The New Hampshire Gazette

STATE OF NEW-YORK.

The following abstract of the population: resources, &c. of the State of New-York is extracted from a Brief Topographical and Statistical Manuel of the State of New York, which comprises within 36 pages a great mass of information very interesting : to those whom business or speculation requires to attend to its interior concerns. If we had a similar manuel of each state in the union, it would add much to our stock. of geographical and topographical knowledge of our own country; in which at present we are generally very deficient.

National Intelligencer

In 1731 this state contains 10 counties,and only 50,291 souls-1771 same counties and 163,338 souls--in 1786 (25 years ago) 12 counties and 238,896 souls-1791, sixteen counties and 340,120 souls--and in 1800, thirty counties, 305 towns (including 3 cities) and 586,000 inhabitants.

Now (1811) the state contains about 300 villages, of from 15 or 20, but generally from 30 or 40, to 600 houses; 452 towns (including 4 cities ;) 45 counties ; and (in 1810)-960,000 inhabitants ; giving an increase of 15 counties, 147 towns, and 374,000 people in the last ten years ! ! And the militia of the state regularly enrolled amounted to 102,068 in 1809.

In Manufactures the late census has furnished data, for the following statement :-

Looms 33,068 ; yds: cloth (all kinds)9,099,703-val.dls.5,002,891 : 82. Tan works 867 : val. of leather dls. 1,299,542 : 16. Distilleries 591 ; val. dls.1,685,794 : 40. Breweries 42 ; val. dls. 340, 765 : 68. Fulling Mills 427 ; enhanced val. of cloth dls. 679,126: 87. Paper mills 28 ; val. dls. 283,268 : 90. Hat factories 124 ; val. dls.249,035 : 90. Glass works 6; val.(besides bottles&c) dls.71,6800 90. Powder mills ; val. dls. 10,400: 90: Rope walks 18 : val.dls. 28,000: 90.Sugar houses 10:val.dls.420,706 : 90. Oil mills 28; val. dls. 49,283 : 75. Blast furnaces 11 ; val. dls. 205,300 : 90. Air do. 10 ; val. dls. 156,720 : 90. Cut nail factories 44 : val. dls. 276,932 : 80. Forges 48 ; val. dls. 135,240 : 90. Trip hammers 49 ; val. (return of work from two of them only) dls. 1,600 : 90. Rolling and slitting mills 1 ; val.dls. 33,120 : Total value—dls. 12,085,525 : 62. Also,413 Carding machines -value included in cloth above, and 26 cotton factories, not included above, the cloth there mentioned being the manufacture of families only. The above returns (except for Ontario, Columbia, and Washington) are moreover believed to be short of the real amount -no town cloth was returned, except for two counties-instead of one there are ten or twelve rolling and slitting mills in the state-the nail, hat, paper and rope, factories, furnaces, &c. much exceed the number returned. All the Woolen factories were omitted. The single county. of Rensselaer will this year manufacture of the above articles the value of 600,000 dls. though returned last year at 458,000 dls. And many new factories, in Oneida especially, and in the Western country generally, have just going into operation. So that it may be safely affirmed that our present annual value of the above named manufactures exceeds 16,000,000 dls !

There are now made annually 525,000 bushels of salt ! viz. in Onondaga 453,820(in 1800 only 42,754) in Cayuga 54,000 ; Genesee 1,400 : Seneca 25,000 ; and Ontario about 8,760-total value at the works dls. 147,000. - In Cayuga 2,240 flekins silk. To all which may be added dls. 60,000; the value of articles annually made by convicts in the State Prison.

I have not sufficient data to calculate the quantity of the ashes, maple sugar, flour, &c. made, or the grain, cattle, sheep, beef, pork, &c, raised annually, as to make a valuation of our products or lands. But as the sheep returned for Dutchess were 83,855-Albany.34,342.-Cayuga 49,872-Onondaga 44,893-and Jefferson 20,000--we may conclude judging from the population, (exclusive of New.York Co.) that the whole state contains 1,280,000. Dutchess contains 14,341 horses, and 51,650 neat cattle: which in like manner (N.Y. omitted)gives 247,000 of the former, and 886,000 of the latter ; but probably 500,000 horses and 1,000,000 neat cattle would be nearer the true amount in the whole state.

