Polynesian., 1853-03-12
From the New York Tribune.
Facts from the Census.

MIR. j. G.. Kennedy. Superintendent ofthe
Census, has made an able though too long
Report from his Bureau for the information
of the present Congress. Many of the par
ticuIars therein embodied were long since
submitted to our readers, and we shall not
attempt to print the document, but CLEAN
from il most interesting facts-as follows:
The population of The United States has
increased 337 per cent. during the last fifty
years. In that sam period the population
of France has increased but about 30 per
cent The population Of the United States
is now increasing at the rate of about three
per cent. per annum, while that of all Europe
we infer from the Secretary's partial statis-
tlcs) is increasing at the rate Of one per
cent. per annum.
Immigration has not swelled our popula-
tion to any such extent as has generally
been supposed. The census returns ind-
cate that, Of our twenty -four millions of peo-
pie, only two millions and quarter, or less
than ten per cent, were born IN Europe
or, in round numbers, one million in Ireland,
half million in Germany, quarter Of a
million in England, one hundred thousand in
Scotland and Wales, half as many in France,
one hundred and fifty thousand in Canada,
and one hundred thousand in all other coun-
tries. We think the census takers did not
obtain complete lists of the nativity OF all
born out of the country their inquiries
must have been misunderstood to some ex-
tent. or Imperfectly answered-stilf, we
should consider three millions liberal esti-
mate for the foreign born population of our
country, or about one-eighth OF the whole.
n L., th .-h aln tod at
higher figure. ta
OF our total population the deaf and dumb
are 9, III; the blind, 9, 1902; the insane, l5,-
76S; the idiotic, Is, 7O5. OF these the col
ored deaf and dumb are but 1872; colored
blind, l,7l6; colored insane, 6l2; 'olored
idiots, 1876. That is to say, the colored
persons afflicted with these various infrmi-
ties gre fewer in proportion to their numbers
than the whites. f.
OF paupers, the census reports only l34, =
972, as having received public charity dur
ing the year preceding June, 1850, and only
| sc. $50 as actually receiving subsistence
| from the public on the lst of June in that
wear. Of these nearly three-fourths (36,-
0l6) we're natives. The aggregate cost OF
supporting paupers during the year aforesaid
was reported as only S2,954 ,S06. whereof
New York paid SsI7, 1886 and Massachusetts,
1892, 765. Pennsylvania ranks next, but
d;sburses only S332. l33 in public charity,
and New Hampshire fourth, paying out
Sl57,35l. Virginia and Maine are just be-
hind. We are very sure that these returns
are imperfect and deceptive. True, great
many Of the INDECENT are subsisted IN hosPi-
tails, retreats, Sc, on the gifts of private
muniioence; others (as by our COMMISSION.
ers of Emgration) from communications Paid
indirectly by certain classes; but, alter al-
loving for all this, we do not believe that
Pennsylvania (for instance) paid so little as
s232, i3S for the support of PauPers, whether
| charge cable on Township, County or State.
There must be blunder here, and we trust
Mr.. Kennedy Ia Pennsylvanian) will review
the data.
The real and personal estate in the United
States and Territories is returned as OF the
actual value Of 81, l:s3. 1863, rs. We would
raise that, to make it correspond with trutn
and the year 1852. to $40. .OO0. .OOO, ,OOO, and
estimate the present actual population OF the
Union al twenty-five millions, giving S4Ou
Der head Of property to each human being,
or $4,000 to each average family OF hive
nersons We believe this is close approx.
imation to the facts.
The churches or edifces for public Diviae
worship. in the United States. number thirty
ak thousand, (36, ,Oli,) Of which the Metho'
a;.,s own one-tbird, or l2.4 .467; the BaPtist'
nearly one-fourth, or 8, 79l; the Presbyte'