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NEW HAMPSHIRE. 



wheat, 106 bales of cotton, 27,029 pounds of 

 wool, 129,249 of Irish potatoes, 711 gallons of 

 wine, 110,880 pounds of butter, 63,850 gallons 

 of milk sold, 33,855 tons of hay, 3,651 gallons of 

 sorghum molasses, and 363 pounds of honey. 



The total number of manufacturing establish- 

 ments was 330, using 120 steam-engines, of 

 6,007 horse-power, and 34 water-wheels, of 

 2,538 horse-power, and employing 2,859 hands, 

 of whom 2,856 were males above sixteen, and 

 three females above fifteen. 



The total amount of capital invested was 

 $5,126,790 ; wages paid during the year, $2,- 

 498,473 ; value of materials consumed, $10,- 

 315,984; of products, $15,870,539. 



The whole number of newspapers and peri- 

 odicals was 18, having an aggregate circula- 

 tion of 11,300, and issuing annually 2,572,000 

 copies. There were 5 daily, with a circulation 

 of 7,500; 2 semi-weekly, circulation 950; 5 

 weekly, circulation, 2,850 ; 6 monthly, circula- 

 tion 67,000. 



There were 314 libraries, having 158,040 

 volumes. Of these, 286, with 116,100 volumes, 

 were private, and 28, with 41,940 volumes, 

 other than private, including 8 circulating li- 

 braries, with 15,140 volumes. 



The total number of religious organizations 

 was 32, having 19 edifices, with 8,000 sittings, 

 and property valued at $212,000. 



The leading denominations were : 



The condition of pauperism and crime is 

 shown by the following statistics : 



Total population 42,491 



Number of persons receiving support during the 



year ending June 1, 1870 196 



Cost of annual support 23,702 



Total number receiving support June 1, 1870 



Native 29 



White 27 



Colored 



Foreign 



Number of persons convicted during the year. . . . 

 Total number of persons in prison June 1, 1870... 



Native :. 



White 



Colored 



Foreign 



The leading industry of Nevada is mining. 

 The statistics of this branch, as reported by 

 the census of 1870, were : 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. The Liquor-Sale Pro- 

 hibition party in this State met in convention 

 at Concord, on the 6th of December, 1871, for 

 the purpose of nominating their candidates for 

 Governor, Railroad Commissioner, and Coun- 

 cillors, to be voted upon at the general election 

 of March 12, 1872. Forty-nine delegates from 

 different sections of the State represented the 

 party at this meeting, which was said to have 

 had " a fair attendance." At the opening of 

 the convention an "Address to the People" 

 was read, and subsequently adopted, pointing 

 to the growing evils produced by the sale of 

 intoxicating beverages, and appealing to them 

 for united action to stop such sale by absolute 

 prohibition. 



Among other things relating to the charac- 

 ter and magnitude of this evil, the address 

 states, apparently from official documents, 

 that, with regard to the United States in gen- 

 eral, liquor-selling " keeps up in our country a 

 standing army of 700,000 confirmed drunkards ; 

 it hurries more than 100,000 men into untime- 

 ly graves with every rolling year ; it is the 

 chief cause of taxation, disease, pauperism, and 

 crime." And, with regard to New Hampshire 

 in particular, it avers : " "We have a liquor- 

 seller to each 265 of the population of the 



State. The United States Government taxed 

 1,191 liquor-dealers in our State last year, and 

 collected of them $32,663. It is the liquor- 

 trade that fills our Orphan Home and Insane 

 Asylum, our Reform School and poor-houses, 

 our jails and State-prison ; and burdens honest 

 trade and toil with unjust taxation." 



For the office of Governor, John Blackmer, 

 of Sandwich, received 42 out of the 49 votes. 

 A. S. Kendall, of West Swanzey, was nominat- 

 ed for Railroad Commissioner without ballot. 

 The nominations for councillors, etc., were in- 

 trusted to the State Committee. 



The following preambles and resolutions 

 were adopted by the convention : 



Whereas, The great object of government is to in- 

 sure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common 

 defence, promote the general welfare, and secure 

 the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity ; 

 and 



Whereas, The sale and use of intoxicating liquors 

 is the greatest obstruction to the attainment of these 

 ends, insmuch as it enormously increases expendi- 

 ture, taxation, pauperism, and crime : therefore 



Resolved, That, while we advocate the most rigid 

 economy in the administration of the Government, 

 the strictest honesty in official as well as in prh ate 

 life, the purity of the ballot, the development of the 

 industrial capacities of the people, and as speedy a 

 resumption of specie payment as practicable, we 



