The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-04

There in IT'S thrty-fye newspapers in the United
states In 1870 1853; 1928 $50 ls40 lG3l 1880 252G-
circulating annually nearly five hundred millions of cope
VI the newspapers in $780, s55 wing and 742 demo.
cratic The public Libraries of the United States contain
near five millions of volumes
In the slavehodng States thirteen free cooed persons
in every 10000 are in ias prisons penitentares in
the Notwithstanding 2S in every 10000 About one-tha
of the paupers the LIST June 1850 were foreigners AL
though they constitute but onetenth of the population
There are 4490I5 farms and plantations in the United
States averaging 203 each and of the value with inn
plements each S23d2 about onehireenth of the whole
Of the organized States and Territories is improved
and oue-eighth more Is occupied, and not improved In
New England 20 in the hundred improved in the
South, l6 in the Southwest D. About onesxth of The
national domain is occupied or in ownership The average
value OF occupied land in New England is $40 n mid
die States S2s southern States So "a southwest SO 2
northwest Sll 80 Texas 81 a per acre OF a large
number of cultiyators taken random in in Kentucy
in 22 in Louisiana, in II in Rhode Island in So In
South Carolina in 1913 in Michigan, cultivate less than
ten acres each.
The value of the agricultural products Of the United
States III 1854 may be estimated at 81 60Oo00000 Thirty
three millions of land in meadows IL millions in
wheat 81 millions in corn millions in cotton, millions
in potatoes &C. &C. &cll3 millions in all crops There
are $4,000 planters producing bales of cotton each
26sl sugar planters 55 rice planters growing 10000
lbs each 1919 tobacco planters raising 1900 lbs
each 1927 hemp planters.
The total capital invested in manufactures mining aud
mechanic arts in 1850 1921 20a 1893 the material
used valued at $55465503s the males employed 49,
4I9 females 2255l2 the wages paid S229 1886 317 the
annual product Sl,O3336 463; the per cent profit AZ
The imports OF the United States show as follows 1921
cotton manufactures, S75s9lli 1853 S27,l3l,3l3; wool
S2b64 1853 1852 Sl0236o37 silk 1921 $44s6970; 1853
S33048 542; coffee 1921 S4,4899TO; 1853 Sl5564 $50
sugar, 1921 $3553S95; 1883 Sl4993, o03 tea 1921
322636 1853 Ss224s53; iron and manufactures
1921 Ss6s,529 1859, S1,S3s T9l Our exports compare
follows lS2lcotton, S20l57, 484 tobacco S5G4896a
specie $lO47so59 -four, 429s 043: manufactures So
5s49l6; lumber 81 S22077 beef pork cattle and hogs,
S2052439 In 1853 the exports of the articles were
cotton, Sl0o456404 tobacco, Sll,3l93ls; specie S2I-
4s6sl5; -four Sl4,7s3,394 manufactures, S22I2 $50
lumber, S4,996ol4 beef pork, &C, Ss,46s7s Between
1870 and 1854 exports to Great Britain had increased
toureenold aud TO France seven-od in the former Pc
riod consumed So ~ TO each person of foreign goods
and in the latter period 80 go in the former period our
debt was $40 to each individual in the latter So 49,
In 1928 there were miles of railroads in the United
States in 1890, Al ls40 2,l67; 1880 1855; 1854, 1871
miles and about 5000 miles of canals The total of
railroads S48o6o3l2s number Of miles in construction,
1886. Total miles constructed in Great Britain, 1886
Germany, h,3a0; France, 2i80
The value OF real and personal estate in the United
States in 1850 81 expenditures Of the several
States $2462S &c., debt of the States S9 50so22 Es-
timated paid by each individual in the United
States for every species Of TAXATION county, State fed
eral SO 80, against 50 IS in 1892 Estimated number of
real estate holders in the Union 100000 families In
Louisiana S8 465 in real estate is owned by free blacks
and 395as30 by free muattoes in Connecticut owned
by free colOred, S303,535
The number of Indians in the United States in Is9
10000 1853, 400,764, of whom 27l0aO in California
Texas and the Territories In 1900 3S06 persons excu
sive of army and navy in federal employ 1854 456
500 Vessels built in the United States in 1915, 1914 of
l54,624 tons; 1852, ,444, of ,493 tons.
In Richmond the number of persons to dwelling in
1850 averaged 81; Charleston, sc; Mobile, 3d. New Or
leans, 60; Philadelphia, &c; St Louis, III; Cincinnati
50; Boston, So New York, l36 Number of persons
the acre in Mobile, 1873; New Orleans, 454 Philadelphia
Boston, 80; New York, l35. In 80 years Charleston
in 1850 had increased 73 per cent Savannah O2; Ba
more, 1850; Philadelphia, 1873 Boston, 22l; New York
346i New Orleans. 800 Louisville, 976 Cincinnati 1907
In about the period Paris had Increased AZ per cent
London, 81 and Berlin ia. "ft .n
The native and foregn-born free population of some
large cities is follows: Bamore-nave, l30a9l for
eign, 35492. Boston--natiye s894s foreign, d6,677
Charlestonnative, 1900; foreign 4,643 Chcago-na
tive 1868; foreign 1862. Cincinnatnatiye 6O558
foreign, 5454l. New Orleans-native 5O,47O; foreign
4s60l New Yorknatiye 277,752; foreign 235, T33 Of
whom 49, 100 Irish 60 900 Germans &c Philadelphia
native, 2s8,344; foreign lsl,699. Richmond l5
54l foreign, p, oa
Average age OF white persons who died in the United
States in lS49-'50 PEAS years; colored, 2l39. t
These but few Of the facts culed at random from
the multitude which Embodied in the Compendium
Mr. De Bow recommends bureaus Of statistics to be esab
lished in the several States, and also central one
nexon with some OF the departments at Washington