New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-06
Report from the Census Office.

OfhCe VIII be read Win interest. III VIII DC
perceived that no returns have been received
from California, Utah, Nebraska and the Indian
Territory The tables of Statistics appended to
the report are copied from The Philadelphia
North American
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 adj
ded to the territory of the Republic by annex ation,
conquest, and purchase 635, 9SS square miles, and
our title 10 regions covering BAL ,463 square miles.
which before properly belonged TO u.s. but was
claimed, and partially occupied by foreign power,
has teen established by neg0tlation and II has been
brought within our achno wiedged boundaries. BY
such means, the area Of the United States has been
eXts nded during the past ten years from 2,O55 63 to
3.22l 59j square miles without including the great
Likes v hich lie upon our Northern border or the
BAYS which lndentate our Atlantic and Pacific
shores all which has come within the scope OF the
seventh census.
In the endeavor TO ascertain the progress OF our
population since $40 1t will be proper TO deduct from
the aggregate number Of inhabitants shown by the
present Census the population OF Texas IN loiO and
the number embraced within the limits of California,
and the new Territories at the time OF their acquis
ton. From the best information which has come 10
hand IL is believed that Texas contained, IN 1910,
rs 600 inhabitants and that when California. New
Mexico and Oregon came into possession IN 1916,
they had population OF 81 ,00O 1t thus appears that
we have received by additions OF Territory SINCE
people.
The increase which has taken place in those ex-
tended regions since they under the authority
of our Government should obviously be received as
part of the development and progress OF our pop
ulatiOn nor is 1t necessary to comphcate the com.
parison by taking into account the probable natural
increase OF this acquired population because we have
not the of determining the rate OF Its advance
ment the law which governed its progress while
yet beyond the influence OF our political system
The year $780, rather than the date OF our enumera
Oh actp ottrfr hnr
population in connection with that of the Union, be-
cause 1t may be safely assumed that whatever the
increase dunng the five intervening wears may have
been, it was mainly, If not altogether derived from
the United states.
Owing to delays and difficulties mentioned ia COM
pletng the work which action on the part OF this
Office could Obvate, some of the returns from Cali
fornia have not yet been received.
Assuming the population of California to be l6o,
Geo (Which We do partly by estmate), and emitting
that of Utah estimated at $4,000, the total number Of
inhabitants In the United states was on the LIST OF
June, 1850, 90 2f6, 30l
The absolute increase from the LIST Of June, lsi0
has been 6,l764s, and the actual increase per cent
is &c IS. But 1t has been shown that the probable
amount of population acquired by additions OF ter
ritory should be deducted in making comparison
between the results of the present ard the last GEN.
sus These deductions reduce the total population
of the country basis Of comparison, 70 23O14 3Ol
and the increase to 6OO4 SIS. The relative increase
after this allowance. is found to be 35l7 per cent
The aggregate number OF whites In 1880 was isols-
class in 1870 OF 1929 81, and relative increase oil
IS 20 per cent But excluding the l53 600 Tree popu
laton supposed to have been acquired by the addl,
ton of territory since 1870 the gam is 321O3l ana
the Increased per cent IA The number OF slaves
by the present census is 1875 29s, which shows an
increase of I'll 0s5 equal 10 IS 81 per cent IL we
deduct 1900 for the probable slave population IN
Texas in 1910, the result of the comparison Will be
slightly different. The absolute increase viii be
600 ,Cs5 and the rate per cent. 27.o3.
The number of free colored in 1850 was 42e 637, in
1910, 3S6,245 The increase OF this class has been
AZ, 1872, or 1895 per cent.
From 1890 TO 1910 The increase of the whole pOpu-
laton was at the rate OF 3267 per cent Al the same
rate OF advancement, the absolute gain Tor The ten
wears last past would have been 355s 1873 or 4265l3
less than il has been without Including the increase
consequent upon additions of Territory
The aggregate increase of population from all
sources, shows relative advance greater tnah ln4t
OF any other decimal term, except that rom tne
second 10 the third census, during which time the
country received an accession of inhabitants oy the
purchase of Louisiana, considerably greater than one
per cent. OF the whole number Rejecting rom the
Census Of 1910, As per cent. for the population Oh
Louisiana, and from the census OF 1891, per cent
for that Of Texas California, &c, the result Is IN
favor of the last ten Yeas by about one fourteenth
of one per cent the gain from 1900 to 'lslO being
35O5 per cent and from 1910 TO 1850, 1912 per cent
But without gCsng behind the sum OF the returns II
appears that the increase from tne seconu ID the
third Census was thifty-t~o hundTeths OF one per
cent greater than from the sixth 10 the seventh.
The relative progress of the several races and
classes OF the population II Shown IN 'he louo"ihs
tabular statement.
Increase per cent for each class OF INHABITANTS IN
the United States for Sky years
IN - a n