Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-03-29
Population of the United States.

The population of the United States can be estimated
with some eXacness, in advance of the census from its
natural multiplication and its regular increase by immi-
grafton If this increase in the past ten years has been
only rapid as in the ten years previous, popua
tion must be 81 3D. SOP and il it has been in the
same proportion that from 1890 to 1900, we have
population of 81 1885, If this increase shall 60 on
it has done since 1890, population in 1870 will
be Al 81 5468 10 $780, st, 349 083 i'll $50, 1852
$50 in 1900, lOl 1873 ,397 and 1859, AL, 1885,
go.
1t is interesting to compare the growth 10 population
of the different parts OF the Union. In $780, the Mis-
sissippi valley bad 2O5,20O inhabitants while there
were 8 7OS Il6 on the Atlantic and 16 ADJ Oh the Gulf
of Mexico There not single pioneer west OF the
Mississippi. La 1880, there ,27l inhabitants
Pacific coast; S,64l 754 in the Mississippi val
ley l2729159 in the eastern States; and l.7O2,992
in the States and west of the Mississippi bordering
on the Gulf In 1850, 32 per cent. of the population
of the Union in the Mississippi valley, 548 in the
eastern States and 3 in the South Thus is the poll
tica power OF the country centering in the Mississippi
valley.
The foreign grafton in the last ten years has been
more than 3,OOO0O We have now white population
Of about 26500000 The slaves number less than A.
100000. The free negroes, numbering about 100000,
found alike in the free and the slave states. Their
increase is rapid, but it is uniform throughout the
South 10 1870, there 265OO0 Of them in the
South and $4,000 in the North
The States which have increased the most in popua-
ton from $40 to 1850 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 Yer
mont is the sowest, and North Carolina the quickest
| in increase.
The greatest increase of population therefore, seen
in the central States especially in the Northwest and
Southwest which consequently to that extent, ap
propriating the decreasing political power of the East
len years ago had thirty States. Now have
three moe free States California, admitted in Sepem
ber 1850 and Oregon and Minnesota in 1659-and the
Territories OF Utah, New Mexico, Washington, Ne
hraska, and Kansas, organized i'll the last ten years
-Four other Territories proposed Arizona Dacotah
Jefferson, and Nevada. Altoona, situated in the RiC
Grande valley has 100000 square miles of territory
and 10000 inhabitants, of whom nine tenths Mexi
cans Dacotah y ing west of Minnesota and Iowa, ha
of $4,000 square miles, and 5000 inhabitants
But little is known of Nevada and Jefferson, except
that the former lies near California and the latter con
tains the famous Pixies Peak mines. The riches o
Arizona consist in minerals Dacotah has rich soil
| like the States of the Northwest. Its population in
creases rapidly Before the close of 1860 the census
will disclose facts that will greatly increase nationa
importance in the eyes of the word.-WaSh Globe.