the number of human beings now living would be equal to the following number for each square mile upon the surface of the earth, sun, and all the planets,—-61,362,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000; or to the following number to each square inch, 149,720,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000."

This last number alone is infinite with relation to human conception. Merely to count it would require an incredible period. Supposing the whole number of inhabitants now upon the surface of the globe to be one thousand millions-which is believed to somewhat exceed the actual number-and supposing that this multitude, infants and adults, were to be employed in nothing else but counting-that each working 365 days in the year, and ten hours in the day, and to count one hundred per minute, it would require, in order to count the number in question, 6,536,500,000,000 of years.

APPENDIX B.

CRINOLINE THE CAUSE OF THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS OF 1857.

MALE AND FEMALE LUXURIES.

During the past year the ladies of the United States have spent for silk $28,699,681, for embroideries $4,443,176, for trimmings and laces $1,129,754, for shawls $9,246,361, for bonnets and hats $2,246,928; while the men have wasted their substance in brandies and liquors, $3,963,725, in wines $2,381,252, and in cigars and

tobacco $5,579,931. Total spent by ladies, $36,519,538; by gentle. men, $11,924,908.

A GREAT LEAK.

Nothing can afford at a glance a clearer insight into the universal prevalence of luxury in the United States, than the fact that during the fiscal year ending June 30th, 1856, we imported silk piece goods to the amount of $25,000,000, other silk goods to the value of $6,017,115, laces $1,601,610, embroideries $4,664,353, making altogether over thirty-seven millions of dollars. These are the things which run away with the wealth of the country.

ENGLISH VIEW OF AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

The London "Times" makes the following comments upon the * condition of things in the United States:

"The commercial panic across the Atlantic is beginning to lead to a very rigid economic inquiry. The money is gone, and who has spent it all? That is the question. We need not add that the question is asked with considerable irritation and sharpness of tone, sufficient to account for any amount of reluctance in the culprit to come forward and confess. Who has spent all the money? The hue and cry of New York offers an almost unlimited reward for his or her apprehension. Whoever discovers the criminal will receive not only a pension of several thousand dollars for life, but also a civic crown; he will be clothed in splendid apparel, and led on horseback through the streets of the city. All New York is at present busy in searching for the gigantic spendthrift. Where has he gone? What has become of him? Who saw him last? What train did he leave by? Has he fled to the Dismal Swamp, or to California, or to Nicaragua ? Is he still in the city, evading pursuit? Everybody is looking into cupboards, behind doors, under beds, and in all holes and corners of upper and lower stories to see if he is there.

"When a man becomes a bankrupt, and cannot find out who is to blame for it; when he has decided that, of course, he himself has had nothing to do with it; that none of his clerks are in fault, or the post office, or the government, or the custom house-in lack of every other cause of the smash, he turns round upon his wife-'Yes: now I have got it. I always thought it would come to this. Now I see the consequence of having married an expensive woman.'

"This our contemporary, the 'New York Times,' tells us is the general explanation given in New York of the recent convulsion of the money market. Women are the burden of conversation, and the whole community is agreed that it has married a most expensive wife. All the New York merchants are turning round fiercely upon their domestic partners; the extravagant wives have done it all—it is the French silks, the crinoline and moire, the gloves and feathers, fans and furbelows, that have ruined them; these have taken the money out of the country.

"The American merchant's wife must return to rigid republican simplicity. One would imagine that there was a Jonah preaching repentance, and that the great American Tyre was going literally to clothe herself with sackcloth. There will be allowed Quaker bonnets alone, gowns of the plainest drab stuff, shawls of the same ; those wives of the most opulent citizens who are permitted to use silk, will have it measured out to them by the mayor and corporation. The Legislative Assembly of the State will debate in the next session upon the subject of female dress, and, as soon as a committee has sat, examined witnesses, and made a report on the annual quantity of clothing and ornament which the commercial welfare of the community can spare, the ladies will proceed to lay down permanent restrictions, which will be a model of sumptuary wisdom, and supply an example for the legislation of other countries that may find themselves falling into mercantile confusion.

"Such is the repentance, not of Nineveh, but of New York, and