Wheat, bus. Tobacco, lbs. Crop of 1840 4,569,692 29,550,432 " " 1850 1,619,386 20,148,932 --------- ---------- Decrease 2,950,306 bus. Decrease 9,401,500 lbs. VIRGINIA. Rye, bus. Tobacco, lbs. Crop of 1840 1,482,799 75,347,106 " " 1850 458,930 56,803,227 --------- ---------- Decrease 1,023,869 bus. Decrease 18,543,879 lbs. ALABAMA. Wheat, bus. Rye, bus. Crop of 1840 838,052 51,000 " " 1850 294,044 17,261 ------- ------ Decrease 544,008 bus. Decrease 33,739 bus. The story of these figures is too intelligible to require words of explanation; we shall, therefore, drop this part of our subject, and proceed to compile a couple of tables that will exhibit on a single page the wealth, revenue and expenditure, of the several states of the confederacy. Let it be distinctly understood, however, that, in the compilation of these tables, three million two hundred and four thousand three hundred and thirteen negroes are valued as personal property, and credited to the Southern States as if they were so many horses and asses, or bridles and blankets--and that no monetary valuation whatever is placed on any creature, of any age, color, sex or condition, that bears the upright form of man in the free States. TABLE NO. XX. WEALTH, REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE OF THE FREE STATES--1850.