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3,521,951 1,313,236,042 27,303,495 none
217,353 244,278,854 2,638,500 none
705,606 183,913,337 15,851,627 5,306,398
272,674,352 20,966,382 5,200,000
222,504,073 1,166,832 644,745
102,366,300 380,000 none
365,437.708 30,478,741 1,289,405
132,356,703 15,229,371 644,703
390,454,875 18,157

Rhode Island..

South Carolina..

Tennessee

1,258,520

Texas

Vermont..

Virginia

West Virginia.

Wisconsin

442,014 1,054,670

Total..

818,579 330,551 1,225,163

*897,141 257,234 *15,:09,212 1,678,412

$1,461,055 Sept. 30, 974.728 Sept. 30, 2,671,382 June 30, 1,528,693 Mar. 31,

304,215 Dec. 31, 1,345,687 Dec. 31,

37,300,932 4,049,543 3,762,328 Nov. 30, 3,651,203 2,191,529 2,399,276 Oct. 31, *7,508,635 1,154,993 1,182,340 Oct. 31, 4,848,976 958.538 963,728 Nov. 30, 15,061,004 2,016,494 2,029,718 Oct. 10, *28,065,707 4,312,034 4,371,429 Dec. 31, *8,556,724 1,334,860 1,147,544 Dec. 31, *15,715,102 1,876,369 2,350,654 Sept. 30,

940,657 5,661,295 5,465,882 Dec. 31, 4,340,203 1,915,122 1,632,171 Sept. 30, 2,438,797 799,272 876,181 Nov. 30, 798,185 1,249,276 1.596,829 Dec. 31, 32,537,776 3,467,742 3,526,113 Dec. 31, 1,841,964 529,352 *1,343,199 538,492 7,210,527 928,606 *19,858,104 2,491,195

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188,373,280 18,569,403 13,926,875 Sept. 30, *2,575,991 700,477

17,559,498 4,607,798 4,411,952 Nov. 15,

57,915,469 7,048,637
#3,025,142 700,133

5,409,320 1,658,083 1,655,601 July 30, *10,285,389 1,938,330 1,074,064 Dec. 31, 1,105,266 1,105,710 1,105,641 Aug. 31, 72 *2,592,200 627,490 348,075 July 31,72

*8,530,416 2,421,945 2,761,310 Sept. 30, 73 561,767 679,690 719,545 Sept. 30, 73 8,880,029 1,624,559 1,648,023 Sept. 30, '73

38,115,641 15,762,006,108 318,670,718 26,893,053 586,131,743 86,598,187 77,786,566

Town, county, and city debt, as given by the Census of 1870.
Notes.

In compiling the above statements of the indebtedness, revenue and expenditures of the several State governments, the object has been to give, as nearly as possible, the actual facts, divested of all technicalities. All bonds of the State held by any sinking or educational fund, have been uniformly deducted from the gross amount of the funded debt. The payment, for the support of public schools for instance, of $100,000 in the shape of interest on State bonds held by a school fund is essentially the same thing as the payment of an appropriation of the same amount. The multiplication of "funds" of every_description serves only to involve the financial statements of public officers in such an intricacy of labyrinth that the most clearheaded are only able to ascertain the simplest facts after long labor, while the common mind is absolutely powerless to ascertain how much money is raised

or how much expended for the support of govern-
ment. Indeed, the compiler of these figures
frankly confesses that in many cases he is able
give only approximate results. Money applied to
the extinguishment of funded debt has been de-
On the same
ducted from the expenditures.
principle the proceeds of loans are excluded
from the receipts. In all cases the official state-
ments of indebtedness have been accepted as
authoritative, and it is believed that the obliga-
tions of the several States, whether floating or
funded, have in no case been overstated. Fur
ther explanations will be found under the
of the several States in the notes below.

not

were derived from the sale of bonds, and $120,CCU Alabama.-In the year 1872-8, $896,680.98 from a temporary loan. A temporary loan of $505,145 was paid off. The above items expenditures. The expenditures include, how included in the above statement of receipts and ever, $178,868.95 for treasury warrants of 1833-12, paid off in 1878. The statement of the debt, which is for Sept. 30, 1872, does not include the indorsement of railroad bonds, which it is esti mated will involve the State to the extent of

$3,000,000, several of the railroads having defaulted. It is also exclusive of State stock to the amount of $2,801,533.84, held by the Educational Funds of the State.

