Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-10-09

Census RetuFns---Northern Ohlo District.
The National Democrat has been favored
with some figures touching the census Of the
,NorihsFn District Of Ohio. The District en-
braces that portion Of the State north Of the
National Road md not touched byit, Re-
turns from sll the counties have been received
by the y. s. Marshal, showing the population
Of the Northern District, in round numbers,
to be I,Os2, 900; an increase in round num-
bers Of 100000 for the ten years past. The
Southern District, embracing as Il does Gin
einnati and other populous and AOarishing
citieS and towns, viii probably show unequal
if not greater increase since the census Of
1850.
Official returns Of the Census irOm seven
ty-fVe counties Of Indiana comprising about
three-iOurths Of the State, give total popu-
lation in those counties of l,l24,s36. The
population in the same counties in 1850, was
s25,Gs Increase in ten years 2ss,l4s.
The census of 1860 will clearly manifest
the great power and influence the West and
Northwest must WELD over the destinies Of
our Government. The States of Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin,, Minnesota, and Missouri,
have increased in population very rapidly
Iowa it is thought will have 100000 inhab-
itants, and win send six representatives to
Congress, even if the apportionment for
members should be put as high as one for
every l26,O00 inhabitants. The West will
gain in representation while the East and
South viii lose number of members.
Thus far, according to the census reports,
says the Hartford COurant Connecticut is the
only New England State that has shown
great gains. These have been owing to the
manufactures that have sprung up, and to
the in6ux OF foreign citizens into the large
places. Stil, the Courant thinks, Connecti-
cut will not reach the 100000 necessary to
retain the four members the State now has,
should the ratio be raised to l25, 900. rT |.T
/ 1nEew England, generally, there has been
a falling of of inhabitants in all the agricul-
tural towns The small farms have been ab.
sorbed. by the large farmers, and the small
farmers and young men have swarmed for
the Vest where lands are plenty, cheap, and
productive The increase has only been in
the manufacturing villages 1t is thought
that Connecticut Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont Rhode Island, and Massachusetts
will each lose member of Congress, unless
the member be saved by the surplus fraction.
The returns of the census of 1860 in some
of the Southern States will give material for
a revised edition of Helpers Book. The fig
ures in some of the inland districts of South
Carolina reveal strange state of affairs,
touching the disproportionment of the white
to the slave population. For rinstanee, in the
Georgetown district the number of free white
persons is stated at sb2, while the number OF
slaves and free negroes is 9ss. The free
white persons Of smother, and contiguous dis
trict, is set down at $50; the colored pop
ulstion in the same district is l2,694-the
whites forming only about ones: :xth of the
number cOlored, upward Of 12,eoO Of whom
are slaves.
In Lower Anti-Ssints district, the dispro-
portion appears to be still more marked for
instance in population of 4,s3l only 22e
srs free persons, lls of whom are males
This would give an average Of rather more
than 3s slaves to each white male in that dis
trict. The grand total of slave population in
the three districts above is Is, ITO; of free
persons, 5,l95. Hence we have population
Of which less than one-siKth are white per-
soma, and the remaining five-sixths slaves.