The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1823-02-14
From Me .Antinnnl Gn,rttc


Fran The National Gazette.
In the General Views contained in
tbo Appendix 10 MIR. S. L. Morsc's New
! System IF Geography" the following, a .
nong Other interesting results, arr stated
( IN connection with the tables of the popu-
latiIn of the United States.
! in 1870, the states west or the Alleaha
! ny mountains contained scarcely 100. 900
inhahfanis-iB 1870, those states, imeiud-
ls Alabama and Mississippi, contained
more than two millions of inhabitants.
The population of thr United States has
increased 32.2 per cent. between 1910 n d
1890. AT tins rate il will double in al out
- years.
Taking the whole of the United States
together, the Whites increase faslcr dian
the Blacbs. During the last thirty years,
the population has been ~ Ia Ia ia
Ifut during the same period, III Mary land,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee and Kentucky, ihe
| blacks have increased r.3ch faster than
| the whites III South Caroilua, duting die
last ten years, more than three times AS
fast
In the new states, the number of females
- much less, IN proportion, than in the old
states. The dlilrrenceis accounted for by
the fact tlalhc emgrants To newly scttlrd
lands, are generally Young men, many Of
whom are without families. Hence the
chances Tor marin e for females, are grra-
ter IN the new than the old states In the
latter, the number Of females not married,
Is much larger in proportion than in the
| former.
oi white population Of The T.. Staics,
! II appears that l2.l7 per cent. are upwards
OF loyears old, while, IF the black, the pro
portion il only 1910 per cent. In HE
states south Of Pennsylvania end the RIVER
Ohio, inclHaag Missouri aud Louisiana,
only ll.23 per cent. Of the white popua-
ton are more than t. year old.
Ii appears that 2,O65, 1873 persons in the
| I. States, or more than one liith-of the
whole population, are engaged in asricul-
turc--chlldrcn and females generally not
being included in this calculation. Only
AL GA persons, or $50 per cent. Of the
whole population are engaged i'll com
| mcrce and manufactures, including moi
merely manufactures IN the common SENSE
| ot the term, bat mechanics and artIcers of
every kind.
IN all oar great cities, the females are
more numerous than the males. The IL
Eeragc of all the cities gives nearly 1903
! females To 100 males, while thai of the
/ [ uited States gives but 81 females for 100
m les
10 The six principal cities of the United
states the proportion of families, between
6 and n is very large, being on an ave
rage about y per cent. 81 the population,
while in the country at Large, il is emily
! 1880 per cent. At the sumo time, the
proportion OF children under 10 years ol'
asr, Is very small, being "a an average
less than 80 per cen. Nhlir the average I'll
the whole Tnitea States tiSrs % - per
cent From Illus it appears that the cart-
SIS which operate To retdrd the Increase of
Population, eNlst IA a much greater extent
III our cites than elsewhere. II is "A sinSe-
lar fsct that in every onc Of the above
ncntioned cities, the females nodaf 10
Years of aye are more nomcrouS thin the
males, while ia every state in the Union,
The fact Is the reverse aud in the new
ates especially, the elcesS of mnleS among
the children Is very great.
1t appears that in the newly settled
states ot Alabama, Mississippi, Indiana, IL
ln rs and Missouri, tahcn collectively, there
are, among the children under 10 ycal5 al
az, 1851 boys ana 7Oo53 sirls thai Is,
lar every 100 boys there are only 80 giiis,
I bile in the old states Of New Hampshire,
massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
and III" District ot Colombia, there are
1878 boys and 1854 girls that i,
for every 100 boys there are % girls il
appears also that III our six large cities Ia
ken Collectively, there are, under 10 years
of age, $3.50 boys aud 33.225 girls that
is for every 100 boys there are nearly 100
girls. This seems 10 indicate, thar the
state of society which is most favorable to
the increas. OF maies, or perhaps, 10 he
more particular, that the proportion Of
males among the offspring Of early marria-
sc:, is unusually great.
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