The Empire County argus., 1856-03-01
Curiosities of the U. 8. Census,

The following statements in regard to the las,
census we find in exchange credited to the
Boston Transcript They will repay perusal:
Out of the 1925 counties in the United States in
1850, 48O had been created or altered in the pre-
vious ten years: in 81 the females greatly predom
inate in l55 the slaves, and in the foreign born
In SOL counties there were few or no foreigners
and in ~ the native and foreign population were
about equal. In 1923 counties there were slaves
in l92 no free colored persons: The number o.
people to dwelling in New York CITY averaged
more than l3, in Boston nearly 9. in New Orleans
6M, in Richmond about s. 1t is esi mated t'at
one fourth part of the people in the counties reside
in villages, towns and cities.
In the year 1900, exclusive of the army and ma.
w. there were 1906 persons in the employment Of
the Federal Government; in 1854 the number was
35456, nine-fold increase-the population having
increased about fve-fold. The number of real es-
tate owners in the United States can not fall short
of 100000 one in about 8. .l9 of the free males
over 2l years of age 1t is estimated that the di-
rect and indirect tax paid by each white person in
the country for all purposes amounts to 50 "a
There are about 100000 Indians within the terri
torial limits of the United States. At the close of
the revolutionary war, Gen. Knox estimated the
Indians in the thirteen States to number about
10000. In 1850, of the 1897 political NEWSPAPERS
published in the United States 955 were Wing
and 742 Democratic. Over two-ffths of the ma
tional territory is drained by the Mississippi and
its tributaries The distance between the cities of
New York and New Orleans is more than equal to
that separating London from Constantinople, or
Paris from St. Petersburg. By the land route be-
tween New York and Astoria, the distance is equal
to that between New York and Bremen By the
water route the distance is as great as that between
Canton and London.
The number of persons who live east of the Mis-
sissippi river, is twelve times greater than the
number of those who live west thereof The non.
slaveholding have third greater population than
the slaveholding States. Massachusetts,, which
was the first State, according to its white popula-
tion, In 1870, has become the fourth-exactly
reversing the course of New York, which has be-
come the first from the fourth rank Even adding
the present population of Maine to that of Massa-
chusets, would not alter the position of the latter
in its rank among the States. In New England
the females have always exceeded the males IN
number. The foreign vote of the country is esti-
mated to be but one-twelfth of the whole. The
total number of families holding slaves in 1850
was only 347 7,525. 1t is estimated that only one
third of the white population of the slave States
sustain the relation of slave owners. The State OF
New York has about one-eighth of the population
of the Union. Pennsylvania about e-tenth, and
Delaware about one hundred and sixty-third
There is one house to every six persons in the
country. The Catholics have but one-eleventh as
many churches as the Methodsts The Method
lists and Baptists together have more than onehal
of all the churches, and the Episcopal and Roman
Catholic are about equal in number The ave-
rage value of the church edifces in the country il
but S2357; they will each seat 376 persons, upon
the average.