The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1853-03-24
From the Washington Republic.
THE CENSUS REPORT.


President S message, by gathering together in
brief form the most important of the facts which
the Superintendent of the Census has mbodied
in his report. The document is evidence of his
unwearied industry in the prosecution of the
labor entrusted to him, and embraces particu-
lars of deep interest to all classes of readers
1t displays the present physical condition of the
Republic--its progress in population, industry
and wealth-the extent and variety of its re-
sources (; supplying figures which serve to cor
rect many erroneous impressions on these points
and suggesting inquiries into matters that have
as yet received little attention.
The rate of increase of the population of the
United States during the last sixty years has
been about 81 per cent. per sannum that OF
Great Britain during the last fifty years l.31
per cent. In Ireland, from 1871 to 1871, the
increase was about the rate of per cent. per
anuum, whil, during the ten succeeding years
there was n decrease at the rate of = per cent
per annum. From 1910 to 1850, the population
of the United States IL, reased from somewhat
more than Il 900. coo To over 5000, OO,}, or 80
per cent: the increase in Great Britain-leaving
ireland out of vew-beiag at the rate Of II per
cent.
In the United States the houses occupied by
free persons number 3.3G3. 427 the houses in
Great Britain amount to 1868, ,43I. Belgium,
with a population OF about five millions. has
ahout S2U. coo houses.
OF the free inhabitants Of the United States,
I7.T36. 1g2 are natives Of the soil 2,2IU,S2S
born in foreign countries; and there are
3g,226 whose nativity has not been ascertained
The proportion OF foreign born persons is there
fore much smaller than it has bean generally
supposed to be; beirg. in fact, but LOG per
cent of the whole free population. The whole
natives of Ireland in this country III 1890 was
961 ,7i9 of Germany, 513.225 of England,
218. 8.615 of British America, l4I.fOO OF Scot
land 20 $50 of France 54.069; of Wales,
> "a O.. n IL, E,r,, ,t,1iI
5lS reside in the free States, and 24o,3lO IN the
slave States Not less than 4.ll2.l33 free per-
sons have migrated from the States of their
birth and settled in others Vermont and Con-
necticut have contributed most largely to the
settlement Of other parts of the country Nir-
ginia has IN this way lost 335 goo of her natives
North Carolina, 2b1, $40: ami South Carolina
fifty nine per Gems. OF her free population.
There are 9.09l white mutes in the United
States. and 632 colored 9,702 blind persons, of
whom 1.7O5 are colored, i5.768 who are insane
including 32l free c0lored and 29l slaves To-
706 idiots, Of whom 1876 are free colored, and
040 slaves.
The paupers are set down at 81, ,972, of whom
6S. 53S were of foreign birth a large number
of others being free persons of color. The en-
tire cost of the support of these individuals du-
ring the year preceding June, 1885, was g.
954 S06 The number actually receiving rehsf
on the 1st June was 50,353.
The criminals convicted during the same year
numbered - 900 13, ,00G being native and A.
900 foreign-born.
About 4. 600, 600 youth were receiving instruc-
ton on the lst June, 1880 occupying nearly
100. 600 colleges and schools, and employing
more than II, 900
The average annual mortality in the United
States is l .3S per cent. being in the ratio of
to 73 of the number living. The New England
States give ratio of mortality in the number
living of l to Ga : the Middle States, with Ohio,
! to ~ the central slave States, to 13 (; coast
planting States l to T3; Northwestern States,
to 80. We do accept these figures as indi-
eating precisely the relative sauhrity of the
different poi tions of the Union. The new States
are settled chiefly by persons in the prime of
life while the other States compare unfavora-
blv simply because of the emigration from the
ranks of their youthful population. Taking the
data as given, the annual deaths per cent. in
Massachusetts, on an average of all ages, is
slightly more than that in England in Mary
land the average is less.
The real and personal estate owned by resi-
dents in the United States is valued at more than
81 133, 1863, ,725. The wealth of New York is
estimated at 81 ,0S0, ,309,216; Pennsylvania,
722, 1876, 40 Massachusetts, 573, 3,342,2S6 /;
Ohio 50I 726. 100; Virginia. 436, 10l ,002; Geor-
gia, 355, 1857 Kentucky, 30l ,63S, 454; South
Carolina 2S5 257 Cos Louisiana, 233, 908 764;
Mississippi, 22S. 95l, ,l30; Alabama, 228, 304,-
332 North Carolina, 226, 800 472 Maryland,
2l92l7 364 Indiana. 201 $50. 264 Tennessee
POI .946, $50 New Jersey 200, 100000. The
other States range from 156, ,265.00 (Illinois)
to IS, 652, ,053, delaware j the District of Co
lumbia having l4,G10,S74 assigned to it.
The churches in the several States number
36.Oll, and there 30 in the District of Column
bia and the Territories the total value of church
property being SO. 4l6, ,639 one half of which is
owned in New York, Massachusetts, and Penn
sylvana Indiana, Florida, Delaware and Ohio
have the greatest number of churches in pro-
portion to the population, while the proportion
is least in California, Louisiana, and Iowa. The
average number that each church in the Union
will accommodate is 3S3.
The cash value of the farming land in the Uni
ted States is So 270 733 093 and of farming
implements and machinery 151 100000. The
aggregate of improved land is llS, 457 622
acres In New York and Pennsylvania there is
an average of little less than four acres to each
person in the New England States n little
more +: in Tennessee, five acres in South Car
olina, six; in Virginia, seven in Kentucky,
twelve.
Turning to domestic animals. we find that
there are, altogether. 4 $50, 900 horses or about
one to FIVE inhabitants There were soc, 900
horses less in 1910. OF asses and mules there
sre 559. .O70. all but so. 900 Of which in the
South The neat cattle show increase in ten
years of about 20 per cent, tire number in 1850
being g 35A 2S7. The produce of butter IN that
year was 2.99i. 542 Tbs. the average product APP
pearing to he about ~ lbs. per aunum To each
sow. with 6s lbs. of cheese. The increase OF
sheep has been only II per cent. during the ten
years. but owing to improved breeding and 9TH