Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-12-23
The Census Returns.

meets WIN general eulogy. LII Is clear,
condensed, and by far the most compre-
hensive and interesting document of the
kind ever given to the public. The N. Y
Mirror gives the following ANALYSIS of it:
POPULATIoN.-The United States has
increased 337 per cent. during the last
fifty years. In that same period the pop
ulation of France has increased but about
80 per cent. The population of the Uni
ted States is now increasing at the rate of
about three per cent per annum, while
that Of all Europe is increasing at about
the rate Of one per cent per annum.
IMMIGRATIoN.-The Census returns
indicate that of our twenty -four millions
Of people, only two millions and quar-
ter, or less than ten per cent. we're born
in Europe-or, in round numbers, one
million in ireland, half million in Ger
many, quarter Of million in England
one hundred thousand in Scotland and
Wales, half as many in France, one hun
dred and fifty thousand in Canada, and
one hundred thousand in all other coun-
tries.
Of ou1 total population, the Deaf and
Dumb are 9,7l7; the Blind 9,702; the In
sane I5,768; the Idiotic ,706 Ofthese
the Colored Deaf and Dumb are but 622;
ColoIed Blind l ,715; Colored Insane 6l2;
Colored Idiots ,476.
! Of PAUPERs, the Census reports only
134, ,972, as having received public char
ity during June, 1850, and only 5O,353
as actually receiving subsistence from the
public on the lst Of June in that year
| Of these, nearly three fourths (36, ,9l6)
were natives. The aggregate cost of sup
porting paupers during the year aforesaid
was reported as only s. ,654 ,8O6 Where
of New York paid S8l7, 1886, and Massa-
cbusetts $780, Pennsylvania ranks
next, but disburses only S232, l3S in pub
lie charity, and New-Hampshire fourth,
paying out S157 ,351. Virginia and Maine
are just behind.
The real and personal estate in the l.
nited States and Territories is returned
as of actual value of s7,l33,369
The Churches, or edifces for public
Divine workship in the United States
number thirty siz thousand (36, ,0OO) of
which the Methodists own one third, or
II, 467; Baptists nearly one-fourth, or s.
79l; the Presbyterians the next number,
or 4 1854; and if We count the Dutch Re
formed, Congregational, Lutheran and
German Reformed with the Presbyterian
the total is SIP. But the estimated ca
pacity of the Presbyterian and allied
churches, is greater in the average than
that of the Baptists and Methodist church
es, so that while all the Methodist churches
will accommodate but 4 1909 ,333 worship
pers, and all the Baptists but 3,130, ,878,
the Presbyterian and related churches a.
foresaid have room for 3,S65,21l wor-
shippers. The Catholics have but l, ,l12
churches, accommodating go, $50 wor-
shippers. The Epicsopalians have l, ,422
churches, accommodating 624,213 wor-
shippers. The cverage number that each
church edifce in the Union will accom-
modate is 3S4; the total value of church
property, $66,4I6,639 and if all the
churches should be filed at one time, they
would hold 13, $40, ,896 persons.
THE FARM LANDS Of the United States
are set down in the census as amounting
to lis, 457 ,622 acres Of improved and
l83, 3,62l ,348 of unimproved; total 303,-
O7S, $40 acres, worth in the average $40
per acre. The average value of the farm
lands of Massachusetts, Rhode Iisland,
Connecticut, New Y ork, New-J ersey and
Pennsylvania, is about $50 per acre New
Jersey highest, Pennsylvania lowest;)
while Maine, New-Hampshire and Yer
mont average about Sl5 per acre.
Of DOMESTIC ANIMALS, this country
had an early supply and has always been
prolific. TlR increase of horses, mules,
and asses; from 1910 to 1850 was $780,
O53, although the number has considera-
bly, decreased III all the States literally
chequered with railroads. New York
has one horse to seven persons, Ohio one
to four, and the whole Union about one
to every FIVE persons, or little over four
millions in all. Of neat cattle, the num-
was in 1850 Is, ,355, ,287-an increase in
ten years of about twenty per cent. The
average product of butter appears to be
about 49 pounds per annum to each COW
with l64 pounds of cheese. We export
annually a little over one million of dol
lars worth Of dairy products. Of sheep
there was an increase of 2,309, lO8 be
tween 40 and so, Notwithstanding a dim
unition of 646,s55 in New England and
6,76l AGO in the Atlantic Middle States,
equal to 40 per cent in the former and
22a in the latter. Sheep husbandry is
tending rapidly westward and southward
to the middle slopes of the Alleghanies
and the Prairies of Illinois, Missouri and
Texas. New Mexico has six sheep to eve
ry person-an extraordinary proportion.
Best of all, the returns show that while
in l84O the average annual yield of wool