The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1870-02-22

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- trouett uu8er general 8iseuss.on,
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TIE country and e tie Different parts
thsref TIE Census q ise0 showed
that the uvu were 10 il,s minority
nuna ~ abo0t three quarters q
ma.0a. There usFe IL ether v0rds
Ia tie uhass Uated States IN 1850
T32 2&s more males than itmAles This
excess Il males s&s ~ 10 means unl.
form throughout tie different sections
Tpo only n The Neu England States,
Maine sni Vermont contained a. that
ilfns mere males than females, the Ell
cess ia Name beng shout 5000, aud ia
Vermont ai.oat $500 Ia this State
this eHcessoi males, however, waG by no
means - large - 10 1850. shen there
were nearly COCO more males than f..
males. With about the saule total Of
population EiscNbpr, 10 New Eng
land the iair sci largely pFedominated.
Thus 10 Massachusetts Ia 1860 there
were Mvtg-siT b0stgHd more females
than males The excess 10 the number
q females 10 New Hampshire was
$500 . III Rhode Island COCO aud in
Connecticut 1900 The total excess in
New England in number Of females
over males was $500 Going farther
west, We find that in New York State
tho excess was on the same side f.
males more in number than males by
1000 Still farther west, the boot is
on the other leg, for we find that in
Ohio the males outnumbcred the r..
males forty thousand due hundred, while
Michigan, with population very much
less than that Of OHIO, had an excess Of
forty thousand on the same side, In
all the Western States and Territories
the number Of men exceeded the mum
Der Of women, by figures ike tie FOL
loving Illinois, 1851, Missouri, G2, b
III, Iudiana, 1886; Wisconsin, 3S9l9;
Iowa, 3402l Miunesota, 12.li3 Kan
sas, II 222 California, lI3, 1856
o; course, sn obvious, and doubtless
on the whole, tho correct, explanation
Of this d ference between the East and
West, is found in the fact that the
young men Of New England aud New
York have been going West for TWEEN
~ years, 10y thousands each year, drain
ing our Eastern States of their bache-
Tors aud leaving the young women TO
the same extent without beaux. Yet
some other causes must come IN for
II The amount and character OF the emf
grafton we're the only explanation, Yer
mont, which is kept absolutely station
tlonary by emigration Of its native pop
ulation, ought TO show al excess OF fe-
males, ike the rest New England,
Maine excepted, whereas tue men were
IN the majority ten years ago, and
would probably be still, were 1t not for
tie number OF our Green Mountain
boys who fell in the war.
Doubtless, there are natural causes
at work, which tend TO equalize the diff
ferenees. A correspondent Of Bos
ton paper says he knows IA township in
Michigan where the proportion OF birth
OF males TO the females. last year, was
as nine TO one. 1t is stated that the
statistics show hat generally since the
war, the number OF malc children born
each year exceeds those Of the other
sex. The census vail doubtless clear
up some doubtful points on the subject,
and We await It's statistics before IN.
derlAking to calculate what proportion
Of onr New England girls must expect
to die old maids. or else 20 West to
find husbands 49, BtnitBula,, Free prses