Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1852-12-09

some important information in very
compact form.
In respect to territory, it appears that
during the last ten years we have extend
ed the area of the United States from p
O55, 1853 to 1920, 1872 square miles, with
out including the great lakes OF the sea
bays.
The population gained by these acces-
sons is I72, 900. No full returns have
as vet come in from California; but as
suming its population, partly by estimate,
at 165, 900, the whole population of the
Union is 23,263,4 ,4S8 Absolute increase
from 1910, 6,194, ,035; increase per cent,
36.28; or, deducting that from addition
of territory, and the relative increase is
1927 per cent.
The number of whites is 19,G30,738,
and the relative increase the last ten years
is 1928 per cent.
The slaves amount to 3,204, ,089; rela-
tive increase, 1881 per cent.
The number of free colored is 429, ,661;
relative increase since 1910, 1896 per
cent.
! If we refer to the data of previous Ia
bles it appears that the increase of the
whites in the Union every decade since
1890 has been very equal; being lowest
from 1920 to 1880 (3395 per cent? and
highest in the last, 1928 per cent? With
the slaves the greatest increase was from
1920 to 1880, (30.61 per cent? and the
least from 1880 to 1910, (23,9 per cent?
The average increase of the free colored,
on the other hand, has regularly dimin-
ished nince 1890; being 81, 2 per cent,
in the fast decade, 1925 in the third =,
and rising little in the fourth, it falls in
this last to 1896 per cent. A fact worth
considering as respects the probable des-
tiny of this race.
In the most favored country of Europe,
the report states, the decimal increase is
less than l J per cent. per annum; while
in the United States it is 81 per cent. In
forty years, with the present rate of in
crease on both continents, the population
of the Union will exceed that Of England,
France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, and
Switzerland combined.
As respects the rate Of increase in the
different New England States during the
last ten years, it is greatest in Rhode ISL
and (25.57) and least in Vermont (7.59)
which is also the least in the whole T.
Mon
What is somewhat remarkable, the rate
of increase in the great States of New
York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Maryland
is less than in either Rhode Island or Mas
sachusetts.
In the whole Union Wisconsin shows
the greatest ratio, (s9048D next Iowa,
(345.S4;) then Arkansas, Ql4.S5;) and
Michigan (67.33)
In regard to the number ofimmigrants,
the report goes into an extended, though,
as it seems to us, hardly thorough enough
examination. The conclusion is that there
are now, of immigrants and their descend
ants, since 1870, in the Union, 4, 1850 '934
OF these, 1,542 $50 arrived during the
last ten years, or about double the num-
ber of the previous decade.
Tables are given for the density of pop
ulation of the States. Massachusetts and
Rhode Island are the two most populated
the former having 1877 ,49 inhabitants
to the square mile; the latter 112 81
The least are Taxes (0.89 to the square
mile; with the whole area it is 7.2.
The number of slaves manumitted and
escaped during the year ending June
1850, is given. The latter amount in all
to oil; the former to ,467. Maryland
loses the most (279, then Kentucky &C.,
and then Louisiana (90) OF the manu-
mitted, Maryland claims 493, Delaware
277, and Virginia 2l8.
Ofthe slaves in the respective States
Viginia has the largest tnumber-472 ,52s;
, the next South Carolina, 384, 1914; and
the smallest, Florida, $500; and Della
ware, 2,289.
The free colored are most numerous in
Maryland-74, OFT; and in Virginia, So.
S29; Pennsylvania has also SO, 1913. The
least numbers are in Iowa, 335; and Tex
es, 33l.
A table of the number of deaths and
> their ratio to the living in each State has
: been also made. This is a deeply import
: ant matter, and tits to be regretted, fol
the sake of science, and likewise for the
=, sake of national health, that there were nc
: more facilities furnished the officers ot
: the census. They have done well, as fal
as their means would permit u
From this it appears that the two States
where the number of deaths is greatest
in proportion to the living are MaSsachot-
sets and LouiSianai The ratio in the
former being one to every 81 %, and in
the latter one to every 1885. Wiscon-
) sin, Vermont, Iowa, and Florida are ap.
parently the healthiest-the average Of
the first being one to every 105.s2; of the
) second, to 100 %; of the third and fourth
to 94.O6 and 93.67. The average of New
York. IL one considers the terrible NOR