Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-12-15
CENSUS STATISTICS.

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The National Tnteiigencer publishes the full and
able repor! just made Tor Congress by Mr.. Kennedy.
the Superintendent OF the Census Bureau. and com
muncated by the Secretary oil the Interior. This ex-
,ract embraces variety OF statistics Of the industrial
urSults and agricultural and manufacturing produc-
pions OF the country, which will we are sure possess
Interest for all our readers:
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The seventh enumeration of the inhabitants of the
United States exhibits results which every citizen Of the
country may contemplate with qualification and pride.
Since the census of 1910 there have been added to the
erritory oil the republic, by annexation, conquest and
purchase S24 969 square miles, and title to region
covering BAL, 463 square miles, which before properly
belonged to u.s. but was claimed and partially occupied
by foreign Power, has been established by negotia
tion and il has been brought within acknowledged
boundaries By such means the area of the United
States has extended during the past ten years om g.
055 163 to 1921 59o square miles, without including the
great lakes which lie upon northern border, the
bays which indentate our Atlantic and Pacific shores.
AL which has come within the scope OF the seventh
cen sus.
In the endeavor TO ascertain the progress of our popu
lalion since $780, it will be proper to deouc from the
aggregate number Of inhabitants shown by the present
census the population OF Texas in l840 and the
bers embraced within the limits OF California and the
new Territories at the time OF their acqusitlyn. From
the best information which has hand it is be-
leyed that Texas contained in 1910 IS 900 inhabitants
and that when California, New Mexico, and Oregon
came into possession in lS46 they had population
additions of territory since 1910 an accession of 172
900 to the numbers OF out people.
The increase which has taken place in those extend
ed regions they under the authority OF our
Government should obviously be re ckoned as part
OF the development and progress of our population
Nor ia it necessary to complicae the comparison by
taking into account the probable natural increase of
this acquired population, because we have. not the
means of determining the rate OF its advancement,
the law which governed its progress While vet beyond
the influence of our political system. The year 1870
hort than the date OF the of I'ayas has
been taken for estimating her population, in connexon
with that of the Union, because may be safely as
sumed that, whatever the increase during the five in-
terventng years may have been, it was mainly if
altogether, derived from the United States.
Owing to delays and difficulties mentioned in COM
peting the work, which action the part of thi
office could obvate, of the returns from Calfor>
MIA have not yetbeen received Assuming the population
of California to be l65 0Oe which do partly by
tmaes) and omlttng tha Of Utah! estimated at 70 600,
the total number OF inhabitants in the United States
was on the LIST ofJune, 1850 % 246 Boil The absolute
increase from LIST june S40 has been 949 and the
actual increase per cent is 49, Is But it has been shown
that the probable amount OF population acquired by ad
dltions of territory should be deducted ia making
comparison between the results of the present and the
last census. These deductions reduce the total popu-
1ation of the country basis of comparison to 90
OLA 30f, and the increase TO 6604 64S The relative
increase, alter this allowance, found TO be IS II per
cent. The aggregate number oil whites in 1850 was
1865, 1885, exhibiting gain upon the number of the
same cas- n 1870 OF 1891 aud relative increase
of 80 20 per But excluding the 900 free pop
uaton supposed to nave been acquired by the addition
of territory since ls40 the gain is ,270 37l and the
i1creare per cent. o!l4
The number OF slaves by the present census is 1885,
298 which shows increase of I'll 0S5 equal to
2S SO per cent If deduct 70 900 for the probable
slave population of Texas in 1910, the result of the
comparison will be slightly different The absolute
increase will be 692,0S5, and the rate per cent.
27S3
The number offree colored population in 1850 was
42S 637 in 1910, 1856, 24o The increase of this class
has been AZ 1872, or 1925 per cent
From 1880 TO 1910 the increase Of the whole popu-
ation was at the of 81 81 per At the same
rate advancement the absolute gain for the 10 years
last past would have been 5,57S 1888, or 426 5l5 less
than it has been, without including the increase con-
seouent upon additions of territory.
The aggregate increase of population from all
any other decennal term except that from the sec
ond to the third census, during which time the coun-
try received accession of inhabitants by the pur-
chase of Louisiana considerably greater than per
cent of the whole number. Rejecting from the cen
sus of 1910 10 per cent for the population OF Louis
iana and from the census of 1850 one per cent for
that OF Texas, California &c, the result is in favor
of the last years by about onefourteenth of
per cents the gain from 1900 to 1910 bling 35 05 per
cent and from 1910 to 1850, IS IL per cent. But,
without going behind the of the returns it ap-
pears that the increase from the second to the third
census was thirty-two hundredhs of one per cent.
greater than from the sixth TO the seventh.
the relative progress OF the several races and cas
SEES of the population is shown in the following tabu
lar statement.
Table of increase per cent of each class OF inhabitants
in the United States for sixty wears