Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-01-07
From the Western yirguian.
Facts nnh Eignres.

late census 185O) we have deduced
there from the following comparative
facts, We have taken three counties and |
arranged them according to their respec-
tive members, the first mentioned having
the greatest number. j
With the Trans-Alleghany counties
we shall first begin, Kanawha, Wash
ingtSu and Wythe arc the largest slave
holding counties west of the Allegha-
MES.
Washington; Greenbrler and Russel
have the most horses,
Ohio, (including Wheeling Wood and
Kanawha have the greatest number of
carriages.
Ohio, Kanawha and Washington the
most pianos.
Ohio. Washington and Greenbrier pay
the most taxes.
Greenbrier, Washington and AanaWha
most land tax.
most gold watches.
KoSawha, Harrison and Washington
the most lawyers.
Ohio, Greeubrier and Kanawhs the
most physicians.
Barbour, Wythe and Kanawha the
most free negroes.
We shall now make a similar compar-
ison of the whole State.
Henrico, Halifax and Albemarle are
the three largest slaveholding counties in
the State, having respectively in round
plumbers, Is, ID, and $4,000 slaves.
Amelia, Nottaway and Greenville con-
tain the greatest number of slaves, in
proportion to the whites, Amelia having
6e19 slaves, and only 2,794 whites, or
about five negroes to every two white per-
cons.
Augusta, Richmond and Loudoun have
the greatest number of votes under the
new constitution.
Politically, Augusta is the banner coun-
ty Of the State, she sending to the Legis-
lature three members of the House of Del
Cgatcs and one Senator.
Augusta, Loudoun and Rockingham
have the greatest number of horses,
Henrico, (including Richmond) Lou
ber"ot"tls tGflkstes ttssrfeld, the greatest mum
Accomac has nearly all the gigs in the
State, viz 485.
Henrico, Norfolk City and Loudon pay
the greatest amount Of taxes.
Jefferson, Clarke and Loudoun have
the highest valued land The jefferson
land as assessed by the commissioners ave-
raging $40 SO per acre.
Loudoun, Augusta and Rockingham
hove the greatest amount of real estate.
In Eastern Virginia there are 2,6O1
more white females than males, In
Western Virginia there arc 10, 4O1 more
white males than females. This is
easily accounted for. 1t is the case
in all old settled countries that the
females outnumber the males. Whereas
in new countries the males outnumber the
females, The young men of old coun-
for new countries in search of employ
ment and thus there is a constant drain
upon the old countries Of the males,
whilst the females remain in their place of
nativity. In the entire State the white
male population outnumbcrs the white
females by 1900,
The white population of the West ex-
ceeds that of the East by 5000. The
free colored population of the East ex-
ceedS that of the West by 37,743. The
slave population of the East exceeds that
Of the West by $4,000 The excess of
the total population of the East over the
West is 293,735. The number of fami-
lies in the two parts of the State is about
the same, being upwards of $4,000.
In the Valley the slaves decreased from
1880 to 1910 three per cent. From 1910
to 1850 they increased fifteen per cent
In Trans Allegheny from 1880 to 1910
they increased seven per cent, and from
1910 to 1850, they increased twenty one
per cent. The income of the white pop
ulation of the entire State from 1890 to
1910 was two per cent. From 1910 to
1850 was fourteen per cent.
In round numbers the Valley has H.
600 persons over twenty years of age who
cannot read or write. Piedmont has s., :
600; Tids-Wster 5000, and the Trans
Allegheny $4,000
Rockingham, Lee and Russell contain
the greatest number of persons over TWEEN
ty that cannot read and write, Rocking
ham being the banner county in this re.
spect, it alone having 2,765.
The increase Of the white population in
the whole State from 1910 to 1850 was
1856, 566, of which increase 96,812 was in
Trans-AllGghany alone, being three fifths
of the entire increase of the State. y.