Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1853-01-05
raota from the Ceusur.

most Interesting fscts, as follows
The population of the United State.
aas increased 337 per cent. during the
last htty years. In that same period the
population OF France has increased but
shout 80 per cent. The population of
tho United States IS now increasing at
rate OF shout three per cent. per annum,
whilst that of all Europe. 1--WE infer from,
che SsGretary's impartial statistics) is in
essasing at about the rate of one per cent.
per annum.
Immigration has not swelled our Popu-
lation to any such extent IS has general
" been supposed. The census returns
indicate. that. of our twenty four millions
Of people. only two millions and quar-
ter, or less than ten per cent, were born
ia EuroPe-or, in round numbers, one
million in Ireland, half million in Ger
many. quarter of = million in England,
enc hundred thousand in Scotland and
Wales. half as many in France. one hun
drsd and fifty Thousand in Canada, and
one hundred thousand in all other couu-
tries. The census takers probably did
not obtain complete lists of the nativity OF
all born out of the country-their in
quiries may have been misunderstood to
come extent, or imperfectly answered.
still the Tribune considers three millions
liberal estimate for the foreign popula-
ton of our country, or about one-slght OF
the whole. We have known the Irish
alone estimated at . higher figure.
OF our total population. the deaf and
dumb, are 9.7l7: the blind, 97o2; the in
sane, 1888 ; the idiotie, 1906. OF
these, the colored deaf and dumb are but
$50; cOlorsd blind, l,71S;colored insane,
612; eolorsd idiots. 1916. That is to
say, the colored persons afflicted With
these various inhrmities are fewsr IN pro-
portion to Nsir nUastsr than &s Ehites. =
OF Paupers, the census reports only
1S4,972 as having received public chart
ty during the year proceeding June, 1850,
aud only q, 353 as actually receiving q
subsistence from the public on the LIST Of
June in that year. OF these, nearly three
tourths 56,916) were natives. The az
gregate cost of supporting paupers du-
ring the year aforesaid was reported rs
only So, 964, 806. where New York paid
$9l7, $50, and Massachusetts $392, 1865
Pennsylvania ranks next, but discusses
only $3.50, 1873 in public charity, and
Now Hampshire fourth, paying out $751;
SOL. Virginia and Maine are just be-
hind. These returns are partially i'm
perfect, ~ great many of the INDECENT
are subsisted in hospitals, retreats, DC,
GA the gifts of private munihcence.
The real aud personal estate in the
United StatSs and territories is return
ed st the actual value of S7,133,-
S69, 725. We would raise that to make
It correspond with the year 1859, to
$4,000. 900, 600, and estimate the pre-
sent actual population OF the Union a.
twenty-five millions, giving four hundred
dollars per head of property to each HUI
man being, or two thousand dollars to
each average family of five persons.
The Churches, or edihCes for public
Divine worship, number St, 600, of which
the Mothodists own one-third, or l2, 467;
the Bap,ists nearly Ons-fourth, or 1871 /;
the PresbyteriRns the next number, or
!, 534; and if we count the Dutch Re
formed. Congregational. Lutheran and
German Reformed with the Presby terrain,
land the differences between all these
seem slight and unessential, the total Is
s,112. But the estimated capacity OF the
Presbyterian and allied Churches Is
greater in the average than that OF the
Baptist and Methodist Churches, SO that
while all the Methodist Churches will Rc-
eommodate but 4,9oe, 333 worshipers,
and all the Baptist but ;. $50, 97S, the
Presbyterian and related churches afore-
Said have room for 5, 100, Gil worshlpers.
The Catholics have but l.tl2 Churches,
accommodating gu, 1850 worShiPpers. -
The EpiScopallans have l,422 churches
accommodating 625,2I3 worshippers.-
The average number that each Church
edihce in the Union will accommodate IL
a94; the total value of church property,
$50, 4I6. $50 ; and if all the Churches
should be filed at one time. they would
is. 849, 896 persons-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 amounting
70 1I8,467, 712 acres of Improved, and
I94, 621 ,358 of Unimproyed total $685.
o79, $40 acres. worth in the average $40
per acre. The average value OF the
Farm Lands of Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, New York, New Jer-
ne, and Pennsylvania. is about thirty dol
lars pei acre, New Jersey highest, and
PENNSYLVANIA lowest;) while Maine. New
Hampshire and Vermont average about
fifteen dollars per acre. We are rather
surprised TO see the Farm Lands oil
North and South Carolins, Georgia Ala,
bama. Mississippi and Tennessee s$tued
In the average below five dollars per
scre.
OF Domestic Animals, this country
had an early supply. and has always been
prolifc-and the number continues to in
crease steadily and rapidly. The in
crease of Horses. Mules, and Asses,