Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1870-01-21

The figures 0l The ensu- % Pc taken CUE
ru- the current year. viii be awaited wiki
Interest to detcrmius many vezel question:
a- 20 tae growth Of the entire population.
the comparative, .ucraa-c IN different State
anu sections. the result of the war on p5ru-
Iat1a. the ratio Of representation in Con-
-7e-s. and the like. no, the least interest
in- a- the matter thus surc 20 be nr1uza,
under general discussion. viii be the proper
zion OBJ. the sexes In the country. and III the
difersu, rar,- Thereof The Census 5. 1850
showed that the women were in the minority.
numerically. by about three quarters Of a
million There were. IN otnc- words. IL enc
whole United States in 1850 -32.2i+ more
males than female. This excess OF male-
was hv no means uniform throuhout the di-
fereu- sections Two only of the New
England State. Maine and Vermont. COM
tained ar tnat time more males than female.
the excess IN Maine being a51g, 5000, and
10 vermont ab0ry $500 In this sa-e this
excess OF MALE. however. wa= by Do means
as large AS in 1850. wher there were nearly
60o1 more males than females with ab5u, the
same t5tal of population. Elsewhere I'D New
England the fair sex largely rredominate--
Thus in Massachusetts in 1850 there were
-sir.,-s1 thousand more females than male.
Inc excess IN the number of female IL New
Hampshire was 5j0e. IN Rhode Island 5000
ana in Connecticut 900 The total excess
~ New England in number Of females over
males wa- - 500. Going farther west. We
md ,ba- in New York STATE the excess wa
Oh tie same sile-temaies more 10 number
taan males by 1000. Still hrthe- wes-.tae
boot is Cd the other leg. for we ma tina, 10
OHIO the males ournumbere the females fo-.s
THOUSAND fre slr1res while Michigan with
q population very much less tlau thas Of
OHIO. mad an excess Of fo-t. Thousand on the
same side. 10 all the Western States and
TerritJrie- thc number Of men exceed .
ed the number Of women. by h-ures Like
the following ILLINOIS. 955sI Missouri,
52.--e Indiana. 4-.gs. Wisconsin. 5~.-
9Ig. Iowa. 3402l Minues5ta. 1918.
Kansas. II % California. 1875.
OF course. al obvious, and doubtless Oh
the whole the correct, explanation Of this
difference between East AM West. i- io4nd
IN the fact THAT the Young men Of New Lns-
land and New York have been " gong
West for twenty years. by thousands each
year, draining our Eastern States of their
bachelors and leaving the Young women 70
the same extent without beau1 Yet some
o.her causes must come IN ior If the
amount and character Of the emigration were
the only explanation. Vermont which is
kept absolutely stationary by emigration Of
It's native population, ought 70 show an ez-
,ess Of females. like the rest Of New Eng
and, Maine excepted, whereas the men were
z the majority ten years ago. and would
probably he SO still, were II not for the nun
,ers of our Green Mountain 1ovs who fell
2 the war
Doubtless, therc are also natural causes AZ
work, which tend TO equalizs the differences.
/ correspondent of a Boston paper says be {
.nows township IN Michigan where the /
Of births of males 70 the females.
1st wear. was a niHe 10 orr. Il is stated G
hat the statistics show tina, generally since
be war, the number of male children BON
ach wear exceeds those IF the other sex.
he census viii doubtless clear up some y
5uhtfui points on the subject. and we await h
g statistics before undertaking to calculate O.
hat proportion of our New England girls "
u.t expect TO die old maids, or else 20 West Il
fni husbands.