, 1862-08-01
Ibe Tributte.
FRIDAY AUGUST, i, 1862.
REPORT OF THE CENSUS OF 1859.

REPORT OF THE CENSUS OF 1859.
Statistics Of mines. NIanufaetorles dc.
TIE PUBLIC PRESS.
Concluding Remarks.
Some chapters from the Report Of the gu
perintendent Of the Genius have been pub
ished. They present in general view mag
ni8cept picture Of the progress Of the county
up to 1860.
Mr. Kennedy, the experienced and capable
superintendent Of the census, has in press his
Preliminary Report on the Census Of 1850,
embodSing and collatiug the general results
and more important details Of that census, iu
al octave Of 800 psges, intended to exhibit
fairly ind imprcssively the progress Of this
Republican population, industry, wealth, art,
intelligence, &C., during the last decade. Is
a specimen Of the whole, We extract from
proofeheets his report Oh the press; also his
judiclous and discriminating concluding re-
marks:
Manufactures which, with the products of
the MINES and fisheries, amounted to some
thing over one thousand millions Of dollars in
1350-Rre computed at nineteen hundred
millions Of dollars in 1850. The gain in ten
years being SC PIT cent The product per
head was over 5000; required the labor Of
over million OF men and TWO hundred aud
eighty i've thousand women; aud gave direct
support to near five millions of persons.
ufac.uIsd N 1870 an aggregate valued at
$6,S42 coo. In 1sC0 tha: value had Increased
to vi, ,s02 Goo, OF 160 per cent This increase
was most marked in the Western Sta 'es, wh.ra
the value rose in the ten years from two to
eight millions.
SS4 COO ions, worth nineteen millious of dol
12rs, being an increase OF II per cent. Tha bar
AID other rolled iron of that rear VAS over
40G, GOO tons, valued at over twenty-five mill
hons Of dollars, IN increase of nearly 20 per
ce1t.
amount valued st s2s, COO, eco; that OF 1850
shows SIT COZ, 600. The Southern and Western
States exhibit the largest relative increase,
The ratio Of increase in the several sections
showed thus: New England 1874 per cent.
Middle States 55.2; Southern 3S.7; Western
12.1. The exhibit for the Southern States is
proof that these States we're improving as we'll
III manufactures and the mechanic arts. Al
they were 10uIishing in their agriculture, IN
F1rE E1ria, tue increse WIGS 23.G per cent, whiIc
in South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi,
it was 52.5 per cent
The products o{ the iron foundriee, aside
from mactioery, were valued, in 1850, at
twenty millions, aud we're, il 1860, twenty
seven muliens. OF this amount, oyer thirteen
illions came from the fosges OF New z ork
and Pennsy1ya
The coal mines produced. in 1880, to the
value Of nineteen millions, while In 1850 they
yielded only Eeyen milliuDs-a prod1gious in-
crease for ten years. Of bituminous coal, Ohio
raised twenty-eight millions, and virginia be-
tween nine and ten millions.
Lumber went up, in the ten years. from
fifty eight millions to ninety-six millions Of
dollars In the Western States the increase
Was 1913 per cent.
The pruducts OF Touring and grist mills
were, in 1850, one hundred aud thirty six mil
lions, and in 1850 two hundred aud twenty
three The largest mill, at Oswego, mauutac-
tured three hundred thousand barrels of -four.
The neH IN order, At Richmond. made one
hundred and ninety and one hundred and SIX
ty thousand.
or epirituous liquors, there were mauuGac-
tured eighty y-eighr millions Of GALLONS,
valued at twenty-four million two Hundred
and fft5-three thousand dollars.
Malt liquors footed up three million two
hundred and thirsy-tive Thousand barrels, an
increase of LIS per cent, valued at:eighteen
millions of dollars,
OF cotton goods New England msnufAc-
tured oye- eighty millions, tue Middle States
over tTenty-six millions, and the rematniug
States eight millions five hundred Thousand
dollars worth making the whole about one
hundred and fifteen millions in 1850, against
sixty-lye millions in 1850, M Increase rs per
cent. The value Of the product to each indi-
vidua1 Of the population was $3.50 and the
amount 4S11SS yards. In 1850 the average pro-
duct per head was 32M yards. It will thus be
seen that the increase per head was II yards.
fYrr E %o< <At
Ter bend in 1920, when it was II yards.
