Western union. (City of Hannibal, Mo.) 1850-1851, 1851-08-28

with which the questions were put and answer.
ed. We have no doubt the number was much
greater.
The year 1850 was one of the cholera years
in this State aud this will accoun: for the unit
sual mortality which the census sta,eA to have
taken place in Missouri. The climate is no
worse than that Of many other States in the
Union, and we are comparatively free, strange
as it may seem. Of disease which carries oil
probably one fourth ofthoss who die IN Mas
sachusesIs-,hs con'umi ton Republican.
From the New York Tribune.
Massachusetts, and Missouri.
We publish in another place the statistics Of
population, dwellings, health, aud so forth, in
Massachusetts and Missouri, as exhibited by
the census Of 1850. The comparison OF the
two States will bs found instructive.
Missouri had been State thirty years when
the census was taken; Massachusetts was one
OF the original members Of The Confederation.
When the former was admitted into tho In
ion in 1920, she numbered III, $50 souls, and
Tue latter, 523 2S7. Missouri has now more
than ten times the population she had then,
while in these thirty ysars the people Vi Mas
sachusetts have not quite doubled. This 10 not
surprising. Massachusetts, in point Of soil and
climate, is one Of the least favored States, and
Missouri one Of the most. The natural tsnden.
cy OF men, as they grow rich and strong, is to
~ from the poor u the rich soils, and hence it
is 10 be expected that Missouri should grow
faster than her eastern sister. The miracle 10,
that with her soil and climate, aud with richer
lands ant more genial airs 10 attract her chill
dren elsewhere, Massachusetts should have
gained as she has.
This State reckoned in 1910, $4,000 nhab-
itants TO day she has 993 900, the rate OF in =
crease being "a l2 per cent; from 1880 to 1910
it was 20 "a per cent, and from 1920 to 1880,
1t was IL 81 per cent, The rate Of increase
is thus largely augmen.ing. This is TO be at
trbuleG 10 the attraction which the progress OF
wealth and improvement in agriculture as well
as in manufactures, exercises upon population.
In Vermont, where manufactures are yet to BIZ
established to any considerable extent, the in
crease for each Of the two last decades has been
but 4 per cent, while in Rhode Island as we
have shown in previous article, the growth
Of manufactures, together with the excellen,
and truly popular character Of the Legislation,
has produced an increase of A per cent. Mass
achusetts counts 8, 702 manufacturing establish.
l ments, producing yearly $500 and upward
Thi, gives one to each lO2 persons !; but no
, other State has SO many large establishments
, Rhode Island has one 10 each 1853 persons
Massachusetts contains an area Of $500 O0C
! acres, and accordingly numbers one person t.
each l-2 acres Of her soil. She can easily
, airport five times as many, and at the pres ent
rate, another half century will have carried hel
] population up to that figure.
y Agriculture in this State 10 generally in
= more advanced condition than elsewhere in thu
Union, though perhaps we may except Rhod.
1 Island. A great deal 10 constantly done for III,
;. Improvement of the soil, and comparatively lit
Z. tie is done to exhaust it without compensation
3 There are 80, 989 farms under cultivation, oil
one to every 20 persons; in Rhode Island there
u ia one to each ~ in Vermont one TO each 10.
0 l-2; in Maine one 10 each 10 "a South Car
y olina one to each "a in New York one to eacl
5 IL IA.
9 Missouri has an area capable Of sustaining
Q population Of thirty-fve millions. She had
Q 1920, &C 500 inhabitants, and for ten years in
creased little more 100 per cent, giving he
lac, 445 in 1880; for the next decade her rat
!. Of increase was l73 per cent, giving her 1888,
v 7O2 in 1870; and low she counts 6S2 ,O44, ma
d king the rate Of increase only n "a per cent.
;. which is q vast falling off from either Of tn
previous decades.
;. This State has now 81, 422 slaves ten year
J. since she had 81. 240; their rate Of increase ha
@ accordingly been 80 per cent? from 1880
= 1910 1t exceeded 100 per cent Now, as then
1t however, the slave population increases MGR
L. slowly than the free. This points unerringl!
!. to the destiny Of Missouri as a white State
u while South Carolina aud the others in that la,
ID tude are as evidently destined to BE- blac
le States. That is to say. in the one white wi
ID be the predominant complexion, and in the 9th
ie or black. Missouri has 2544 free coored PEG
pie in 1910 she had l,574. She has $3.50
,s dwellings, by which 10 meant those of the ire
1t population, no account being taken Of the nun
IN Der Of those occupied by the slaves. This ia,
I'd we were not aware Of in writing our former a,
tcles, in which the proportion Of people to house
,g in the slave States was spoken Of. Nilsson
~ counts then, to her l0O 1874 free families, (sav.
of course have no families, the patrarchal ms,
tuition conferripg thst luxury on the patriare
or master, but not on the slave. 96, S05 house
y making about 1000 cases in which 1here
~ more than one family to a dwelling; a SMALL
." number proporionatsly than in Vermont. Mai,
O. Or New York. In Massachusetts there a
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