Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1859-10-26
The Standard.
ESTIMATED POPULATION AND VALUE OF
THE UNITED STATES

ESTIMATED POPULATION AND VALUE UT
THE UNITED STATES.
According to the national census of June 1917,
our increase of population for the last sixty years
nearly averages 81 per cent annually. The last de-
cade, therefore, beginning June. 1851, and ending
June, 1870 will add to the population of the United
States since 1850 1905, 54O souls which will give
us in 1854 a population for the United States OF
3O5000o,.
Mr. DeTsow. under whose supervision the compcn-
dunn Of the last census prepared. says that IN
1860 the population of the United States will be thus
distributed: Interpolation of the Eastern States,
including Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, MasSa-
chusettS RIlJde Island, Connecticut, New York, New
JERSEY and Pennsylvania, will be lO22O,00o the
population of the Northern States" to-wit Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and
Minnesota will he 1926, 900; that of the eStern
States" California and Oregon, will be 613O0o;
Wills, the population of the fifteen Southern States
will be H. 40, 900, and Of the Territories BAG, 600
The aggregate population of the free States will
be- according this estimate, i'll 1860. lS,5OOO0o
whilst that of the slave States WILL we have seen,
be II 740.OO0.
The area of land belonging to the free States in
1860 will be 300 800 square miles, whilst that OF the
slave States will he ssl,1 27 square smiles.
The valuation of the real estate int nlted States
in 1850 was gS7 1885, 725. whilst their estimated val
ue in 1850 is placed at PSF, 600 00O-an increase Of
nearly fifty per cent. in ten wears The compiler Of
this statement of the wealth and population of the
United States believes that it is correct: he says
it is chased upon many past enumerations and the
best information obtainablc by the close OF the next
year amount to 81 .303,032 souls. In few years
VIC will surpass France and Austria and all other
countries except Russia and China. The average
distribution of wealth over the whole country is
over $500 or double that of Mexico, and two thirds
that of the British Isles tits $500 in the free States
and $500 in the slave States. The highest average
distribution is in Massachusetts, which is $3.50; the
next in order is Mississippi, where it is 5000.
Some of the States have increased enormously
The population of Illinois has more than trebled in
ten years Wisconsin has increased ve-fold; Cali
fornia scvcn-iold Among the slave States little
Florida has nearly trehled her population; so has
Missouri, while Texas has Guadrupcd.
The country since 1850 has added to its population
near three millions CT tore gncrS These foreigners
brought over with them. on an average, fifty dollars
each, in cash, which gives the sum Of one hundred
millions of dollars brought into the country, and
it is impossible estimate the increase of the wealth
of the country which two millions Of laborcrs have
added.
Secretary Guthrie estimated the wealth of the whole
Union taxable and untaxahle, in 1886, at sl1.3l7.-
100000. Leaving off the untaxables-thec churches,
schools, graveyardS public edifices and other public
property-it would be about ten thousand millions
of dollars and the increase would have carried the
total value above its present value, by one thousand
millions, if it had not been for the late financial
crash. our pecuniay progress continues the same
for ele"en years, the value of the country will be
about $50, 600 100000 by eighth national CEN
SuS.
The increase in the wealth and population of the
free States may appear rather large, hut it is easily
accounted for; together with their own increase.
they have received large external accession of
forei en- emf grants
In the Compendium of the Seventh Census the
population of the United States in 1900 is estimated
by Mr.. DeBow at seventy millions. Surprising the
Union continued to exist and great national con-
vulsion occurred of this number it is calculated by
him that twenty millions would occupy the Atlantic
slope, eleven millions would occupy the Pacific slope,
seven millions the Gulf regions and thirty-two mil
lions the valley of the Mississippi.
The average population of the whole country, in
Guiding the Great Valley are nearly the same ten
inhabitants to the square mile, while the region
West of the Rocky Mountains has not an average
population of one to the square mile. The Gull
coast has an average of over four. to the denSely
populated North of twenty-five. and the still more
densely populated Eastern coast of thirtytwo while
the Netherlands France and the British Isles coun-
tries of equal extent with the Atlantic SLOPE $50 COO
SQUARE uiieS nave vi io,oo''bV Souis.
The Great Valley of the Mississippi, equal in en-
tent to China proper, has not 1.-THE of its popula
ton, although it has greater advantages of soil. eli
mate, and productions, yet it will become in tho
future more densely inhabited, and be the political
agricultural, manufacturing, and commercial centre
and mistress of both heniSpheres
The population of the Great Valley is greater by
million than that of the older States of tn,
Atlantic slope, which has taken centuries where tho
former has taken generations to become inhabited
and as power generally goes with the population, il
will De so in this case after the next arportionment
and every year will add to it with telling effect unit
at last the seat of the federal government may bt
found on the banks of the Father of Waters.
We have condensed and abridged this interesting
statistical statement from long article in a recen
number of De Bom's Rer;er, the best publication O
its character in the United States. Richmond EI
dminer