Newspaper Postage. For each Newspaper, not carried out of the state in which it is published; or if carried out of the State, but not carried over 100 miles, 1. cent. Over 100 miles, and out of the state in which it is published, 14 cents. Magazines and Pamphlets. If published periodically, distance not exceeding 100 miles, 14 cents per sheet. 127 do. Ditto do. over 100 miles, If not published periodically, distance not exceeding 100 4 cents per sheet. do. miles, 6 Ditto do. over 100 miles, Small pamphlets, containing not more than a half sheet royal, are charged with half those rates. Eight pages, quarto are rated as one sheet, and all other sizes in the same proportion. The number of sheets which it contains, must be printed or written on one of the outer pages of every pamphlet or magazine sent by mail. Everything not coming under the denomination of newspapers or pamphlets, is charged with letter postage. OPERATIONS OF THE MINT. The coinage effected within the year 1830 amounts to 3,155,620, comprising $643,105 in gold coins, $2,495,400 in silver, $17,115 in copper, and consisting of 8,357,191 pieces of coin, viz: Half Eagles, Half Dimes, 126,351 pieces, making 66 66 66 66 66 66 510,000 1,240,000 66 1,711,500 66 66 66 66 66 66 8,357,191 $3,155,620 The coinage effected within the year 1831, amounts to $3,923,473 60, comprising $714,270 in gold coins, $3,175,600 in silver, and $33,603 60 in copper, and consisting of 11,792,284 pieces of coin, viz: 66 66 Half Eagles 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 $631,755 11,350 2,382,400 51,000 62,000 17,115 $702,970 00 11,300 00 2,936,830 00 99,500 00 77,135 00 62,135 00 33,592 60 11 00 11,792,284 $3,923,473 60 Of the amount of gold coined within 1831, about 130,000 dollars were derived from Mexico, South America, and the West Indies, 27,000 dollars from Africa, 518,000 dollars from the gold region of the United States, and about 39,000 dollars from sources not ascertained. Of the amount of gold of the United States, above mentioned, about 26,000 dollars may be stated to have been received from Virginia, 294,000 dollars from North Carolina, 22,000 dollars from South Carolina, and 176,000 from Georgia. Gold has also been received within the past year from Tennessee and Alabama, not exceeding, however, 1000 dollars from each of these states; an amount meriting little regard, except as indicating the progressive development of the gold region. TABLE Showing the aggregate Number of Persons in each State and Territory, with the Rate of Increase per cent. for the last ten years, from 1820 to 1830. Slaves. 2 399,955 33.88 269,328 10.30 280,652 19.04 610,408 16.64 97,199 17.01 297,675 8.14 *1,918,608 39.36 2,254 320,823 15.58 403 1,348,233 28.48 3,292 76,748 5.49 447,040 9.74 1,211,405 13.70 737,987 15.52 581,185 15.60 516,823 51.56 1 17 25 300,266 18,303 6 3 747 25,091 32 31,346 261 Total. Rate of Increase. 309,527 142.00 136,621 81.07 215,739 40.63 681,904 62.04 687,917 21.90 937,903 60.96 343,031 133.07 157,445 185.16 140,455 110.93 31,639 250.10 30,388 113.30 34,730 39,834 20.10 Total, 10,526,248,319,599 2,009,043 †12,866,020 *Including 5,602 not regularly returned. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES. Place. Denomina- Name. Bangor Theol. Sem. Bangor, Me. Cong. 1812 1828 Do. Do. .Com. oper ation. THE END. 1816 1808 1824 1831 1825 1822 1819 1821 1820 1816 1824 1829 1821 1829 1827 There are Roman Catholic Theological Seminaries at Baltimore and near Emmitsburg, Md., at Charleston, S. C., at Bardstown, and in Washington County, Ky., in Perry County, and St. Louis, Mo., and at Cincinnati, Ohio. |