The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-01-01
The Census Report

" O0,O9O ~ llASii Af ~ tlltt "a tesllia1e
and emitting tllaL tal Is ma ted
600, tie total number Of inha 81
United States was On the 1stof Jpne.
3 PIG, 301. The absolute increase from ID
stof june, has been l IS &. and
actual inerease per CEN Isl
he number Ct slaves The present cen
.sus al ineYease ST oS5 5. 81 {
2S.58 per cent
The number Of free colored a 1851 was
428, 63S; In 1910 $50 ,245 The increase
OF this class has been AZ, 500 or 10 90 per-
cent.
From 1886. 10 $40 the increase of the
whole population Wasat the rateof 1867 per
cent. At the samerate of advancement the
absolute gain for the ten years last past would
have been ,578, 1888, OF 426,515 less than
it has been.
The aggregate increase ofpopulation, from
all sources, shows a relative advance greater
than that of any other decimal term, except
that from the second to the third census, du-
ring which time the country received an ac-l
cession of inhabitants by the purchase OIL
Louisiana, considerably greater than | per
cent. of the whole number. Rejecting from
the census Of 1910 1.45 per cent. for the
population of Louisiana, and from the census
Iof 1850 | per cent. for that Of Texas, Cali
fornia, &c, the result is in favor Of the last
ten years by about one-fourteenth of / per
cent; the gain from 1900 to 1910 being 81. IS
per cent, and from 1910 to 1850, 35.12 per
cent
The relative progress of the several races
and classes of the population is shown in the
! following tabular statement:
1890 1900 1910 1920 1890 1910
to to TO to TO TO
CLASSES. 1900 1910 1920 1880 1910 1850
Whites 256S 3G.12 1890 81 50 34.72 20
Free coor'd S22S 1900 27.75 34.S5 2s.SS 1895
slaves 27.96 1910 29.]7 1918. 28.St 2S.5S
Tolal color 4 80 % 37GS % 80 31.3l 23.40 2616
Total pop. 5000 $3.50 1895 33.92 32.o7 36.18
Sixty years since the proportion between
the whites and blacks, bond and free, was 2
Ito l. In 1850 it was 5.2G to /, and the "a
ito in favor of the former race is increasing
Had the blacks inereasedas fastas the whites
during these so years, their number on the
lst Of June would have been 1867 ,239; 50
that, in comparison with the whites. they haye
lost in this period, 1,035, $40.
This disparity is much more than account
: ed for by European emigration to the United
: States. DIR. Chickering, in an essay upon
: emigration, published at Boston in 1913, es-
Inmates the gainof thewhitc population from
this source at ], 922, 152.
DR. Chickcring assumes, asa result Of his
g Investigations, that of the 6,431 ,088 inhab-
e itants of the United States, in 1920, i AGO.
900 were foreigners arrived subsequent IL
fI1790 or the defendants Of such. Accord
9 ing to DIR. Scybert, an earlier writer upor
g statistics, the number of foreign passengers
/ from 1890 to 1910 was, as nearly as could b
5 ascertaired, 120, 900; and, from tie estimates
! of DIR. Seybert and other evidence, the Hon
It George Tucker, author Of a valuable work OF
n the census of 1910, supposes the numbo
: from 1910 to 1920 to have been ia 600
i These estimates make, for the thirty year
e preceding 1920, 234, 00Q
s From 1920 to 1880, there arrived, accord
le ling tothe returns of the custom-houses, l35,
le $50 foreign passengers, and from 1890 t
i 1910, 579,370, making for the 20 years
Ell 1886. During this period large nun
ct berof cmigrants from England, Scotland an
. Ireland came into the United States throug
IS Canada DIR. Chickering estimates the nun
IS ber of such, from 1920 to 1880, at 67 ,99s
,e and from 1880 to 1910, at 199, l30--for th
st 20 years together, 267, 123 Without re
N erence tothe natural increase, the accessio
10 to our population from foreign sources, frol
n 1920 to 1910 was 982 ,479 persons.
{. From 1910 to 1850, the arrivals Of 70
j eign passengers, in the ports Of tie Unite
Is States, have been as follows:
SO, 504 1917 %, rs
ifI1S42 101,I07 1913 1862
ST 1913 ,159 1919 269 6I
1874 ,sO7 1850 8sOl
g. 1915 102, 415
Is 1866 202,157 Total $50 S.
This return includes Is months, to-Syits no
July 8 1913 to september SO. Isl
Taking the 3 states together, their an
square miles, and the aYefa1
hufnbeT Of their il Id litaists is SIS To s.
square mile The tolai area Of the NIT
States is go 000 nare miles. and tllea
b erage density Of population is r 2 50 to q
be esquire mile
Isl The statistics Of mortality for tie Gems
at year represent tho number of deaths occu
nd lring within the year as 800 81, the rate j
ne ling as 4 to T2s06 of the living population.
OF ltappears that the whole nunberof anew
1T papers and periodicals in the United Stat,
Sc on the first day Of june, 1850, amounted
lotl2,8Q0 0fthese, 494 were fnlly feturns
i 234 had all the facts excepts Circulation q
es- en-, and - are estimated for California, +
I'LL Territories, and for those that may have BE
Try omitted BY tic assistant iuarshals
adj From calculations made on the statist
ess returned. and estimated eifeulati0ns liz