Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-08-12

C1eaLeQ. IRIS Is lulClDlt NUS llatel " tLAl AS-
turns relative to the three other New England
Massachusetts Rhode Island and Con-
necticu.-which contain 1880 square miles.
The following table shows their population in
1850 and 90:
Massachusetts -.-............----9 -9gi5l4 l25l '5G
Connecticut. .;aU,iH2 sou -
Raode Island - --I57,5lj ia 90
Their density Cor number Of inhabitants 10
the sqrare mi.e) is rs follows:
Massachusetts, tts.------.............-.l27.zg 1888
C0Euecti .-..-----....- t!la3 81 -
Ehols Island. ..lI2S1 2-JoJ
The aggregate territorial extent Of Maine, New
Hampshire aud Vermont IS 45 33G square miles,
the number of inhabitants l,26}, 4JO, or 25:5O 70
the square mile. The stated point Of density
was passed by the three States named IN the Ia
be more than fifty years ago, AID yet they 60
on Increasing IN population with rapldIJy IS
great Gs at any former period Of their history.
SLAVE STATES.
South Carolina has gained, during the decade,
35 2OI inhsbitants OF sll conditions, equal to
5:57 per cent. OF this increase i6e20 are
whites, and the remainder are free colgIed and
slaves. 1t is perhaps little remarkable that tie
relative increase Of the free coored class Of this
State was more considerable than that Of any
ether As their number, 9 9l4, is 50 small as to
excite neither apprehension nor jealousy among
the white race, the increase is probably due bgta
TO manumissiOn and natural causes. This State
has made slower progress during the lss. term
than any other IN the South, having advanced
only from 27;3S to 2S.72 inhabitants TO the
square mile.
Tennessee, it viii be observed, has made bu.
the moderate gain Of l0;6S per cent for al
classes. OF this sggregste increase tie whites
have gained at the rate Of 924 Per cent upoa
TEEQ sba Eroo rr1orr1 1sl.E- and e'eEac n II
The next lowest IN the rate of increase in the
list of Southern States is Virginia, whose gsiu
upon her aggregate population in 1880 was l74,-
657, equal to y 20 per cent. The white clGss
gained l526lI, or 17.l6 per cent, the slaves
1887, OF 3 s. per cent
STATISTICS OF RAPID INCREASE.
These are examples Of tbe States wherein the
population has advanced with sloWest progress
the last ten years. Tuning nov 10 the States
which have made the NOS, rapid advance. we
ind that New York has increased from 3,Jy1 J34
10 3 SSO735, exhibiting an augmentation Of 49,
34I inhabitants being at the rate CT p - per
cent. The free colored population has fallen of
81 since $50, a diuIuutOn to bo ACCOUNT for
probably by the operation of the fugitive slave
law, which iEdCced many ool0Ied persons TO mi
crate further north.
The gain Of Peunzylvania has been in rCund
numbers 566 OC0. In that State the free colored
have increased Gbout 5000. The greater mild
ness of the climate, and q miller iype of the
preiudices connected with this class of popCla-
tion, the result Of benevolent influences and lis
proximity TO the slaveholding States, may ac-
count fer the fact that this race holds its own IN
Pennsylvania, while undergoing diniuuti0n in
the State next adjoining on the north.
Minnesota was chiefly az unsettled territory
at the date Of the seventh census; its large
present population, as shown by the returns, IS,
lher,f re, nearly clear gain.
TIE vast region of Texas, ten years since,
was comparatively wilderness Il has now q
population of over 1000, and tho rate OF its
increase is given at 14S per cent.
Illinois presents the most wonderful example
Of great, continuous and healthy increase. In
1859. Illinois contained l57 ,445 inhabitants; n
1870 476.lS3; in 1850, S5I, 40. il 1860, I,7lI,-
95l. The gsin during the last decade, was,
therefore, 500, ,45l, or l0l.OO per cent. 50 large
a popula.ion-m0re than doubling itself in ten
years, by the regular course Of settlement and
natural increaSe-is without a parallel Ihs
condition to which Illinois has attained, under
the progress of the last thirty years, is monu-
ment Of the blessings Of industry, enterprise,
peace and free institutions.
The growth Of Indiana in population, though
less rao!dinaTy than that of her neighb0ring
State, has been most satisfactory, ber gain du-
rng the decade having been 362 600, or more
than thirty-six per cent. upon her number IN
! 1850
Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa have psrtici-
pated to the full extent in the surprising develop
ment of the Northwest. The remarkable health
fulRess of that region seems to more than com
pensate for its rigOIs and the fertility Of the new
soil leads men eagerly to contend with and over
/ come the harshness of the clements. The ener-
pies thus called into action have, in a f5w years,
made the States Of the Northwest The granary
of Europe, and that section Of OUT Union which,
within the recollection Of living men, was a
vast wilderness, is row the chief source Of sup
ply in seasons of scarcity for the suffering mil
/ lions of another continent
DIsPRoPORTION BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH
Locking cuTiously over the returns, it appears
that the fifteen slavehOldirg States contain l2,-
2iO 900 inhabitants. of whom S,039 600 are
whites, 25I, ,O00 free cOlored persons and 1856
| 600 are slaves. The actual gain Of the whcl5
| population in those States from 1850 to 1860 W2s
, 6Z7, ,0O0, equal to p 33 per cent The slaves
advanced in numbers 749 93I, or % "A per cent
This does not include the slaves Of the District
| of Columbia, who decreased SOP in the course OF
/ ten years. The nineteen free States and seven
Territories, together with the Federal District
contained, according TO the eighth census 49,.
POI SAG persons, including 27,749 Indsns, o.
whom Is $50 579 were white ard 237 ,2lS free
colored. The increase Of both classes wa,
3 sos COB, or Al "a per cent No more satsfac
tory indication Of the advancing prosperity o
the country could he desired than this genera
and remarkable progress in population Nortl
and South we find instances Of unprecedented
gains as in the case Of Illinois, just advsried to
In the Southwest the great State of Missouri bai
increased by the number Of 500 600 inha bitants
which is within fraction Of "a per cent
It is due 70 candor to state that the maTke
disproportion between the rate Of gain in tn
North and South respectively, is msnifestly L
some extent caused by the large number of i'm
migrants who settle in the former section, on &C
coant of congeuiality of climate; the variet
of occupation, the dignity wherewith respecta
bic employment is invested, and the freedom q
labor.
Owing, among other causes, to the extreme
of climate in the more Northern States, and
other States 20 the eKpulsive enactrnents Of th
! Legislature, the free cOlo1ed show a decrease
numbers during the past ten years, according
the census, IN the following ten States; A
kansas, Florida, Indiana, Msine Mississippi
+ New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Texas an
Vermont.
The free eolored have gained eleven thousan
in Ohio, three Thousand in North Carolina an