The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-03-27
POPULATION OF the UNITED STATES.

The population of the United States can be es-
timated with some exactness, in advance of the
census, from its natural multiplication and its re-
gular increase by immigration If this increase in
the past years has been only as rapid rs in the
ten years previous, population must now be 81
5l0,S02; and lift has been in the same proportion
that from 1890 to 1900, we have population
of 81, l78,99S If this increase shall 90 on as it
has done since $780, our. population in 1870 will
be Al ,9l5 ,468; 1880, 56 $40 0S3; in 1890, S52
$50; in 1900, 1O1 1888, 1897; and in 1859, All, $780,
670.
1t is interesting to compare the growth in popula-
tion of the different parts of the Union. In $780,
the Mississippi valley had 2Q5, $50 inhabitants
while there were 3,70S, l16 on the Atlantic, and
16, 43l on the Gulf of Mexico. There was not
single pioneer west Of the Mississippi. In 1850,
there we're III, ,27l inhabitants on our Pacific coast
S641 ,754in the sssippi valley IL, ,729 759 in the
eastern States and l,7O2,992 in the States east
and west Of the Mississippi bordering on the Gulf
In 1850, 372 per cent. of the population of tire
Union were in the Mississippi valley, 54,6 in the
eastern States & 73 in the South Thus is the poll
tical power OF the country centering in the Miss
issippi valley.
The foreign immigration in the last ten years
has been more than 100000. We have now
white population of about 26,500000. The
slaves number less than 100000 The free ne
groes, numbering about 100000, are found alike
in the free and the slave States. Their Increase
is not rapid, but it is uniform throughout the
South In 1850, there were 265, 900 Of them in
the South and 900 in the North. "a. "a
The States which have increased the most in
population from 1910 to 1850, are Wisconsin Iowa,
Arkansas, Michigan, and Illinois. Those that
have progressed the least in that time Vermont,
New Hampshire South Carolina, North Carolina,
and Virginia. OF these Vermont is the slowest,
and North Carolina the quickest, in increase Sd
The greatest increase of population, therefore, s
seen in the central States, especially in the North
west and Southwest, which are consequently, to
that extent, appropriating the decreasing political
power of the East r...a..
Ten years ago we had thirty States. Now we
have three more free States-Californa, admitted
in September, 1850, and Oregon and Minnesota,
in l859-and the Territories ofUtah, New Mexico,
Washington, Nebraska, and Kansas, organized in
the last ten years. Four other Territories are pro-
posed: Arizona, Dacotah, Jefferson, and Nevada.
Arizona, situated in the Rio Grande valley has
100000 square miles of territory, and 10000 in
habitants, of whom nine tenths are Mexicans
Dacotah, lying west of Minnesota and Iowa, has
an area of $4,000 square miles, and 5000 inhabi-
tans. But little is known of Nevada and Jefferson
except that the former lies near California, and
the latter contains the famous Pixies Peak mines.
cotah has rich soil, like the States IF the North
west. Its population increases rapidly Before
the close of 1860, the census will disclose facts
that will greatly increase national importance
in the eyes of the world Wash. Giole. rl