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We give below lew statistical facts,
(for which we are chiefly indebted to that
excellent and useful work, the .fmerican
almanac for lS40) for the benefit of our
miscellaneous readers, aud shouldlhese be
well received may continue them to some
extent.


BY some of the tables We may hereafter
insert, it will appear 1--WE regret to add that
Maine is about century beh'm Massachu
sets and other sister states, in those i'm
provements which if adopted, would make
her one OF the first States in the Union.


To say nothing of giving away our pub
lie lands, By Townships Tor selling them at
6 cts. per acre!D for the encouragement
of those who would live by their wits in
stead Of their labor; we would ask ~ha,
this State has done for the encouragement,
of actual settlers; or to increase the value
OF those agricultural resources, which ney-
er fail a State, even in times of the great
est commercial calamity?


Had the bounty money on uhro', &c.
been expended IN opening roads into some
of the un.nhabted sections of this State.
three years from the completion Of such
internal Improvement would shew an in
crease of our grain harvest very far ex-
ceeding that produced by the jouniy sys-
tenn, And we may add to this remark the
immense advantage of most valuable pop
ulation.


STATISTICS OF THE U. STATES.
The Navy of the United States amounts to
Ships Of the Line II
Frlga'es, Ist class, from 81 guns to al, 10
do. ed class, 36 guns. Q
Sloops of War, I3 of % guns, 3of


IS guns, and a Of l6 guns, 90
Brigs of 10 guns, 4
Schooners, of 10 guns, 4 of guns, 8
Fulton Steam Ship, /
Relief Store Ship, 1


Total, 90
Commodores 6-Commanders of Navy
Yards 9-Captains 55-Commanders 81.
Army contains,


Commissioned Officers, 735
Non Commissioned officers, mus-


clans, artiicers and privates, II, 1904


Total, 1859


MILITIA OF THE UNITED STATES.


Aggregate, 1,350,8O5
Military force of the U. S. 1863 ,344
LITERARY AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
There are 95 Colleges in the U. States.


81 Medical Schools,


81 Theological Schools,


8 Law Schools.


Religious Denominations in the Union.
Baptists (of different denom-


nations,) 4,s00,OOO
Methodists, 100000
Congregationalists, 100000
Universalists, 100000
Episcop opallans, 100000
Roman Catholics, S00,0 900
Presbyterians, 2,175, 900
Lutherans, $40, 900
Dutch Reform ed, $50, 900