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Of the insane persons enumerated, 14,972 were white, and 638 colored; and of the idiotic, 14,257 were white, and 1,530 colored.

Amount of Coinage of the United States.

The entire coinage at the several mints, from the time they commenced operations, is as follows:

Mint at Philadelphia, established 1793...

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.$322,228,868

50,497,665

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Total at all the Mints,

5,280,728

$381,797,299

A recent publication in London, by Mr. Wesgarth, states that when the California mines were discovered the gold in the world was worth £500,000,000, one-fourth of which was coin. The silver was worth £1,200,000, one.fifth of which was coin. Since the discovery, Mr. W. estimates each year's supply in pounds sterling as follows:

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Forty-eight millions pounds sterling is supposed to be the supply of gold for the past year, say in Federal currency value $232.320,000 Then, according to Mr. Wesgarth's estimate, there ought to be in the world at this time £634,000,000 sterling, over one-fourth of which should be coin, say, $651,000,000, of which we have in the city of

New Orleans the small amount of $7,000,000. If there is any pleasure in consolation, we can console ourselves with the thought that if we have not got any more of the vast amount, we ought to have it.

The manufacture of iron in the world is divided as follows by the London Chronicle:-In Great Britain, 2,380,000 tons; United States, 400,000; France, 348,000; Russia, 189,000; Austria, 160,000; Sweden, 132,500; Prussia, 112,000; making a total of 3,723,300 tons of iron manufactured annually. In 1850 there were 450 iron furnaces in Great Britain, and of the 2,380,000 tons which these produced, about 809,000 were exported. In 1786 but 125,000 tons were manufactured in Great Britain, and the total exports were about 408 tons. During the ten months ending November 5, 1853, Great Britain exported $75,000,000 worth of iron, and by far the largest portion of this enormous mass of exports were taken by the United States. Of pig iron the United States received 57.000 tons, and Holland, which comes next upon the list, took 13,000. Of bar, bolt and rod iron, the United States took 263,530 tons, or nearly six times as much as Canada, which received the next largest amount.

VOTE FOR PRESIDENT OF U. S. IN LOUISIANA, 1852.

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E. T. Merrick, of Clinton, Judge of the 7th Judicial District. T. T. Land, of Shreveport, Judge of the 18th Judicial District.

NOTARIES.

Fergus Fusilier, Notary Public, Parish of St. Martin, in place of A. Deblanc, resigned.

E. Miller, Notary Public, Last Island, Parish of Terrebonne.

Elisha Eastwood, Notary Public, Point Coupee, vice W. C. Bozeman, resigned.

John Halsey, Notary Public, Ascension, vice M. H. Nichols. Michael Heahn, Notary Public, New Orleans, vice Herman Lucas. John C. Potts, Notary Public, Terrebonne, vice E. D. Burgard.

REPRESENTATIVE TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

B. B. Sims, Point Coupée.

PENITENTIARY.

L. C. Morris, Director, in place of G. W. Christine, deceased.
T. J. Buffington, Physician.

LAND OFFICE.

Robt. Bengurel, Register, in place of Fitzgerald, deceased.

DEATHS AND RESIGNATIONS.

W. W. Farmer, Lt. Governor, deceased.

A. W. Baker, Representative to Gen'l Ass'y, St. Mary, deceased.

J. B. R. Jones, do.

Morehouse,

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E. Feliciana, do.

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J. A. Ranaldson, do.

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Progress of the United States.

BY J. B. D. DEBOW.

When the revolution handed over to us the republic, won by the blood and the sword of our ancestors, it embraced a territory little greater than that of our possessions on the Pacific at the present moment. Exposed on its frontiers to the attacks of numerous tribes of remorseless savages-cut off in its western limits from the ocean by the possessions of a power hostile to us in feeling, and different from us in language-the republic has advanced in its course, dealing with the savage with justice and magnanimity, and obtaining only by fair concessions what was necessary to its development; and in passing the boundaries of the Mississippi, and sweeping across the great mountains to the Western ocean, it has violated no law of good neighborhood, but relied upon those of negotiation and purchase, or the results of a just war, undertaken in maintenance of the integrity of the national domain. From a territory of less than 900,000 square miles the republic has swelled into nearly three millions of miles, being nearly one-half of the whole of North America. This vast domain is nearly ten times as large as that of Great Britain and Ireland and France combined three times as large as the whole of France, Great Britain and Ireland, Austria, Prussia, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark together-one and a half times as large as the Russian empire in Europe-one-sixth less only than the area covered by the fifty-nine or sixty empires, States, and republics of Europe of equal extent with the Roman empire, or that of Alexander, neither of which is said to have exceeded three millions of square miles.

Already does our empire extend over domain wider than that of the Romans in their proudest days of conquest. From the island of Brazos, in the Gulf of Mexico, to the straits of Fuca, on the Northern Pacific; from the Arostook valley to the bay of San Diego, the Union extends its leviathan proportions. The inhabitants of these extreme points, more distant than the

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