The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1881-01-11
The World TaunarY
The TWtmRe Of the SO@tA and
West.

The statistics of The enns5ls are full cd Inatfuc-
ton and Ahould give he,nIy politicians pause.
The ;lsE decade has not only made great differ
ence ia the relative rank ct the States to pop
uIaIion, 1T has also opened new VISTA into me
funEre Of rhe chief SECTIONS Of the Uni"n respee
lively. Sixteen States have gone lower in the
ranks and six States go up higher fourteen
States only hold in $3.50 the same rank which
they held ih 1870 These are fll View York -
PeursyI Vanid Oh OHIO, q illinois, 60 Missouri
Is Indiana, ca Ma.aacAnsetts, n Kentucky, (l3)
Georgia s. North Carolina ell LoHsisLn;l ga
California CHI New Hampshire 30 Oregon,
iowa the eleventh m 1870 has now become the
ninth. and exactly changes places with Tennes-
ser. Virginia. tAstt was TENTH has becnnle thir-
reenth- and rives place to Texas which goes mp
nine places bound and pats herself next 10
iowa. Michigan, that was thirteenth sinks 10
the fifteenth Place, while w .sconasn falls one and
becomes sixteenth in ORDER Alabama, sixteenth
in 1870, has, become seven teenth New Jersey
in Fgrn cea.es 10 be the seYente zenith aud becomes
eighteenth, while Naasiasippi. which was eigh-
teeuih, falls five in rank and becomes twenty
rhird. Aaryland falls from twentieth 10 twenty
second while South Carolina, which WAS twenty
frat rises in the scale two steps and stands nine
teenth jazz leading Kansas Maine loses ak
places ans! falls ronl the twenty third to The
twenty ninth AID Connections three places, GlIl-
ing from die twenty fifth To ghe rpenty-eigAth.
AriSan.ls asceuda one -rep, from twenty sixth To
twenty fifth West virginia falls TWO steps,
from twerty seventh 10 twenty -ninrh Minnesota
rises two, from twen ryeighth 10 twenty sixth
Kansas steps up nine, from tVenry-nlnJh 10
twentieth. Vermont ElIJs frSm thirjieth 10
thirty-second, Rhode Island from rhrty second
to rAF'F third Florida from thirty third 10 lhirty
fourtA, Colorado csraes IN AZ thirty Eflh, and
liGtIe De.aVare-thirty -fogrth in I970--a4 COW
thirty -sevenrh Nebraska ascend. from thirty
Efth 10 thirrieth, while, oddly enough Nevada
with espnsiierahie increase of population, 4JiIl
remains az the foot Of the roll The Irresistible
Influences of climate AID aoil it " Ill be seen~
are telling surely at iasr In .4Voe 1T The Sog IA
and Southwest A al Intelligent observers l0ug
ago Bat they would ~ soou ls rhe fetal
trtmnleLs inpose'i By the existence Of slavery
upon tie deveIopaaens of those region- we're re-
novel The silly and scaudaloua efforts II low
partisan journals and Of liheIl0us fwadders Ike
the athor Of Fools Ecrand 10 fight against
these ladaences with mere naisrep resen Ia ins cf
Southern life and the Southern penple are eer-
tain TO prove a. .iltle a. Ers Parsingron's war
with her hrnorn ageinst the Atlantic The per
eeniage II increase rhroughouT TIE South during
the past 4ecade stands AZ y %, against - -
the Worth in general, while the percentage Of
increase in View England has heeri 4nIy I4.0,
snd IL New York, Pennsy wanna, Ohio and View
Jersey tiSen together only 1882 The fifteen
ac-caIied south RI STATES have adted 81, 100
10 their population and the twelve Western or
Pacific 5taae4 enIy 3J5sis The absolute III
crease u Texas since is-o has beeu greater
iAan that II any other State in the Eninn, being
- 900 npfe than taat Of T'ennsy Ivaha aud g..
600 more Than that % View York FER ratiq OF
increase kas been enormous Should she main
tain 10 FIR the next decade fs99 will see Texas
running close race with Illinois III the eoorth
place in the Fist Of Stat's With tie impulse
cure co be- given her by the immense railway OPP
eraiiona now leading TO and concentrating upon
her territory, indeed, Texas Is rot unlikely to ex-
ceed this ratio. and ia that event Ohin will be
hard pushed by her FOR he third place. Colorado
shows the most COLOSSAL ratio If INCREASE reach
ing 80 - per cent, but this II obviously ahnoF
NAL, as Is aLao she ratio Of -. - in Nebraska
and Of 17314 in Kansas. The only State which
shows as important ratio of increase, resting
on causes likely to endure, IA Texas IS Oregon
which has grow At pace nearly double that Of
California