The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1852-02-12
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The seventh census of the United States has
been completed, and is published by order of
Congress. We gather from the Congressional
Globe, and other sources the following statis-
tics which we think will be interesting to most
of our readers. There have been engaged in
the work, forty five marshals and three thou
sand two hundred and thirty-one assistants,
together with one hundred and forty. eight
clerks at the census office in Washington.
The total population of the United states, in
1850, was q, ,246 30l, of which 10 638 ,0l9, were
whites, 428 ,637, were free colored people and
8, 184 1862, slaves.
The population Of the different States is as
follows Maine, 5SS, S,lSS; New Hampshire,
81 ,964 Vermont, 313611; Massachusetts,
994 ,499; Rhode Island, 147 ,544 Connecticut,
370,79l; New York, 3,097 1894; New Jersey,
4S9, ,555; Pennsy ylvania, 2,311,7S6 Delaware,
81 ,535; Maryland, $50, ,035; Virginia, ,42l-
66l; North Carolina, 868, ,903 South Carolina,
66s,5O7; Georgia, 9O5 ,999 Alabama, III ,671 );
Mississippi, COG ,555; Louisiana, 5ll 974 Tex
as, 2l2,592; Florida, 87,401 Kentucky ,,
9s2, ,4G5; Tennessee, 1,O02,625; Missouri,
682, ,043; Arkansas, 209, $3.50; Ohio, $3.50. .4O8 );
Indiana, 9S8, 8,4l6; Illinois, 85l 40; Michigan,
397 ,654 Iowa, 1924 Wisconsin, 3O5, ,l91 );
California (assumed at) 10000; Minnesota,
GOT; Oregon, 1928; New Mexico, 81 sos ;;
Utah, 1881 District of Columbia, 81 ,6S7.
The entire capital invested in the various
manufactures in theUnited States, on the first
of June, 185O-not including any establish.
ments producing less than the annual value of
S5OO-amounted, in round numbers to $780,
OOO,OOO value Of raw material, $3.50, ,OOO, 900 :;
amount paid for labor, 10000, 900; value Of
manufactured articles, 81 ,020, SEQ Geo; num-
ber of persons employed, 81 ,O5OOOO.
The statistics of the newspaper press form an
interesting feature in the returns of the census
IL appears that the whole number of news
papers and periodicals in the United States on
the first day of June, 1850, amounted to $500
Of these, 494 were fully returned, pa had
all the facts except circulation given, aud -
are estimated for California, the Territories,
and for those that may have been emitted by
the assistant marshals. From calculations
made on the statistics returned, and estimated
calculations where they have been omitted, it
appears that the aggregate circulation of these
$500 papers and periodicals is about 5 5.OGO 900,
and that the entire number of copies printed
annually in the United States, amounts to
422, 600, 900. There are $50 dalies, $50 tri-
weeklies, 125 semi-weeklies, 1000 weeklies,
so semi-monthlies, 100 monthlies, and 25 quar-.
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are issued in the New England States, S76 in
the Middle States, 7l6 in the Southern States,
and 784 in the Western States. The average
circulation Of these papers is 1,785. There is
one publication for every 7,l6l free inhabitants
in the United States and Territories.
But to be more explicit with our own State,
the smallest in the Union Rhode Island has
increased in population since 1870, the time
when the first census was taken, from SO, ITO,
to l47 ,544 inhabitants. She has an area off
l ,3O6 square miles, Of which 337 ,672 acres are
improved, producing thirty nine bushels of
wheat, 5l6,l33 bushels of corn, no tobacco,
no cotton, Ill ,937 pounds of wool, 842 gallons
of wine, 1,O66,625 pounds of butter, 296, ,748
pounds Of cheese, 1888 tons of hay, no hemp,
no faxseed. and no nipple or cane sugar. There
are farming implements and machinery, to the
value of S473,3S5, fine stock to the value of
81 ,466, ,636, aid home made manufactures to
the value of S26,O9S. There is S6,675, 900
capital invested in cotton manufactures, con
suming 50,713 bales of cotton, at the value of
S3,4S4,679, employing 1850 males, and 5,9l6
female hands, at the average wages vf $1S 81
per month for males, and $12 95, per month
for females; and producing 96,725, ,612 yards
of cloth and ,9O2,9 $50 pounds of thread and
yarn, at the value of $6.447 ,12O In woolen
goods there is capital invested to the amount of
81 ,Ol3 900 consuming 4,lO3, $40 pounds of wool,
at the value of 81 ,468 900, employing 9s7 male
and III female hands, at the average wages
per month of $40 20 for males. and Is 1s for
females, and manufacturing 1912 400 yards Of
cloth and 46 900 pounds Of yarn at the entire
value Of S2,3s1 1875.
In iron castings, Rhode Island hes $42S,SOO