Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-02-24
THE GAZETTE.
RrpAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 81, 1860.

FRIDAY MURN1NTt FEDhuhha q, low.
THENEXT CENSUS or rAx UNITED STATES
The eighth census of the United States to
be taken the present year, Is claiming much
attention already. It's main facts may IN
some respects be anticipated, even with
claim to accuracy. If the population oil the
country has increased the past ten years on
" as RAPIDLY as it did for the previous de-
cennary' we have now 3l,5l0,S02. LII the
rat;o of increase has been the same as from
100 to 1850. then we have 81, l7S,99S inhab-
;tants- The Irish immigration may have
fallen off somewhat in the ten last years; but
the whole average immigration has been
Greater. The arrival of foreigners in the U
s. from 1870 to 1900 was but $4,000. In
1880, when they began to come IN large
numbers. the arrivals were about as many as
dnring that period of ten years. There was
a gradual increase to 1912, when the ar
rivals were l0l LOT. From lS46-47 there
was great increase, the arrivals being 10,
1872. There was large increase to 1896,
when the arrivals were 36S,643; and, I'M
doubtedly, there has been g moderate m
crease from that year to the present. On
the whole, it will be a moderate estimate to
place the population of the United States Tor
1860 in round numbers at 32,0OO,00O, or
little above a third more than IN 1880. Ii
the population OF the country increases IN
time to come only as rapidly as it has since
1890, we shall have ten years from now,
4L9l5, 4S6. In 1880, 56,349 .083; in 1890,
1882, 800; in 1900, l0l, S3S, 391;-and IN
1850, or century from the last enumeration
All, l59,670! The growth of the United
States as compared with that in the prlnci-
pal countries of Europe is quite remarkable
The increase per cent each year III this
country since 1890 has been SIT; III Rus
STA, 2.73; in Great Britain, Las; in France,
O72.
The comparative increase of different Sec
tons of the United States, is an interesting
subject. In 1870 there was, of course, no
Pacific slope belonging to it. In the Mis-
sissippi valley there were but POS $50 inhab-
itants; in the Atlantic slope, sos, ll6; in
the Gulf slope, east of the Mississippi, TO-
43l; in that west of the Mississippi, none
In 1850 there were III ,27l people in the Pa
cite slope; 8,64l, 754 in the Mississippi val
ley; IL, 729, $50 in the Atlantic slope; and in
the Gulf slope, east and west of the Missis-
sippi, 100000. In 1850 37-2 per cent Of
the population was in the Mississippi valley;
548 in the Atlantic slope, and rs IN the
Gulf slope twill thus be seen, that what
has long been predicted, is very soon to be
fulfilled, if it is not already, !. e., the polit-
cal power of the country is to be in the val
ley of the Mississippi. The ratio Of increase
of the inhabitants of the land from 1910 TO
1850 was 34.4S. For the ten years now
closing, it is believed to have been nearly
sc per cent. Thus, you wish to know the
populations Of 1870, you have only to add a
little more than one-third of that OF 1860;
and so we estimate the inhabitants for 1880,
1890, and so on, provided we go on increas-
ing about aswe do at present.
The immigration of foreigners to this coun-
try for the past ten years, has been upwards OF
3 Doc. 900. We have now II, 500, 900 ofwhites
in the United States. The present number OF
slaves in the country Isl rather over 1000 600.
And is is noticeable fact, that the free
blacks, about half million in number, are
distributed nearly equally between the free
and slave States. A late discriminating
Southern writer distributes the free blacks OF
the South as follows:-In Maryland $4,000;
Virginia 10000; North Carolina 80, O0O Del
aware 10000; Louisiana 10000; Kentucky
ll,0OO; District of Columbia 1000; South
Carolina 10000; Tennessee SOOO;Georgia
1000; Mississippi 5000; Alabama 5000; Florida
1900; Missouri 1900; Texas 1000; Arkan-
sas 1000, making 265,000. In 1850 there
were in the slave States 23S, 1877. distributed
as follows: in Maryland "A, 723; Virginia 81, :
1888: North Carolina q, 463; Delaware 1903;
Louisiana IL ,462; Kentucky l0,0ll; District
of Columbia l0,059; South Carolina $500,
Tennessee 6i22; Georgia 293l; Mississippi
$50; Alabama 2265; Florida $50. Missouri
26lS; Texas 397; Arkansas COS. twill thus
be seen, that though the increase of the free
blacks is not rapid in the South, 1t is pretty
uniform in all portions Of that section OF
the country, provided the estimate OF the
Isanesseeaa is correct, and there IS nothing
improbable in the estimate.
The number of colored people in the free
States, in 1850, was 100000. They were
distributed as folows:-In Pennsylvania;
53,626; in New York, 5000; Ohio 5,2l9;
New Jersey, $3.50; Indiana, IL 90; Mas
sachusetts, 1904; Connecticut, 1913; ILL
nois, 1926; Rhode Island, $3.50; Maine,
1856, California, 962; Vermont, us; Wis
consin. G35; New Hampshire, $40; Iowa,
1888. If there are SOC, 900 free blacks now
in the country, and 265. 600 Of them are IN
the South, they are 2S5, 900 in the North, or
80, 1874 more than there were in 1850. We
suppose this is very near the exact numbers,
as they will soon be officially laid before US.
Psnnsyloanian.