CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES. Aggregate amount of each description of persons within the United States. New Hampshire New York 143,882 90,163 53,496 30,190 14,281 29,046 20,024 18,269 14,183 9,824 6,702 4,000 1,388 181 49,324 33,109 22,684 14,645 8,387 7,138 4,891 3,430 2,176 1,196 20,110 14,863 10,792 7,220 4,274 18,163 12,807 8,612 12,304 7,703 4,122 1,274 174 10 149 231 135 137 67 1 147 195 128 109 54 2,955 375 908 1,119 1,444 871 306 6 899 1,058 868 771 417 3,019 3,429 1,978 1,639 2,079 1,485 6,245 6,192 5,182 3,697 1,400 36 6,264 7,426 6,071 3,806 2,740 2,679 1,392 1,163 645 7 2,618 2,457 1,415 1,127 9,460 7,727 4,772 4,670 2,494 50 9,134 8,626 6,686 5,423 2,902 7,958 7,165 3,898 3,135 1,652 20 7,899 7,616 4,871 3,556 2,046 3,962 3,593 1,665 1,255 734 18 3,704 3,475 2,043 1,454 801 2,834 3,106 748 12 1,505 30 662 14 76 36 28 3,168 1,443 430 74 21 1,403 1,105 3,679 1,485 2,407 847 443 79 25 427 375 232 677 405 195 205 45 14 301 296 170 152 1,075 381 96 22 6 228 168 125 114 76 271 313 4 181 26 4,163 188 124 104 9 151 133 122 59 5 3,679 2,971 2,164 986 13 14,636 5,592 1,345 173 22 2,560 2,688 1,719 1,175 294 6 629 10 579 19 2,630 881 742 445 367 285 8 936 5,035 1,780 436 59 9 1,258 1,119 620 497 229 1,112 1,100 Illinois. 22,676 12,712 6,514 2,941 866 184 39 548 568 377 265 117 536 570 Missouri 14,889 8,580 4,259 2,019 634 131 21 193 195 266 154 74 1 152 159 152 133 89 Arkansas. 3,317 1,715 805 357 113 30 3 77 56 62 34 16 3 67 60 35 32 21 779,097 502,143 304,810 173,299 80,562 23,964 3,231 315 56,323 52,799 35,308 28,258 13,493 286 55,069 56,562 41,673 30,385 15,728 361 District of Columbia 598 747 338 275 96 4 630 977 498 370 158 3 30,945 794 7,047 479 1,814 14 217 10,469 355 1,629 13 240 2,278 126 Total 422,599 391,131 235,373 145,264 51,288 753 421,470 390,075 239,787 139,201 49,692 580 17,062,566 15,203 3,717,756 117,575 791,545 56,025 Total number of persons on board of vessels of war in the United States naval service, June 1, 1840. Grand total of the United States 6,100 17,068,666 No. of persons employed in mining. No. of persons employed in Agriculture. No. of persons employed in commerce. No. of persons employed in Manufactures and trades. No. of persons employed in Navigation of the ocean. NAME OF STATE, &c. No. of persons employed in Navigation of canals, lakes and rivers. No. of persons employed in Learned professions and engineers. Number of pensioners for revolutionary or military services. TABLE CONTINUED. Deaf and dumb, blind and insane white Deaf and dumb, blind and persons. insane colored persons. SCHOOLS. At priv't charge. At public charge. Universities or colleges. Number of students. Academies and grammar schools. Number of scholars. Primary and common schools. Number of scholars. Number of scholars at public charge. No. of white persons over 20 years of age who cannot read and write. 1,889 1,409 47 73 102 180 207 330 13 56 38 4 266 86 8,477, 3,385 198 1,640 1,408 43 41 97 153 180 372 3,804 2,462 56 63 154 308 471 600 22 27 173 1,625 1,627 472 228 457 601 15 25 34 63 117 431 1,697 1,666 60 141 108 143 114 146 1,563 1,320 27 19 89 101 10,167 14,111 4,089 269 362 408 875 683 33 102 126 144 331 540 469 15 12 15 1,519 1,647 94 43 58 77 165 2,952 3,866 993 133 111 209 426 317 379 1,086 609 82 80 118 223 152 348 1,481 318 40 41 59 133 91 352 1,250 325 78 62 53 136 758 1,514 192 72 53 48 113 100 1,506 63 25 16 23 43 662 1,018 12 14 17 11 37 6 302 2,042 895 102 93 96 255 103 968 2,487 886 120 128 152 236 305 3,323 5,663 875 167 198 194 372 363 627 2,257 380 112 91 94 135 110 310 2,021 195 54 48 53 86 433 68 5,799 2,127 769 251 16,746 3,362 324 52 3,664 434 65,739 10,912 526 2,553 382 8,236 107 8,360 1,995 179 5,539 983 4,906 952 832 33 33 103 62 1,717 73 4,310 5,186 6,907 58,531 24,641 429 40,010 218,609 51,812 35,394 377 15 19 47 28 322 54 2,946 1,521 48,189 6,929 38,100 203 33,067 65,236 20,797 1,919 2,056 2,707 5,024 4,329 10,179 | 977 2 1 13 4 4 2 224 26 1,389 29 851 482 1,033 1,892 2,093 1833 173 16,233 3,242 164,159 47.209 1,845,244 468.264 549,693 The Kamschatka. The application of steam power for the propulsion of sea vessels, at all times an interesting subject, is rendered doubly so at this time on account of the rapid strides which the maritime nations of Europe have taken in adapting it to vessels of war, while our own Government has been for years asleep in reference to it. England and France, especially, have now powerful steam armaments, and the smallest navy in Europe can boast of more steam frigates than these United States possess, although the latter have thousands of miles of coast on the ocean and the lakes in an unprotected condition. We have already published several notices of the powerful steam frigate Kamschatka, built in New York for the Russian Government, and whose departure took place last week. We are induced to copy from the New York Courier the following article in reference to her, as furnishing further and authentic particulars respecting this proud evidence of the scientific and mechanical skill of our countrymen : schatka steam ship, for the Russian Government, we have prepared the following statement: The engines are two in number; each cylinder being 62 in. diameter and 10 feet stroke, lying horizontal and are placed in the bottom of the ship. The motion of the piston rod is communicated in the ordinary manner to a hanging beam of a triangular form; one angle of which receives the link from crosshead, and the other passes the power to the cranks through the connecting rod. The engine is technically known as the half beam engine. The whole of the working parts are included and supported by a connected cast iron frame twenty-six feet long and twenty-four feet wide, and firmly secured by wrought iron bolts and stays, passing in the several directions of the strains and through the entire bottom of the ship. The whole of the engines and frames were fitted by machinery and were not tried together until set in their places on board the ship, and so accurate that not one piece required fitting on board. The shafts and cranks are of wrought iron and weighed rough, 38 tons, and when finished, 30 tons. The water wheels are also of wrought iron and weigh 32 tons. The engines are worked by double balanced valves, with a douders; being arranged so easily of adjustment, as to require but five minutes to set or alter them to cut off at any given, part of the stroke; the cams being graduated from one to seven-tenth parts of the stroke; the whole being so simple and effective as to be easily set by one of the ordinary firemen. The Kamschatka.