Statement exhibiting the quantity and value of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice, exported annually, UNITED STATES POPULATION, DEBT, LOANS, ETC. From a circular for the European Correspondence of CAMMANN & WHITEHOUSE, we are permitted to copy the annexed interesting tables, compiled at their request by the Treasury Department, in order that official information might be given to foreigners desirous of investing in American Stocks-of the extent of our population, resources and debt. There is not another country under the sun that can exhibit such resources and so small a debt: Statement, exhibiting the population of the United States, the Public Debt, the receipts from Loans and Treasury Notes, the receipts, exclusive of Treasury Notes and Loans, and the payments on account of the debt each year, from 1791, to June, 1848, inclusive. Receipts fromh Loans and Revenue exclusive Principal and interest of debt paid .$75,463,476 52.... $5,791,112 56. Present debt, including the amount to be realized on the 1st of May, 1848, of the loans of 1846, 1847 and 1848, $65,787,008 92. pulation was in Baltimore county, Md., fortysix miles north, and twenty-two miles east, from Washington. In 1800, it was in Adams county, Pennsylvania, sixty-four miles north, and thirty west, from Washington. In 1820 it was in Morgan county, Virginia, forty-seven miles north, and seventy-one west, from Washington. In 1830, it was in Hampshire county, Virginia, forty-three miles north, and one hundred and eight west, from WashingIn 1840, it was in Marion county. Virginia, thirty-six miles north, and one hundred and sixty west, from Washington. Thus, it would appear, that the centre of representative population has kept nearly on the same parallel of latitude for fifty years; the latitude of 1840 being within ten miles of that of 1790. It has in the same fifty years moved westward one hundred and eighty-two miles. ton. UNITED STATES-STATES AND TERRITORIES. Table showing the Estimated Surface of the Territories of the United States, North and West of the regularly organized States of the Union, and the portions of Territory thereof, situated North and South of the parallel of 30° 30' north latitude. Territories Oregon territory, bounded on the north by the parallel of 49° north latitude, south by the parallel of 420 north latitude, east by the Rocky Mountains, and west by the Pacific Ocean.. Territory north and west of the Mississippi river, bounded on the north by the parallel of 49° north latitude, east by the Mississippi river, south by the State of Iowa and the Platte river, and west by the Rocky Mountains.. Total square miles Wisconsin territory, bounded east by the Mississippi river, and north by the State of Wisconsin, being the balance remaining of the old Northwest Territory.. Indian Territory, situated west of the States of Missouri and Arkansas, and south of the Platte or Nebraska, held and apportioned in part for Indian purposes.. Territory in Upper California and New-Mexico,* situated west of the Rio Grande to its source, and of a meridian line thence to the parallel of 429 north latitude, ceded to the United States by the treaty with Mexico of 1848. Total.... That part of Texas which lies east of the Rio Grande and west of the Nueces river, from the mouth of the former river, up to a line drawn from a point a short distance north of Paso to the source of the Ensenada river, is estimated at.... And the part which lies north of Paso and the Ensenada river, up to latitude of 42° north.. Making, togethert.... This estimate excludes all that part of Texas which lies outside of its limits, as designated by the yellow shaded lines on Disturnal's map of Mexico. †This estimate, as will be seen, limits our acquisitions of territory from Mexico by the late treaty, exclusively to those portions of country lying west of the Rio Grande. TEXAS IN THREE DIVISIONS. 1st. Between the Sabine and Nueces rivers, south of Ensenada river (T. proper) .Sq. miles.. .148,469 52,018 124,933 Total 325,520 1st. Number of miles of coast acquired by the annexation of Texas, from the mouth of the Sabine to the Rio Grande.. 400 2d. Number of miles of coast on the Pacific, including Oregon and California. In California, 970; Oregon, 500; Straits of Juan de Fuca, 150 Total, including Texas 1,620 2,020 TABLE EXHIBITING THE AREAS OF THE SEVERAL STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED STATES IN SQUARE MILES AND ACRES. TERRITORY NORTH AND WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Bounded north by 49° north latitude, east by Mississippi river, south by State of Iowa and Platte river, and west by Rocky Mountains .723,248.... 462,878,720 Indian territory, situated west of the States of Arkansas and Missouri, and south of the Platte river.. Old northwest territory, balance remaining east of the Mississippi river and north of Wisconsin... Total of old territory and organized into States d 994,435.. .636,438,400 TERRITORY EXCLUSIVE OF OLD TERRITORY EAST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Missouri is the largest State at present, except Texas, which is to be divided into four States. The area of the State of California, according to an estimate made on Preuss's map of 1848, is 158,500 square miles. The average distance of the sea-coast from the eastern boundary of the new state of California, is. Total length from north to south.... Length of sea-coast.. The surface of Deseret, estimated on Preuss's map, is as follows: Total surface of Old Territory east of the Rocky Mountains, in square miles.. LENGTH OF THE UNITED STATES SEA-COAST. 1,456 miles. ..33,063 UNITED STATES SEA AND RIVER | Grande to the Pacific ocean, by treaty lines, SHORE LINE.-Col. Abert, of the Topo graphical Engineers, thus answers to the questions of government: Question 1. "The extent of shore line of each of the rivers of the United States, as far as navigable for steamboats of the lightest draft now used, designating the extent of shore line of each principal river and its tributaries." Answer. Shore line of rivers, to head of tide water, from Maine to Texas. The head of tide water is assumed as the limit of steamboat navigation, as impeding falls or rapids are usually encountered at that point, above which many of our rivers are adapted to steam navigation, but to what extent is not sufficiently known.... ... 10,501 miles. Shore line of rivers of Texas.. 1,210 66 Mississippi (lower) islands and bayous... Mississippi (upper) and tributa ries.. 8,372 2,736 Question 4. "Extent of shore line of the northern lakes, including bays, sounds, and islands." Answer. American coast, or 3,620 miles. British coast, or shore line.... UNITED STATES.-IMMIGRATION INTO. That the world is watching the progress of these United States, has been so often rerepeated, that national vanity may be pardoned even when displayed on the puny attempts of some miserable tourist to disparage the vastness he cannot grasp, and the institutions he cannot comprehend. But while this great and preponderating influence, looming up in futurity like a mountain, and growing and expanding with every year, that tests the worth and proves the stability of our noble and free government, may well excite feelings of the proudest patriotism, let us be wiling to analyze, most carefully, every force that swells the aggregate of our national strength, and ferret out every element of weakness and decay. It is for the republican institutions of America we hope and fear most. It is not because the soil of America offers an asylum, and her corn fields bread to the oppressed, that she is to be considered the great problem with the solution of which is connected the happiness of our very race. Intimately connected with this question of the stability of our republican institutions, is to be viewed |