Arkansas-The State does not pay the interest on its bonds. The statement of floating debt above given is exclusive of overdue interest on the debt, the amount of which is unknown. The statements of funded and floating debt are those given by the State Treasurer under the date of Aug. 1, 1878.

California.-From the receipts, as officially stated, are deducted $597,812 from sales of bonds, and also the interest on State stocks held by the School and University funds. From the expenditures are deducted $762,148 for bonds paid off and purchased, and also the interest on State stocks paid to the School and University funds. The floating debt consists of unpaid warrants. Connecticut.-The expenditures do not include $673,400, cash paid for bonds purchased. Delaware. This is the only State from which the compiler of these statistics has been unable to obtain official information. The statements of the valuation and indebtedness are derived from the U. S. Census of 1870.

Florida.-Part of the State debt consists of $4,000,000 in bonds issued to the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad Co., in exchange for the 1st mortgage bonds of that company, under an act of the Legislature, passed Jan. 28, 1870. No interest is paid on this portion of the debt. The floating debt consists of $179,296, interest on bonds, exclusive of the J. P. & M. R. R. bonds above mentioned; $262,045 due the State School and Seminary funds; $165,000 secured by hypothecated bonds; and about $242,000 unpaid warrants, &c.

Georgia. Of the expenditures as above given, the sum of $692,892 was for the payment of principal and interest on the public debt; $236,162, derived from the sale of bonds and temporary loans, are not included in the above statement of the receipts.

Illinois. Of the gross expenditures of this State, $2,586,783.60 from the State Debt Fund, and $1,014,872.82 from the Illinois Central Railroad Fund, which had been accumulating in the Treasury, were disbursed in the two years, 1871-2, for the extinguishment of the State debt. The sums given for receipts and expenses are one half of the amounts received and expended during the two years ended Nov. 30, 1872.

Indiana.-Of the funded debt, $8,729,016 consists of non-negotiable bonds held by the School Fund. These are not included in our statement. Iowa. The receipts and disbursements are one half the amount for the two years ended Oct. 31, 1878.

Kansas.-The State has a Sinking Fund of $135,527.34. The floating debt consists of unpaid warrants drawn on the Treasury.

Kentucky.-The State of Kentucky has outstanding bonds to the amount of $831,894, but to offset them the Commonwealth has $350,000 in U.S. 6 per cent. 6-20s on deposit in New York with the Bank of North America. Bonds of the State to the amount of $1,628,128 are held by the School Fund.

Maine.-The State has a Sinking Fund of $1,020,247. The State debt, as above given, is exclusive of $998,200 in State bonds held by the Sinking Fund,

Maryland.-As an offset to its debt as above stated, the State owns stocks and bonds, on which the interest and dividends are regularly paid, to the amount of $4,794,856. The receipts, as above given, do not include $361,208.87, raised by the sale of State bonds for the Maryland Hospital and the Deaf and Dumb Asylum.

Massachusetts. The gross amount of the funded debt of the State, on the 1st of January, 1873, was $27,692,704. From this we have deducted $1,816,600 for bonds of the State held by its sinking and trust funds. The Commonwealth holds, as an offset to its indebtedness, sinking and trust funds to the aggregate amount of $12,999.894, including the $1,816,600 of State bonds above mentioned. Expenditures do not include those defrayed from the proceeds of bonds, as the Hoosac tunnel. The School Fund amounted to $2,182,419.98 on the 1st of January, 1878. The Commonwealth has never taken advantage of the legal tender act to pay the interest on its debts in paper. Since the suspension of specie payments in 1862, the amount paid as premium on purchases of gold to pay interest, has been $2,475,678.

