Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-01-25
in the United Sta!es-Interest-
ing Facts from the Census Returns.

illlteracy in the United StateS-IntereSt-
ing Facts from the Census Returns.
The United States Commissioner of
Education, Gen. John Eaton, Jr., in his
annual report, has prepared from adj
vanced sheets of the census, a variety
OF statistics of illiteracy A table giving
the nativity of illiteracy in the United
States in 1870 shows that there is an
aggregate of 1884 foreign illiterates,
OF whom 665,985 are in the Northern
States; 30, 1876 in the Pacific States and
Territories, and 1888 in the Southern
States; that there is an aggregate of
4 SS2,2lO native illiterates, of whom
690,ll7 are in the Northern States;
74,504 in the Pacific States and Terri
tories, and 4,l17,5S9 in the Southern
States, making grand total of 5,660,074
llliterates in the entire country. A
second table shows .that of every 10000
inhabitants in the whole Union there
are 8,7ll whites, 1866 colored, Is
Chinese, and 7 Indians; the colored
race being in excess only in the States
OF Louisiana, 2,145; South Carolina,
l26, l47, and Mississippi, 81 1905. A table
showing the illiteracy of the white race
and colored race gives total of 2, $40, SAB
OF the former, and 2,763,99l of the
latter
The aggregate adult illiteracy of both
sexes is 3,637,422, of whom 2.4S9. 59I
are IN the Southern States. The aggre-
gate OF minor illiterates between ten
and twenty one years. is zoos, liz, of
whom 1893, IA are in the Southern
States, North Carolina having the largest
number-222,l 59. OF the Northern
States of minor illiterates, Ohio has the
largest number-47, 654
A table of ratios of illiteracy is given.
showing that in proportion TO the total
population Of the grand divisions, North
ern, Pacific and Southern, the total
llliteracy of the Northern is about one
half OF that of the Pacific, and less than
one-fifth OF that of the Southern; that
the native llliteracy of the Northern
division Is less than o1e-tenth of that of
the Southern that the white illiteracy
OF the Northern is less than one-half of
that of the Southern; that the coIored
lllteracy of the Northern is about one
torty-eighth part of that in the South
ern; and that in the Southern division,
the adult male illiteracy is nearly four
and one-half times, and the total minor
llllteracy more than ten times as great
as that in the Northern division.
Some curious facts in regard to the
influence OF education upon the revenue
are also presented. 1t appears that the
number OF patents issued to the inhabi-
tants of Arkansas was one to every
37,267 persons, while IN Connecticut
there was one patent issued to every 966
persons. In Arkansas there are sixteen
adults unable 10 write to every 100 in
habitants in Connecticut there are
four adults unable to write to every 1OC
inhabitants. In Arkansas the receipts
OF internal revenue are twenty-six cents
and nine mills per capita; IN Connecticut
the receipts are $2.54 per capita. In
Arkansas there resulted during the last
year to the Post-office Departments loss
OF over forty-nine cents for each inhabi
tant in the State, loss in amount al
most double the internal revenue re
celpts from the State. In Connection
there accrued net profit to the Post
Office Department of twenty-six cent
| per capita. In Florida there are twenty
three adults unable to write TO every 10
inhabitants. In that State one paten
was Issued to every 81, 29l inhabitants
, or only SIX in the entire State. The in
} ternal revenue collected amounted t.
slxty-four cents per capita (of the entir
population.) From that State the Post
office Department suffered loss o
: nlnty-two cents per capita. Contras
TINS with California, where the humble
OF patents issued was one 10 every 2,42.
| inhabitants, and the amount of interna
revenue collected was S6.43 per capita
; There was loss to the Post-office O
f $3.50 per capita, but this deficit is &C
counted for in part by the long lines o
transportation, to the cost of which tn,
) thlnly settled intervening sections d,
not greatly contribute. But in Cali
: fornia there are only four adults unabl
to write to every 100 of the inhabitants
In tennessee twelve adults are unabl
5 TO read and write to every 100 of tn
: inhabitants, and the State pays interna
: revenue at the rate of sixty nine cent
per capita, while Ohio, in which ther
are four illiterate adults to every 100 il
habltants, pays 1868 internal revenu
per capita. In Massachusetts,, wher
7 there are three adult illiterate person
: out OF every 100 inhabitants, the exces
OF Post-otfice receipts above expend
| lures was over S735, 900.