$12,061 $529,265
Area of the Capitol 1/2 acre. 4-1/8 acres.
Number of miles of railroad in operation . . . 10,287
Cost of ditto . . . $306,607,954
Number of miles in course of construction . . . 10,092
Lines of electric telegraph, in miles . . . 15,000
Number of post-offices 209 21,551
Number of miles of post-route 5,642 196,290
Amount of revenue from post-offices $104,747 $6,727,867
Amount of expenditures of Post-Office Department $72,040 $6,024,567
Number of miles of mail transportation . . . 52,465,724
Number of colleges 19 121
Public libraries 35 694
Volumes in ditto 75,000 2,201,632
School libraries . . . 10,000
Volumes in ditto . . . 2,000,000
Emigrants from Europe to the United States 10,000 299,610
Coinage at the Mint $9,664 $52,019,465

In respect to the growth of Western trade and commerce, I extract a few
sentences from a very valuable address before the Historical Society of
Ohio, by William D. Gallagher, Esq., 1850:--

"A few facts will exhibit as well as a volume the wonderful growth
of Western trade and commerce. Previous to the year 1800, some
eight or ten keel-boats, of twenty or twenty-five tons each,
performed all the carrying trade between Cincinnati and Pittsburg.
In 1802 the first government vessel appeared on Lake Erie. In 1811
the first steamboat (the Orleans) was launched at Pittsburg. In
1826 the waters of Michigan were first ploughed by the keel of a
steamboat, a pleasure trip to Green Bay being planned and executed
in the summer of this year. In 1832 a steamboat first appeared at
Chicago. At the present time the entire number of steamboats
running on the Mississippi and Ohio and their tributaries is more
probably over than under six hundred, the aggregate tonnage of
which is not short of one hundred and forty thousand; a larger
number of steamboats than England can claim, and a greater steam
commercial marine than that employed by Great