Michigan.-The valuation given is the equalized valuation of 1871. The statement of the funded debt excludes $34,292.78 of past-due debt on which interest has ceased.

Minnesota.-The entire funded debt of the State is held by the Permanent School Fund. There are, however, $2,275,000 in bonds issued in 1858, in aid of railroads, upon which the State has formally refused to pay interest. The valuation given is that of the census of 1870. The Permanent School Fund consists of securities to the par value of $817,800.

Mississippi.-The $7,000,000 repudiated debt of 1838 is not included in the above statement. The floating debt consists of outstanding warrants on the Treasury.

Missouri.-The sum given as the debt of Missouri, does not include $3,000,000 in bonds issued to the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company, secured by first mortgage, and upon which the interest is regularly paid by the railroad.

Nebraska. - Except $16,800 in Territorial bonds, held by the School Fund, the State has no bonded indebtedness. The cash in the Treasury is more than sufficient to pay all outstanding warrants. The receipts and disbursements given are one half of the receipts and disbursements for the two years ended Dec. 31, 1872.

Nevada.-This statement of the funded debt does not include $104,000 of the State's bonds held by the School Fund. The cash in the Treasury is more than sufficient to pay the outstanding warrants.

New Hampshire.-In the statement of receipts and expenditures, we have omitted $226,450 obtained by a temporary loan and payments of $317,700 of the principal of the State debt. The valuation is that given by the U. S. census of 1870.

New Jersey.-The statements of receipts and expenditures include $1,168,803, the proceeds of a tax of two mills on the taxable property of the State at large, apportioned to the several counties in proportion to the number of children between the ages of 5 and 18.

New York. The receipts inelude $1,202,571, surplus canal revenues over cost of superintend ence and ordinary repairs; and $854,197.07

from earnings of State Prison convicts. Receipts from taxes and payments of $2,610,784 for the support of Schools are included in the receipts and expenditures. The expenditures are exclusive of ordinary canal repairs and redemptions of State debt. The amount of the State debt is exclusive of $4,188,305 in State bonds held by the Trust and Sinking Funds. A special tax to the amount of $7,000,000, was collected in 1873, which will still further reduce the State debt when paid into the Treasury. The amount of town, county and city debts is obtained from the statistics collected by Mr. Calkins, Clerk of the Constitutional Commission, in January, 1878. Oregon. The sums given for receipts and expenditures are one half the amounts for the two years ended Sept. 9, 1872.

Pennsylvania.-The receipts do not include $100,000 received from the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., in payment of its debt to the State, and the expenditures are also exclusive of $2,476,288, applied by the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund to the redemption of the State debt. The State holds the bonds of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for $9.300,000, which may fairly be considered a deduction from the amount of the debt as above stated. It also holds $1,754,822 stock in various turnpike, bridge, canal, railroad and navigation companies. The valuation given is that of the U. S. census of 1870. Rhode Island.-The valuation is that given by the U. S. census of 1870. The expenditures are exclusive of $75,000 for redemption of State bonds. South Carolina.-The valuation given is that of the census of 1870. The statement of receipts and expenditures is for nine months only. The expenditures include not a cent for interest on the State debt. The statements of the funded and floating debt are taken from Gov. Moses's Message of Oct. 21, 1878.

Tennessee-The sum given as the debt of Tennessee represents the liabilities of the State after deducting bonds indorsed which are good, bonds of the State paid into the Treasury by various railroads, and amounts due to the State by solvent railroads. The receipts and expenditures are for four-fifths of fifteen months. Texas.-$544,745 of the floating debt consists of unpaid warrants on the Treasury.

Virginia.-The sum given as funded debt, represents two thirds of the debt on the 80th Sept., 1872, and accrued interest up to July 1, 1871, the other third "being deferred for settlement with West Virginia." The stocks and bonds of the State held by the Literary Fund ($1,029,113) are not included as part of the debt of the Commonwealth. The valuation given is that of the census of 1870.

