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

per ceut. LUIS uOeh not incluue tne slaves IN
the District Of Columbia, who decreased 500 In
the course Of ten years. The nineteen free
States and eleven Territories, together with the
Federal District, contained, according to the
eighth census, l9,2nl .546 persons, including
2f,749 Indians; of whom Is, 936, $40 we're white,
and 237'2ls free colored' The increase in both
classes was 5,55s,6o8, or dl "a per cent. No
more satisfactory indication Of the advancing
prosperity Of the country could be desired than
this general and remarkable progress in popnla-
ton. North and South we find instances of
unprecedented gains, as in the case of Illinois
just adverted to. In the Southwest the great
State of Missouri has increased by 800, 900 in
habitants, which is within a fraction Of "a per
cent. 1t is due to candor to state that the
marked disproportion between the rate of gain
in the North and South respectively, is manifest
ly to some extent caused by the large number
of immigrants who settle in The former section,
on account of the congenialty oS the climate,
the variety of occupation, the dignity whrie-
with respectable employment IS vested and the
freedom of labor.
Owing, among other causes. to the extremes
of climate iu the Northern States 10 expusive
enactments of the legislatures, the free coored
show decrease of numbers during the past ten
years, according to the census in the following
ten States Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Maine,
Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York, Oregon,
Texas and Vermont
The free colored have gained | |, 900 in Ohio,
1900 in North Carolina, and 1900 in Maryland.
In the latter State the prejudices against this
class appears to exist only to limited extent,
and constituting as il does, 12i per cent, of the
whole population, t forms an important element
in the free labor OF Mary land.
With regard TO the mean duration or expecta-
tion of life among colored persons in different
localities of the country, reference may be made
to some comparative tables pnblished in the
census report of Congress in 1852, page l3-
The returns Of 1860, when east into the same
form, would doubtless exhibit similar results
In simple statement, when viewed apart from
liberations or manumissions in the Southren
States, tho aggregate free colored in this conn
try must represent nearly what is termed a "sta-
tionary population characterized by an equality
of the current births and deaths There are
now in the United States about 4, 900, 600 slaves.
They have advanced to that vast number from
about 100000 in 1890.
1t is important TO observe the growing dis
parity between the pace at which the white and
coored races are advancing in this country =
While the whites, from 1850 to lS6o gained
80 per cent. the slaves and free colored increas-
ed somewhat less than % per cent, and the
total increase of the free colored and slaves for
70 years was but 4s5 per cent. against 757 per
cent. for the whites.
With regard to the future increase Of the
African race in this country, various eItrava-
CANT speculations have been recently promul-
gated. An attentive survey of the statistics of
the census will guide to more satisfactory APP
proximaton.
Here the rate of increase will be seen at d
glaoe to have been gradually diminishing, es-
pecally during the last thirty years. The great
er apparent increase among the slaves from $40
to 1850 is connected with the admission of Tex
as in ls45. For the future, the rate will prob
ably continue to diminish; aud to apply unchang-
ed the rate of the last ten years. must give
results exceeding, rather than falling short Of
the truth The following estimates, therefore,
have been computed on the assumption that the
rate of the last ten years, 81 9, shall continue
twenty years longer, or until 1880. after which
the rate is diminished to 20 until the close Of
the present century, for the colored population;
and, to facilitate comparison, the next column
exhibits the aggregate of whites, free, coored
and slaves, based on the well-known and very
correct assumption of mean annual increase
OF three per cent;
PROBABLE FUTURE POPULATION OF THE UNITED
STATEs.