Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1852-12-22
Z ensus Report.

closely printed columns of that Journal
From hasty glance at its contents We are
inclined to regard this as one OF the most
valuable and Interesting public documents
ever laid before the country. And we pro-
pose at an early day to give our readers
tae benefit Of copious extracts.
In the meantime we avail ourselves OF
an abstract in the New York Tribune g.,
hitting the reflections and deductions Of
the editor.
The Population Of the United States has
increased 357 per cent. during the last fl
t. years. In that same period the popula-
ton of France had increased but about 80
per cent. The population Of the United
States Is now increasing at the rate OF a.
bout three per cent. per annum while that
Of all Europe 1--WE infer from the Secreta-
rvs partial statistics) is increasing at the
rate of one per cent. per annum.
immigration has not swel!ed our popula-
ton to any such extent as has generally
been supposed The Census returns indi-
cate that Of our twenty-tour millions Of
people, only two millions and quarter, or
less than ten per cent, were born in Eu-
rope-or, in round numbers, One Million
10 Ireland, Half a Million in Germany, a
Quarter of Million in England. One Hun
dred Thousand in Scotland aud Wales, half
as many in France, One Hundred and Fiji
~ Thousand in Canada and One Hundred
Thousand in all other Countries.
OF our Total population, the Deaf and
Dumb are 9,717; the Blind, 9,7O2; the In
aaue, Is, 76S the Idiotic, 5,706. Of these
The Colored Deaf und Dumb are but $50;
Coloied Blind, 1,715; Colored Insane 6l2;
Colored Idiots, 1,476.
Of PauperS, the Census reports only 1884,
972 as having received public charity du-
ring the year preceding June, 1850, and
only So 1853 as actually receiving subsist-
ence from the public on the LIST of June in
that year. Of these near three-fourths 1885,
916) were Natives. The aggregate cost of
supporting Paupers during the year afore-
said wasreported as only So, 954, 806, where
of New York paid $817,S56 and Massa-
ehusetts $500, 765. Pennsylvania ranks
next, but discusses only S232, 1873 in pub
lie charity, and New Hampshire fourth
paying out S157,541. Virginia and Maine
are just behind.
The Real and Personal Estate in the u
nited States and Territories is returned as
Of the actual value of 81, 139, 369,72
The Churches or edi6ces for public di-
vine worship in the United States number
Thirty-six Thousand (36,011, of which the
Methodist own one-third, or H. 67; the
Baptist neatly one-fourth or 8,791 the
Presbyterians the next number or 4, 5S4 :;
and if we count the Dutch Reformed. Con-
gregational, Lutheran and German Reform
ed with the Presbyterian (and the differ
snces between all these seems slight and
unessential,) the total is S,112. But the
estimated capacity of the Presbyterian and
allied Churches is greater in The average
than that of the Baptist and Methodist
Churches, so that while all the Methodist
Churches will accommodate but 4,209, 1873
worshippers, aud all the Baptist but 8, $780,,
878, the Presby terrain and related Church
es aforesaid have room for 3,705, I'll wor-
shippers. The Catholics have but 1,112
Churches accommodating $40, $50 worship
ers. The EPiscopalians have 1,422 Church
es accommodating 625,213 worshippers,-
The average number that each church edi-
the total value of Church Property $780,
416,6S9; and if all the Churches should be
filled at one time, they would hold 49,
849, 1896 persons-probably something near
the total population that could at one time
attend church.
The Farm Lands of the United States
sre set down in the census as amounting
TO 11S, 457, 622 acres of improved and 1884,
621 ,S4S of unimproved total S03,078,9 $40
acres, worth in the average SO per acre.
The average value of the Farm Lands Of
Massachusetts,, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New York, New Jersey aud Pennsylvania
is about $50 per acre New Jersey highest,
Pennsylvania lowest y while Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont average SIS per
acre. We are rather surprised to see the
farm land of North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennes-
see valued in the average below S. per a.
ere.
Of Domestic .4nimals, this country had
an early supply and has always been pro-
hhc-and the number continues to increase
steadily and rapidly. The increase of Hor-
ses, Mules and As,es, from 1910 to 1850
was 559, 053, although the number has con-
Gdera5ly decreased in all the States literally !
ehequsred with railroads. New York has !
one horse to seven persons. Ohio one to
four. and the whole Union about one to e.
very FIVE persons, or little over Four Mil |
lions in all. OF Neat Cattle, the number
in 1850 was Is, 355,297-an increase in |
ten years of about twenty per cent. The |
average product of Butter appears to be "a
bout 49 pounds per annum to each COW,
with log pounds of Cheese. We export |
annually little over One Million Dollars,
worth of Daily Products-Of Sheep, there
was an increase of 1900, 10S, between 40
and 80 notwithstanding a diminution of
646, S55 in New England and 1,761, 460 in
the Atlantic Middle States, equal to IS per
cent. in the former and 221 in the latter.
Sheep Husbandry is tending rabidly west
ward and southward-to the middle slopes
of the Alleghanies and Prairies of Illinois,
Missouri and Texas. New Mexico has SIX
sheep to each person-au extraordinary
proportion. Best OF ALL the returns show
that while in 1910 the average annual yield
OF Wool was a little under two pounds per
sheep, 1t was in 1850 nearly two and 4 half
pounds per sheep so that 81 800, 900 sheep
produced in 1850 forty-six per cent more
Wool than 1881, S74 sheep did in 1910.
An increase Of twelve per cent, in the
Sheep had been paralleed by an increase
Of foriy-six per cent. in the Wool. And in
Vermont, where the greatest attention has