Morning Star

The whole population of the United States according to the census in 1820 was nine millions six hundred and twenty-nine thousand. Of this number it appeared that of the efficient or laboring persons, two millions and sixty-five thousand were engaged in agriculture, three hundred and forty-nine thousand in manufactures, and seventy-two thousand in commerce. Add to these the women, the children, and the invalids, and there will be found to have been about eight millions in the agricultural class, one million three hundred thousand in the manufacturing class, and three hundred thousand in the commercial class. The population now is probably nearly double what it was in 1820, and the proportion of persons belonging to the commercial and manufacturing classes, as compared with the agricultural, is doubtless much greater than in 1820.

In England the agricultural class does not exceed one-third of the whole population; and this third is not only sufficient to produce in ordinary times bread stuffs and provisions enough for themselves and the other two-thirds, but also wool enough for all the extensive woolen factories in the kingdom, with the exception of a small quantity of fine quality. The wool produced amounts annually to upwards of thirty millions of dollars in value. -Boston Mercantile Journal.