-We mentioned yesterday that this noble steam frigate, built in this city for the Russian Gov-ble pair of the same, for cutting off the steam in the cylinernment, and the largest ever constructed, being larger than the British frigates, Cyclops or Gorgon-went to sea on Wednesday. At the time she was launched, we went somewhat at large into a description of her, since which period, we are sorry to perceive an effort on the part of an unscrupulous print, to take from the Messrs. Schuyler, the credit of having constructed this unrivalled steamer, in the hope of conferring it all or in part, upon the Russian officers who were sent here to overlook the work, and see that it was in all respects equal to the contract. The history of the ship is briefly as follows: On Capt. Van Chance's first visit to the United States, Mr. George L. Schuyler furnished him with the drawings of the lines of a frigate, which had been tendered to our Government and rejected. The Captain, on his second visit, brought with him an order for the construction of a frigate according to lines, to be furnished by him, and which had been prepared in Russia-the engines to be whatever the Messrs. Schuyler might determine upon. After various interviews between the parties, the Messrs. Schuyler intimated that if the Russian captain adhered to his Russian model for the hull of the frigate, all negotiation between them might or will cease, as they would not build a ship after the model proposed. This resulted in a compromise and the Messrs. Schuyler shortly after presented the present model for approval, which preserves the beautiful round stern, and as much as practicable, of the upper works of the Russian lines; but all of which, from below the water line, is entirely and exclusively the American mo del varied according to the skill and judgment of Messrs. R. & G. L. Schuyler. For the engines and machinery, they are solely responsible, as they are for having selected for their construction Messrs. H. R. Dunham & Co., manufacturers, who have no superior on either side of the water. These facts in relation to the Kamschatka, very clearly show that she is in all respects as regards model or sailing and engines, an American production: and we hazard nothing in saying, that she is at this moment both in hull and machinery, very, very much superior to any steamer afloat; and while she is undoubtedly faster than any other war steamer, we incline to the belief that she will be found quite as fast as the Great Western or Cunard's steamers, although her power in proportion to her tonnage, is only about two-thirds as great. It affords us great pleasure to annex the following interesting letter from Messrs. H. R. Dunham & Co. The boilers are of copper, and four in number, built on the flue and tubular principle, and possessing in an eminent degree, the advantage of both. The tubes receive the heat direct from the furnaces, and from them it passes through large flues in its passage to the chimney. The boilers are intended to burn anthracite coal without the use of blowers, and which in her trial, proved entirely satisfactory, though much lighter in proportion to the cylinders, than most boilers in use with blowers. The boilers with smoke pipe and breeching for the same, weigh about 90 tons. The whole of the engines and boilers, together with nearly all her fuel for St. Petersburg, or Cronstadt, are included in two wrought iron bulkheads placed at each end and measuring apart 70 feet. The engines and boilers were manufactured by Messrs. Dunham and Co. of this city, under the inspection and from the plans of R. & G. L. Schuyler, engineers and agents for Steamer Kamschatka. Length of ship at water line........210 feet. Depth of hold... Diameter of water wheels, Reefed when leaving port to.. Length of Bucket,. Dip of do..... 36 66 Total weight of the engine and boilers about 450 tons, of which there are about 235 tons of cast iron, 120 tons wrought iron, and 95 tons copper and composition. The whole has been under work nominally about eighteen months, but in reality not over twelve; the preparations necessary for such an undertaking requiring several months for their completion. But we could now build another from the same patterns and finished ready for operation in ten months from commencement. There has been employed in building the engines, boilers hands for eight months, besides the numerous planing mills, and appurtenances, an average of two hundred and fifty lathes and other machinery used in operation, and we are now prepared to execute orders for steam ships up to 3,000 tons, with all the machinery necessary for immediate use in the manufacturing of the different parts of the engine as well as for the light river boat engines, and all we require is but a liberal and fair encouragement to produce as good work in this city as can be made in any part of the world.-Respectfully, yours, H. R. DUNHAM & Co. |