The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-08-13

1850. 1860
Massachusetts n.,,,.,.9945 5l4 1921 ,066
Connecticut. .-370,792 460,l47
Rhode Island .....,. .."l47 ,54j 174,620
Their density Tor number of inhabitants to the
sqna'e mile) is as fol ows:
1850. 1860.
Massachusetts ...-l27,49 lj7 ,S3
Connecticut. ........ 49,. g33 QS,42
Rhode Island ........,..ll2,97 1898
The aggregate territorial extent of Maine,
New Hampshire and Vermont is 48, 1886 square
miles, the number of their inhabitants / ,269 45o,
or 1926 to the ST ARE mile. The stated point of
density was passed hs the three States named in
the table more than huy years ago, and yet
they go on increasing in population with ra-
pidity as great as at any former period Of their
history.
South Carolina has gained during the decade
35,2Ol inhabitants of all conditions, equal to
527 per oent. OF this increase l6,S25 are
whites, and the remainder are free coored and
slaves. 1t tis, perhaps, a little remarkable that
the relative increase OF the free and colored
class in this State more considerable than
that of any other. As their number, 9,9l4, is
so small as to excite neither apprehension nor
jealousy among the white race, the increase is
probably due to msnumssion and natural causes
This State has made sowe, prog ess during the
last term than any other in the South, having
advanced only from 27, ,2S to 2S,72 inhabitants
to the square mile.
Tennessee, it will be observed, has made but
the moderate gain of 10. IS per cent. for al
classes. OF this aggregate increase the whites
have gained at the rate of 9.24 per cent. upon
1850, the free colored 3 67, and slaves 10 II.
The next lowest in the rate of increase in the
list of Southern States is Virginia, whose gain
upon her aggregate population in 1850, was
| l74,657, equal to II 20 per cent The white
class gained l52,6ll, or II 46 per cent, the
slaves 1887, or 3.SS per cent.
| These are examples of the States wherein the
population has advaced with slowest progress
the past len years. Turning now TO the States
which have made the most rapid advance, we
find that New York, has increased from 3,G97,-
394, to 3,sS0,735, exhibiting augmentation
of 7s3, ,34l inhabitants, being at the rate of 25
% per cent. The free colored population has
| fallen Oft GA since 1850, diminuton TO be ac-
counted for probably by the operation of the
luSutiNc SidNc ld"s hHlSH many COOISu
persons to migrate further North.
The gain of Pennsylvania has been, in round
numbers, sos 900. In that State the free color
ed have Increased about 5000. The greater
milduess of the climate and a milder type OF
preiudices connected with this class of popula-
ton, the result of benevolent influences and its
proximity to the slsveholding States, may ac-
count for the fact that this race holds its own
in Pennsylvania, while undergoing diminution
in the State next adjoining on the North.
Minnesota was chiefly unsettled territory at TIE
date of the seventh census its large present
population, as shown by the returns, is therefore
, nearly clear gain
The vast region Of Feyas ten yeara since was
comparatively wilderness. 1t has now popu,
lation of over 100000, and the rate of its in-
/ crease is given as lS4 per cent,
> Illinois presents the most wonderful example
: of great, continuous and healthful increase. In
1880 Illinois contained ,4S5 inhabitants in
1850, s5l, ,47O; and 1860, l,7ll,95l. The gain
during the last decade was, therefore, sec, ,4sl
or l0l o6 per cent. So large population, more
than doubling itself in ten years, by the regular
course of settlement and natural increase, is
without parallel. The condition to which Iii
nois has attained, under the progress of the last
4 thirty years, is monument of the blessing Of
industry, enterprise, peace and free institutions
e The growth Of Indiana in population, though
less extraordinary than that OF her neighboring
State, has been most satisfactory, her gain dur
;. ing the decade having been $4,000, or more
than thiIty-six per cent. upon her number ii
1850.
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, have partici
pated to the full extent in the surprising devel
:, opemeut of the Northwest, The remarkable
hoslthiulness OF the climate of that region seer"
to more than eO~%.ss .ssats for its rigOrs and IN
fertility OF the new soil leads men eagerly L
contend with and overcome the hayshaess OF tn
eleTents. Tas energies thus called into actiol
have, in few yea made the States of III
- Northwest the granesy of Europe, and that sec
tion Of our Union which, within the recollection
OF living men, was wilderness, is now the chic
= source of supply in sessops Of scarcity for tb
suffering millions Of another continent.
Looking cursOrily over the returns, it appear
% that the fifteen slsvehodiug States contain l9,
es 100000 Inhabitants, OF whom s,Oss 900 ar
whites, sSl, 900 free colore6 persons, and 5, $50
.. 600 are slaves. The actual gain of the Who'll
of population in those States from 1850 to 1856
70 was s.69T 900, equal to 81 ss per cent. tn
slaves advanced in numbers 749,s2l, or sS A