The provision made for roads and bridges, besides the numerous roads and bridges authorized to be laid out, made and built, at the risk of individuals or expense of counties, the state, or lands benefited thereby--are 36 bridge companies with dls. 509,000 stock, and 135 turnpike companies with dls. 7,558,000 stock, extending their roads over a length of 4,500 miles, about one third of which is completed.

The capital stock of the several incorporated banks is dls. 11,690,000.

The fund set apart by the state for the benefit of Common Schools now amounts to dls. 483,326: 29--the last year's revenue of which was dls. 36,427 : 64--besides which 314,770 acres of unsold land still belong to this fund.

The Revenue and Expenditures of the state are, in the abstract, as follows : Lands, about 1,000,000 acres unsold ; and state funds dls. 4,191,803 : 25 (in 1800 about dls. 2,900,000 : 00) the annual revenue of which is now dls. 278,489 : 96-besides which the receipts at the treasury from various other sources. were, for the year 1810, dls. 626,042 : 88 (for 1791 dls: 127,648: for 1806 dls. 192, 028: 71) -and during same time were paid out dls. 606,328: 22 (in 1791 dls. 143,417: 64; and in 1800 dls. 261,761 : 03 ) Estimated expenses for 1811, dls. 268,356 : 22.

Debts which the state owes, besides some small. unliquidated, demands, dls. 880,000 (in 1800, dls.,346,234 : 98 ) Which (exclusive of the School fund and land, and of the 1,000,000 acres public lands above named) gives about 30,000 annual excess of revenue over expenditures, and a permanent fund exceeding the public debt dls. 3,311,802:25.

There are established in the State two colleges and upwards of forty academies i also, 364 post offices, being more than 1/7th of the whole (2,440) in the U. States, and 60 different newspapers, and (in all) about 90 printing establishments. The shipping owned in this state, in 1809, was 251,525 tons, (besides that on the three lakes, ) being 1/9th of the whole owned in the United States. Amount of exports in 1807, dls. 26,357,963; and revenue on imports, &c. more than 1/4th of the whole paid in the U. States (from 1/4th to 1/3d of which two last items is however derived from the trade of other states.)

In addition to the goodness of our soil and excellence of our water we have plenty of iron: of Paris, and inexhaustible salt springs, the most valuable in the world. There have also been found coal copper, lead. sulphur, zinc, marble, isinglass, and some Silver. Our territory (containing 55,000 square miles, of which 4 or 5,000 are water, ) stretches from the Atlantic the whole length of New. England, and spreads along the St. Lawrence and three great navigable Lakes. Embracing the head waters of the Ohio, and two other large rivers which run southerly through other States--the whole course of the best river in the U. States and perhaps in the world, together with twenty other rivers navigable by boats and rafts, this State affords the best passage in the U. S. both by land and by water, from tide-waters to the extensive navigable Lakes of the west.

There is not a mountain or any great unavoidable hill to pass between Albany and Lake Erie. It is the only state, too, (except at the narrow and N.E extremity) which extends across the whole width of the U. S. territory and the only spot on which the Atlantic and the Lake can be united by open navigation. This peculiar situation, with its other advantages, renders this State highly interesting to the politician, the man of business or enterprise. the emigrant, and the traveller. With the latter especially, the ready and safe conveyance up the Hudson and to Lower Canada, and the good roads and accommodations westward will be additional inducements to visit a country of this description, which moreover furnishes Mineral Waters more efficacious and valuable than the best medicinal Springs of Europe, and which (besides many intermediate sublime natural views and objects) contains on its western confines the greatest natural curiosity in the world, a country interspersed (exclusive of the great waters before named with more than fifteen lakes, from ten to forty miles in length, and numerous smaller ones, exhibiting as great an extent, variety and beauty of inland water scenery as all the other States together.