Preliminary Report on the Eighth Census, 1860 (House of Representatives, 37th Congress, 2nd Season, Ex. Doc. No. 116)

xvi, 294 pp. Topics include: The future of the increase of the African race in the U.S.; agriculture; cotton; dairy; domestic animals; molasses; silk; sugar; tobacco; wine; banking; beer; books and printing; clothing; breweries; cholera; diseases; firearms; fisheries; gold mines; iron; lumber; railroads; slavery and the slave-trade; vaccination; and much more.