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MARYLAND. 



MASON, LOWELL. 



Grant; Greeley's majority, 925. Charles 

 O'Conor received 19 votes. Democrats were 

 elected to Congress from the first, second, 

 third, and fourth districts, and Republicans 

 from the fifth and sixth. 



The present State government consists of : 

 William Pinkney Whyte, Governor; John 

 Thomson Mason, Secretary of State ; Levi 

 Woolford, Comptroller ; John W. Davis, Treas- 

 urer ; and William R. Hayward, Land Com- 

 missioner. The Legislature is made up of 24 

 Democrats and 1 Republican in the Senate, 

 and 70 Democrats and 11 Republicans in the 

 House. The city government of Baltimore is 

 Democratic. 



According to the census of 1870, of the to- 

 tal population (575,439) ten years old and 

 over, there were engaged in all classes of oc- 

 cupations 258,543 persons, of whom 213,691 

 were males and 44,852 females. There were 

 engaged in agriculture, 80,449, including 79,- 

 197 males and 1,252 females; in professional 

 and personal services, 79,226, including 43,278 

 males and 35,948 females ; in trade and trans- 

 portation, 35,542, including 34,567 males and 

 975 females ; in manufactures and mechanical 

 and mining industries, 63,325, including 56,- 

 649 males and 6,677 females. 



The State contained 2,914,007 acres of 

 improved land, 1,435,988 of woodland, and 

 162,584 of other unimproved land. The cash 

 value of farms was $170,369,684; of farming 

 implements and machinery, $5,268,376 ; total 

 amount of wages paid during the year, includ- 

 ing value of board, $8,560,367 ; total (estimated) 

 value of all farm productions, including bet- 

 terments and additions to stock, $35,343,927; 

 orchard-products $1,319,405 ; produce of mar- 

 ket - gardens, $1,039,782 ; forest - products, 

 $613,209 ; value of home manufactures, $63,- 

 608 ; of animals slaughtered or sold for slaugh- 

 ter, $4,621,418 ; of all live-stock, $18,433,678. 

 There were 89,696 horses, 9,830 mules and 

 asses, 94,794 milch-cows, 22,491 working-oxen, 

 98,074 other cattle, 129,697 sheep, and 257,- 

 893 swine. The chief productions were: 

 1,095 bnshels of spring, and 5,773,408 of win- 

 ter, wheat, 307,089 of rye, 11,701,817 of Indian- 

 corn, 3,221,643 of oats, 11,315 of barley, 77,- 

 867 of buckwheat, 15,785,339 pounds of to- 

 bacco, 435,213 of wool, 57,556 bushels of peas 

 and beans, 1,632,205 of Irish, and 218,706 of 

 sweet, potatoes, 11,586 gallons of wine, 5,014,- 

 729 pounds of butter, 6,732 of cheese, 1,520,- 

 101 gallons of milk sold, 223,119 tons of hay, 

 35,040 bushels of clover-seed, 2,609 of grass- 

 seed, 280 pounds of hops, 30,760 of flax and 

 1,541 bushels of flax seed, 70,464 pounds of 

 maple-sugar, 25,563 gallons of sorghum, and 

 374 of maple, molasses, 118,938 pounds of 

 honey, and 3,439 of wax. 



The total number of manufacturing establish- 

 ments was 5,812, using 531 steam-engines of 13,- 

 961 horse-power, and 937 water-wheels of 18,- 

 461 horse-power, and employing 44,860 hands, 

 of whom 34,061 were males above sixteen, 



8,278 females above fifteen, and 2,521 youth. 

 The total amount of capital invested was $36,- 

 438,729 ; wages paid during the year, $12,682,- 

 817 ; value of materials consumed, $46,897,- 

 032; of products, $76,593,613. 



The whole number of newspapers and peri- 

 odicals was 88, having an aggregate circula- 

 tion of 235,450, and issuing annually 33,497,- 

 778 copies. There were 8 daily, with a circu- 

 lation of 82,921 ; 1 tri-weekly, circulation 

 5,015 ; 2 semi-weekly, circulation 1,600 ; 69 

 weekly, circulation 127,314; 8 monthly, circu- 

 lation 18,600. 



There were 3,353 libraries, having 1,713,- 

 483 volumes. Of these, 2,037, with 1,142,538 

 volumes, were private, and 1,316, with 570,- 

 945 volumes, were other than private, includ- 

 ing 30 circulating libraries, with 78,099 vol- 

 umes. 



The total number of religious organizations 

 was 1,420, having 1,389 edifices, with 499,770 

 sittings, and property valued at $12,038,650. 

 The leading denominations were : 



The condition of pauperism and crime is 

 shown by the following statistics : 



Total population 780,894 



Number of persons receiving support during the 



year ending June 1, 1870 1,857 



Cost of annual support $163,584 



1,618 

 1.347 

 781 

 56G 

 2G5 

 868 

 1,085 

 967 

 304 



Total number receiving support June 1, 1870. . . 



Native 



White 



Colored 



Foreign 



Number of persons convicted during the year. . 

 Total number of persons in prison June 1, 1870. 



Native 



White 



Colored 663 



Foreign 



MASOX, LOWELL, Mus. Doc., an eminent 

 musical teacher, composer, and author, born 

 in Medfield, Mass., January 8, 1792 ; died in 

 Orange, K J., August 11, 1872. His father 

 was a mechanic in what was then a small 

 New-England village, and his early opportu- 

 nities for education were meagre ; but he had 

 from childhood a passion for music, vocal and 

 instrumental, and before he was twenty years 

 of age he had learned to play on every kind 

 of musical instrument which came within his 

 reach, and was such a proficient in vocal mu- 

 sic as to be chosen chorister of the village 

 choir while yet a mere lad. He had done 

 more than this ; he had, by diligent self-in- 

 struction, so trained himself to habits of or- 

 der, method, and sound reasoning, that, wh^n 

 at twenty years of age he removed to Savan- 

 nah, Ga., he almost immediately became the 

 superintendent of the first Sunday-school in 