West Virginia.-This State, as yet, has incurred no debt. The amount given is one third of the debt of the old State of Virginia, which the latter holds that West Virginia should assume. Wisconsin.-$2,238,900 of the nominal debt of this State is in the shape of certificates of indebtThe aggreedness to the Educational funds. gate amount of taxes levied in Wisconsin in 1872, was $7.395,181; viz., State tax, $781,774; County taxes, $1,777,051; County school taxes, $257,875; Town taxes, $2,447,067; School district taxes, $1,263,605; Road district taxes, $867,759.

Local Indebtedness of the State of
New York.

...

50,000 1,062,500

counties of the bonded debts of the counties,
The following is a comparative statement by
cities, towns, and villages of the State of New
the year 1870 are mostly taken from the Census.
York in the years 1870 and 1873. The figures for
Those for 1873 were collected last winter for the
Constitutional Commission then sitting at Al-
bany. The amounts given for the cities of New
York and Brooklyn are the net debt, after de-
ducting the Sinking Funds. The aggregate
nexed. For the county of New York the
amount of taxation for the year 1872-3 is an-
amount stated is that raised last autumn. The
counties are arranged in the order of their
population:
1870. 1870. 1878. 1878.
Counties. Population. Debt.
D.bt. Tazes.
New York. 942,292 $83,421,980 $95,582,153827,098,768
Kings 419,921 24,205,000 35,820,555 8,225,918
Erie....... 178,699 3,403,630 5,019,515 931,600
Westchest'r131,348
Albany.... 133,052
4,168,450 4,251,900 1,150,645
Monroe.... 117,868
3,117,348 5.160,489 1,929,172
1,828,667 2,170,886 678,777
Oneida 110,008 798,000 1,637,978 533,628
Onondaga. 104,183
2,215,813 803,469
Rensselaer 99,549
2,318,045
Ulster...
St.Lawrence84,826
Orange.
Oswego...
Dutchess.. 74,041
Queens. 73,803
Steuben... 67,717
Jefferson.. 65,415
Chautauqua 59,327
Cayuga... 59,550
Saratoga.. 51,529
Niagara 50,437
Washington 49,568.
Otsego 48,967
Clinton..
Wayne
Columbia.
Suffolk....
Ontario 45,108
Broome... 44,103
Cattaraugus 43,909
Madison..
43,522
Allegany.. 40,814
Delaware. 42,972
Chenango. 40,564
Herkimer. 39,929
Livingston 38,309
Chemung.. 35,281
Sullivan... 34,550
Montgom❜ry 34,457
Schoharie 33.340
Tompkins. 33,178
Richmond. 33,029
Greene....
Genesee
Tioga.
Wyoming. 29,164
Franklin 30,271
Essex.
Lewis.. 28,699
Seneca 27,823
Orleans... 27,689
Fulton 27,064
Rockland. 25,213
Cortland.. 25,173
Warren... 22,592
Schenectady21,347 26,000
Yates...... 19,595
Putnam...
Schuyler.. 18,989
15,420
Hamilton.. 2,960

...

1,339,300

3,154,310

578,063

683,000

-534,984

351,548

84,075

1,980,651

3,183,368 640,740

80,902

1,172,156

1,527,109

385,741

77,941

1,276,500

2,504,200 517,779

1,236,965

2,330,067

553,521

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968,675

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632,500

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1,001,967

741,563

288.998

271,000

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379,631

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252,100 212,441

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198,535

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1,160,300

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40,000

319,750 166,132

163,000 156,641

725,700

162,609

185,500 70,221 159,200 166,625 181,250

23,292

115,259

92,570

31,000 101,413 34,050 34,362

Total...4,382.7598146,379,0928188,373,280854,176,615 On the 1st of January, 1874, the net debt of the city and county of New York was $106,371,954, after deducting $24,832,618 in the Sinking Fund.

Statistics of the Principal United States and Canadian Railroads.

Boston & Albany.

Boston & Lowell.

Boston & Maine.

