The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-08-29
The United States Census for tS7O-Curisus
and Interesting Figures.


of the general aggregates, native and foreign
born, whites, blacks, &C., 1t appears that the
Total population Of the United states s. SS,e56,sS3
or, in round numbers, say thrty-nine mil
lions, which is million short of the general
idea of what our aggregate population ought
to be. That the regular increase of the peace
establishment, however, was cut down to the
extent of million by the war of the late
| Southern rebellion we cannot doubt, the dead
of the Union armies alone reported from the
various army cemeteries, hospitals, rebel
prisons, &C., amounting to over three hundred
thousand able-bodied men.
| 1t next appears that, as between our native
and foreign born population,
The native born number .............. $685. 37
And the foreign born. 400
which shows that, with all the vast Access
sons to our people from foreign countries,
these elements, all told, still number only
about one-seventh of the whole mass, although
in the State of California they number two
| ffths and in the State of New York nearly
one-third of the whole population. New
York, in fact, absorbs one-ffth of the whole
foreign population of the Union and hence in
this State, and especially in this city, the
superior political Importance of the foreign
born elements as compared with any other
State or city in the Union.
| Down South we find the native born popula-
ton overwhelmingly in the ascendancy, as the
report (native and foreign born) of the three
States named will serve to show: -
|
| Virginia. 49,. ........... 1,2il,4O9 1854
| North Carolina. .......... 1,06S,332 1929
| Georgia. Ll72,oS2 11,127
These disparities are mainly due to the old
institution Of negro slavery, which had no at
fractions for the European seeking the bless
ings of liberty, excepting an occasional
straggler, like John Mitchell, ambitious of
large plantation, swell stocked with good fat
niggers." Slavery being removed and law and
order being at last restored in the Southern
States, the next ten years will doubtless show
large accessions in all Of them from most of
the States of Europe, and particularly from
the agricultural classes of Germany.
| We next find that in division of the popula-
ton of the Union by the primary colors-
white, black and yellow-they stand as fol-
lows in the census reports, adding to these re-
ports the $50, 900 Indians under the care of
the Interior Department. not enumerated in the
census -
White population OF the Union. ......... SO, 5s65s9
Colored Tor black population. ......... 4,Ss0,000
Indian population Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
| Chinese or Monaghan. Observation-Disclosures. 63,254
| In round numbers the black population of
| the country is only half million short of the
foroinn horn alnmant-a fart which will cyiva
the average political engineer pretty clear
| idea of the importance of the colored vote and
| the meaning of the new democratic departure.
We have shown heretofore, from the tables
of the population for 1870 Of each of the diff
ferrut cities O. the Union, that the increase of
the population of the Eastern and Central
| States is pretty much limited to the increase
in their cities, and that the States and Ter
ritories Of the Northwest Southwest and far
West are those only excepting Pennsylvania
which can boast of general increase apart
| from their cities and large towns. These facts
| indicate that from the rural districts Of the
Eastern and Central States the natural increase
| of the population has been neutralized by re-
movals to cities and to the West, and all these
mONcIucutS NAY No Cu@iSCu w suO iCNOiueiOA-
izing effects of railways upon the old order of
things.
| These census reports show us another thing
| of no small importance, and that is the change
which has come, or will come, with the next
apportionment of the House of Representatives
in the dominating section of the Union.
Down to the late rebellion South Carolina,
with the Southern slave-holding oligarchy
at her back controlled the ruling party
of the country and the national government at
Washington-executive, legislative and judi
cial. Since the rebellion Massachusetts,, with
the Eastern and Central States at her back,
has taken the place of South Carolina. But
henceforward the Mississippi basin and FIRE.
mont's great basin of Nevada, Utah, &C., and
the Pacific slope, will hold the political balance
of power, and shape more and more the finan-
cial policy of the government, including banks,
internal and external taxations
Such are some of the reflections and conclu-
sions suggested from the statistics of the
United States census of 1870. But with the
statistics of the agricultural, manufacturing
and commercial centres of the country we
: shall know much more touching the particular
tendencies and destiny Of this or that State or
section of the Union, and the drift of the
checks and balances of political power.
THE LOUISVILLE Courier-,Journa5 steadily
advocates the democratic "new departure" in
Kentucky, in spite of concealed and open
opposition. 1t has been recently ''pained" by
the declared hostility Of Mr.. j. S. Golladay-
he of the doubtful Congressional reputation
to what he calls the new departure failure
If failure, argues the Courier-Journal, why
kick at it? That paper is opposed to mea-