(CONTINUED.) STATES AND TERRITORIES. Land Area Population. Ratio. Louisiana 45,420 939,946 20.69 Maine 29,895 648,936 Maryland 9,860 Massachusetts 8,040 Michigan 57,430 Minnesota 79,205 Mississippi. 46,340 Missouri 68,735 New Hampshire.. New Jersey. New Mexico New York. 47,620 Rhode Island. 1,085 122,580-Immigration. No authentic record of immi- Kentucky.. 276,452 270,003 313,136 376,221 Indiana. 313,924 306,678 Iowa.... Kansas 162,655 153,374 212,961 214,565 Michigan... Missouri Montana 235,391 228.991 119,703 117,872 195,885 346,072 407,650 498,437 459,209 3,445 3,251 18,147 21,544 129,042 258,558 251,552 333,890 416,658 The newspapers and periodicals number 11,314,. of which 971 are issued daily, 8,633 weekly, and 1,167 monthly. The aggregate circulation per issue is 3,566,395 for the dailies, and 28,213,291 for the others. English is the language of 10,515 of them, and the others range from 641 in German to threein Indian, two each in Chinese, Polish, and Port-uguese, and one each in Catalan and Irish. Out of a total population of 36,761,607, of ten years old and upward, 4,923,451, or 13.4 per cent.,. are returned as unable to read, and 6,239,958, or 17 per cent., as unable to write. It must be con-fessed that these are uncomfortable figures for a republic based on manhood suffrage, but it must be taken into account that they are abnormally increased by the still prevailing illiteracy of the colored race. Of the 32,160,400 white persons of ten years old and upward, the number unable to write is 3,019,080, or 9.4 per cent.; while the corresponding figures for the colored race are a total of 4,601,207, of whom 3,220,878, or 70 per cent., are unable to write. There are 11,343,005 white males of twenty-one years old and upward (voters), and 886,659, or 7.8 per cent., of these are unable to write. There are 1,487,344 colored voters, and 1,022,151, or 68.7 per cent., of these are unable to write. These terrible percentages of colored illiteracy can only be regarded as survivals of antebellum conditions, and private benevolence is supplementing public energy in the effort to reduce them. The Peabody fund distributed $1,191,700 among the southern states for educational pur 380,876 334,505 22,542 27,670 101,143 114,664 139.161 201,284 256,434 340,482 1,824 9,751 10,180 7,605,126 7,458,641 10,231,239 12,830,349 ·Education and Illiteracy. The census of 1880 reports 225,880 public schools in the United States, including 16,800 separate schools for colored children, and 5,430 high schools or high school departments. Pennsylvania stands first with 18,616 schools, New York second with 18,615, Ohio third with 16,473, and Wyoming lowest with 55. The school buildings number 164,832. Pennsylvania stands first in this respect with 12,857 buildings, Ohio second with 12,224, New York third with 11,927, and Wyoming lowest with 29. The total number of teachers is 236,019; white male 96,099, white female 124,086, colored male 10,520, colored female 5,314. The aggregate of months of teachers' service was 1,539,303, at an average monthly salary of $36.21. The monthly average is highest in California ($76.54), and lowest in North Carolina ($21.27). The total number of pupils is 9,090,248: white male 4,687,530, white female 4,402,718, colored male 433,329, colored female 422,583; and the average daily attendance is 6,276,398: 5,715,914 white, and 560,484 colored. The re -2. ECONOMICS.-Agriculture. The total number ceipts of the public schools, mainly derived from of farms was 4,008,907 in 1880, against 2,659,985, in 1870, an increase of 50 per cent. The increase was altogether in farms of fifty acres and over; farms of less than fifty acres show a decrease, as follows: 3 to 10 acres 54,676 10 to 20 acres 162,178 20 to 50 acres 781,474 847,614 616,558 608,878 100 to 500 acres 1,695,983 565,054 487,041 20,319 5,364 It will be noticed that the changes for 1870-80 are in exactly the opposite direction to those of 1860-70. The average size of farms was 134 acres in 1880, against 153 acres in 1870, and 199 acres in 1860. The total number of acres in farms was 536,081,835 in 1880 (284,771,042 acres improved), against 407,735,041 in 1870 (188,921,099 improved), and 407,212,538 in 1860 (163,110,720 improved). The value of farms is put at $10,197,096,776 in 1880, $9,262,803,861 in 1870, and $6,645,045,007 in 1860. The value of farming implements and machinery is put at $406,520,055 in 1880, $336,878,429 in 1870, and $246,118,141 Production of leading crops was as in 1860. follows: Out of the 332 manufacturing and mechanical industries specified in the census report of 1880, the following are selected: The percentage of the total exports and imports of all kinds carried by American vessels (see AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE) was as follows: 1861, 65.2 per cent.; 1862, 50 per cent.; 1863, 41.4 per cent.; 1864, 27.5 per cent.; 1865, 27.7 per cent.; 1866, 32.2 per cent.; 1867, 33.9 per cent.; 1868, 35.1 per cent.; 1869, 33.1 per cent.; 1870, 35.6 per cent.; 1871, 31.8 per cent.; 1872, 29.1 per cent.; | 1873, 26.4 per cent.; 1874, 27.2 per cent.; 1875, 26.2 per cent.; 1876, 27.7 per cent.; 1877, 26.9 per cent.; 1878, 26.3 per cent.; 1879, 22.9 per cent.; 1880, 17.6 per cent.; 1881, 16.2 per cent.; 1882, 15.5 per cent.; 1883, 16.3 per cent. The following are the exports and imports of merchandise to and from the various countries of the world, for the year ending June 30, 1883: Order. 3 Germany... Foreign. Total. Dollars. Dollars. Dollars. United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Ireland)... 420,433,473 4,990,701 425,424,174 188,622,619 France.. 55,965,191 2,717,032 58,682,223 97,989,164 64,340,490 1,829,439 66,169,929 57,377,728 Domestic. West Indies: 535,785 15,103,703 65,544,534 British West Indies. Porto Rico. 2,116,499 48,209 2,164,708 Hayti.. 3,162,738 French West Indies....... 1,783,332 San Domingo.. 1,179,200 Dutch West Indies.. Danish West Indies.. 702,126 384,003 The following table gives the quantity or value | June 30, 1883, by classes, free and dutiable, ordiof imported merchandise for the year ending | nary duty received, and average rate of duty: |