VALUE OF THE SLAVES AT $400 PER HEAD.—1850.[6]
| States. | Value of the Slaves at $400 per head. | Value of Real and Per. Estate, less the val. of slaves at $400 p. head. |
| Alabama | $137,137,600 | $81,066,732 |
| Arkansas | 18,840,000 | 21,001,025 |
| Delaware | 916,000 | 17,939,863 |
| Florida | 15,724,000 | 7,474,734 |
| Georgia | 152,672,800 | 182,752,914 |
| Kentucky | 84,392,400 | 217,236,056 |
| Louisiana | 97,923,600 | 136,075,164 |
| Maryland | 36,147,200 | 183,070,164 |
| Mississippi | 123,951,200 | 105,000,000 |
| Missouri | 34,968,800 | 102,278,907 |
| North Carolina | 115,419,200 | 111,381,272 |
| South Carolina | 153,993,600 | 134,264,094 |
| Tennessee | 95,783,600 | 111,671,104 |
| Texas | 23,264,400 | 32,097,940 |
| Virginia | 189,011,200 | 202,634,638 |
| $1,280,145,600 | $1,655,945,137 |
Tables 34 and 35 show that, on account of the pitiable poverty and ignorance of slavery, the mails were transported throughout the Southern States, during the year 1855, at an extra cost to the General Government of more than six hundred thousand dollars! In the free States, postages were received to the amount of more than two millions of dollars over and above the cost of transportation.
To Dr. G. Bailey, editor of the National Era, Washington city, D. C., we are indebted for the following useful and interesting statistics, to which some of our readers will doubtless have frequent occasion to refer:—
PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
| Appointed. | ||
| March 4, 1789 " 3, 1797 | } | George Washington, Virginia. |
| March 4, 1797 " 3, 1801 | } | John Adams, Massachusetts. |
| March 4, 1801 " 3, 1809 | } | Thomas Jefferson, Virginia. |
| March 4, 1809 " 3, 1817 | } | James Madison, Virginia. |
| March 4, 1817 " 3, 1825 | } | James Monroe, Virginia. |
| March 4, 1825 " 3, 1829 | } | John Q. Adams, Massachusetts. |
| March 4, 1829 " 3, 1837 | } | Andrew Jackson, Tennessee. |
| March 4, 1837 " 3, 1841 | } | Martin Van Buren, New York. |
| March 4, 1841 " 3, 1845 | } | William H. Harrison, Ohio. |
| March 4, 1845 " 3, 1849 | } | James K. Polk, Tennessee. |
| March 4, 1849 " 3, 1853 | } | Zachary Taylor, Louisiana. |
| March 4, 1853 " 3, 1857 | } | Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire. |
| March 4, 1857 " 3, 1861 | } | James Buchanan, Pennsylvania. |
At the close of the term for which Mr. Buchanan is elected, it will have been seventy-two years since the organization of the present Government.
In that period, there have been eighteen elections for President, the candidates chosen in twelve of them being Southern men and slaveholders, in six of them Northern men and non-slaveholders.
No Northern man has ever been re-elected, but five Southern men have been thus honored.
Gen. Harrison, of Ohio, died one month after his inauguration. Gen. Taylor, of Louisiana, about four months after his inauguration. In the former case, John Tyler, of Virginia, became acting President, in the latter, Millard Fillmore, of New York.