The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-09-22
THE UNITED STATES CENSUS FOR
1870.
Curious and Interesting Figures-Balance
Of Power In the Mississippi Valley.

S"rious anu Interesting F1gures-batuncc
Of Power In the Mississippi Valley.
From the New York Herald.
From the official table which we pub
Ished yesterday of the totals of the
population of each of the several States
and Territories, and of the general ag-
gregates native and foreign born,
whites, blacks, ETC., it appears that the
total population of the United States
is 1885, 9S3-or, in round numbers,
say thirty-nine millions, which is a
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 a million by the
war of the late Southern rebellion, we
cannot doubt, the dead of the Union ar
mics alone reported from the various
army cemeteries, hospitals, rebel pris-
ons, etc, amounting to over three hun
dred thousand able-bodied men.
1t next appears that, as between our
native and foreign born population,
The native born number ...............32, $50 4S6
And the foreign born. 5,566,467
(which shows that. with all the vast ac-
cessions of our people from foreign coun-
tries, these elements, all told, still num-
Der only about one seventh of the whole
mass, although in the State ofCalitornia
the number two tifths an in the State
of New York nearly one third of the
whole population. New York, in fact,
absorbs one fifth 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
population overwhelmingly IN the as
cendancy, as the report NATIVE and for
eign BORN OF the three States named
will serve to show:
Native. Foreign.
Virginia ......"..."........l ,2l0,4U9 ll,lo4
North Carolina. .06S,332 3,02g
Ueorgla......................... ,l'z,SoZ Liz
These disparities are mainly due TO the
old institution of negro slavery, which
had no attractions for the Europe an
seeking the blessings of liberty, except
ing an occasional straggler, like John
Mitchell, ambitious of a large planta-
ton, "well stocked with good fat mig
gers" 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
population of the Union by primary
colors-white, black and yellow-they
stand as follows in the census reports,
adding to these reports the $4,000
Indians under the care of the Interior
Department, not enumerated in the
census:
White population of the Union ........32 $50, $50
Colored COR black population.......... i,ssQ,Vg0
Indian population. 3l5,OD0
Chinese or 63.254
In round numbers the black popula-
ton of the country is only half mil
lion short of the foreign born clement
fact which will give the average politi-
cal engineer pretty clear idea OF the
importance of the new Democratic de-
parture.
We have shown heretofore, from the
tables of the population for 1870 of
each of the different cities Of 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 Terrific
ries of the Northwest, Southwest, and
far West are those only excepting
Pennsylvania which can boast OF a
general increase apart from their cities
and large towns. These facts indicate
that from the rural districts Of the East
ern and Central States the natural in
crease of the population has been neut-
rallied by removals to cities and to the
West, and all these movements may
be charged to the revolutionizing ei.
fects 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 Caro-
lima, with the Southern slaveholding
oligarchy at her back, controlled the
ruling party of the country and the Ma
tional Government at Washington
executive, legislative and judicial.
Since the rebellion, Massachusetts,, with
the Eastern and Central States at her
back, has taken the place of South
Carolina. But henceforward the Mis-.
sissippi basin and Fremont's great
basin of Nevada, Utah, ETC., and the
Pacific slope, will hold the political
balance of power, and shape more and
more the financial policy of the Govern
ment, including banks, internal and ex-
ternal taxations.
Such are some of the reflections and
conclusions suggested from the stats
tics of the United States census Of 1870.
But with the statistics of the agricul-
tural, manufacturing and commercial
census 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 po-
litical power.
The Price Of Farming Lands i'm Kansas.