NEW CONGRESSIONAL APPORTIONMENT. The following table shows the number of members assigned to each state, under the census of 1850 and 1860: Alabama Arkansas. California 4 New Jersey 1 New York 1 1 Georgia Illinois. Indiana. ...... 8 7 .11 11 Pennsylvania..... 5 Texas Virginia .... .13 ... 5 9 Total .. 5 31 7 19 1 24 . 2 2 4 8 4 3 11 6 238 241 TABLE SHOWING THE FEDERAL POPULATION, AND THE ASSESSED VALUE OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE SEVERAL STATES OF THE UNION.. - CENSUS 1860. THE RAILWAYS OF THE WORLD. It is estimated that there are now completed and in operation throughout the world 70,000 miles of railway, which cost the sum of $5,850,000,000. The extent of railway known to be in operation, from actual returns, according to the London Engineer, is as follows: England and Wales New Brunswick Miles open. 175 Scotland Miles open. .1364 India Canada 1408 .1826 Exclusive of British America, the railways of which are included with Great Britain and Colonies : Egypt 63 288 955 ...... 308 600 80 80 United States. Confederate States Mexico. Cuba. New Granada Total 8784 Paraguay Grand total of all the railways in the world. It will be seen that the United States possess the most extensive system of railways of any country in the world. This method of intercommunication has been developed with extraordinary rapidity in the United States, and although temporarily checked by the civil war, will, when the rebellion is crushed, be even more rapidly extended than in the past. NATIONAL TELEGRAPH ROUND THE WORLD. An appropriation of $100,000, and two small vessels, will be asked for in Congress for the purpose of instituting a survey, in conjunction with other nations, of a telegraph line from San Francisco to the north-west coast, overland, via Behring's Straits and Asiatic Russia, to the mouth of the Amoor River, as proposed by McDonald Collins. The scheme is to connect the American system of telegraphs, from a point in Missouri, with the line now being constructed from Kanzan to the Amoor. When finished, the line will bring in telegraphic union the whole European and American systems, and belt the world. PACIFIC TELEGRAPH-TABLE OF DISTANCES The following table of distances will be found of permanent interest, sufficient to warrant its preservation. It gives the distance, from station to station, throughout the entire line traversed by the Pacific Telegraph and by the Overland Stage Company ; and also the distances from New York to Omaha by two routes, viz. by way of Chicago, and also by way of St. Louis. The Pacific Telegraph Company's connection with the East was first established via St. Louis. But the war in Missouri caused such frequent interruptions to telegraph communication through that state, as to threaten the most serious consequences. The Com pany accordingly took early and prompt measures to secure the construction of a new line through Iowa, which, with lines already existing, would give them a connection with Chicago by a more direct route, and so far north as to be safe from rebel incursions. That line is now finished. The two lines- one from St. Louis, and another from Chicago- meet at Omaha. The names of places set in italics (as also Great Salt Lake and San Francisco, which are set in SMALL CAPITALS) are Telegraph Stations. Those set in Roman are Stations of the Overland Stage Company |