Alexandria Gazette & Daily Advertiser

STATISTICS OF TENNESSEE.

The governor of Tennessee has published a letter on the resources of the state, from which we gather the following facts.

'The state of Tennessee, by computation, contains 40,000 square miles—equal to 25,600,000 acres.

Amount granted by Congress for colleges, &c. 200,000.

Aggregate amount of appropriated lands, 9,809,839.

Aggregate amount of vacant lands, 15,790,161.

Aggregate amount of vacant lands to which the state has an indefeasible title, 12,702,236.

TREASURY.

Receipts for 1815 and 1816, $78,709 42.

Do. for 1817 and 1818, 115,256 75.

193,966 17.

Expenditures for 1815 and 1816, 64,778 93.

Expenditures for 1817 and 1818, 62,689 32.

127,468 25.

Balance in favor of the treasury, Oct. 1st, 1818, 66,497 93.

Average amount of revenue for each year, 48,491 52 1/2.

Average amount of expenditures, 31,867 60.

Average balance in favor of the treasury, 16,621 00.

Estimate of the surplus fund on the 1st of Oct. 1822, 132,995 68.

The following is the account given of the debts due to the state, and of the value of bank stock and land.

Is 200,000 acres of land estimated at an average of 5 cents per acre, would amount to $1,000,000 00.

Add to this the sum due on the sale of Hiwassee land, 365,833 63.

From sales of occupant claims south of French Broad and Holston, 85,000 00.

Stock owned in the Knoxville bank by the state of Tennessee, 20,000 00.

Capital in the Bank of Tennessee, (precise amount not known, say) 200,000 00.

$4,267,833 63.

"Thus," says his Excellency, "it appears that the foregoing items exhibit an aggregate amount of wealth in favor of the State of Tennessee, of three millions eight hundred and forty three thousand four hundred and forty dollars and sixty three cents." We give His Excellency's own estimates in his own figures and his own words, only being unable to make words and figures agree, we presume that His Excellency must have studied arithmetic at the same school with the Secretary of the United States Treasury.

However, as this is the only endeavor that has been made since the first organization of the government, to present the gross amount and also the growing wealth of the state, before the public," a few errors may readily be excused and the Governor deserves the thanks of the people under his care, for the facts he has stated in his letter.