Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-12-28
Population Of the United States.

The annual report of Hon. Alexander
Delmar, of the Bureau of Statistics, to
the Secretary of the Treasury, gives the
result of the census obtained by inquiries
through the Internal revenue organiza-
ton. The population for 1867 is given
as follows:
Six New England States, 3,4s0,397
whites, 30,7Ol colored-35ll, ,098 total;
five Middle States, 9,072,647 whites,
52,4ee colored-9, ,425. ll6 total; thir-
teen Southern States, 6,7649 92S whites,
1884, 532 colored-l0, ,649 AGO total thir-
teen Western and Pacific States, 1885,
08l whites, 3ll ,493 colored-l2, ,667 ,574
total; nine Territories, 435,774 whites,
54,l76 colored-489. $50 total. Total
United States, 32,l09,827 whites; col
ored, 4,633, ,37l; total, 36, 743, ,leS.
This is total increase since 1860 of
5,29S, ,ll8, and of nearly half as many
since the total of 1866. The colored
population has decreased immensely.
The census for 1860 gives in the South,
slave and free, 4,435, ,7O9, while this re-
port gives but 3,ss4,532. While, there
fore, the white population has increased
about fourteen per cent in eight years,
the solored population has diminished
about twelve per cent in the same time.
Owing to the blessings of reconstruction,
the same ratio of decrease still continues.
The Baltimore Sun gives the following
additional synopsis Of this report:
The total colored population (slave
and free) iu the Southern States in 1860
is set down in this report at 9, $3.50, OBJ, and
in 1867, 1884, ,532, falling off Of 55O5.
In consulting the census of the United
States, however. we find that it gives the
number of colored persons (slave and
free) in the Southern States in 1860 at
4,4S5, ,709, and if this is correct the fall
ing of of the colored population of the
Southern States since 1860 shows the
large aggregate Of 55l, III.
During the ten years from 1850 to
1860 their increase was 796, 947, and every
previous decade for seventy years has
shown a steady and large increase. The
total population, white and black, OF the
Southern States has increased from TO-
259,0l7 in 1850 to l0,649, ,46O in 1861.
The white population has increased IN
the South since 1860 395, ,94S, so that the
numerical losses of the war in that sec
tion are more than compensated. Whilst,
however, this is q gain, notwithstanding
the losses of the war, it will be sufficient,
in order to estimate what check to her
progress ia population .hs South has re
ceived, to remember that the sctusl gain
OF the whole population in the fifteen
slaveholding States from 1850 to 1860
was 2,627 900.
The value Of total domestic exports
from the Usited States during the twelve
: msnths ending June 30, 1868, was $454,
ls8 500. OF these breadstuffs were
valued at S6s, ,7s4, ,34s; cotton, sl52, ,7s7,
$40; gold and silver, $s3, I46 l6l. Tbs
total re-exports were $22, 1876 t5S Value
Of total import entries, 1913, ,4Os ,44s
The tonnage Of American and foreign
vessels which entered and cleared a.
each collection district Of the United
States from and TO foreign countries
during the fscal year ended June 80
1868. was: Entere5, American tonnage,
$780, $50; foreign, 4.495, ,465 = total,
s. .046, ,0l5. Cleared, American, 3,Ill,so6
: foreign, 4.56l. .0O0--to,al, S.279,Ol6.