Boston & Providence.
Central, of Georgia..
Central, of N. Jersey..
Central Pacific

Mil's

op'td

966,846

NAME OF ROAD. Capital Funded Gross Operating Interest Stock. Debt. Earnings. Expenses. and Rents Albany & Susquehanna... 164 $5,000,000 $4,367,000 $1,341,228 8917,408 $311,687 Atlantic & Gt. Western.. 604 24,358,700 62,800,692 5,456,896 3,569,974 2,507,395 Atlantic & Pacific. 818 23,400,000 27,400,000 4,819,712 2,754,143 1,564,000 Baltimore & Ohio.. 1109 18,369,862 19,789.473 15,695,542 10,137,053 not stat. 268 19,664,100 3,037,000 9,259,599 6,896,984 115,155 43 2,234,000 922,500 1,293,970 1,052,953 39,456 144 6,816,835 1,341,861 2,004,672 1,542,016 not stat. 66 3,950,000 None. 1,822,108 1,425,003 none. 660 5,000,000 1,389,000 1,656,154 102,305 272 20,000,000 6,900,000 7,120,718 4,236,806 453,042 1219 54,275,500 80,439,680 12,924,963 5,634.943 3,554,299 195 2,578,000 1.300,000 686,432 395,428 150,813 315 13,400,178 18,624,953 839,309 544,243 2,120,518 89 2,153,300 834,154 824,763 640,912 649 11,353,300 3,699,000 5,156,326 3,148,320 767 18,649,910 5,278,750 7,554,575 4.717.709 Chicago & Northwestern. 1460 36,477,084 25,008,500 12,736,607 8,178,237 2,335,261 660 24,999,500 8,970,000 6,657,050 3,517,783 60 3,500,000 2,032,000 1,204,865 215 4.729,037 3,261,330 850,755 525,511 471 14,991,275 3,005,000 4,573,171 3,193,645 228 11,236,150 3,834,344 3,554,285 1,572,772 587 13,328,569 23,555,174 4,411,025 3,628,213 146 1,500,000 None. 1,040,115 562,887

Charl'te,Columb.& Aug'ta
Chesapeake & Ohio
Cheshire...

Chicago & Alton.
Chicago, Burl. & Quincy..

Chicago, Rock I. & Pacific
Cincin., Ham. & Dayton..
Cin. Sand'ky & Cleveland.
Cleveland, Col. Cin. & I...
Cleveland & Pittsburg.
Colum., Chic. & Ind. Cen.

Concord

Connecticut River
Connecticut & Passumpsic
Del. Lac. & Western
Del. and Hudson Canal...
Detroit & Milwaukee.

709,493

56 1,850,000 250,000 733,368 517,887

145 2,124,500 1,357,100 812,768 503,866
608 20,000,000 4.239.545 4.746,678 2,027,170
108 15,000,000 13,088,385 10,607,291 9,364.758
189 2,517,140 7,156,388 1.381,603 939,448

E. Tenn., Va. & Georgia., 270 1,970,024 4,191,900 1,378.358

Eastern....

Illinois Central..
Ind., Bloom. & Western..
Ind., Cincin. & Lafayette.
Indianapolis & St. Louis..
Kansas Pacific...
Lake Shore & M. South'n.
Lehigh Valley
Long Island

Louisville & Nashville..
Maine Central.

Marietta & Cincinnati..

929,148

49,388

308,656

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105,000 1,145,483 Dec. 31, 72 324.352 1,761,675 Apr. 30, 72 2,020,668 May 31, 73

746,670 1,519,944 Mar.

144,990
150,727
199,631

257,420

1,313,760
49,664

280,000

r. 31, '73

25.742 June 30, 72 1,012,312 Dec. 31, 72 786,626 Nov. 30, 72

none. Dec. 31, 72

150,000 Mar. 31, 73 170,000 Sept. 30,

27,599

127,287 June 30,

100,494

300,288 1,955,205 Dec. 31, '72

677,320 1,500,000

398,116

none.

