TABLE OF IMPORTS, FOREIGN EXPORTS, NET IMPORTS AND DOMESTIC EXPORTS, FROM 1844 TO 1882, OF MERCHANDISE AND BULLION. The following table exhibits the Imports, Exports of Foreign Goods, net Imports and Exports of goods, the production, growth or manufacture of the United States from the year 1821, when for the first time, the distinction was made between the imports and exports of merchandize and that of coin and bullion. The fiscal year closed September 30, till June 30, 1843, when it closed as now, June 30. An additional column gives the value of our domestic exports, since 1861, in mixed values-gold and currency, all the other columns being in gold values. Nine months only. Addition to Domestic Exports, Merchandise only, taken from Canadian reports. 799,959,736 642.664.628 898,152,891 898.152.891 743,872,231 799,959,786 EDUCATIONAL. THE Educational condition of the United States, though not yet what we may hope it will be, is far in advance of that of any other nation. Some of the German States maintain a system of compulsory education, which ensures to every child a certain amount of intellectual training, but this is surrounded by such restrictions that it is not so beneficial to the youth of the State as our more free and practical system of education. In our country, up to the close of the late war, very few of the Southern States had any thorough system of primary education, and many of their secondary and higher schools, colleges and seminaries, were very superficial; but the last ten years has witnessed a great advance in these respects in those States, and the Northern States have made equally rapid progress. The tables which follow, show that nearly 9,375,000 of our children -about one-fifth of our population-were enrolled in our Public Schools, in 1878; 286,675 in our secondary and special schools (these returns are so incomplete that they do not probably represent one-half of the actual number in attendance), 202,165 others are reported as in secondary and preparatory schools, the Universities and Colleges had 57,987 students, and the Scientific and Professional Schools 34,296, making a grand total of nearly 10,000,000 children and youth under instruction; more than 291,500 teachers are engaged in the work of instruction. For the purposes of this education, the investment in real estate, appliances for teaching, and libraries, is over $390,000,000; the amount of vested and permanent funds (largely increased by benefactions, sales of land, etc., every year) is more than $152,500,000, and the annual income $121,300,000. No nation in the world can make such an exhibit as this, but we may fairly hope that another decade will show one-fourth of our population under instruction, with greatly increased facilities. The reader will find, also, in the tables which follow, an account of the private benefactions made to education since 1870, and of the large libraries which have made such a rapid growth within the past few years. 8. Annual Income, Expenditure, and Value of School Buildings. New Jersey... New York.. 7,270,584 North Carolina.. Ohio.... 112,000 3,742,760 Texas. 6669,087 859,484 29,648 540,942 8,116,519 8,987,091 480,814 1,494,655 3,882,852 585,398 2,320,430 444,500 142,785 750,520 106,301 57,478 205,147 283.888 419,258 60,194 636,655 2,336,547 1,365,284 1,365,284 2,004,049 882,243) 28,180 1,528,986 64,640 2,004,049 6,800,898 129,400 7,756,844 1,284,678 10,755,905 80,147,589 18,495 292,893 5,035 824,287 157,920 185,850 4,956,514 1,836,976 7,995,125 21,329,864 6509,000 10,646,651 1,584,988 194,571 72,800 4,755,620 2,241,371 8,187,977 24,839,820 291,268 963,895 1,012,508 057,275 1,688,849 1,480,645 1,430,645 938,381 84,497 86,085,264 8,892,860 1,074,007 51,358,861 11,542,083 79,652,558 174,887,819 8,406 1,100 14,947 1,948 21,896 47,478 54,985 c871,857 430,255 5,166,988 57,420 878,980 7,412 24,460 592,805 2,406,133 8,821,899 1,806,467 14,093 275,106 483,000 679,770 2,684,941 21,459 819,030 794,282 1,051,89% 747,534 511,101 21,396 72,950 20,728 80,489 8,576 Idaho Dist. of Columbia Montana 873,606 29,365 11,485 227,189 95,617 88,847 28,082 23,082 66,941 10,828 25,473 18,890 118,413 27,468 1,500 382,112 Washington..... Wyoming 49,765 d49,765 Indian.. Total 1,506,961 161,320 73,025 187,775 215,000 Grand total. 57,845,640 942,887 91,290 14,035 494,794 109,594 877,405 1,974,858. 86,979,101 8,488,650 1,083,042 51,853,655 11,651,677 80,529,958 176,812,177/ a Included in teachers' salaries. o Only a partial report. |