Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-12-24
FACTS FROM THE CENSUS.


died were long since submitted TO our readers anC
we shall not attempt TO print the document, bu
CLEAN from II the most interesting facts as follows
The Population of the United States has ncrea
sed 337 per cent during the last fifty years. IL
that same period the population of France has in
creased but about 80 per cent. The population o.
the United States is now increasing at the O.
about three per cent, per annum, while that of al
| Europe 1--WE infer from the Secretarys partial sta
tstics is increasing the rate of one per cent pei
| annum.
| immigration has not swelled our population to
any such extent as has generally been supposed
| The census returns indicate that Of our twenty
four millions of People, only two millions and a
quarter, or less than ten per cent, were born in
| Europe-or, in round numbers one million in Ire
land, half million in Germany, quarter of mil
| hon IN England one hundred thousand in Scotland
and Wales, half many in France, one hundred
! and fifty thousand III Canada and one hundred
| thousand III all other countries. We think the
census-takers did not obtain complete lists of the
nativity of all born out of the country-that their
| inquiries must have been misunderstood to some
| extent, or mpertectly anSwered-still we should
consider three millions liberal estimate for the
| foreign born population of our country or about
one-eghth of the whole We have known the
Irish alone estimated at higher figure
| OF our total population, the Deot and Dumb are
97lI the blind, g. 702; the insane, 76S; the i'd
otto, ID, 700. OF these the colorcd deaf and dumb
are but 632; coIored blind, LIS; colorcd insane,
6l2; coorcd idiots, ,476. That is to saw the CO.
ored persons afflicted with these various inirmties
are fewer in proportion to their numbers than the
| whites.
| OF Papers, the census reports only 13l ,972 as
having received public charity during the year pre-
| cedng June, $50 and only 50353 actually re-
ceving subsistence from the public on the lst of
June in that year. OF these, nearly three fourths
were Natives The aggregate cost of supporting
Paupers during the year aforesaid was reported as
only s., 954 sos whereof New York paid SSH, 1886
! and Massachusetts, 1872 765. PENNSYLVANIA ranks
next, but dsburses only 232 1873 in public charity
and New Hampshire fourth, paying out 49, ,35i.
| Virginia and Maine are just behind. We are We
ry sure that these returns are imperfect and deCCp-
| tive. True, great many of the INDECENT sub
sisted in Hospitals Retreats, &C., the gifts of
private Inuniiicence; others, las by our Commits
| sioners of Emigration) from combinations paid
indirectly by certain classes but, after allowing
for all this, we do not believe that PENNSYLVANIA
tor instance paid little 1922, IS for the sup
port of paupcrs whether chargeable on township
county or state There must be blunder here
and we trust Mr.. Kennedy will review the data.
The Real and Personal estate in the United
States and Territories is returned as of the actu-
al value of 81 1873 1863, 725. We would raise that
to make it correspond with truth and the year $685.
to $4,000, 900 900, and estimate the present actu
al population of the Union at twenty-five millions
givi lg 800 per head of property, to each human
sons. We believe this is close approximation to
the facts.
The Churches or edificcs for public divine wor-
ship, i'll the United States number SO oil of which
the Methodists one third, or 2, 467; the Bap-
fists ncar One-fourth, or S,79l; the Presbyterans
the next number 5S4; and if count the
Dutch Reformed Congregational, Lutheran, and
German Reformed with the Presbyterian, land the
differences between all these seem slight and I'M
essential 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 Me
thOdiSt Churches will accommodate but 4, 209 1873
worshppers, and all the Baptist but 3 80, S77, the
Presbyterian and related churches aforesaid, have
room for 3, 7O5,2 ll worshippcrs The Episcopal
| ians have ,422 churches, accommodating 625 2l3
WOrShpperS. The average number that each
| church CdiiiCc in the Union will accommodate is
3S4; the total value ofchurch property SS6, 500;
and if all the Churches should be filled at one time
they would hold l3, SAG $3.50 person, probably some
thing near the total population that could at one
| time attend church.
The Farm Lands of the United States are set
down i'll the census as amounting to Is, 457 ,622
acres Of improved, and 81 62l ,34S funimprOyed;
total 2O3 ,07s $40 acres, worth in the average SO
! per The average value of the farm lands of
! Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
| Y rk, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is about $50
! per acre New Jersey highest, Pennsylvania low
eSt;) while Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
| average about 81 5 per acre. We are rather sur
/ priscd 10 sec the farm lands of North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Ten
! ncSSee, valued in the average below So per acre.
| Of Domestic An0RaIs, this country had an early
| supply and has always been prolihc-and the num-
! Der continues to increase steadily and rapidly
| The increase of Horses Mules, and Asses from
1910 to 1850 was ,O53, although the number
has considerably decreased in all the States liber-
ally chcquercd 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 -Four Millions in all. OF Neat Cat
/ tie the number in 1850 was 1885, 2S7-an in
! crease in ten years of about twenty per cent The
| average product of Butter appears to be about 40
pounds per annum to each COW, with l63 pounds
! of Cheese. We export annually little over One
! Million Dollars worth of Dairy Products OF
Sheep, there increase of , ,309, los between
/ 40 and so, Notwithstanding diminuton of GAG
/ s5+ in New-England and ,76l 400 in the Allan
tic Middle States equal to IS per cent in the for
! mcr and p! in the latter. Sheep Husbandrv is
! tending rapidly westward and southward-to the
mlldcr slopes of the Alleghanies and the Prairies
| OF Illinois, Missouri and Texas NewMcXico
! has six sheep to each person-an extraordinary
proportion. Best of all, the returns show that
while in 1910 the average annual yield of Wool
was little under two pounds per sheep, it was in
1850 nearly two and half pounds per sheep, so
that l 600 900 sheep produced in 1850 forty-siX
per cent. more Wool than 10 81 ,374 sheep did in
1910. An increase Of twelve per cent in the Sheep
had been paallccd by an increase of forty-six per
cent in the Wool And in Vermont, where the
greatest attention has been paid TO Sheep Hus-
bandry, the average yield per sheep is almost foar
pounds, Yet we import considerably of Wool
mainly the cheapest and coarsest In 1850, the
import was Il ,6G9, 794 pounds, valued at 81 ,6sl )
eel or between eight and nine cents per pound
The Imports of Wool have largely increased du
| ring three or four years
The Gram Statistics of the Census have already
| appeared in our columns.
OF To bGcco, the aggregate returned in $40 was
3l9.l63, 3l9 lbs b; in 1850 it 1919, 1852 Gao lbs
a decrease of about ten per cent. We fear the
Millennium is not approaching SO rapidly as these
returns would indicate.
OF Cotton, the production continues largely 10
increase. The product is now over 100000
bales or 100000 tunS per annum.
OF Potatoes the product would seem TO have fal
len off from los, PCS 900 bushels III 40 to l04 O55
9S9 bushels in 1880 and we presume this is cor
rect the reason being the effects and fears of Pc
tato Rot This disease would now seem TO b,
passing away, and the culture Of the root coase
quently reyiying.
OF HIne the production is steadily increasing
Our importation amounts To Six Millions of Gal
Ions per annum our consumption to at least
Twenty Millions of Gallons So that our HON,