Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1853-04-29
STATISTICS OF POPULATION.

The progress of the United States in wealth
and power is, perhaps, the most curious subject
that the history of the present century offers to
the attention of the political economist. In
deed, 1t would not be exaggeration to say, that
the annals of no age exhibit so remarkable and
national development as that which is afforded
by the American Republic 1t was compare
lively but short time ago that a vast, unbro-
ken wilderness stretched from the waters of the
st. Lawrence to the tides of the Mexican Gulf
and now thIrty-one States, embracing q popula-
ton OF nearly as many millions of Inhabitants
distinguished by high degree of advancement
IN evil and physical happiness, occupy all that
extensive region of territory designated This
metamorphosis of continent from the savage
vildness and stagnant waste Of nature to the
refinement and cultivation of civilized life, has
takeneplace with rapidity almost magical;
vile everything around US indicates that the
gsseess of change is still going or, with a con-
stantly aceelerating speed, towards the evolu-
ton OF results in improvement and greatness
far more amazing than any yet disclosed.
One of the most interesting features visible
in the progressive movement of this yet young
nation. is the growth and distribution of popu-
lation. Within the last sixty years the increase
has been from less than four millions to more
than twenty-three millions of peoples and in ev-
cry successive decade the ration of advance has
steadily augmented. The gain in the ten years
from 1910 to 1850, was little over six millions,
and calculating the increase in the next fifty
according to the same rate we shall number in
1900 population exceeding eighty Millions
1t is, however, manifest that the real total must
be much greater. An examination of the cen
sus tables embracing the last six decennial emu
merations, show that one and one-third may be
taken as the standard of increase from one pc
riod to another; so that at the period of the
next century, the United States should contain
over ninety millions of souls.
An important element in this rapid multipli-
cation of inhabitants, is found in the yearly ar
rival on our shores of immense swarms of per-
sons from the Old world. The late census re-
ports exhibit the actual number of foreigners
arrived in this country in the last sixty years,
to have been two millions seven hundred and
fifty-eight thousand. The total number af i'm
migrants since 1870. add their descendants in
1850, is stated as being little more than four
and a half millions. A recent edition of the
Liverpool Times contains an article relative to
emigration from that port alone, from which it
appears that the aggregate of passengers who
took shipping thence, for permanent removal to
other countries, in 1852, surpassed that Of any
previous year. having amounted to two hundred
and twenty-nine thousand. Of these, one hun
0red and eighty-seven thousand nine hundred
and sixty-two were destined to the United States.
The progress of emigration from Liverpool du-
ring the last twenty years is also shown. 1t is
said that from 1888 to 1910, the number of en-
igrants varied from ten thousand eight hundred
and eighty-eight in the first named year, to over
thirty thousand in the second. There was a
steady increase during the whole interval
Er.'.-' l2Al 80 1876. the first raar Ac the notato
from Liverpool increased from forty-eight thou
sand to seventy-one thousand. Since 1916 the
increase has been very remarkable, as will be
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