New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-12-08
FACTS FROM TIE CENSUS.

nresent Congress. Many of the particulars
therein embodied were long since submittcdto
orr readers. and we shall not attempt 10 print
the document, but gloan from it the most inter-
esting facts-as follows
The Population Of the United States has
increased 337 per cent. during the last fifty
wears. In that same period the Population of
France has increased but about 30 per cent.
The Population of the United States is nov
increasing at the rate of about three per cent.
per annum. while that of all Europe I'VE infer
from the Secretarys partial statisties) is in
creasing at about the rate of one per cent. per
annum.
Immigration has not swelled our popula-
ton 70 any such extent as has generally been
supposed The Census returns indicate that.
of our Twenty-four Millions of People, only
Two Millions and Quarter, or less than ten
per cent, were born in EurOpe-or, in round
numbers. One Million in Ireland, Half Nil
Lon in Germany, Quarter of a Million in Eng
land. One Hundred Thousand in Scotland and
Wales, half as many in France, One Hundred
and Fifty Thousand in Canada, and One Hun
dred Thousand in all other Countries. We
think the Census-takers did not obtain com
plete lists of the nativity of all born out of the
Contry-that their inquiries must have been
misunderstood to some extent, or imperiectly
answered-still, we should consider Three Mil
lions liberal estimate for the FOrelgn-born
Population of our Country, or about One-eighth
of the whole. We have known the Irish alone
estimated at higher figure.
OF our Total Population, the Deaf and
Dumb are 9.7l7 tie Blind, 9,702; the Insane,
1906: the Idiotc. 1906 OF these the Col
ored Deaf and Dumb are but 632 Colored
Blind I.7l5: Colored Insane, 6l2; ColOred
Idiots. .476. That is TO say, the ColOred Per
sons afflicted with these various inirmities are
te,cer in proportion to their numbers than the
Whites
of PauperS. the Census reports only
1892 as having received public charity dur
ing the year preceding June. 1850. and only
50.3J3 rs actually receiving a subsistence from
the public on the LIST Of june in that year. OF
these nearly three-fourths (36,9l6) were Ma
tyes The aggregate cost of supporting Pau
pers during the year aforesaid was reported
as only S2,954 900, whereof New-York pad
SSH .3336 and Massachusetts S392,76j. Penn
s,lyania ranks next, but disburses only 1892,
l3S in public charity, and New-lIampshlre
fourth. paying out $l57,35l Virginia and
Maine are just behind We are very sure that
these returns are imperfect and deceptive
True. great many Of the indigentarc subsisted
in Hospitals, Retreats, &c, on the gifts OF pri-
yate munifceuce others Gas by our Commits
soners ofEmgration) from combinations paid
indirectly by certain classes bat, after allowing
for all this, we do not believe that PennSylva
MIA (for instance) paid so little as 1922, l35 for
the support of Paupers, whether chargeabe
on Township. County or State. There must
he bunder here, and, we trust, Mr.. Kennedy
Ia Pennsylvania will review the data.
The Real aud Personal Estate in the United
States and Territories is returned as OF the
actual value of S7.l33, 369, 725. We would
raise that. TO make il correspond with truth
AID che year 1852 to $l0.0000O0,0DO and es-
innate the present actual Population of the
Union at Twenty-Five Millions. giving 500 per
head of Property to each human being or
$4,000 to each average family of five persons.
We believe this is a close approximation to the
facts.
The Churches or ediices for public Divine
worship, in the United States, number Thirty
six Thousand, (36.0ll,) Of which the Meth
odists own onethird, or y l67 the Baptists
nearly one-fourth or SOL the Presbyterans
tie next number, or 45S4 and if We count
the Dutch Reformed, Congregational, Lu-
thcran and German Reformed with the Pres
bytoran, (and the differences between all these
seem slight and unessential, the total is SIP.
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 200 1873 wor-
Slippers, and all the Baptist bur 313O,57S, the
Presbyterian and related Churches aforesaid
have room for 370s2ll wOrshipers The
Catholics have but l,ll2 Churches accommo-
dating 62O.95O worshpers The Episcopalians
have 40 Churches accommodating 62j,213
worshipers. The average number that each
church ediiice in the Union will accommodate
is 81; the total value of Church Property
$e6liG639 and If all the Churches should
be filed at one time, they would hold 13sl9, so
persons-probably something near the total
population that could at one time attend
church
The Farm Lands OF the United States are
set down in the census as amounting to
I.451 81 acres OfImprOyed and ls4,62l. 34s