280,000

300,050

66

59,100 June 30, '73 none. Sept. 30, '72 597,584

320,000

66

336,000 Mar. 31, none. June 30, 72 Dec. 31, 72

none.

375,350 1,409,166 Jan. 31, none. Aug. 31,

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265 4,262,600 6,746,100 1,973,623 1,399,426 Erie ............. 1032 86,536,910 26,395,000 18,371,888 12,727,423 2,989,445 Fitchburg 94 4,000,000 None. 1,350,289 1,026,354 none. Georgia.. 232 4,200,000 676,500 1,623,456 976,830 54,601 Grand Rapids & Indiana.. 290 2,800,000 8,000,000 949,781 444,141 537,950 Grand Trunk, of Canada.. 1377 16,977,803 91,597,296 8,935,970 7,132,049 1,282,907 Great Western, of Canada 471 23,433,967 10,049,500 5,732,867 3.529,747 Hannibal & St. Joseph.. 275 14,250,828 9,146,900 2,484,671 1,814,141 not stat. Houston & Texas Central. 502 820,000 10,040,000 2,075,234 1,330,201 not stat. not stat. Dec. 31, '72 1108 25,500,000 19,238,500 8,202,020 4,846,854 1,120,722 2,537,760 420 7,000,000 8,500,000 1,359,691 not stat. 159 5,587,150 8,088,000 1,754,416 1,162,230 265 6c0,000 3,338,000 2,110,681 1,380,442 673 9,638,950 27,108,350 3,723,713 2,229,266 1,181,396 none. 1136 50,000,000 20,495.000 17,591,629 11,473,032 2,039,803 3,519,446 239 21,468,800 9,754,000 5,982,949 3,869,687 158 3,000,000 1,500,000 865,192 587,995 921 8,980,703 12,244,000 3,200,068 1,986,875 357 4,416,720 6,300,409 1,928,808 1,328,982 284 13,927,500 9,304,447 2,029,16 1,618,713 290 5,312,725 4,107,142 1,404,116 950,392 788 18,738,204 11,635,000 5,876,312 3,876,243 Milwaukee & St. Paul.... 1612 26,225,144 27,465,500 6,957,771 4,695,616 not stat. Mississippi Central... Mo., Kansas & Texas. 347 3,935,535 4,628,980 1,425,984 847,128 not stat. not stat. 715 16,945,000 16,596,000 2,317,568 1,376,908 not stat. Mobile & Ohio.. 518 4,466,476 10,839,144 2,052,508 1,930,219 848,801 Nashy., Chatt. & St. Louis 341 6,486,049 4,672,590 2,812,165 1,742.937 not stat. N. Orl., Jackson & Gt. N.. 206 4,704,846 4,500,000 1,754,489 New York & Harlem.. N. Y. Central & Hudson.. 135 9,000,000 4,864,024 2,856,525 1,719,389 851 89,428,300 16,496,020 25,580,676 16,446,436 N. Y., N. Haven & Hartf. 191 15,500,000 1,126,500 4,701,236 2,854,264 North Pennsylvania.. Northern Central. 68 3.473,500 4,042,500 1,236,938 744,617 Ohio & Mississippi 317 5,842,000 11,040,602 4,598,820 3.437,051 Old Colony 393 24,030,000 10,559,090 3,754,422 2,613,313 715,646 Pennsylvania, 245 5,100,020 2,941,000 1,897,438 1,267,189 not stat. Philadelphia & Reading... 699 53,271,938 35,072,309 22,015,525 13.764,673 not stat. 503 34,236,175 28,236,430 12,125,038 7,301,738 1,777,346 Phil. Wilm. & Baltimore.. 198 11,485,750 1,990,500 2,899,909 1,691,673 94,4451 Pitts, Ft. W. & Chicago.. 501 22,214,286 13,621,000 9,780,310 5,272,846 1,083,800 Providence & Worcester.. 48 2,000,000 500,000 895,897 655,971

Memphis & Charleston..