The number OF hands employed in the man
nfacture in 1860 was 45,SI5 males and 73 Cos
females. an Increase in the male operatives Of
Of 1o, o5o and in the females Of 10.9at since
1850. The average product Of the labor Of
each operative was $3.50. The number Of
spiEdles was returned at 5,035, 738, being
IN Increase Of 40, ,105, or IS s per cent. over
the aggregate Of 1850, which was estimated at
3,633Gs3. The New England States possess
.95:',@97, or 16.6 per cent Of the whole, while
Massachusetts alone employs l,759. 100 Or
29.3 per cent Of the NUMBER returned In the
Union.
The quantity Of cotton used in the fabrica-
tion Ct the above goods WIS 36f, ,036, ,123
pounds, OF 9l0. ono halcs Of 400 pounds each.
Of this amount the New England States con
snmed GIL ,738 bales, and Massachusetts, alune
31G.G5.
Wuolen manufactures have increased over
50 Per cent. In 1850 the value Of woolen and
mixed goods was 81, ,aS1 600; in 1850 it was
s6S. .s65, COO The establishments were nearly
1000. OF F hich the South had 227. Massachu.
ketts is the first wooten manufacturing State
IN tie Urion. Rhode Island next, and New
York next. Kentucky ia first among the
Ntstt n States. Singular rs 1t appears, the
product Ct Ohio, which, in 1850, was larger
than that Of all other Western States, showed
decline in 1860.
The increase ia wool has not been SO large
as that in Woo1en manufactures. In 1850 ii
was fifty two million pounds, and in 1860 sixty
millions. Thfs is a branch OF industry which
needs extending There will be, for u long
time hereafter, comparat Tely but little cotton
mail 'ufactured. 1ts place will nave to be sup
piled IN large part by wool, which has hitherto
been in deficient supply, even when Its con
euu'ption has been restricted by the plentiful
+! ness of cotton goods.
| Of linen goods there arc few coarse kind:
made il Massachusetts, but the manufacture
| Us O whole, is 10. SoTthy Of being nasur,
| among the general statistics Of the nationa
t Industry.
There arc some sewing silks made in ths
I country; lew ribbons and ladies' and coact
trimmings Of silk. New York and Phi1a1@l
| Phla produce tEo MILLIONS worth Of tile las
| Eonit d.
| Manufacturers of leather increased from
| s3f, 200, coo to 5000, ,000-lncrease 81 PEE
cent: New England produced SIC, ,00o, ,NOo, th,
na middle States 0o0, 600, and the West Sc,
GOO 600.
Of boots and ehoes, there were made II
1850 flfty-tour million dollars worth, whjls
! New England alone made more than this Ii
1850 The great boot and shoe cities are Phil
| adclphia over five millions; Lynn near tna
! amount; H4veEh'll over four millions, ant
| New York near four millions. Some sho,
manufacturers made Ia North B7ookfeIi
| $50, COO worth, aud this WIS one Of five es
Establishments, belonging to the same proprie
! tois, who turned out over million Of pairs
worth s1,300. 900.
The increase in India runher goods is 90 ps!
CENT, being, III 1860, near 81, ,000.O
I The amount Ut gas mlde in 1850 is set dow
| at :G0, 900 GOO feet. Of salt there was in 1881
| produced $1,000, 600 worth, while In 1860
| New York, Virgins, OHIO and Peunsy17ani7
| which are in the order named, the priucips
| salt producing States, made over $3,o0O, ,O0
| worth at i cost of $1.l8 a bushel.
| The totHl value of the real aud persona
estate il the country wss estimated TO BE-, i,
lSG0. SIG ,ooo, 600 GOO representing an increas
Of LEG per cent. In ten years.
THE PUBLIC PRESS,
| Among the clements which determine tn
Characteristics of u people, no brunch Of socsa
statistics occupies more important plac
than that which exhibits the number, variety
and diffusion Of newspapers and other per-
odicals. Composing as they do, part Of til
reaoiug Of all, they furnish nearly the Who'll
I OF the reading which tho great numbe,
| whether from inclination nr ueressttv pprm;