The Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1852-1853, 1852-12-29
FACTs PROM FHE CENSUS.

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long Report from his Bureau, for the infor-
nation OF the present Congress. Many of
the particulars therein emboGicd were long
since submitted to our readers, and we shall
not attempt to print the document, but CLEAN
from it the most interesting facts-as fol-
lows: -i Haa.f 2.
The Population Of the United States has
increased 337 per cent during the last, fifty
years. In that same period the population
lof France has increased but about 80 per
cent. The population Of the United States
is now increasing at the rate Of about three
iper cent. per annum, while that Of all Europe
1--WE infer from the Secretary's partial status
tics) is increasing at about the rate of one
per cent. per annum.
Imtnigratio, has not swelled onr popula-
ton to any such extent as has generally
been supposed. The census returns indi-
cate that, of our twenty -four millions Of peo-
pie, only two millions and quarter, or less
than ten per cent, were born in Europe
or, in round numbers, one million in ireland,
half million in Germany, a quarter of a
million in England, one hundred thousand
in Scotland and Wales, half as many in
France, one hundred and fifty thousand in
Canada, and one hundred thousand in all
other countries. We ethink the census takers
did not obtain complete lists Of the nativity
of all born out of the country-~that their in
quiries mnst have been misunderstood to
some extent, or imperfectly answered-still,
we should consider three millions liberal
estimate for the foreign born population oi
ourcountry, or about one-ei ighthof the whole
We have known the Irish alone estimated at
higher figure W s'''s 3" a'. 2l' 80
OF our total population, the deaf and dumb
d are o,717; the blind, 9,702; the insane, Is,
F768; the idiots, 1906. Ofthesc the colored
deaf and dumb are but 632; coorcd blind,
I 1,715; colored insane, 6l2 colored idiots,
,476. That iS to say, the colored persons
afflicted with these various inhrmitieS are
: fewer in proportion to their numbers than
= the whites 1870 tsGt. .'t fl" =. E's1ff p"
n OF Panpers the Census reports only 1884,
e 972 as having received The public charity
G during the year preceding June, 1850 and
only SO, ,353 as actually receiving subsis-
tence from the public on the 1st Of June in
: that year, Of th"sc nearly three -fourths
36, ,9l6Jwerc natives. 'fhe aggregate cost
5 of supporting paupers during the year afore-
t said Twas reported as only S2, 1854, ,807, where
e Of New York paid $91 !, 1856 and Massachus-
! etts 1899, ,865.f Pennsylvania ranks next,
{, but dsbulses only $232, 1873 in public char
ity, and New Hampshire fourth, paying out
t 1853 Virginia and Maine are just be-
hind. We are very sure that these returns
e are imperfect and deceptive. True, great
many Of the INDECENT are subsisted in hospi-
tails, retreats, &c., on the the gifts of private
t muniticence; others Gas by our commission
L ers Of Emigration from mutations paid in,
t directly by certain classes; but, after allow
: ing for all this, we donot believe that Penn
sylvania for instance paid so little as $685.
I 1873 for the support of psupels, whether
chargeable on township, county or State
: There mustbe blunder here, and, we trust,
Alr, Kennedy Ga Pennsylvanian) will re-
t view tie data. ~" aaaaa n&e
The real and personal estate in the United
= States and Territories is returned as of the
I. actual value of s57, 49,, $685. ,725. We wou d
|. raise that, to make it correspond with truth
f and the year 1852, to $40, ,000, 900, 600, and
f estimate the present actual population of the
Union at twenty-five millions, giving $400
per head Of property to each human being,
sr $4,000 to each average family of FIVE per-
l.scns, We believe tlllS Is a close approxi-
nation to the facts. s 73a. es
The Churches, or edifces for Divine wor-
ship, in the United States, number thirty
! six thousand, (36. 6.0l1,) of which the Meth
odists own one third, Or l2, 467; the Baprists
nearly one-f2urth, or 8,79l; the Presbyte-
rians the next number, or 4,584; and il we
count the Dutch Reformed, Congregational,
: Lutheran and German Reformed with the
Presbyterians, (.and the differences between
all. these seem slight and unessential,) J the
total is 8, liz. But the estimate capacity of
the Presbyterian and allied Churches is
greater in the average than that of the Bap-
tist and Methodist Churches, so that While
all the Methodist Churches will atcomodate
but 4,209, 333 worshippers, .allthe Baptist
but 3, l30,878, the Presbyterian and rea-
ted Churches aforesaid have room for e.
f7o5,31l worshippers. The Catholics have
but l, l12 Churches accommodating g620,950
worshippers. Episcopalians havei 1,422
Churches, accommodating 625, 5,2l3 worship
Lpers. The average number that each, church
edifcc in the Union will accommodate is
484; the total value of churches should be
filled at one time, theyswould held 13,849,-
$50 persons probably something near the
total population that could at one time at
tend church s5ea stssa iaint
/, The. Farm Lands ofthe United States are
set down in the census as amounting to l18,-
457, 622 of improved and l84,72l ,348 of
unimproved; total 3o3, ,O7e, ,970 acres, worth
lin the average $ 10 per acre. The average
value of he7farm lands Of Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New " ri, New
Jersey. highest Pennsylvania is about $50
Iper acre; (New, Jersey highest. Pennsylva-
MIA lowest;) while Maine, New Hampshire
Fand Vermontaverage about 8 peracre.-
We are eratbersurprised to seejthe farmlands
I,of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
bama, Missippi and Tennessee valued in the
average below IS per acre.
PlnO Of Domestic 14alinsdlS, this country had
IAN early supply and has always eenprolific
7-and the number continues to increase
steadily and rapidly The increase Of hor-
fses, mules and asses from 1870 to 1850,
twas 559, ,65s, although tlie number has con
siderably decreased in all the States liberal
Ilygcheqaered with railroads. New York
has one horse TO seven persons, Ohio one
Ito, four, and the whole, Union about one to
every five persons, Of b little over four nil
tlionsin all 0fneat cattle, the number in
ht855 was l8, ,265, 287--an increase in ten