The southern press., 1851-12-11
l5l,76O s,653,713 STOP

Middle States nclud-
ing Maryland, Del
aware and Ohio, (6) Isl 100 S,653,7l3 57.O2
Coast Planting tates,
including S. Caro-
lima, Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, Mis-
isiana (6) as6,O77 s,5s7,O 1886
Central Slave States: "-.
Virginia, ". Caro- .....
lima, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Mis-
souri,, Arkansas(6) 308,2lO 5,l6S,Oo0 1919
N. Western States ...,. .. l.
Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Wscon-
sin, and Iowa (5) 25O, 900 2,135 900 1892
Texas $4,000 $4,000 .S9
California $4,000 10000 .S7
There are points of agreement in the gene
raj characteristics of the States combined in the
above groups which warrant the mode of ar
rangement adopted Maryland is classed, as
heretofore, with the Middle States, because it.
leadinp interests appear to connect it rather with
the commercial and manufacturing section to
which il is here assigned, than with the purely
AGRICULTURAL States. Ohio is placed in the same
connection for nearly similar reasons
There seems to be a marked proprety for
setting off the new agricultural States of the
Northwest by themselves, as preliminary 10
the comparison of their progress with other
portions of the Union. The occupations which
give employment TO the people of the central
range of States, south of the line OF the Poto-
IN &C, distinguish them 10 some extent from that
division to which we have given the appellation
of the coast planting States. Ia the latter. cot
ton. sugar, and rice, are the great staples, the
cultivation of which is so absorbing as to stamp
its impress on the character of the people. The
industry of the central States is more diversi
fed. the surface Of the country is more broken,
the modes of cultivation are different, and the
mnuter divisions of labor create more hume
rous and less accordant interest. So far as
Texas is settled, its population closely assimi.
lates with that OF the other coast planting
States: but il would obviously convey no well
founded idea of the density of population in
that sc ton, to distribute their people the
vast uninhsbited region of Texas. For the
same reason, and the additional one Of the iso-
laton of her position California is considered
Distinct from other States.
Taking the thirty-one States together, their
area is /, ass $40 square miles, and the average
number Of their inhabitants is Is 4S to the
square mile The total area of the United
States is $40 900 square miles and the aver
age density Of population is 1919 to the square
mile.
There are as assigned to those States and
territories in which public lands are situated are
doubtless correct, being taken from the records
Of the Land Office but, AS TO those attributed
to the older States the same means OF verify.
ing their accuracy, or the want of IL, do not ex.
ist But care has been taken 10 consult the best
local authorities for ascertaining the extent Of
surface 10 those States and IS the figures adopt.
ed are found TO agree with, or differ but slightly
from those assumed TO be correct, at the General
Land Office, il is probable they do moi vary es
sentially from the exact truth.
The area Of some Of the States as Maryland
and Virginia, are stated considerably below the
commonly assumed extent Of their territory
which may be accounted from The supposi,ior
that the portions Of the surface within their
exterior limits, covered by large bodies Of water
have been subtracted from the aggregate amount
This IL known 10 be the case in regard to Mary.
land, the superficial extent of which, within the
outlines Of its boundaries, is 3 $50 square miles
and is deemed probable with reference to Vir
pinia, from the fact that many geographers have
given its total area as high as $4,000 square
miles.
Il appears from the returns that, during the
wear ending on the first of June, 1850, there es
capped from their owners one thousand and eleven
slaves, and that during the same period fourteen
hundred and sixty-seyen were manumitted. The
number Of both classes will appear in the fol-
lowing table -