Mayor’s Office,
Charleston, Feb. 16, 1857.
H. R. Helper, Esq.,
(New York,)
Dear Sir:—
Yours of the 9th has just been received, I sent you, through the Clerk of Council, some time ago, the Annual Fiscal Statement of the Committee on Accounts made to the City Council, which would give some of the information which you desire. I will have another copy sent you.
No census has been taken since 1848. The population at present must be between fifty and sixty thousand.
Any information which it may be in my power to furnish you with, will always give me pleasure to supply.
Very respectfully,
Wm. Porcher Miles,
Mayor.
From a report of the “Annual accounts of the city of Charleston, for the fiscal year ending the 31st of August, 1856,” it appears that the total value of real and personal property, including slaves—nearly half the population—was $36,127,751.
Mayor’s Office,
Cincinnati, Jan’y 2, 1857.
Dear Sir:—In reply to your note of the 25th ult., I beg leave to say that the value of all the real and personal property in this city, as assessed for taxation, amounts to $88,810,734. The realty being $60,701,267; the personalty $20,795,203, and the bank and brokers’ capital $7,314,264. The assessment of the realty was made in 1853; that of the personalty is made in March of each year.
Our present population is estimated at 210,000. No complete census has been taken since 1850.