CENSUS STATISTICS.-New Hampshire occupies | 866; woollen goods, $2,876,000; lumber, flour and the same relative position to the other States in area and population, being twenty-seventh in both. In density of population she stands eleventh on the list, having 35.14 inhabitants per square mile. Her absolute increase of population was very small, being only per cent., and this mainly in her manufacturing towns. There is an excess of 6473 white females over the white males in her population. In the products of manufacturing and mining industry she stands eleventh, having 2582 manufacturing establishments, $25,900,000 capital invested, using $24,400,000 value of raw material, employing 19,200 male and 16,900 female operatives, and producing, in round numbers, $45,500,000 of goods annually. Her largest manufactures are those of cotton goods, of which she produced in 1860 $16,661,531; boots and shoes, $3,863, meal, and steam engines and machinery. The census valuation of real and personal estate was $156,310,860, an increase of $52,658,025 since 1850, In the cash valuation of her farms she stands in the same relative rank as in area and population, viz. twenty-seventh, the value being stated at $69,689,761, an increase of $14,444,000 on 1850. The lands of New Hampshire are better adapted to grazing than to the growth of the cereals; and we find, accordingly, that there were in the State 94,880 milch cows, 51,512 working oxen, 118,075 other cattle, 310,534 sheep, and 51,935 swine, and that the whole value of live stock in the State is $10,924,627. For further statistics of the agricul tural and manufacturing products of the State, we refer our readers to the census tables (ante pp.316 −321). III. VERMONT. First settlement, 1763. Capital, Montpelier. Area, 9,056 square miles. Population, 1860, 315,116. Government for the year ending October, 1863. The Senate was established in 1836. It now con- | general term is held, at such place and time as the sists of thirty members The House of Repre- court shall designate, on the east side of the sentatives is composed of two hundred and thirty-mountain for the eastern counties, and on the nine members, one member from each town. Pay of the members of each House, $2 a day during the session of the Legislature. JUDICIARY. The Supreme Court consists of six judges, elected annually by the Legislature. The County Court is held by one of the judges of the Supreme Court, and two county judges, who are elected annually as assistant judges of the county courts by the people of their respective counties. One term of the Supreme Court and two terms of the County Court are held annually in each county, and a Name. Luke P. Poland... west side of the mountain for the western counties. The general terms are held annually. Questions of law may be carried from the County Court to the Supreme Court for revision. No judge can sit in the Supreme Court in the trial of any cause tried before him in the County Court. The Court of Chancery has two stated sessions annually, in each county, and is always in session, except for the final hearing of a cause. Each judge of the Supreme Court is a Chancellor, and an appeal from his decree lies to the Supreme Court. Assistant Judges of the County Courts.-Term of Office expires December 1, 1863.-Salary a per diem allowance. STATE DEBT.-On the 1st September, 1862, the funded debt of the State was as follows: From the General Government (subject to some deductions).... 234,988 96 $552,868 07 751,000 00 20,000 00 3,000 00 35,000 00 $984,000 00 280,977 07 $1,204,977 07 Total Resources.. Doubtful Debts... Average of Loans for the $9,517,957 73 $10,948,842 60 Total Liabilities $9,160,276 40 $10,646,821 51 134,072 46 year 6,334,087 43 Average Deposits in City Banks.... 1,302,661 60 203,485 83 266,400 00 69,602 64 371,705 79 year 90,865 75 291 73 Average Specie.. Dividends from July, 1861, to July, 1862. Surplus July 1, 1862 (in all the banks except Farmer's and Northfield)..... Collected of Debts previously charged to Profit and Loss Savings-Banks.-There are ten of these in the State. The whole amount of deposits is $1,386,258 93; the net increase during the year was $112,446 92. The whole number of depositors is 10,463. The entire expenses of the ten banks were about $3763. The dividends were 5 per cent. per annum, except in one bank, which had divided 511⁄2 per cent. Most of the banks had a fair surplus, and some of them make every five years an extra dividend of 1 per cent. per annum on all deposits which have remained in the bank one year or more. RAILROADS.-The railroads of Vermont are mostly north-and-south lines, and connected with the great trunk routes from Portland, Boston, or New York to Canada. They are not generally in a very prosperous condition, the greater part being in the hands of trustees, and only one-the Connecticut and Passumpsic Rivers-being operated by its original stockholders. Only one road-the Rutland and Whitehall-declared a dividend last year, and that of only 3 per cent. The spring freshets of 1862 caused serious damage to several of the roads, the repairing of which has necessarily reduced their surplus earnings materially. The commissioner seems to have performed his work of inspection very conscientiously, examining into all matters which could affect the safety of passengers passing over the roads with great care. The police regulations of the roads are excellent, and, if faithfully observed, cannot fail to reduce the number of accidents to a very low point. The following table exhibits the condition of these roads in the spring and summer of 1862. 8 14 30.5 44 24 541 26 25 541 178 $2,577,712 7,654,009 4,545,984 $1,280,400 $800,000 $1,608 $2,577,712 $99,639 91. $164,764 $78,750 Amount not stated 1,171,683 Rutland and Whitehall 8.4 255,700 Southern Vermont.... 8.0 138.299 62.5 & White255,700 Leased per petually to Saratoga hall R.R. 200,000 Leased to Troy and Boston R.R. Co. 2,494,900 3,472,000 none 7,654,089 561,409 30.5 2,233,376 3,183,038) 963,019 6,379,434 395,093 119.6 1,097,000 In hands of trustees. 8.4 7,671 3 Vermont and Canada 55.5 1,688,500 1,378.500 none Leased to Vermont Central. 908,777 Leased to Grand Trunk R.R. of Canada. Floating debt. Total assets and liabilities. Mileage run. Road operated. Gross earnings. Net earnings. Dividonds. |