The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1856-08-02
THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 81, 1856.
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EDITORS OF MINNEsorIAN resume my
letters on the statistics of the United States
after delay longer than I hope will occur
again.
The white population Of the United
States in 1910 was 14,195,s 05 in 1850,
10 $780, 3S, being an increase in ten years of
5,434, 1888, or of 80 IA per cent.
The free colored population in 1910 was
3S6,292 in 1850, 42S,66l, an increase of
1850, or II per cent. The slave popula-
ton in 1910 was 2,487 1856 in 1850, 1904
oS9, an increase of 1913, OF 20 per cent.
The total population in 1910, was 17,O69,-
453 in 1850, 23,263,4 sS, an increase Of g.
194,035, or, &c IA per cent. From 1880 to-
1910 the relative increase of froemen was
IS IL per cent, of slaves, @ ga
per cent. From 1910 to 1850 the relative
increase of freemen was 40 Ia per cent, of
slaves, % pcr cent. So that during the last
ten years there has been relative gain in
slave population of II IL per cent.
The population of the Free States in 1910
was, fir emen, S,730,922; slaves, 1902; of
the slave states-freemen, 1851 ,l75, slaves,
2,486,254
The population of the Free States in 1850
was, free persons, l3,a23,aS3, slaves 1927 !;
Of the Slave States, free persons, 6,a36,Ol6,
slaves, 3,2Q3,867.
In the Slave States in 1910 there was one
slave to every 2.3 free person in 1850 there
was one to every 2.03 free person.
In the United States there was in 1910
one slave for every 5.S free persons in
in 1850 one slave for every 81 free persons.
The population Of the New England
States is 2,72S, LOG; of the Middle States,
s,553,7l3; of the Coast-planting States,
1910, 464 of the Central Slave States, s.
l67, 276 (; of the Northwestern States, 2
1895 Of the Pacific State, $4,000 of
the Territori S, with the District of CO.
lumbia, l43,9S4.
Of all the States, New York has the
greatest number of inhabitants, Florida the
smallest. Massachusetts is the most dense
ly populated, having l27 inhabitants to the
square mile. Rhode Island is the next, hav-
ing lib to the square mile. California is the
most thinly inhabited, having only 81 hun
dredths to the square mile.
The New England States have 43 inhab-
itants to the square Massachusetts
being the most dense. The middle States
have Sc t.; the square mile-New York the
most dense. Tie Coast Plantin: States
have to the square m le-South Carolina
most dense. The Central Slave States have
17-Kentucky most dense. The North
western States have 11-Indiana the most
dense. The Territories have .04 to tt %
square mile,
Taking the entire domain of the United
States, there are 7 2-lO to the square mile.
If this domain was filled up with popula-
ton as dense as Illinois, the number of in
habitants would be 40, 62l, $50 if as dense
as New York, oil, 6l4,4l3 if as dense as
Massachusetts, All, $685. 24.
If the population of the United States in
creases at the same rate as in the last ten
years, the number of inhabitants in 1860
will be 81, S43, 062; in 1900, ll9, 1881 ,592 a
population exceeding the present population
of Great Britain, Russia Tin Europe) Prus-
sia apd Turkey.
OF THE INCREASE OF POPULATION BY
IMMIGRATION.
The total number of immigrants and de-
scendants of immigrants in the United
States, in 1910 was 1878, 1858. Number of
immigrants arriving from 1910 to 1850 was
1921 $50. The natural increase of the fore
going 3,942. The natural increase from
1910 to 1850 of the immigrants that were
in the United States in 1910 was 1885,.
Total number of immigrants into the United
States, living in 1850, together with de-
scendants of immigrants, 4,304,416.
One of the most interesting results of the
census of 1850 is, that it enables US to de-
tcrmine the nativity of the population, and
to see of what the nation is made,
The investigations show that of the free
inhabitants of the United States II, 1877 sos
are natives, and thai 22lO,82S are of foreign
birth, while the nativity of 80, Ola could not
be determined.
Persons of foreign birth form IL per cent.
of the whole free population.
The n,tives of Irelard in the United
States in 1850 were 96l, ZIG, or 43 per cent.
of the whole immigrant population of Ger
many, 573,225, or Is per cent of Eng
land, 278,575, or IL per cent. of British
America, 147, 200, or 7 per cent. of Scot
lard, 7O,550, or, per cent. of France, 81
069, OF, 2 IL per cent. Of Wales, 29,S6s,
or l lr3 per cent. of all other countries,
95,022, or, 4 IL per cent.
The inter-migration of native citizens is
shown by the census.
How far one section of he country has
impressed its character and customs upon
others can to a great extent be determined,
as also the type of character in the new
States resulting from this amalgamation of
classes.
Of the l7,737 sos free inhabitants, 4,112,-
433 have migrated from the states of their
births -gsl--