Pioneer And Democrat

United States—A few Impartial Statistics.

The following statistics, which we extract from the Boston Post, show the grounds upon which rests the common boast that 'this is a great country.'

The thirty-one States, nine territories and District of Columbia, comprising the United States of America, are situated within parallels of 10 degs. east longitude and 48 degs. west meridian of Washington, and extending on the Atlantic coast from 25 degs. and on the Pacific from 32 degs. to 48 degs. of north latitude, and contains a geographical area of 3,306,865 square miles, being but one-tenth less than the entire continent of Europe. They contain a population at the present time of 25,000,000, of whom 21,000,000 are whites. The extent of its sea-coast exclusive of islands and rivers to the head of the tide water is 12,669 miles. The length of ten of its principal rivers is 20,000 miles. The surface of its five great lakes is 90,000 square miles. The number of miles of railways in operation within its limits is 20,000, constructed at a cost of $600,000,000. The length of its canals is 5,000 miles. It contains within its limits the longest railway on the surface of the globe—the Illinois Central—which is 731 miles.

The annual value of its agricultural productions is $2,000,000,000. Its most valuable product is Indian corn, which yields annually $400,000,000; and in surveying the agricultural productions of our country, we are not only struck with their abundance, but with their great variety. Our territory extends from the frigid region of the north to the genial climate of the tropics, affording almost every variety of temperature and every kind of grain and vegetables. Her productions range from cold ice and hard granite of the North, the golden corn of the West, to the cotton and sugar of the South, and nearly all in sufficient quantities to supply our domestic consumption, and furnish large supplies for exportation, thus furnishing nearly all of the value as well as the bulk of our foreign commerce; suggesting thereby the irresistible conclusion that agriculture is the great transcendent interest of our country, and upon which all other interests depend.

The amount of registered and enrolled tonnage is 4,407,010 tons. The usual amount of the capital invested in manufactures is $600,000,000. The amount of its foreign imports in 1853 was $267,978,647, of exports $230,970,157. The annual amount of its internal trade is $6,000,000,000. The annual products of their labor (other than agricultural) is $1,500,000,000.

The annual value of the income of its inhabitants is $1,000,000,000. The value of its farms and live stock is $5,000,000,000. Its mines of gold, copper, lead and iron, are among the richest in the world. The value of the gold produced in California is $100,000,000 per annum. The surface of its coal fields is 133,132 square miles. Its receipts from customs, lands, &c., in 1853 were $61,327,274, and its expenditure $43,543,263. Its national domain consists of 2,174,188 square miles of land. Its national debt is but $50,000,000. The number of its banks at the present time is about 1,100, with a capital of $300,000,000. Within her borders are 81,000 schools, 6,000 academies, 234 colleges and 3,000 churches. Only one in twenty-two of its white inhabitants is unable to read and write and nineteen of its twenty-one million of white inhabitants are native born.