New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-12-26
FACTS FROM THE CENSUS.

CENSUS REPORT-DENsITY OF POPULATION
HOW THE COUNTRY Is PEoPLED-iNFLu-
ENCE OF MOUNTAINS AND STERILE TRACTS
THE THICKLY AND THINLI SETTLED RE-
GION9.
frRoA REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRTBoYEi
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23-The first volume OF
the report now being printed and bound as fast
as the work be done In the Government printing
Office. few hundred advance copies were placed In
the hands OF Congressman about fortnight ago, ana
close Of the present session the whole edition
win be ready for distribution No volume OF statistics
published In this country equals this In tho extent
accuracy and value OF Its information. It Is whole
library Of useful and curious knowledge In single
quaro. 1t might be called epic In figures, for In its
closely printed tables and tinted maps told the story
Of our American raees varied origin the strange mix.
OF Old World that under the combined
influence OF climate education and government Is being
slowly welded Into Homogeneous people, the march OF
population westward not In an even line Ike regiment
in line Of battle, but in detachmens avoiding swampy.
barren and nsuubrious tracts and only joining forces
when crossing vast fertile stretches OF country, and
sending like an army OF scouts and ehrmshers far In
advance spy out the land the curious working OF the
law of sex, which permits wide disparity between the
number OF and women to exist In some localities
maintains pretty accurate balance In tho country
at large industrial pursuits OF the people their edu
cation want Of education the ewspapers they read,
the schools they maintain, and the churches they at
tend together with dreary records Of pauperism and
crime and hopeful exhibits OF increasing wealth and
prosperity. The ample title Of the volume Is 80
good an index TO its contents that I Will quote
It in full: "The statistics OF the popu-
latlon OF the United States, embracing the
tables OF race nationality. selected ages and oocu.
paons to which added the statistics OF school at
tendance and teracy Of schools libraries newspapers
and periodicals. churches, pauperism and crime, and OF
areas families and dwellings compiled from the original
returns OF the ninth censua" In opening the book the
~ lad maj
which present to the mind at single glance OF tho eye
condensed results Of hundreds OF pages Of figures
and the time be protably studied In detail
for hours The first Of these maps shows the density OF
population by various shades another exhibits In Ike
manner tho percentage Of lteracy; third approprt
stey tinted with golden color OF different degrees OF In
tensty shows which the wealthy regions and which
the poor ones and others interesting pictures OF
the distribution Of the chief elements OF our
foreign born population and Of our successive
accessons Of territory. The first map Is especially
worthy of careful study, and will be OF additional
value and interest," when it be compared with tho
maps illustrating the production or the principal ssr
cultural staples and manufactured articles which we arc
promised In the second volume Of the census The
density OF population throughout the United states In
dcated upon this map by entirely white spaces and BY
shades OF five different degrees OF darkness. Tho
regions which appear in white may be said 70 be unin
habed for their population where they have any docs
not average five to The square MILF Inc nTs
inon Of from Ave 70 is to the mile the second crossed
hues) indicates from 10 10 40 people to the mile the
Closer iDes IS to iss the fth isnsoy shaded
l25 Bearing these degrees in mind let rs now turn . to
from The western line of settlement In Kansas.
Nebraska and T1 clear lea snr6agn Of sma S9
mart of California and here we are not mistaken. The
also q Mas 81 lie
and mining population not amounting 10 nve persons 70
the mile In any portion OF suelent extent 70 30 SHOWN
on the map The extreme north OF Maine ana almost
the % hs,so rs9aps WING IN the midst of
are, DeNuos' tesions yins sio ,1hicb on
lone,Se,'eS tnaIr p"T9oeos for agrcutmre have
been left bnese are ns Sn
~ lila ,nes a, the AeShanes in yranis and West
virginia broad sandy belt Of pine barroas running
rom osa ~ n,o,te. ~ sonthern Ms.is.nya
that nue. enaus snd Tsxas
Sen Of swainns and bayons where the alligator. will
Long 70 De sIs sontS
Missouri wn's b o. as Sres econs vii aeon An
up win asTic1ltursl settlers but all the rest will be
pJ pp seIy o from the nn,nbabted regions, Wa will
M hat Hava as,anaa opy the AR aegree nf
ook az ose nat na1e S m sen re The
square mile: These might called sparseiy settled
blank spots but in others they are surrounded by the
s s re;
this degree are the Lumber Be regions Of Maine
U the W oes ds 81 in Sorsr
vaua embracing four five counties. No portions OF
any OF t1e Sssr obran and Wsconsa sre ~ so s h
neoped as 10 come within this degree but It comprises
ao1r tss Cane Fear and Great Podee RIVERS eS
Wilmington, n c. the sandhills and swamps Of south
Virginia and western North Carolina; the great Cum
bersnd plateau OF Tennessee; nearly oDethird or Ala
bam,. much OF Mississippi, Georgia, and Missouri;
most Of louisiana; newly settled belt in Kansas aud
Nebraska: ALI of Arkansas, except counties
tween the Whlteand Arkansas Rivers; and all OF Texas
f"oStng In the rture of the SO spasey settled districts
~ W a.v to nredct that nearly Ali will rapdly gain I'm
Esnecisy will Ibis bs the case win NOrtb-
rp Aianoma and western North Csrolna where there
% "a i,n,snsa n"dsveoned minerai wealth and win
IHon.os NshpssEa Missouri Arkansas and Northern
Inn'ssna and TeIas where a fertile so attracts the
s.1outo'N" ""~ NNN' 'N $500 ~