Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-06-22

~ ~ lW attnrHo. b0ine ifanstflds
if0m nnltlal Documents and may bo
sah.ly used ~ comparison,
This new enumeration makes the
totnl population ~ tie thirty seven
States IN December, 1866, a. bo
- tOO, 900 of tho Territories, lO5,
G27 total, 3l,5O5, s32
Tho total population for 1860,
giving In Mr. Dolmar's pamphlet,
was 81 ,73s, 72l showing M increase
in ak years Of 1857 ,lG2
Tho increase for tho six years
since the dcccnnial enumeration Of
1860 Is thciOro not far from 8 per
cont.
The ratio Of increase from 1850
10 ! $50 was 35.5S pcr cent for the
proceeding decade, from 1910 to
1851, Il was 1887 per cent. H.l.
1t is reasonable computation
that tho rates of increase for tho
current decade, 1860 to 1870, will
not reach near the old average.
Six of tho seven years OF tho
whole period have elapsed, aud the
ascertaincd increase, for three fifths
of tho decade, is less than 0 per
cent, Allowing only the same rate
of increase for the remainder Of the
decade, the aggregate population
in 1870 must be about 10000, 900,
and the rate of increase only 10 Der
cent. But tho destruction policy
has in great measure ceased, and
the ratio Of growth should be fairly
calculated during the concluding
series in n gcomctrical and not an
arithmctical ratio. The population
in 1870 may therefore probably
reach 40,0OO,000, which is the out
side calculation, and perhaps lit
tie over estimated.
In that event, the actual increase
of population during the period
will have been about $3.50, 900, and
the rate of increase for the decade
about 20.50 per cent.
10 agree with the New York Ex-
press in quoting the figures which
bring out these results rs demon
stration sin view of the late eXtcn-
dcd conflict, the extraordinary re-
Operative powers of the country"
we must allow for q degree of devas-
tation and destructiveness which
has not been realized in the public
mind.
We had in 1850 q population of
%, 191, S76. These numbers, with
the additions by emigration, reach
cd in 1860 to 3l,73S, 721-a positive
increase of 9,536,8 45 persons, rate
1858. At the same rate of increase
the 31739,751 ought, in 1870, to
reach to over 43,000,000, without
allowing anything for the compound
ratio Of accumulating numbers.
The actual increase, extended on
these several data, is but S,251,279, |
which is positively less thans Che
increase for the proceeding ten
years, of q population eight and q
half millions less ; and the gross
numbers are but 40, 600, 900, instead
of the natural number Of 43,000,-
600. & :
1t is thus made clear that at the |
end of tho annual decade, the waste
Of life by the dcstructivcness Of war
in all its agencies will have amour
ted to three millions of population.
These are the items which ought
to make your rabid politicians stop
in the career Of agitation, and think
seriously of what a country which
has been thus affected needs for re-
storation +; rot political prosecutions,
which failing on an. impoverished
people, condemn tens Of thousands
to inaction, to despair, and to posi-
tive want, which waste the popula-
ton, nor political agitations, which
call off a deluded multitude from
1.-THE peaceful pursuits of labor, and
by making them the tools of dema-
gogues, lead them into the idleness
which is the parent Of want and
disease, and accelerate that doom of
ultimate extirpation to W hich the
decisions cultivated in them and |
tho pernicious habits taught them,
will too certainly lead, if they be
not saved from false advisers by |
some benign interposition. .'ti
The tables tell us that the posi-
tive decrease of population is in the
South. But they do not tell us a
mong what clauses it is mainly to
DO found. 1t is safe to say, from
what passes under our own eyes,
that allowing for deaths in war and
by immigration in consequence Of
war, the white population in the
South is nevertheless not far from
station. 1t is ON the blacks that
the mortality has fallen so fearfully. |
Change of habits, loss of the com
forts of dependence, the hard duty |
of self support, for which they are
untitled, and the neglect Of common
cares for the present under the
promtings of extravagant calcula-
tons of bounty and support with
out work, with the train of diseases
and restitution which follow these
courses, have carried tens and scores
of thousands Of tho freed blacks to |
kennel graves; and still the delu-
sions are wickedly kept up, and the
future of a gentle and confding race
is recklessly sacrificed to the uses of
greedy politicians. The story off
the census tells melancholy tale |
of negro suffering, and gives fear
full warning of the consequences Of
the Radical experimenting, under
which they are willing away. Will
it never be arrested by the North,
which makes itself resposible for
this career of merciless murder?
Cut This Out.
The, Merchantile Times gives the
following seasonable rules for young
men commencing business;