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Maryland (at Baltimore, 20) 48

Pennyslvania (at Philadelphia, 71) 253

Delaware 3

District of Columbia (at Washington, 11) 16

Virginia (at Richmond, 10) 52

North Carolina 30

South Carolina 20

Georgia 33

Florida Territory 9

Alabama 34

Mississippi 36

Louisiana (at New Orleans, 10) 26

Arkansas 4

Tennessee 50

Kentucky 31

Ohio (at Cincinnati, 27) 164

Michigan 31

Wisconsin Territory 5

Iowa Territory 3

Indiana 69

Illinois 33

Missouri 25

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The account then went on to say that of the above publica- tions, 116 were daily newspapers, 14 tri-weeklies, 30 semi- weeklies, and 991 weeklies. The rest were semi-monthlies, monthlies, and quarterlies principally magazines and reviews. Mention was also made of the fact that many of the daily papers were also publishers of the tri-weeklies, semi-weeklies, and weeklies. Of the newspapers, 38 were in the German language, 4 in French, and 1 in Spanish. Attention was also called to the fact that several of the New Orleans papers were printed in French and English.

The statistics of the newspaper press made an interesting feature in the returns of the Seventh Census. From that it appeared that the whole number of newspapers and periodicals in the United States, on the first day of June, 1850, amounted to 2800. From calculations made on the statistics returned, it appeared that the aggregate circulation of these 2800 papers and periodicals was about 5,000,000.

The following table, taken from an abstract of the Census Report, shows the numbers of daily, weekly, monthly, and other issues with the aggregate circulation of each class in