Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-01-08

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29, 1856; total blacks, 1888. By the census of
1910, these two classes of persons were returned
together, (although not generally SO UNDERSTOOD
and presented the following numbers Whites
idiotic, 14,508; colored insane and
idiotic, s2,926--total II, 434. The returns make
it appear that, with the white population in the u
States there exists one insane person for each / ;,
$50 individuals among the free colored, one to
each $685. and among the slaves, one to each
1900. With respect to idiocy, the white popu-
laton presents one to each 1874 persons; the
free colored, one to each $685. and among the
slaves, one to each 5000.
EDUCATION.
Itmay be satisfactory to state that near 4,OOO,-
600 youth were receiving instruction. the various
educational institutions of the country on the first
of June, 1850, or at the rate of one in every five
free persons The teachers number more than
$4,000, and The colleges and schools
hundred thousand.
PAUPERIsM.
The whole number of persons who have receiv-
ed the benefit of the public funds of the different
States for the relief of INDECENT persons, amounts
to 1874, 972. Of this number, there were 68 ,538
of foreign birth, and &c, 434 Americans, while of
the whole number receiving support on the first
day of June, there were 36, GIG natives, and 49,
437 foreigners, making q totol of SO, 353 persons
Of those termed Americans many are free persons.
of color. The entire cost of the support of these
individuals during the year has amounted to &c.
954, 8O6,
In 1878 about S39, 900, 600, and during the
years 1882, '33 and 81, more than 800, 600, 900
was expended for the relief and maintenance of
the poor of England and Wales, exclusive of the
immense expenditure of the poor law administra-
ton in the unions and parishes. In 1912 and '43
the amount of $4,000, 600, and during each of
the years 1847, '48 and 40, there was expended
S28, 600, 900 in England and Wales.
The entire number of paupers relieved by the
public funds in England and Wales for nine years,
from 1910 to 1848 inclusive, amounted to IS, 1885,
1926, equal to 1,649, 178 persons per annum. In
I848 the number relieved was 1876, 451, by
which it appears that one person in every eight
was-a pauper. The average number of those an
nually relieved, who are represented to have been
"adult and able bodied paupers, +" amount to more
than 477,0O0, and it is, on British authority as
serted, that in 848, than 1000, 600 persons
in England and Wales were kept from starvation
by relief from public and private sources. The
total public expenditure for the poor in England
and Ireland in 1848, amounted to $42, 75O, 900.
Within the past seventeen years, poor law fund ex
pended in England and Wales amounted to 1885,
100000. This enormous expenditure, accompa-
MED as it is by immense private contributions falls
far short of relieving the wants of Great Britain.
While her population embraces a large number of
persons of princely estates and other classes com
posed of individuals of every variety of incomes
combining with it ease, comfort and elegance, the
statistics of the nation prove that the substratum
of pauperism or want, is of magnitude alarming
to the English morast and thinker, as we'll as the
statesman, and of an extent and nature harrow
ing to all The expenses of the organized benevo-
lent institutions of France amounted, in 1847, to
SO, 900, 900 francs The number of distressed per-
sons relieved amounted to about 450, 900 annually
1t appears, from report of NJ Duchatel, Minis
ter Of Commerce, that 695,932 persons received
public aims at their own houses.
CRIME.
The statistics of crime form a subject of our in
vestigation. From the returns it appears that the
whole number of persons convicted of crime in
the United States for the year ending the first
day of june 1850, was about 81, 900. Of these
IL, 900 were native and $4,000 foreign born
The whole number in prison on the first day of
June was about 6, 700, of whom 4, 800 were ma
tive, and 2.46o foreign.
REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.
Appended to our report will be found a table of
the valuation of real and personal estate owned by
individuals in each of the United States. This
table, which fixes the wealth of our citizens at more
than 1913 millions of dollars, is made up from the
official returns of property for the purposes of taxa
ton. Where the assessment has been made on a
sum less than the intrinsic worth, the Assistant
Marshals were instructed to add the necessary per
centaee to bring it up to its true value. We are
of opinion that the entire table falls short of the
reality at least 90 per cent. The value of slaves
| is included
The following is the valuation of real and per-
sonal estate of the inhabitants of the United States
for the year ending June l., 1850: