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FISHERIES.

The numerous streams abound in fish of great variety.
Shad, herring, rock, perch and sheephead, and numerous
other grades are taken in great varieties and at certain seasons
afford remunerative'employment for a large number of people,
and healthy and invigorating sport for a number of others.
Oysters, terrapins and crabs, furnish delicacies for the palate;
the taking of the former amounting to a very extensive busi-
ness, employing a very large force of men and boats.

MANUFACTURES.

The water power of the State is very extensive; but, as has
been stated, is comparitively little used. There are near Bal-
timore many cotton, woolen and flour mills, iron founderies,
furnaces, machine shops and tanneries of large size, and
smaller mills and tanneries in other portions of the State ;
two large sugar refineries and a number of extensive manu-
facturing establishments in the city of Baltimore.

The entire number of such establishments, of all grades, in
the State in the year 18RO, was 3,083, with an invested capi-
tal of $23,230,608, consuming raw material of the value of
$25,494,007, employing 21,930 males and 6,773 females,

producing annually goods and wares to the value af $41,735,-
57. Of these products flour and meal stand first in the list,
reaching a value of $8,231,271; cotton goods, $2,941,277 ;
refined sugar, $2,300,000; leather, $1,880,283; steam en-
gines, $1,641,000; boots and shoes, $1,287,256; canned oys-
ters, |1,025,920; copper, $1,300,000; bar and sheet-iron,
$856,125; jewelry, $739,600; castings,, including stoves,
$772,825; sawed lumber, $605,864; cabinet furniture and
chairs, $593,254; distilled liquors, $516,221; woolen goods,
$605,992; cigars, $676,764; printing paper, $438,670; agri-
cultural implements, $340,430, and carriages $322,755.

POPULATION.

The total population of Maryland in 1860, was 687,049 ;
the free population, 599,860, and the free white 516,918. Of
the latter number 439,482 were native, and 77,436 foreign
born. The city of Baltimore contained 284,520 white popu-
lation, of which 232,105 was native, and 52,415 foreign born,
more than one-half of the aggregate white population of the
State, and nearly two-thirds of the foreign. Of the princi-
pal cities in the Western section Cumberland contains 9,500
inhabitans of all classes; Frederick about 9,000; Hagers-
town 4,500; Ellicotts Mills 1,600, and Annapolis 5,000; on
the Eastern Shore, Elkton 1,800; Chestertown 1,600; Easton
2,000; Cambridge 1,900; Salisbury 1,500; Princess Ann
1,000; Snow Hill 1,200. It will be seen that outside of the
city of Baltimore, with the exception of Annapolis, Cumber-