The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1862-11-29
WHAT THE CENSUS SHOWS.

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The preliminary report of the eighth CEN
sus, for 1860, just issued, shows the in
crease in the population of the decade from
1850 to 1850 Fifteen slaveholding States
contain I2, $40 900 inhabitants, of which
8, O79. 900 are whites, 25l ,o00 free colored
and $3.50, 900 slaves. The actual gain, of
the whole population in these States is equal
to 1888 per cent. The slaves increased
23 IA per cent. The nineteen free States
and seven free Territories contain l9,90l,-e
546, including 27,749 Indians: 1885,
$40 are white and 237,2I8 free colored.
The increase is Al "a per cent. No more
satisfactory Indication of the advancing
prosperity of the country could be desired
than this general and remarkable progress
in population. The disproportion between
the gain of the free States compared with
the slave States aud Territories Is attributed
| to immigration. The gain in population in
all the States and Territories is more than
35 per cent.
In the same period of time, moreathau'
| fifty millions of acres have been brought
into cultivation. The quantity of wheat
grown was I'll, 1873, 38l bushels, an increase
of 10 per cent, or double the increase of
population. The crop of Indian corn was
$50, 451 .707 bushels, or an increase of more
than 40 per cent. over the production of
1880. The cotton produced amounted to
5,l96. 944 bales, or more than 10 per cent.
in ten years. OF butter, there were 46O5-
509,854 pounds produced, an increase of 46
per cent. The amount of cheese was 1885,
875, 1876 pounds. The value of slaughtered
animals was 1918, 1911 ,653. Number of
sheep, 23.317,756. Amount of wool, Co.,
511 ,343 pounds; amount of sugar, 302. 2o5
hogsheads of 900 pounds each; molasses,
Is, 337, 086 gallons = from the sorghum.
7 1885. O95 gallons; of maple sugar, 38, $685.
884 pounds; tobacco, 429, 800, I'll pounds;
wine, 10000 gallons. Hay, 10, 129. 1873
tuns; this is not proportionate TO the in
crease of live stock in the country, but it ap-
pears that, with better farming, more roots
and cut straw and other rough fodder is
used. The amount of clover seed was $685.
: 0l0 bushels, nearly double what the pro-
duction was in 1850. Orchard produots
valued at $40, rs, Sol, large increase. The
great increase in agricultural productions,
> SO much greater in proportion than the in
crease of population. is attributed to the
= very general use of improved agricultural
. machines upon farms.
The products of manufactures are no less
remarkable in their amount and increase.
4 They increased, in the ten years, nine
e hundred millions of dollars, or at the rate OF
. 86 per cent, and are valued at nineteen hun
dred millions of dollars 81 200, 200, 000),
. The mechanic arts, in our country, appear
= to contribute more directly than any others
to the general comfort and improvement OF
: the people.
The banking capital of the country in
. creased from 1927, 469, 074, in 1885, to
1891 $50, 095, in 1860, while the circnlat-
= ing currency was augmented 52,O89, $50.
), The amount of insurance increased 1911, =
y 100000. More than $4,000 miles of rail-
road were completed in the last ten years.
, and the capital involved increased from
. $3.50. 64O.1 48 in 1850, to 81. ISL $3.50. 829,
: In 1860. Lines of telegraph were extended
!. over the whole country like spiders web.
= Our internal and foreign trade kept pace
;. with our advance in production and in
: crease of capital Education has been made
; more accessible, and crime has rather d.
minshed. The value of real and personal
estate exceeds the sum of sixteen thousand
. millions of dollars, representing an increase
of 1861 per cent in the aggregate. and an
> increase of 60 per cent. per capita of the
. free population. The wealth of Pennsylva-
:. MIA, per capita, is $487-an increase Of 81
# per cent, in the last ten years.
). These figures show what the prosperity
% of our country was previous 70 the rebel
lion. That event has checked this advance
somewhat, but not to the extent apprehend.
ed. A vast debt is being accumulated, but
the fact that we have in the last twenty five
years doubled our numbers and quadrupled
= wealth, shows our ability to pay any debt
tuh nh fha Of
7 7 may require us to incur.-Phd. Ledger.