Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-24


5, WAsnIsGroS. March .l8.- Tho osusus bu-
reaa sss issdsd . bulletin giving 10 detail ,hs
/ white and colored population Of tho Unl.ed
Suites. Itshows a total white population of
4S.404 S76 and q oolored population Of 6 677.
l5l. Tho greatest proportion of o,lorei 70
/ white isin South Carolina. whore three afhs
i of they whole population is coloYed In
Louisiana and Mississippi from one half TO
three 9th. 10 oolered. in Alabama. Flnrida,
/ Georgia. North Caroline. Virginia and The
District u Colun,bia. one third to one half is
colored. and 10 Arkansas and Tennessee rum
one quarter 10 one third is eolored. Outside
Of the former stase States the proportion of
negroes is very email.
| The relative ohangea in the negro popula-
tion during tho decade between 1870 md
1850 are alsu given In the United States d,
whole There has been gain Of 626 on an
assumed basisJof .l0D,0oDs whDss,Y Grea.
relative game have apparently been made in
the former slsveho,d difg STATES. a Eight Of
these, .Ssases bave mnde gains ranging ftoa,,
9i4to nearly llr000,, Il 10 believed, how
ever, by the ccnsps Office that tbese apparent
gains are due in u great measure to jmper.
fecsiobA Of the oensasin 1870. and tia, under
hecondlsions which prevailed a, ,ha. time
Eit 10 sprohable that q nuoho iatgee proportion
Of rnegraes. were omitted .than Of whites.
South Caroline, Mssissippi. Louisiana. Geor.
gIa North Carolina, Arkausas. Tennessee
and the District Of Columbia shpw a relative
increase; Texas. Florida. Alabama and Vir-
gnia show a. relative decrease. Texas and
Florida take the lead Of the States which
hase lqst. Both uf these States haye received
heavy white Immigration from otheri par,s Of
the country, which has more than 0yerbal-
| anced whatever gain 10 the onlured pppula-
tion mny have been made. They hase boon
the sceno of rapid development. and III "a tho
relative deoreasc of the black. :Ata he 40.
counted for not BY exodus or dying out. bo,
by the infusion Of whites. 'Ihe movement, If
the blacks in the Nnr,heru aud Western
States has appasen,l! been Of Iit,le oomno,a.
tive account, ard tho migrati"n Of the negroes
hos not attained to such Dimensions ~. TO be
peroeph6lc there. Mississippi. Louisiana
ani North Carolina. States from which the
| ex"dps principally took place. hnve all M.
parently gained heavily in the relative pro.
portion Of blacks, whie Kansas, to which tho
major part went. has lost 10 proportion to its
inorease in population. and Indiana Ia. gained
but slightly. ''.i lD
Senator Bayard hus written letter to the
Delaware Legislature advising them no. to
take any action on the subject Of prohibi,ory
Legislation, that such legislatinn is contrary
to Democracy. which allows individuals lb
erty as to eating, drinking, DO.
The PeDnsylvanin Railroad has nearly oom
pleted o monster locnmntive, intended t.,
| make the run Letwccn New York and Phil
| adelpha in ninety minutes. Each of the
driving wheels. including tho tire. weighs
tw" tons and il sx feet in diameter. Here.
t"fore there bas beon difficulty in accomplish.
ing aixty miles m hnnr. though it has been
occasionally dnne. II the new engine sue.
cecds, fee others will be built.
KANSAS CRY. No. March 49, The first
through train for the Pacific oost, via the
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fa and Smth.
ern Pacific railroads, left this city this after
"oo" ""'u '"o e"ou'a ot cTo"u5 nseeIn0led
io witness tho opening of tao gtoas Southern
route.
James Black. colored, was hung Mt Marion
c. II. on the 18th instant for killing Eli Wilcox.
colored. The rope broke when Black was sw uns
of the frat time, but he was brought back and
hung again till he was dead.
There hns been panic in the cotton rnarke,
recently. tho price going down suddenly more
than one cent per pound This was caused by
the belief that the late Drop would run up to