The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-09-23
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FnOn' the Chicago Republican.
The census of observation-disclosures
yet completed-exhibits the effect the
Investigation of labor has upon the
prosperity of community. Massa-
chusetts is n hive from which an i'm
mense emigration, both male and fe-
male, is poured out upon other parts
of the country, especially the west.
Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, northern
Iowa, Minnesota, and the territories
west OF us, are largely indebted to
Massachusetts for their bone and
sinew, as we'll as brain power. Yet the
parent state appears to be still rs DrO-
life as the children which sprnng from
her. The census returns from two hum
area ana sixty-four of the cities and
Towns I2W.L on the commonwealth, taken in
May last, give population in the ap-
EreSate OF ] ,US5, 6l5.5 The population in
those cities and towns, according. 10 the
state census in 1860, was 994,O4i. The
increase in five years has been 1854
Inc number of legal voters in these
places IS now reported at 200, SIS; in 1857.
1ll,2I3i increase in eight wears, o.. 275,
Inc large proportionHte increase of le-
gal voters is accounted for by the fnct
That the representation of the several
cities and towns is based on the num-
Der of legal voters. This was not gen
no effort to make the number oppear
MS large as possible. The population of
the whole State in 1850 was /, 23I. O22.
About sixty towns remain to be heard
from, and from these the report will
not be very much larger than IL yyos
five years ago. The present popuIation
OF the StAte may therefore be estimated
NJ about 1,2I6, 600. The number of Vo-
tiers in 1857 WAS 2iI,3Og; the present
nntn me VIII be reported at about
Now let us compare this with the
population of one or two western states,
The population of Wisconsin has in-
creased about $4,000 in the last four
years, or total population of about
S55,O Iowa shows an increase of
iOO,OOO. The comparison between the
two states is as follows:
,,,,. Pop. lS1O. Pop. 1865. Increase.
Iowa,.,..,.........6TI,O1S Ss0OGS Ia her eent,
OF course the two western states have
increased in much more rapid ratio
thnn the eastern; but is not the increase
\ OF massachusetts wonderful, consider
ing the drain on her people, on account
Of the war, and the still more exhaust
ing drain of emigration?
Now, TO what shall we attribute this
increase, but to the fact that, by her
notwithstanding industry, she is able to
so diversity her labor that she countar-
nets the tendency of her redundant
population to seek their fortunes in
more fertile regions? Were Massachu-
sets nm exclusively agricultural coun-
try. like Illinois, she would to-day be
on the decline as respects population,
while like Virginia, her soil would be
exhausted by constant cropping, with
out n proper return to the earth of tho
necessary elements of production, AS
1t is, 1t is a fact that while the fertile
Mest, year BY year, produces less aver
age amounts OF grain to the acre, Massa-
chusetts produces greater. These are
Facts that commend themselves to ali
tlniklng men, and so to prove that
nothing so builds up a state. in all thai
relates to material prosperity, as such
~ suL,SeEslncatlon of the pursuits of in
9ustfy as shall afford to every human
faculty an opportunity of making itself
OF use to the public.