Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-05-03
From the North 4mericdn and U. >. Gazette
Camrara:ive Power ef the States.

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From The North Ameri:an and o. S. Gazette
Comparative Power ef The States.
The APPROACH TO completion of the census re-
turns, enables us TO give the following compare
tive table of the power of the individual States, as
represented in the National Coz''csf' or rather OF
their increase and decrease OF power during the
last decade. The slave States are in italics.
advancing States.
Penn gains mem. arkansas gains mem
Illinois Mass. " d"
Missouri :" g +" Miss.
Indiana Michigan, "
States mhich hold their oscm in the Union.
Connecticut Maryland Louisiana Delq%ore
N. Jersey Georgia Tennessee R. Island
Ohio alabama kentucky
Declining States.
s. Carolina loses 9 mem " Carolina loses mem
Virginsa Vermont
New York {" -" NH
Maine
Florida and Delaware are properly declining
States, but having but one member each, OF course
cannot lose In Justice to the other States, the
ratio of representation should never be less than
the representative population of the smallest State
At present, Florida, with 49, 600, has as much po-
litical power as Rhode Island, with free popula-
lion of las, 900.
New Yor is the empire State in population, but
her comparative increase is less than that OF the
whole country, and her power and influence are
therefore declining.
Pennsylvania is as before, the second IN the
Union. She has been steadily gaining on New
York for the past 90 years, but can hardly over
take her before 40 or so years, before which many
changes may occur.
Ohio has been in the Union so years, and has
arrived at maturity. She trod hard on the heels
of Pennsylvania 10 years kack, but is distanced
in the comparative account, and is not likely to adj
vance in power.
Virginia has bern steadily falling back, and will
probably be overhauled by Indiana in the next
decade.
Massachusetts, has gained nobly the last 10 years,
and is the most active and progressive of all the
Old Thirteen, except Pennsylvania.
No State west of the mountains has lost IN
power.
The advancing States are three of them slave
and five free.
The declining States are three of them slave and
four free.
Texas, Iowa, California, Wisconsin and Florida,
having been admitted since the last census are not
classed in the above table.
| The entire North gains two members.
The entire South loses one member
The sceptre is gradually travelling Westward
The Old Thirteen gain two and looses seven mem
bers
New England gains one and loses three mem
bers
The seven Southern Atlantic and Gulf States
lose four members
The other four Southern States gain three mem
bers.
And the West and Northwest (of course the
new States not includedl gain four members
Tower OF SKULLs.-Lamartine, in his "Pil-
grimage to the Holy Land, . writes as follows:
"When l was about league from Mas, the
last Turkish town almost on the frontier of Servia
| saw large tower rising up in the midst of the
plain white as Parian marble; took the path
which led to it. | desired Turkish lad who ac-
companied me to hold my horse, and l sat down
under the shade of the tower, to enjoy few min
utes' repose. No sooner was | seated than rails
ing my eyes to the monument, l discovered thai
the walls which supposed to be built of marble
or of regular rows OF white stone, were composed
of regular rows of human skulls, bleached by the
rain and sun, and cemented by little sand anC
lime, formed entirely the triumphal arch which
now sheltered me from the burning sun; there
might be from fifteen to twenty thousand Ii
some places portions of hair were still hanging
and waved like linchen moss, with every breath
of wind. The mountain breeze was then blowing
fresh, penetrating the nnumerable cavities of The
skulls, and sounded like moulnfu and paintivt
sigh. These were the skulls of fifteen thousand
Servians, who had been put to death by the Pachs
in the last instruction at Serria Servia, how
ever it now free, and this monument will teacl
their children the value of independence by show
ing them the price at which their forefathers pur
chased it,
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