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The famous Peyresc took occasion to say, that by Grotius's arrival at Paris the Dutch had made amends to France for having formerly carried away from it the great Scaliger: this thought gave rise to two Latin Epigrams . Vir. Epist. p 656. Ep. 136. Ep. 147. Du Maurier, p. 409. Ep 137. Ep. 164. Gallia, Scaligerum dederas male sana Batavis: Grotiadem reddit terra Batava tibi.
"There were, of white inhabitants, in the whole of the United States in 1790, 3,093,111; in 1800, 4,309,656; in 1810, 5,862,093; and in 1820, 7,861,710. The increase, in the first term, being 39 per cent.; that in the second, 36 per cent.; and that in the third and last, 33 per cent.
Longstreet's corps is given in the tables, Official Records, vol. xxxi. pt. ii. p. 656. It had also been known that Stevenson's division was at Sweetwater two or three weeks before Longstreet assembled his forces there, and it seemed certain that it was the advance-guard of his whole command.
No one either on the aristocratic or the democratic side any longer thought of the victorious general on occasion of filling up the magistracies; the hero of six consulships could not even venture to become a candidate in 656 for the censorship.
Yet the number of criminal cases has largely diminished, and taking civil and criminal together, there has been a decrease of 656 for the last biennial period, as compared with that immediately preceding it. The administration of justice is confessedly one of the most efficient departments of Hawaiian affairs.
The Queen traveled then with a much larger Court than she takes with her nowadays, and to this were added the escorts of honor which the great Scottish nobles and Highland chiefs furnished her, till it grew to be a monster of a caravan. Among the items, I find that in conveying Her Majesty and suite from Dalkeith to Taymouth, and from Taymouth back to Dalkeith, 656 horses were employed.
WAR DEPARTMENT: War Department proper 120,104,260.12 124,165,656.28 125,717,204.77 122,322,178.12 5,612,944.65 2,217,918.00 + 3,395,026.65 Rivers and harbors 28,232,438.00 28,232,465.00 28,232,465.00 49,390,541.50 27.00 -21,158,103.50 -21,158,076.50
Cost of all 6 100 35,553 213,318 12 90 29,886 358,632 12 80 23,638 283,656 43 70 17,785 764,755 35 60 14,197 496,895 40 50 10,606 424,240 45 40 7,558 340,110 58 20 3,710 215,180 85 Sloops, bombs, and fireships, one 2,000 170,000 with another, Cost 3,266,786 Remains for guns, 233,214 3,500,000
The free population of the seven States which had seceded, was 2,656,948 The free population of the eight slave States which had not seceded, was 5,633,005 Total 8,289,953 The slaves in the States of the first list were 2,312,046 The slaves in the States of the second list were 1,638,297 Total of slaves 3,950,343 The population of the whole Union by the census of 1860, was 31,443,321
In 1860, the year immediately preceding the rebellion, the deficiency amounted to $5,656,705.49, the postal receipts of that year being $2,645,722.19 less than those of 1863. The decrease since 1860 in the annual amount of transportation has been only about 25 per cent, but the annual expenditure on account of the same has been reduced 35 per cent.
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