Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1832-08-30

lne NUMBER OF free white fe-
males, 5,l67 ,239
Excess of white males IN 90, -oo
the u. S. in 1890, ''i''-'
Nearly similar disproportion exist
between the male and female classes, in
the slave and colored population.
1t is remarkable, that the aggregate
number Of males, under every head into
which the population is collected,is great
er than that of females, excepting in the
class of those "of fifteen, and under
twenty"
White males Of fifteen and ..
under twenty, 575,614
White females Of do. 597,713
Excess of white females, !
in this class, 22,o9o
The same remark may be applied to
the slave and colored population, of the
class between the ages Of twenty four
and thirty six.
The total number Of Slaves in the Tn
ion, at this census, was 2,OlO,6o9
Free colorcd persons, 3l9,629
Total population ofthe U. S. in 1880,
as by the corrected returns, 1866, ,O94
From the New-York Commercial Advertiser
REsToRATiON OF HEALrH.-It is with
unieigned pleasure that we insert to-day
tha
most respectable merchants, whose stores
and counting-rooms have continued open
during the whole Of the time in which
the city has been comparatively deser-
ted; and advert TO the small number Of
deaths reported during several days past,
while the mass of our population has
been returning daily, and strangers have
been crowding hither on business. The
great coohess Of the temperature during
the last three days, must, so far as the
streets, cellars, &c. contribute by the
extrcation of miasmata to pOllute the at
mosphere, be considered highly favora-
BILE. 1t is to be hoped that none Of those
who return into houses which have been
shut, will neglect the advice of fhe Spe-
cial Council of the Board of Health -
Three days, unless the business is car
ried on very actively by a number of
persons, is indeed scarcely a sufficient
time in which to purify and ventiate a
house, without leaving it dangerously
damp; an evil as much to- be dreaded as
any other.
Inquiry will naturally be directed to
the subject Of keeping up the moderate
measure of improvements observable du-
ring the prevalence of the epidemic, in
cleaning the streets and removing nui-
sances. Will the Five Points be suffer
1 ed again TO become what they were: -
/ Will dirt and offals be piled up in the
sun, TO be knocked about, bruised and
triturated by passing vehicles? win the
three Thousand dram-shops be allowed tc
vend their poisons on Sunday, as hereto
fore? These and many other questions
will be asked; and we hope they will be
answered in the most satisfactory man
ner, viz: by practical negative.
! 1t is also source of qualification to
find that the pestilence has visited the
: noble and cleanly city of Philadelphia
very lightly, and that it's duration there
will probably be brief There is reason
to believe that Baltimore must yet suffer
by it in some degree, but the last repor
shows great falling off in that city like
wise.
! We hail the return Of all classes of cit
izens to their homes, their fresides, bu
siness and social enjoyments; and wist
that we could say good by to the chole
ra, finally and forever. Its progress
over the country will still, however, it il
to be feared, occupy portion Of our CO
lumns daily. 1t does not seem to b'
agreed whether experience has showI
: that frost arrests its ravages. There arr
great number Of facts to confirm th'
supposition; & there are few, Of doubt
iul character, against it. We wish tha
; in bidding it farewell, we could also TAX
r leave of all speculations about it. An,
g such indeed is our intention, unless Their
should be something new and remarka
bic developed or az tated. But we lear
that several of the medical faculty ar
loaded, cooked and primed for very Sc
= we're explosions, which will be made j
pamphlets. If so, we doubt whether tn
controversy among them will cease, I'm
: til the cho lera has run its entire course
: and left this continent altogether.
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