Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-02-10
From the Staunton Spectator
VIRGINIA STATISTICS.

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| The Census of the State, and the statement of tn
taxes paid by each town and county, prepared by thu
| First Auditor in compliance with resolution of tn,
Convention, are documents OF much general interest
In another place. we publish synopsis Of the Census
from the Richmond Times, and propose giving here
some statistical facts, which, though for the par
OF no poltca Importance, possess degree OF interest
| TO most readers.
! As is generally known, the slaI population is very
unequaly distributed in the State The greatest num-
Der found in the Piedmont District, in nearly every
county OF which there an excess OF this class of popu
| lation. In each othe counties OF Amelia, Nottoway
| and Powhatan the number OF the slaves is more than
double that OF the whites The county having the lar
ges number OF slavesis Halifax in which there are
500 Whites Ia 426 slaves and $50 free cooured peo-
pie. Loudoun has the smallest number of slaves in
proportion to its total population, OF any county in the
district viz Is O66 whites, 56il slaves and 1878 free
! cooured
In the Valley the ratio the slaves the white popu
laton is about to f. In Roanoke the slave population
more dense than in any other county OF this district
the population being 5,lO3 whites, 25i0 slaves and
l54 free cooured Augusta has the largest number of
| slaves, viz: 5,057 while in Shenandoah the ratio is
slave to IA whites; and in Morgan only o27
The Trans Allegheny district has a population of
33l $50 whites, n 436 slaves, and 24S2 free negroes
the ratio saves to whites being about to l2 Kama
VIVA has the largest number OF slaves of any county in
the district, viz, :, lao slaves to l2,007 whites Han
cock has the smallest number, viz; slaves to 405a
whites Seventeen counties in the district have each
less than 100 slaves eighteen counties less than 500
and the remaining fourteen counties over 500
The great bulk of the Tree coored population is found
in the Tide Water District. Accomac county alone
has ,l54 free coored people, to 1920 whites and d.
967 slaves
The number of horses in the State is 3ls,2O3 Au.
gusa has the greatest number. 9,0lS and Rockingham
the next greatest number, 073.
The number of Watches in the State on which taxes
paid 29 S52 The two eastern districts have near.
y twice as many as the two western united.
The number OF Clocks, in the State which assessed
is a. lS0-32 496 in the east and 4O6S0 in the west
There are 400 Coaches, or Carriages, in the Trans
Allegheny district, OF which Ohio county, including
Wheeling, has the greatest number, l3l and Nicholas
| and Wyoming none 2241 10 the Valley of which JEFF
ferson county has 1865 454 in the Piedmont district Of
which Loudoun has 527; and 1858 in the Tide Wa
ter DISTRICT of which Henrco, including Richmond has
| 57S-total in the State 1860.
many counties of which have none the Valley has 80
OF which Rockingham county has l09, Augusta A. ana
Botetoun none; the Piedmont district has 434 of which
Louisa has 4S; and the Tide Water strict has 926
which Caroline has 260.
| The Tide Water District abounds in Gigs, having
1866. The other Districts united have only 32j -
Accomac alone has 463, being emphatcaly the county
| OF gigs and free negroes.
tict is 1913; in the Valley, 533-ot which Jefferson has
III and Augusta ~ the Piedmont District, 1272-oi
which Albemarle and Campbell have each lu9; and the
Tide Water District 1,Sl5-toa in the State 1898
Supposmg each to have cost $780, the amount in
yes ed in these musical instruments is 81 l79900
| The number OF practising attorneys ia the Trans
Allegheny District is 26o OF which kanawha has 10
Harrison II. and Wyoming none; the Valley has 1873 =
of which Augusta mas 81, and every other county in
the District than one except Highland, which has
| only one; the Piedmont District has 349, Of which
Campbell has the largest number 4 and Dinwddie the
smallest number 2; and the Tide Water District has
| 1872, OF which Henrico has los, and York and War
| wick counties none-total n the State / 1872
| The number of practising Physicians in the Trans
Allegheny District is 372-ot which Ohio county has
% and Wyoming and Raleigh none; the Valley has
270--of which Augusta has 80, and Jefferson 49, the
Piedmont District has 63l--oi which HALIFAX has "A
and the Tide Water District has 5s2-ot which Henricc
| has 93-total in the State ,755.
Augusta county has popuat OF ~ 903 Whites
5,057 Free coored, and see Saves-totala 4el6 The
total amount of revenue paid by the county is Sl3
826 30 tot which the town Of Staunton pays 254 So
more than any county in Western Virginia except OhiS
which includes Wheeling,