1864.

1865.

1866.

1867.

1868.

1869.

4,729,297 2,609,818 2,355.985 3,321,631 10,004,521 3,980.153 4,164,344 2,715,892 1,53 15,755,570 4,334,775 6,733,743 4,216,804 11,260,728 5,828,030 6,140,031

582,745 7,010,424 21,810 484,094 6,437,866 30.62 592,229 8,881,934 32,10 853,096 8,752.990 36,85 1,498,812 7,752,918 31.05 952,919 10,498,010 42,050

5,638,007 10,77 9,134,858 6,850,808 7,292.715 11,697,746 16,54 5,970,651 4,788.484 1,267,851 6,036,828 24,37 6,634,556 3,597,690 1,184,367 7,893,535 24,40 9,427,831 3,267,652) 7,443,918 3,422,928 1870. 5,933,897 3,253,137 1871. 10,563,020 4.302,320 1872. 20,177,619 4,122,308 1873. 21,245,815 5,007,035 1874. 19,308,019 5,808,712 1875.. 22,900,522 5,671,495 1876.. 22,429,485 5,744,022 25562,665 6.296,414 30014.023 4.913.646

1877.

1878...

1879.

1880..

1881.

1,092,381 11,898.995 41,24

1,506,996 13,659,603 29,89 1,109,496 12,270,083 32,91

4,424,616 12,700,627 61,789

3,930,840 14,103,529 46,57

1. Included in Pork up to 1855.

2. Included with Butter as "Butter and Cheese" up to 1855.

Western Pork-Packing for Four Years--1876-1880. le embraces the packing of the winter season only:

From the Annual Tables of the Cincinnati Price Current.

of hogs packed in the United States during the last four years is as both the winter and summer packing:

ity liable to be issued under the act of July 2, 1862, is 9,600,000 acres. act of Congress approved Sept. 4, 1841, eaeh State thereafter adwas granted 500,000 acres of land for purposes of internal imacres (72 sections) for a State University; 32,000 acres (50 secse of erecting public buildings at the Capital; and 32,000 acres for ite prison. The same grant of 500,000 acres was extended to the Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, and tity of land thus granted is estimated at 9,000,000 acres.

1862, each State, old or new, was granted 30,000 acres of the ach Senator and Representative in Congress (or land scrip to that rpose of endowing a College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Of the 9,600,000 acres estimated to be due the States under this it, about 8,200,000 acres have already been located.

MBER OF ELECTORS IN FRANCE.

epublic, suffrage is practically universal, there having been insters of the Ministry of the Interior by an official report dated 070 legal voters, out of a population the same year of 36.905,788 ves 1 voter to every 4 inhabitants, nearly. In the United States, 70, the ratio of legal voters to population was 1 to 4%, nearly here suffrage is restricted, the proportion is 1 voter to every 11

April 2, 1850.

May 24, 1828. General Canal purposes..
Mar. 2, 1827. Canal to connect the waters of the Illino
River with those of Lake Michigan.
June 18, 1838. Milwaukee and Rock River Canal.
Apr. 10, 1856. Breakwater and Harbor and Ship Canal..
Mar. 7, 1874. Extending the time for completion of Gree
Bay and Sturgeon Bay and Lake Michiga
Ship Canal..

Michigan...

Aug. 26, 1852.
Mar. 3, 1865.
July 3, 1866.

66

Saint Mary's Ship Canal.

Portage Lake and Lake Superior Ship Can

Lac La Belle Ship Canal

Total quantity of Acres granted for Canals..

Statistics of Railways in Great Britain (England, Wales, and Ireland) for Sixteen Years, 1861-1880. From the Statistical Abstract of the United Kingdom.

No.

£

£

£

13,843,3 14,268,40 15,027,2 16,000,3 17,149,0 18,811,61 19,848,9 20,780,01 21,715,5

Miles. £ No. 1861.. 10,859 362,327,338 173,773,218 15,988 28,565,355 2,628 1862.. 11,551 385,218,438 180,435,727 15.625 29,128,558 2.522 1833.. 12,322 404,215,802 204,699,466 16,612 31,156,397 2,528 1864. 12,789 425,719,613 229,348,664 17.933 33,911,547 2,651 1565.. 13,269 455,478,143 251,959,862 18,960 35,751,655 2,691 1868.. 13.84 481, 72,184 274,403,895 19,734 38,164,354 2,754 1867 14.247 502,262,887 287,807,904 20,201 39,479,999 2,771 1869.. 15.145 518,779,761 312,779,381 20,189 41,075,321 2,712 1870. 15,537 529,908.673 336,701,800| 21,249 43,417,070 2,794 1871.. 15,376 552,680,107 375,409,146 24,415 47.107,558 3,064 23,152,80 1872.. 15,814 569,047,346 423,147,164 26,758 51,304,114 3,214 26,293.30 1873.. 16,082 588,320,308 455,631,767 28,332 55,675,421 3,462 30,752,8 1874.. 16,448 609,895,931 478,334,368 29,081 56,899,498 3,459 32,612,71 1875.. 16,664 630,226,942 507,532,187 30,457 58,977,518 3,539 33,211,0 1876.. 16,872 658,214,776 538,681,722 31,928 59,917,868 3,551 33,535,50 1877.. 17,077 674,059,048 551,593,654 32,268 60,644,057 3,551 | 33,857,97 1878... 17,333 | 698,545,154 565,024,455 32,598 60,454,375 3,488 | 33,189,36 1879... 17,696 717,003,469 562,732,890 31,800 59,395,282 3,356 32,045,2 1880... 17,915 728,621,657 603,881,752 33,652 61,958,754 3,453 83,502,3