The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-04-05

S76 IN 1901 being an increase OF o,z5o,-
OILS for the decade, or 1888 per cent. The
increase is siDgularly near the guess or
rather calculation made in 1850. That
guess, based upon the per cottage of in
crease in 1910 to 1850, put the total for
1860 at 81, $40 1902, only 9O,9ll out of the
way. The ratio of increase for each ten
years is also singularly regular: 1900, 1902;
1910, 3645; 1920, 49, IL; 1880, 3349; 1910,
1857 1850, 1881; 1860 1858, average
each decade 1857, or nearly 81 per cent.
per annum. Of course the great bulk OF
growth has been in the Western States.
Ohio gains Is per cent; Michigan almost
go; Indiana 81 Illinois more than doubles,
or about 101 per cent; Wisconsin shows
gain of 154 per cent. and Iowa about 25l.
Minnesota, with population in 1850 of
GOT now has 162,O22-or about 300
per cent Of gain since 1850.
No State has suffered an actual loss 10
numbers, though some just save themselves.
Maine has gained during the ten years but
45,l07, New Hampshire but 5000, while
Vermont shows an increase of only 996.
The manufacturing States of New England
show greater gains, but not sufficiently so
but that Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
each lose Congressman, while Connects
cut barely holds her own in that respect.
The border slave States of Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ken.
lucky, Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas,
gain in slaves in ten years 199,60l, or not
quite IA per cent; while they gain in free
population 1,22O,376, or less than % per
cent. In Delaware and Maryland the
slave population has decreased. The seven
seeded States of South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas and
Louisiana gain in ten years in slaves $780,
692, a little over 81 per cent; of free in
habitants 647,5O9, less than 80 per cent.
South Carolina grows in slaves $4,000, in
free about the same number, slaves making
four seventies of her entire population. This
and Mississippi are the only States in which
the slaves outnumber the free in the latter
there are $4,000 more slaves than freemen.
Texas, of course, has grown the most rapid
ly, having nearly trebled her free, and quite
trebled her slaves.
The House of Representatives in the
XXXVIIIth Congress is reduced to 233
members, of whom Isl are from the Free
States, so from the Border Slave States,
and 30 from the Southern Confederacy.
The seeded States lose and gain Rep
resentatives by this census. The Border
Slave States lose and gain 3 by the same
figures. Net loss to all the slave States, 4
Representatives. The free States that lose
are, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota,
Rhode Island, and Vermont one each, New
York and Pennsylvania two each, and Ohio
tnree-in all IL. Those that gain are Cali
ifornia one, Michigan two, Iowa and Wis
consin three each, and Illinois four-in all
13-net gain, one.
One of the most striking facts that ap-
pears in the table, we publish, is that the
total number of slaves in the Territories of
the United States is but sixty>three, as fol.
lows: Utah 20, New Mexico "a, and
Nebraska 10. There is no territory in
which slavery is forbidden by Congressional
law, and the Republicans for many years
have kept the country in consequence in an
uproar over the danger of its extension
The census shows how causeless and what
a humbug the agitation has been.