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States	in 1840.
Maine,	501,973
New Hampshire,	284,574
Vermont,	291,948
Massachusetts,	706,699
Rhode Island,	105,830
Connecticut,	309,978
New York,	1,619,251
New Jersey,	373,308
Pennsylvania,	1,908,744

Delaware,	78,055
Maryland,	469,232
Virginia,	806,942
North Carolina,	753,419
South Carolina,	594,398
Georgia,	691,392
District of Columbia,	43,712
Florida,	54,477

Slave States,	3,491,657
Free States,	5,136,333

Alabama.	500,768
Western Virginia,	432,655
Mississippi,	375,651
Louisiana,	352,411
Arkansas,	97,574
Missouri,	383,702
Kentucky,	379,825
Tennessee,	829,210

MISCELLANEOUS.

OUR COUNTRY.

A correspondent of the National Intelligencer

is furnishing some valuable statistics, with explanatory comments, in relation to the Valley of the Mississippi, and
the general progress of this country.

He gives the following as the population of

what he calls "the Atlantic Strip," in the

year 1840:

ATLANTIC STRIP.

Free States,

5,137,383

Atlantic Strip.

8,627,900

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY.

He also shows, that while the popula-

tion of the Atlantic Strip increased on an

average of 16 per cent. from 1830 to 1840,

that of the Valley increased at the rate of

35 per cent. It is known, he says, that the

increase of population in the United States

is exceedingly rapid; but it is not generally

known in what part of them: the increase

is made. In 1800, the population of the

Atlantic States was 4,920,274; in 1840,

8,627,899; being an increase in forty years

of 75 per cent. In 1801 the population of

England, was 8,331,434; in 1841, 14,994,

518, being an increase in 40 years of 80

per cent. The Atlantic Strip, therefore,

has not increased as fast as England.

It is but as yesterday when the valley

was a wilderness, to-day it contains more

than half the population of the Union, and

to-morrow will hardly have passed before

the Atlantic Strip will be no more thought

of as a part of the United States than the

pioneer thinks of the fence corners around

his field of cotton. From 1830 to 1840,

the valley increased 50 per cent.

Forming the opinion from all the evidences a-

round us, it will continue at that rate until

1850; from that time until the year 1900,

it is no unreasonable assumption that it

will increase 20 per cent every five years.

From 1830 to 1840, the Atlantic Strip in-

creased 16 per cent; its increase until 1850

will probably be 15 per cent: and from

that time to the year 1900, 5 per cent ev-

er y five years.

Slave States

3,781,987

Ohio,	1,519,467
Western Pennsylvania,	15,289
Indiana,	85,289
Western New York,	809,640
Michigan,	2,25,267
Illinois,	476,183
Wisconsin Territory,	30,945
Iowa Territory,	43,112

Free States	4,592,769
Slave States	3,841,957

Mississippi Valley,

8,434,756