,405 square miles 67,380 square miles.
Population, 1810, 12,282 20,845.
" 1860, 1,711,951 1,182,012.
Ratio of increase from 1810 to 1860,
13,838 per ct. 5,570.
Railroads in operation in 1860, 2,868 miles 817 miles.
Ditto, 1st of January, 1864, 3,080 miles 914 miles.
Value of farm lands, 1860, $432,531,072 $230,632,126.
Canals, 102 miles none.
Ratio of increased value of property from
1850 to 1860, 458 per cent. 265 per cent.
At same ratio from 1860 to 1870, as from
1850 to 1860, total wealth in 1870 would
be $3,993,000,000 $1,329,000,000.
RHODE ISLAND.--Free State. DELAWARE.--Slave State.
Area, 1,306 square miles 2,120 square miles.
Population in 1792, 69,110 59,096.
" 1860, 174,520 112,216.
Product in 1859, $52,400,000 $16,100,000.
Value of property in 1860, $135,000,000 $46,242,181.
Bank capital, $20,865,569 $1,640,675.
Copies of press issued in 1860, 5,289,280 1,010,776.
Pupils at public schools, 23,130 8,970.
Volumes in public libraries, 104,342 17,950.
Pupils at colleges and academies, 3,664 764.
Percentage of native free adults who cannot
read or write, 1.49 23.03.
Value of churches, $1,293,700 $340,345.
NEW JERSEY.--Free State. SOUTH CAROLINA.--Slave State.
Area, 8,320 square miles 24,500 square miles.
Population in 1790, 184,139 249,073.
" 1860, 672,035 703,708.
Ratio of increase from 1790 to 1860,
265 per cent. 182 per cent.
Population per square mile in 1860, 80.77 28.72.
Increase of population per square mile
from 1790 to 1860, 58.64 per cent. 18.55 per cent.
Ditto from 1850 to 1860, 21.93 per cent. 1.44 per cent.
Population in 1860, remaining the same per Population in 1860, remaining
square mile, if area equal to that of South the same per _square mile_, if
Carolina, 1,978,650. area equal to that of New
Jersey, 238,950.
Product of 1859, $167,398,003 $46,445,782.
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