The national hand-book of American progress : a ready reference manual of facts and figures, from the discovery of America to the present time . he Treasury. William H. Crawford, Ga. Secretaries of War. Isaac Shelby, Ky.; J. C. Calhoun, Secretaries of the Navy. Benjamin W. Crowninshield,Mass.; Smith Thompson, N. Y.; Samuel L. Southard, N. J. Postmasters- General. Return J. Meigs, Jr., Ohio; JohnMcLean, Ohio. Attorney- General. William Wirt, Expenses and Debt, 5th Administration. Year. Expenses. Debt. 1817. $40,877,646 $123,491,965 1818. . 35,164,875 103,466,633 1819. . 24,004,
The national hand-book of American progress : a ready reference manual of facts and figures, from the discovery of America to the present time . he Treasury. William H. Crawford, Ga. Secretaries of War. Isaac Shelby, Ky.; J. C. Calhoun, Secretaries of the Navy. Benjamin W. Crowninshield,Mass.; Smith Thompson, N. Y.; Samuel L. Southard, N. J. Postmasters- General. Return J. Meigs, Jr., Ohio; JohnMcLean, Ohio. Attorney- General. William Wirt, Expenses and Debt, 5th Administration. Year. Expenses. Debt. 1817. $40,877,646 $123,491,965 1818. . 35,164,875 103,466,633 1819. . 24,004,199 95,529,648 1820. 21,763,024 91,015,566 1821. 19,090,572 89,987,427 1822. . 17,676,592 93,546,676 1823. . 15,314,171 90,875,877 1824. . 31,898,538 90,269,777 MPORTS AN D Exports, 5th Administration. Year. Imports. Exports. 1817. , $99,250,000 $87,671,560 1818. . 121,750,000 93,281,133 1819. 87,125,000 70,141,501 1820. . 74,450,000 69,661,669 1821. . 62,585,724 64,974,382 1822. . 83,241,541 72,160,281 1823. 77,579,267 74,699,030 1824 , , 89,549,007 75,986,657 172 NATIONAL HAND-BOO& SIXTH John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the UnitedStates, was born at Braintree, Mass., on the 11th of July,1767. His character was formed under the ennobling influ-ences of a cultured home, and developed amid rare social andliterary advantages. The influence of his noble mother, aswell as of his father, is apparent in the development of hismoral and intellectual nature. His youthful ear heard the thunder of the cannon thatshook Bunkers Hill, and his eye eagerly watched the cloudsof smoke as they ascended from the burning ruins of Charles-town. In his eleventh year he accompanied his father toFrance, and thus had rare opportunities to acquire a knowl-edge of the politics, manners and language of the people. OP AMERICAN PROGRESS. 173 When he had attained his fourteenth year, he was acting ashis fathers secretary, and, notwithstanding his youth, wasrecognized as an officer in tha
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