Arizona miner., 1866-07-25
OUR NATIONAL PROGRESS-IyTyR
 ESTING CENSUS RETURNS.


 Among the many evidences that have Gun. to light, showing that the present Sccre,.v of the Interior Mir. lIarlan) has render,1 the public very great service by his manar,. ment of aiairs, is his rapid publication of ts, Census Returns. He has accomplished in, few months, what formerly occupied as man, years. Only few weeks have elapsed .iDc. the valuable quarto volume on maaufacturs. made it's appearance, and we now learn th,, towards the close of the present month O, soon after, another volume, on the Mortaitv of the United States, and other subject. which concludes the series, will De is.nsl from the government printing office 4 diepS ! in Washington, who has been permitted ,o look over the proofs of the volume in ques,o, sends Us the following particulars taken fruu tine preliminary chapter of the work After giving us very interesting and yl. uable account of the census operations in Es. rope, from the earliest times, and sketchin, their history in the United States down "a | 1860, the writer proceeds Co a brief review oi the volumes already published on popula,iOa agriculture and manufactures, from which ., | gather the following figures. In the time q Queen Elizabeth the regions now within th. limits of the Union were referred to as awiA. erncss untrodden by civilized man, and ye
 the total number of the inhabitants in tk, Anglo American Colonies, was,
 In HOO. 262,0o; H50, l,OO0,O0o; lTa 2, 2sq 20: i79n. limited S,..--i osa v:
 lsG0 United States) 3l, ,4i3,32l
 In lSGO the unimproved lands of the Cnitt
 States amounted 10 2H, lOl SIS acrc-, the in-
 proved lands to 63,llO,720 acres, and 10. cash value of the whole was estimated t ' SG,6ij, ,O45,OO7.
 The product of our manufactures in ls6e
 was estimated at the enormous sum, in rvunl
 numbers, of s2,OO0cOOOO0.
 From the mortality results in the voluns
 in question, it appear. that the names of ds-
 eases have been so generalixed as To redas
 them to a classification of l2i, having non
 enciature sufficiently comprehensive, and yr. so certain as to embrace more than l,i.n names of popular maladies by which the u-
 rious diseases are called and known in diF,f.
 ent localities. In 1850, with population q 23,oO0OO0, S23, ,O23 persons died, showing s , deaths m every 2,UU; and in lsGO, when osr population was 3l.5O0,OUO. the deaths xes
 394, l53, showing 25 deaths to every 2,00--
 thus indicating an increase in vitality gEr'
 the previous dcocnnial period of i5- lOO Ofl VI NShN- At'tthil- Np tui- TatlD ui infIt4~i tie beginning of the year 1900 will find wi,A . in the present limits of the RepublE
 lOI ,OOO,OcO of inhabitants.
 But the new census volume alluded to on
 tains much information of q miscclanroq
 c1araeter, and from that portion the followinI
 particulars are taken
 The only Bank, whi, existed in the Amer
 ican colonies previous to lT15, was the s i.an, l ..F Ii. t Il ed in l139, and soon after dissllowcd by Par. ' lament. The only banks in existence wher . the National Government went into operation
 were the Bank of North America. charterv,
 in l7sl; the Bank of New-Yor establishe'
 in l7si, and chartered ia l79l and the Ban of Massachusetts, in Boston, with an aggrs } gate capital Of about 2,0O0,0OU. On the fir [ of November, 1865, the National Banks In h g Union numbered l,G0i, of which G79 wer
 nes banks, and S22 were conyersions frOl
 State institutions. On the list of January 1866, the estimated circulation va S3SOOcuOO of National Bank N0te' { SsO,OcOOO from State Banks, Sl29, ,O0,m
 supposed to have been issued since the lst (
 October, 1865, to National Banks, hile tA
 gold and silver products from the mines ic the fiscal year ending the 30th of June, ls6i 5 was lOO,Uo,OOO and the receipts Of the Ire, sury for that year amounted to s920 5000 [ The first insurance office in this countr was one established at Boston in l72l, an
 the second in Philadelphia in i756. In iSc the number of companies was 294, with cap 3 ital of ss2, TO, ,2l9; while the life compAsie ! numbered 4I, embracing 69,OO0 lives. , In 1880 the commercial railroads in th
 Union were equal to %, 793 miles, and the cit
 railroads to 402 miles; the first cos,ih Sl, ,l5l, ,5G6, ,s29, and the latter Sl4, 62,S40 In the same year there were in the county lls slackwater canals and slackwater Is Iproyements completed, in length equal
 ,462 miles, the cost of es of which h.ylz.
 been Sl41 ,39S ,997 the expense of the rss due not having been reported.
 The real and personal private property 2 the country was estimated at Slg, ,069, l56, ,sSs , The number of educational institutions rs turned in 1860 was ll3, ,006 teachers, 14s,7 ,7i. [ and students 5,4l7 ,SS0; of these AS were oOt legiate, with 54,962 students.
 In 1860 the churches of the country nus
 bered l4,OoO; and the newspapers were Dsl { with an annual circulation of 92s, ,0OOVs | copies.
 The army raised in the Revolution, fron l775 to l1S3, amounted to 23l, ,79f, the mil
 tia adding one half that force, and the nay
 consisted of 1 vessels. In 1872 the regular numbered 32,3G0, the volunteers 6,0cO, is' militia 30,OcO, and the navy consisted d,
 frigates and ITO gun boats. In 1915 we h,a
 PIG vessels, with l,636 guns. In March, lsos'
 we had 6S4 ships-Of-war, with AT gugi
 and the aggregate number of men raised lo'
 the Union armies, to put down the rebellC'A
 was 2,6sS,0OO If to the above be added ps
 quotas constituting tle Confederate arns',
 will be found that the grand aggregate re'eh. ed 100000 of men at arms, the largest iofa ever yet put on war footing in any or country, in any age of the world---N- II"
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