24. POPULATION. 1. Table showing the amount of Population in the different States and Territories, and the Number of Square Miles in each. 2. Relative Increase of the White and Colored Classes. 25. COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES. [This table and the following are taken from the Journal of the American Education Society.] Table containing the proper title of each college; the place where it is situated; the time when founded; the name of the When founded. President or Provost. No. ac- | Graducademic ates in 1828-9. Under. Inst'ers. 1828. Librar. dents. Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, D. D. Bowdoin Brunswick, Maine 1794 Rev. William Allen, D. D. Dartmouth Hanover, N. H. 1769 Rev. Nathan Lord, D. D. Middlebury Middlebury, Vt. 1800 Rev. Joshua Bates, D. D. ermont Univ. Burlington, Vt. 1791 Rev. James Marsh Villiams Williamstown, Mass. 1793 Rev. E. D. Griffin, D. D. mherst Amherst, Mass. 1821 Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D. Harvard Univ. Cambridge, Mass. 1638 Hon. Josiah Quincy, LL. D. 15 Brown Univ. Vashington Providence, R. I. 1764 Rev. Francis Wayland, D. D. Hartford, Ct. 1826 Rt. Rev, Thomas C. Brownell, D. D. 6786679569 1700 500 20 40 211 2300 3140 16 82 324 8500 6500 1500 26. THEOLOGICAL SEMINARIES. Table containing the Name or Title; Location; Denomination; Date of going into Operation; whole Number educated; Number of Students in 1829; Volumes in Seminary Libraries; Volumes in the social Libraries of the Students. Name or Title. } Bangor Theolog. Sem. 27. RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. The following statements of the religious denominations in the United States, drawn from the Journal of the American Education Society, are not presumed to be exact; but the editors of that work have taken much pains to make it as nearly so, as the nature of the subject would admit. In some cases, partial reports only have been returned, and of course in such cases the aggregate numbers here given are too small. CONGREGATIONALISTS OF NEW ENGLAND. Orthodox. Ministers 800; Vacant Churches 250; Communicants 115,000. Unitarian. About 150 congregations. PRESBYTERIANS IN THE UNITED STATES. Synods 16; Presbyteries 90; Ministers 1289; REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH. Ministers 117; Churches 155; Vacant Churches 16. ASSOCIATED CALVINISTIC BAPTISTS. Associations 206; Churches 4,027; Ministers 2,749. MORAVIANS. Congregations 23; Ministers 23; Members about 6,000. METHODISTS. Bishops 3; Travelling Preachers 1,533; Superannuated 109; Members in Society 421,105; number of local preachers unknown. EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN. About 200 Ministers and 800 Congregations. NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH. Ordaining Ministers 8; Priests and Teaching Ministers Licentiates 12. CHRISTIAN SOCIETY. From 800 to 1000 Churches. UNIVERSALISTS. Between 200 and 300 Congregations. ROMAN CATHOLICS. Number not known; estimated several years ago at 600,000, and has increased much since. FREE WILL BAPTISTS. Ministers 242; Churches 335. FRIENDS. Whole number estimated at 750,000. SHAKERS. Societies 16; Preachers 40; Population 5,400. SEVENTH DAY BAPTISTS. Churches 18; Ministers 29; Communicants 2,862. SIX PRINCIPLE BAPTISTS. Churches 15; Ministers 20; Communicants 1,500. TUNKERS. Churches 33; Ministers 30; Communicants 3,000. MENNONITES. Churches 225; Ministers 200; Communicants 20,000. FRRE COMMUNION BAPTISTS. Churches 32; Ministers 23; Communicants 1284. 28. NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICAL JOURNALS. The following table, corrected from the " Traveller," contains a statement of the number of Newspapers published in the Colonies at the commencement of the Revolution; and also the number of newspapers and other periodical works in the United States in 1810 and 1828. The two following tables show the results of observations taken at several of the Military Posts in the United States; selected from Dr. Lovell's Meteorological Register, and from other materials furnished by him. The observations were taken at 7 o'clock in the morning, and at 2 and 9 in the afternoon, and from these the aggregate means are deduced. FOR THE YEAR 1827. |