Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1840-08-14

rOilOWIng Out tIc tdOic, tHc lOIIOWing TcS'iitS
are presented:
In 1910 l7,114,893
1850 22,S19,857
1860 80, 1926, 476
1870 4O,56S, 631
1880 54,O01 500
1890 72,O22, O1O
and, at the close of the present century, the
United States will contain over ninety six
million people. The accuracy of the above
will receive an additional proofin the census
to be taken during the present year.
Referring to the public health, we find that
from 1870 to 1900, there was great loss of
life from the small pox and from the yellow
fever, along the Atlantic coast; from 1900 to
1910, the ravages of these diseases were
diminished, buttyphus fever, amounting almost
TO pestilence, prevailed to very great ex-
tent: Between 1910 and 1920, the country
for nearly three years was engaged in war
several seasons were unusually cold and UNI
productive. From 1920 to 1880, the loss of
life from diseases among children was great;
since 1880, the Asiatic cholera has passed
over the land. Yet upon the whole, causes
like these scarcely disturb the regularity.
In the different States, the increase of
population has by no means been uniform.
In the New England States and the South
Atlantic, it has not exceeded seventeen per
cent. for each ten years. Whereas, in the
States comprised within the great Mississip-
pi valley, the increase has been vastly more
rapid, exceeding one hundred per cent. This
difference has arisen principally from emil
grafton from the Eastern to the Western
States, producing the double operation of
subtraction on the one side and addition on
the other, with this further effect that the
additions have been to States of small popu-
lations, thereby rapidly adding to the per
| centage. The increase of population per
square mile in New England, Notwithstanding
the numbers that remove, is more rapid than
in the Western States.
The following results may be anticipatcdin
the returns succeeding the census of $780,
First, that the States east of the Mississippi
having, with some exceptions, enlarged their
population so as to approximate to the At
lantic States in numbers to the square mile,
they will become the great fountains for
peopling the territory farther west. Second,
that inasmuch as the amount of labor and
fruitfulsoil in the West, devoted to agricul-
ture, will cause an over supply of product,
the means profitable employment in manu-
featuring and other business, it will afford in
ducements to the people in the Atlantic States
to remain at home. Third, the price Of land
in the early settled Western States, has ap-
proximated so nearly to that of the States on
the Atlantic, that agricultural labor, although
upon poorer soil, but nearer to market, will
be better paid in the latter than in the former
In conclusion, il will be found that the rcla.
tive increase of population will be more nearly
equalized. In the old States, the quantity
ofland cultivated by each family will be less
but there will be great improvement in the
mode of tillage and use.
1t may be supposed that the increase OF
population for the next fifty years, cannot be
in the ratio above stated. The astonishing
result presented is no doubt calculated ia
produce incredibly, but it is difficult to avoid
the argument. To speak in round figures,
there are one million square miles of land in
the twenty six States, independent of the
territories. Baron Humboldt estimates the
land within the limits of the U. States capable
Of sustaining a population of at least two
hundred to the square mile-exhibiting a
capacity for two hundred millions of people
within the States now organized. England
and ireland each contain about two hundred
and fifty to the square mile; France about
one hundred and fifty; Germany, including
the large and small States, about the same
At the rate Of one-thrd the population OF
England, the capacity of the twenty six
States would be over eighty millions; at one
half, one hundred an twenty-five millions.
| There is less waste land in the United
States, in proportion, than either England OF
France. Under these circumstances, what
check can be presented to the increase above
stated There can be no deficiency in food
or the means for subsistence. A British
statesman would consider his own country
depopulated, if its inhabitants were reduced
to the highest point ofthe estimate per square
mile herein suggested for the United States
In observing upon the increase of popula-
ton, it may be noted, that in all civilized ma.
tons the increase is more rapid intowns than
in the agricultural districts. Within one
hundred years London did not contain one
tenth Of the population Of England it now
probably contains one seventh; yet, in the
meantime, Liverpool, Manchester and Bir-
mingham, have grown up to be large cities
The growth in Paris and Lyons is more
rapid than in the country parts of France
The reason is obvious in dense populations
the waste of raw material is much less; and
the work ofthe artizan bears large proper.
ton to the total Of labor.
! To return nearer home. The State o.
New York, upon the whole, since the organi'
cation of the government, has, and for the
next thirty years proably will, present the
most astonishing results. In 1890 it con-
tanned $40, l2O people; inIs3O, l,9lS,6Os
having increased nearly six fold in forty years
BY reference to the tables it appears that the
increase is nearly uniform in each successive
ten years, being at the rate of forty per cent
upon tho preceding census; at which rate il
will contain at the present census 2,6S6, 900
II is to be observed that this State, as the
great outlet of the northwestern section Of
tho I1nitod States muSt in1onondon &c Il.