Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-03
Facts from the Census.

reau for the information Of the present Congress.
The New York Tribune CLEANS from it the most
interesting facts-as follows:--
The population of the United States has in
creased 337 per cent. during the last fifty years.
In that period the population Of France has in.
creased 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, 1--WE infer from the Secretary's
partial statistics) is increasing at about the rato
of one per cent. per annum.
immigration has not sweled our population TO
any such extent as has generally been supposed.
The Census returns indicate that, out of TWENTY
four millions of people, only Two millions and
quarter, or less than ten per csSas, we're born in
Europe-or, in round numbers one million in
Ireland, half million ing ay quarter Of
million in England, one lsiuadrea thousand in
Scotland and Wales, half as many in France,
one hundred and fifty thousand in Canada, and
one hundred thousand in all other countries. We
think the Census-takers did not obtain complete
lists of the nativity of all born out of the country
that Their inquiries must have been misunder.
stood to some extent, or imperfectly answered.
still, we should consider three millions liberal
estimate fer the Foreign born population of our
country, or about one eighth Of the whole. We
have known the Irish alone estimated at higher
| figure.
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Our total population, the deaf and dumb are
9,7l7; the blind, 9,702 the insane, l5,76S; the
the idiotic, Is, ,705, OF these the colored deaf
and dumb are but 632 colored blind, LIS;
colored insane, 6l2; colored IDIOTS, AIS. That
is to say, the coored persons afflicted with these
various infrmities, are fewer in proportion to
/. their numbers than the whites.
OF paupers, the Census reports only 134 972
as having received public charity during the
year preceding June, 1850, and only 50,353 as
actually receiving a subsistence from the public
on,the lst of June in that year. OF these nearly
three-fourths were natives The aggregate cost
Of supporting paupers during the year aforesaid,
was reported as ohly $2,954 ,606, whereof New
York paid sSl7,336, and Massachusetts, 1898,
765. Pennsylvania ranks next, but disburses
only $232, 1873 in public charity, and New Hamp-
shire fourth, paying out $l57,35l. Virginia and
Maine are just behind. The editor Of the Trl-
bune regards the statement respecting Pennsyl.
vania as incorrcctl
The real and personal Estate in the United
States and Territories is returned as Of the act
nal value of $7,l33,360 725. We would raise
that to make it correspond with trnth and the
year 1852, to 10000 100000, ana estimate the
present population of the Usnk ii twenty-five
million S400 per head of proN.Fty 70 each human
being or $4,000 10 each rave ske rsmay Of i've
persons. We believe this is close spproxina-
ton of the facts.
The churches, Or edi6ces FOR Divine Worship
in the United States, number thiry-si thousand
(35,0l y of which the Metbodlsts own one-third
or l2, 2,467 the Baptis's nearly one-lourth, org,
79l the Presbyterians, tho next in number, or
1854 and if we count the Dutch Reformed
Congregational, Lutheran, and German Reform.
ed with the Presbyterian, land the difference be-
tween all these seem slight and uuessential,) y the
total is 8,2ll. But the estimated capacity OF the
Presbyterian and allied Churches is greater IN
the average, than that of the Baptist and Meth
odist Churches, so that while all the Methods
Churches will accommodate blt 5209,333 wor-
shippers, and all the Baptist but 3l30,67o, the
Presbyterian and related Churches aforesaid,
have room for 3705,2ll worshiDrers. The Cath
olics have but | liz Churches, accommodating
620,950 worshippers. The Episcopaians have
422 Churches; accommodating 625.2l3 wor-
shippers. The average number that each church
edifce in the Union will accumulate, 354; the
total value of church property $86,4l6,649; and
if all the churches should be filed at one time,
they would hold 13,849 S96 person--probably
something near the total population that could
at one time attend church.
The farm lands of the United States are set
down in the census as amoGnng to llS,451 622
acres of improved, and 1916 ,34S of unim-
proved; total, 3O3,07S $40 acres, worth, in aver
age, $40 per acre. The average value of the
farm lands of Massachusetts, Rhode Island Con
necticut. New York, New Jetsy and Pennsylva-
mia, is about $50 per acre. New Jersy highest,
Pennsylvania lowest j while Maine, New Hamp-
shire, and Vermont avertge about SIS per acre.
We are rather surprised to see the farm lands Of
North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama,
Mississippi and Tenressrss-ss ssa, in the aver
age, below S. per acre.
OF domestic Animals, this county had an ear
y supply and has always been proiilic-and the
number continues to increase steadily and rap
Idly. The increase of horses mules and asses,
from 1910 to 1850 was 559,053, although the
number has considerably decreased in all the
States literally checked with railroads. New
York has one horse to seven persons. Ohio one
to four. the whole Union about one to every five
persons. or little over four millions in all. OF
nea, cattle, the number 10 1850 was 1885 257
an increase, in ten years. of about twenty per
cent. The average product of butter appears to
be about 40 pounds per annum 10 each COW, with
I6 2 3 pounds Of cheese. We export annually,
A little over one million 1ollals worth of dairy
products. Of sheep, there was an increase of
!. 9, 3p9. lOs, between 40 and so, Notwithstanding
, di oinution of 6i6,s55, in New England, and
f | 76I AGO in the Atlantic Middle States, equal
to as Der cent. in the former, and % 3 in the
latter. Sheep husbandry Is tending rapidly west
ward and southward--to the mi!der slopes of the
AIleghanies and the Prairies Of Illinois, Missoul
and Texas. New Mexico has six sheep to each
} person-an extraordinary proportion. Best of
all the returns show that while in 1910, the aver
age annual yield of wool was lutte under two
pounds per sheep, it was in 1850 nearly two and
half pounds per sheep, so that 81 60O,OOO sheep