St. Mary's gazette., 1866-01-04
LIFE STATISTICS.

PaLKy once alvan.s,l thc;llery -whst'I-
er facetioasly or IN earnest.is not stated
that war wss Il Diy;ac institution for rc-s
,noy ing the inequality existing between
the sexes. According totile census olf
1880 there were I3, ,',So- -ss4 n,alss in :ht'
Uuitel States and ;. t,s,I 81 females, being
an excess of GS1, ,i62 ,ffti.e ii,rmrr Although d
this result brought by the large emigration of
men to our shores, gives a secming pla'isi--
Ibiiity to the theologian's opinion, yet
the reverse of it is generally held to be-
true
Thus Miss AIuloch. in an able volume
which has attracted mich attention in
England. plainly tells her countrywomea'
thss fl,ou>anls of them must calmly aud
deliberately make UP their rnin!s to live
life of single, blc<sc lness, bc,:aase o.their
excess i'm numbers over the opposite sex.
She then presents long array of statistics
to substaniiate hcr position that there has
and will probably eoIstinue to be more fe-
males than males brcught into. the world.
Carefully prepared statistics of Massachu-
sets show that there are in that State six
per cent. more female than male BIRTHS
This fact, toSether with tho increasing
emigration of young men westward, ac
counts for the ssrily large number Of ell
,lerly mailcnS to be seen in every Bay
State village.
Whether or not, what is true of Eng
land and Massachusetts is true of the uni
verse generally. it cannot be denied that
the gentle Sex throughout the States have
been, apparently with good reason, alarm
cd at he serious inroa'ls Mars was m1king
on our youth. All such. however. wiiI'now
take heart on bcing assured, as they are
by n recent writer, that notwithstanding
six hundred thousand males were carried
under the sod during the rebellion there
are still more of them left than that are
females. This is decidedly hopeful view
of the case, and is apparently borne ont
by the census Statistics of 1869, which We
give at the commencement of this article.
And yet the disprcportion between the
number of males and females must continue
to DC very considerable for some time to
come in the Southern States.
How fri.htful were the inroa1s made by
battle and disease among the Southern SOL
liers is shown by the army rolls submitted
at the time of the general surrender. The
following figures are derived from the rolls
of IIarlee's Corps; Ten regiments consoli-
dated numbered only 231 men: three rcgi-
ments, 2l6: twenty regiments, Ga eleven
regiments, Sl9; five regiments, 1876, re-
presenting 1D0 men On the original
rolls; one regiment, 2ol; eight regiments,
424 representing 10000 Texas troops;
one regiment. 80 left on. of 300; reserve
artillery ten batteries, 800: seven regi-
mcnts, 4l9; eighteen regiments, 119.
Single regiments consolidated, and not
represented above, showed the following
numbers on the rolls; u, S., 1G, +6
124, -, 80, 81. 1S5, "a. fl, 50. $50,
35, so, II, ~, 40, 100 Eight conpa-
nies consolidated amounted to ;,S men; five
companies, GG; ten companics, 81; eleven
companies, 80, ten companies, 90; fifteen
companies, 81; ten companies in one case.
81: in another, 90. The average i'll Lees
! Corps, before consolidation, was about so
men to the regiment. General Bates
Division lost every genera! and field officer,
and three -fourtils of the men in battle, af-
ter the army left Dalton. 1t lost thirty
per cent. at the battle of Bcntonvile alone
According to rough estimates, the total
number of Southern soldiers who perished
in battle and otherwise, was not far from
two hundred and seventyiye thousand
this out of 4 total population of not over
! six millions.
The great excess of males over females
in the United States, at the taking of the
last census, was, of course, due to. the large
male emigration. These statistics show
that there have thus far been !02 ,0GS
more male than female foreigners landed
on our shores Haul it not been fer this.
the excess of females over males in the
country at the commencement OF the war
would have amounted to three hundred
! thousand
QUEER REpoRr.-A Washin gton cor
respondent says:
The presence Of Clarancc \. Seward in
| the city rcvives the rumor in circulation
some time since that n Congressional in
quiry will probably be made concerning
the alleged fact Of his being i'll
icrCStci Ill heAicdl st'cCuidlnohS UiiuSi
Maximilian, while Acting Secretary of
State, and supposed to be privy to the in
tentions of our government towards the
empire.
THE NEXT Presidency 1t seems that
Speaker Colfax made his late speech as a
bid for the Presidency. A Washington
correspondent writes:
Speaker CoIfax looms up as the Re-
publican candidate for the next Presiden-
cy. He is regarded by the leaders as the
most available anl popular man of the
party, and would be a strong candi-
date.
MARHIED