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AMERICAN STATES AND CITIES.
Years. Real Estate. Personal Estate. Total Valuation. Polls. Tax. Tax en $1t0
1830.... 36,960,000.... 22,626i.000... 59,586000.... 13,096.... 260,967 30.... 40
1831....37,6 75,000....23,0`23,Q00... 60,698,200....13,618....260,184 89....39.
1832....39,145,200.... 28,369,'200... 67.514.400....14,184....298,085 84....41
1833....40,966 400.... 29,510800... 70.477,'200....14.899....321,876 60....421
I834....43.140 600....31,665,200... 74,805,800....15,137....374292 76....47
1835....47,552 800....31,749,800... 79,302,600....16,188....408.899 61....481
1836....53.373000....34895,000... 889245,000....16,719....444,656 65....47i
1837....56,311,(;OO.... 33..272,200... 89,583,800....17,182....473,692 00....50
1838....57,,372.400....32.859,Q200... 90,),231 600.... 15.615....4(;5,557 34....49
1839....58,577,800....33,248,600... 91,826,400....16,561....513 660 (4;... 561
1840....60.4214.200....34,157,400... 94,581,600....17,696....546,742 80....55
1841....61,9)63,000....36043,6;00... 98,006,600....18.915....616,412 10....(60O
1842....65,499,900....41,'223800...105,7l23,700....19,636....637.779 09....57
1843....67,673,400.... 42 37,,600... 110 05(;6 000....20063... 712,379 70.... 62
1844.... 72.048.000....46,42 300...118,450,300....22,339....744,210 30....60
1845....81,991,400....53,957,300.. 135,948,700.... 24,287....811,338 09....57
5.-LAFAYETTE, LOUISIANA.
It will be observed, that this thriving town has grown up immediately without the
corporate limits of New Orleans, and evinces great prosperity. In sixteen months, as
was found by the census the other day, an increase of 2,224 has been added to a population of 7,008. The Delta remarks:
"There is another remarkable fact in these retulrns, which, in the South, will give a
peculiar character to the composition of the population of Lafayette-that is, the small
proportion of the slave to the free population. The whole number of slaves is about
one-eighth that of the whites. This is owing to the fact that Lafayette has been chiefly
settled by a laboring population, mostly German and Irish emigrants, who literally fulfil the scriptural command of eating their bread in the sweat of their brow. But this is
not the only class which is pouring into this rapidly advancing city. The rear of Lafayette is most beautifully situated for dwelling-houses. The ground is high and dry
and vegetation flourishes on it with amazing luxuriance. Here are collected many of
our wealthy citizens, who have built handsome villas, with gardens and large yards, and
who seem to us crowded denizens of New Orleans emerging from our little, narrow,
damp yards, to be perfect princes of luck and happiness. Here they have elbow-room
-fine green plats, for the little ones to scamper and roll upon-trees, to shade and enliven the scene-gardens, redolent of celery and real, sure-enough cabbage-and large
commodious one story houses, full of windows on all sides, and without those horrible,
knee-cracking stairs, up which the city people are compelled to
'Wend their winding way
Too often in the sultry day.'"
6.-RESOURCES OF TEXAS.
The sleeplessness of our government at this time upon every subject that can concern
the national progress must be manifest even to those who deny it all wisdom. The labors of Mr. Walker and Mr. Burke have been paripasse. The latter gentleman has
lately issued a circular to the citizens of Texas, through the collector, calling for full information upon many important points, which we have long been seeking from the
same sources ourselves:
"For instance, the quantity of cultivated, as compared with the uncultivated, land of
each county, is desired, and this, it is presumned, is known to the assessor; and the
same may be said of many important products. The products enumerated concerning
which the information is wanted, are as follows:
Cotton, Tobacco, Barley, Indian Corn,
Rice, Hemp and Flax, Rye and Oats, Potatoes,
Sugar, Wheat, Buckwheat, Hay.
Root Crops-as beets, carrots, turnips, &c., average crop per acre.
Pod Frutits-as peas, beans, &c., average per acre.
Orchard Fruits-as apples, pears, peaches, figs, &c.-productiveness-what attention
is paid to them.
Small Frtuits-as strawberries, grapes, &c.
Stock Raising- amount of advance or decline-including horses, cattle, hogs, sheepprice of beef, do. of pork, do. of mutton, do. of skins, do. of wool-average weight af
fleece, and number of fleeces per year.
Poultry and Eggs-facility of production, price, &c.
Bees and Honey-facility of production, price, &c.
Wla.Qes of Labor-agricultural and mechanical.
Cost of transportation to market.