Michigan Central

903,644

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83,169 295,879 664,181

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343,305 Dec. 31, 72

281,701 June 30, 73

328,846 Sept. 30, 72 4,711,497 Dec. 31, 72 3,593,391 Nov. 30, 72 930,218 Oct. 31, 72 1,506,000 Dec. 31, 72

37,798

200,000 Sept. 30, '72

215,284

420,000

none.

none. June 30,

108,697

209,923 Sept. 30,

382,270

300,000 Dec. 31,

824,067

240,000 Jan. 31, 73

417,825

none. Dec. 31,

68,250 none.

66

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Rensselaer & Saratoga....
181 6,000,000 1,925,000 1,748,915 1,144,692
Rockford, Rock I. & St. L. 317 6,490,579 9,000,000 1,067,749 824,214
Rome, Wat. & Ogd'burgh 244 2,998,900 1,735,606 1,150,764 868,658
St. Louis & Iron Mountain 211 10,000,000 5,461, 2,146,039 1,458,400
St. L., Kansas C. & N'th'n 582 24,000,000 6,000,000 2,780,820 2,032,681
South Carolina.
856,106
242 5,819,275 4,720,346 1,401,211
Toledo. Wabash & West'n 956 17,000,000
Union Pacific..
83,000 6,008,978 4,380,796 1,256,982
1032 36,762,300 63,998,812 8,892,606 4,800,573 3.403,660
United Companies of N.J. 456 19,030,400 16,660,705 8,266,227 6,005,167 not stat. 1,903,040

DEATHS OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS-1872-3.

October 31, 1872.-At Troy, N. Y., Hon. John A. Griswold, aged 55 years.

November 6.-At Philadelphia, Pa., Maj.-Gen. George G. Meade, of the U. S. army, in the 56th year of his age.

Nov. 22.-Sir John Bowring, founder of the Westminster Review, aged 80 years.

Nov. 26.-At New York, Robert J. Dillon, Central Park Commissioner, aged 61.

Nov. 29.-At Pleasantville, N. Y., Horace Greeley, aged about 62 years." (Obituary in Almanac for 1873).

Nov. 80.-At New York, Samuel Marsh, for 20 years Vice-President of the Erie Railway Co., aged 87....At London, Mary Somerville, the writer, aged 77.

Dec. 7-At New York, Samuel N. Pike, of Opera House and real estate fame.

Dec, 11.-At Honolulu, Kamehameha V, King of the Sandwich Islands, who died leaving no heir to the throne and without naming a successor. Dec. 12.-At Philadelphia, Pa., Edwin Forrest, the celebrated tragedian, aged 66.

Feb. 26.-At Concord, Mass., Simon Brewer, editor of New England Farmer, and formerly Lieut.-Governor of Massachusetts.

March 9.-Near London, Charles Knight, the well-known publisher, aged 82.

March 10-At New York, Prof. John Torrey, the distinguished botanist and chemist.

March 11.-At Concord, N. H., Henry A. Bellows, Chief Justice of the State, aged 70.

March 15.-At Florence, Italy, the Right Rev. Chas. P. McIlvaine, D.D., Bishop of Ohio, aged 75. March 26.-At London, Count Arthur Von Bernstorff, German Minister to England, aged 65. March 27.-At Rome, Italy, the Countess Guiccioli (Madame De Boissy), nearly 70 years of age....At Paris, Amèdée Simon Dominique Thierry, the French historian, aged 76....At Hartford, Ct., Ex-Senator James Dixon, aged 58. March 23.-At Elkton, John Thompson Mason, Secretary of State of Maryland.

March 81.-At Konigstein, Saxony, Mrs. James Gordon Bennett.

April 11.-At Paris, Saint Marc Girardin, the aid-de-eminent French writer, aged 72.

Dec. 13.-At Paris, Count de Kisseleff, camp to the Emperor Alexander in the French campaign, aged 84 years.

Dec. 14.-At New York, John F. Kensett, the landscape artist, aged 54.

