Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-12-11
CuriOsiiies Of the CeBsus!.

I, Out Of the 1,629 counties in tn
j United States in 1850, $50 bad beer
+. created or altered in the previous tel
years; in 81 the females greatly pre-
dominated, in I55 the slaves, and II
~ the foreign born. In AL COUNTIES
there were few or no foreigners, ant
lin 20 the native and foreign popufa
( ton were about equal. In 1.02s
Z counties there were slaves; in 1872 nc
i free colored persons. The number o.
people to a adwelling in New York city
averaged more thac Is, in Boston 8
lin New Orleans. 81, in Richmond 5.
1t is estimated that one-fourth part Of
the people in the country reside in
villages, towns and cities.
In the year 1900, exclusive of the
army and navy, there we're 3806 per-
sons in the employment Of the Fede-
raj Government; in 1854 the number
was 35,456, nine-foId increase. the
population having increased about
tfive.fold.. The number of real estate
lowners-in in the United States cannot
fall short of 100000, or one ia
about 319 of the IIee males over 81
years of age. 1t is estimated that
the direct and indirect tax paid by
each white person in the country for
all purposes amount to So "a. There
are about 100000 Indians within the.
the territorial limits of the United
States. At the end of the. Revolu-
.tionary War Gen. Knox estimated the
Indians inthe thirteen States TO- uum-
Der about 5000, In 1850 ,ef the
1897 political newspapers published
in the United States, S55 were. Whig
and 742 Democratic papers. Over
two-6lths of the national territory is
drained by The Mississippi and its
tributaries. The distance between
the city Of New York and New Or.
leans is more, than. equal to that sep.
aratiDg London and Constantinople,
or Paris from st. Petersburg. By |
the land route between 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 Mississippi river is twelve |
times greater than those who live
west thereof, The. non-slaveholding
have a third greater population than
the slaveholding States. Massachu-
sets, which was. the first State aecor. !
ding to its white population in $780,
has now become the fourth, exactly |
reversing the course of New York;
which has become the first from the.i
fourth rank. Even adding the pres- !
ent population of Milne TO-, that of
Massachusetts would not alter the po-
sition of the latter in its rank among
the States. In New England the fe-
males have always exceeded the
males in number. The foreign vote t
Of the country is estimated to Be but
one-twellth Of the whole. Tie total
number of families. holding slaves in
1920, 347,525. Itis estimated that !
one-third of the white papusation of
the slave States sustain the relation /
of slave .owners<.. The State of New
York has about.one-eighth Of tne pop
ulation Of the Union, Pennsy lYania1
about one;tenths and Delaware about
one-two- hundred and sizty-third.-
There is one. house to oeyery six peril
sons inrthe country. The Methsdistss
and Baptists together have more than
one.half of all the churches, and the
Episcopaii2ns and the Roman eaths- !
lies are about equal in numbef. The.
average value OF the church edi6cesl
in the country is but S9,357; thoy
will each seat 376 persons upon anil
average. '''.. -
A oaaker'lately popped the quas-l
tion ton fair Qaakeress, as follo'sa:i
"Hahn>-yea aud verify Penelope, The
spirit urgeth "a moyeth me woDder.
fully tn beseech ti,ep to ieleoye unto