The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-11

1904 sol, and the increase to 6,OO4S4S. The
relative increase. after this allowance, is found
, to be 80 II per cent. The aggregate number
of whites in 1850, was l96l9 366, exhibiting
gain upon the number of the same class in
1910, Of 5. 423,S7l, and a relative increase of
3S 20 per cert. But excluding the 1853 900
free population supposed to have been acquired
by the addition of territory since 1910, the
gain is 5,270,37l, and the increase per cent is
37.l4.
The number of slaves, by the present census,
is 3,l9S,29S, which shows an Increase of ILL.,
0oo, equal to 1888 per cent. If We deduct
iS'ooo Tor the probable slave population of
Texas IN 1910, the result of the comparison
VIII DC slightly different. The absolute increase
Will DC 692,os5, and the rate, per cent u S3.
Inc number OF free colored in 1850, was
42o,oS7; IN 1910, 3S6,245. The increase of
tnls class mas been AZ ,392, or 10 95 per cent
From 1880 to 1910, the increase of the whole
population was Mt the rate of 80 81 Der cent
AT the same rate of advancement the absolute
gain for the ten years last past would have
been DOTS, S33, or 426 5l5 less than it has been.
without including the increase consequent upon
additions Of territory
| The aggregate increase of population, from
all sources, shows relative advance greater
than that of any other decimal term, except that
| from the second to the third census, during
which time the country received an accession Of
inhabitants, by the purchase of Louisiana, con.
slderably greater than per cent. of the whole
number. Rejecting from the census of 1910
! 40 per cent, for the population of Louisiana
and from the census of 1850, rer cent. for
that of Texas, California, &C., the result il in
favor OF the last ten years by about one four.
teenth of per cent; the gain from 1900 to
1910 being 80 05 per cent; and from 1910 to
| 1880, 1912 per cent. But, without going be-
hind the SUN of the returns, it appears that the
increase from the second to the third census was
thlrty-two hundreths Of per cent greater than
the Increase from the sixth to the seventh
The relative progress of the several races
and classes OF the population is shown in the
following tabular statement:-
Increase per cent Of each Class of Inhabitants in
The intel Sta,es for Sirty Years.
1890 1900 1910 1920 1880 1910
Glasses, 1900 1910 1880 1880 1910 1850
Whites 256S 36 Is 81 80 "a SO "a 70 SO 20
Free Colored 1928 1900 81 rs "a IS % SO 10 95
Slaves 81 96 80 40 % 81 30 rs % 81 % SO
Total Color d 80 % 81 So 90 80 81 81 90 40 26 I6
Total popu'n 80 W SO 50 80 35 SO 90 80 81 36 1s
The census had been taken previously to 1890
on the first of August; the enume ration began that
year on the first of June, two months earlier, SO
that the Interva between the fourth and fifth CEN
suses was two months less than ten years, which
time allowed for would bring the total increase up
to the rate of 81 SO per cent
The table given below shows the increase from,
l790to 1850, without reference to intervening pc
RODS:
.,..... absolute Inc. rer
.. increase cent. in
in Siry Sirty
No. Of 1872 1850 Years Years
whites 3,172,464 19,63S.Ol9 l6,457,555 527 81
Free cold 81 '466 42S,637 369,17l Gil A
Slaves 697,s97 3,1S4,262 2,4s6,365 $50 10
Total free
cold and
Slaves 757, 1863 36l2, 1899 2,s55.536 3770O
III pop. 3,929,8 1927 23,2I6,3Ol l9,3l6,444 49l SO
Sixty years since, the proportion between the
whites and blacks bond and free, was AZ To 1.
In 1880 1t was 26 to l, and the ratio in favor
OF the former race is increasing. Had the
blacks increased as fast as the whites during
these sixty years, their number, on the first of
June, would hava been 1857, 239; SO that, in
comparison with the whites, they have lost, in
this period, I,035,34O.,
This disparity Is much more than accounted
for by European emigration to the United
States. DIR. Chickering, in an essay upon emf
grafton, published at Boston in 1913, distin
gushed for great elaborateness Of research, es-
Inmates the gain of the white population, from
this source, at 3922,l52 No reliable record
was Kept OF the number of emigrants into the
United States until 1920, when, by the law Of
March, 1873, the collectors were required to
make quarterly returns OF foreign passengers
arriving in their districts For the first ten
years, the returns under the law affords materi-
ais for only an approximation TO true state of
the facts involved in this inquiry
DIR. Chickering assumes, as a result of his in
vesilgations, that, of the 643l ,OSS inhabitants
OF the Uuited States, in 1920, l,430 906 were
foreigners, arrived subsequent 10 1890, or the
descendants of such. According 10 Dr. Sey-
crt, an earlier writer upon statistics the num-
Der OF foreign passengers, from 1890 to 1910,
was, as nearly as could be ascertained, 10000;
and from the estimates Of DR.. Seybert, a d
other evidence, Hon. George Tucker. author of
a valuable work on the. census of 1870, sup
poses the number. from 1910 to 1920, 10 have
BEEN $4,000. These estimates make. for the
thirty years preceding 1920, $4,000
If we reckon tho incIe ease of these emicrants
at the average rate of the whole body of white
population during these three decades, they and
their descendants, in 1920, would amount TO
about 100000. From 1920 10 1880, there ar-
rived, according 10 the returns of the custom
houses, 1896 foreign passengers, and from
1880 to lsl0, 579 $40, making for the twenty
years, 7l5.35G During this period, a large
number of emigrants from England, Scotland,
and Ireland came into the United 5 ates through
Canada. DR.. Chickering estimates the number
of such, FROM 1920 TO 1880. at 1893; and
from 1880 20 1910, nj l99l30-for the twenty
years together, 267,l23. During the same time,
a considerable number are supposed to have
landed at New York with the purpose Of pursu-
ing their route 10 Canada but il i probable that
the number Of these balanced by the omis-
sions in the official returns Without reference
to the natural increase, then, the Accession to
our population. from foreign sources, from 1920
to lSIy, was 9S2,479 persons.
From 1910 to 1850, the arrivals Of foreign
passengers, in the ports Of the United States,
have been as follows:
1904 S3,5n4 ISI7 234756
1912 l0l ,lU7 lS4S 226 524