Dec. 15.-At London, Viscountess Beaconsfield, wife of Benjamin Disraeli.

Dec. 17.-At Lynchburg, Va., Edward A. Pollard, editor and author, aged 45.

Dec. 20.-At New York, George P. Putnam, the well-known publisher, aged 58.

Dec. 25.-At Jersey City, George Catlin, the artist, aged 76. Dec. -Near Frith, England, Thomas Keightly, author of "Fairy Mythology," aged 82. 1873.

January 1.-At New York, Dr. Harvey P. Peet, principal of the New York Institution for the deaf and dumb.

Jan. 9.-At Chiselhurst England, Louis Napoleon, ex-Emperor of France, aged 64 years.

Jan. 16.-At New York, Dr. Joshua Leavitt, one of the pioneer abolitionists, aged 78.

Jan. 18.-At London, Edward Bulwer (Lord Lytton), the celebrated novelist, aged 67.

Jan. 20.-In England, Rev. Baptist W. Noel, the eminent theologian, aged 74.

Jan. 21.-In London, the Right Honorable Stephen Lushington, legal adviser of the Byron family, aged 90.

Jun. 23.-At Albany, N. Y., William Cassidy, editor of The Albany Argus, aged 58.

Jan. 31.-At Chicago, Ill., Joel A. Matteson, Governor of Illinois from 1853 to 1857, aged 65. Feb. 1.-At Lexington, Va., Matthew F. Maury, formerly Commander in the U. S. navy.

Feb. 6.-At New York, the Very Rev. William Starrs, D. D., Vicar-General of the R. C. Archdiocese of New York, aged 66.

Feb. 8.-At Vienna, the Empress Caroline Augusta, aged 81. She was the widow of the Emperor Francis I, of Austria, and grandmother of the reigning Emperor.

Feb. 9.-At Harrisburg, Pa., Ex-Governor John W. Geary, aged 58.

Feb. 16-At Piermont, N. Y., Caroline Chesebro', a well-known writer.

April 18.-At Munich, Bavaria, Baron Justus Liebeg, the chemist, aged 70.

April 27.-At Washington, D. C., Commodore John H. Aulick, of the U. S. navy, aged about 84. April 29.-At Weston-Super-Mare, England, Wm. Charles Macready, the well-known actor, aged 79.

April 80.-At Washington, D. C., Hon. James Brooks, M. C. and editor N. Y. Express, in his 63d year....In N. Y. City, John R. Thompson, formerly editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, in his 50th year.

May 5.-At St. Petersburg, Russia, James L. Orr, American Minister to Russia, formerly Governor of South Carolina, aged 51.

May 6.-In N. Y. City, John Romeyn Brodhead, author of the history of the State of New York, aged 59.

May 7.-At the City of N. Y., Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, in his 66th year.

May 8.-At North Easton, Mass., Hon. Oakes Ames, in his 70th year....At Avignon, France, John Stuart Mill, philosopher and author, in his 67th year.

June 5.-At New York city, Mansfield Tracy Walworth, author, aged 43. Shot by his son.... At Frosinone, Italy, Urbano Ratazzi, Italian statesman, aged 65.

June 6.-At Carlsbad, in Bohemia, William Adalbert, Prince of Russia, aged 62 years, morganatically married to the sister of Fannie Ellsler, the danseuse.

June 14.-At Berlin, Frederick Louis George Von Raumer, the historian, aged 92.

June 18.-At New York city, Hon. Horace F. Clark, prominent in railway enterprises, aged 58. June 19.-At New York city, John A. Kennedy, Ex-Superintendent of Police, aged 70. June 21.-At Brooklyn, N. Y., Louis Tappan, prominent opponent of slavery, aged 85.

June 24.-In England, Thornton L. Hunt, artist, novelist and art critic, aged 62.

June 26.-At Truckee, Cal., Ex-Chancellor Abraham O. Zabriskie, of New Jersey, aged 66.

June 27.-At Florence, Italy, Hiram Powers, the American sculptor, in his 68th year.

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