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dule hich igrants land, ths, ‘mall, such alt will not affect measure individuals who had made statistics rai ilies aan Poy vote, phe ir Fiore Salus fur the purposes of comparison of one portion of Study, and the ‘eceaty for some action was univer. — — ee handling of the through Canada. Dr. @stimates the | the country with ancther, or cause with = conceded, and it affords me inGaiie ation to The advantages of such plas woulh bo | rater c! sus feet an 9A 67,2005 wad | pice wil perasay om interest svocad BS ; seioel Cgieeee te he held ot (Belg THE CENSUS REPORT. | firewns: as to that in practical operation | from 1880 to 1810, at 199, the twenty years Tt ae pencuadl savexinad (iets th ue be Bale oo Belgia COMPLETE. in L-nglacd, with respect to the registration of their | together, 267,125. During the same time, & ¢00- | SuSiicai mem pill sesesd to fie Corns Beard nae, | au syprobatn or several of the moot « -) deaths, births and Names to the num- | siderable number are su, to have landed at | eed of for the wisdom manifested inan arrange- | statista of Europe, aud from which the most bene ber of 14,000,000 have there been registered du: | New York with the purpose of pursuing their route | ment which will throw more light on the history of results are anticipated, events, inoue office alone. The returns are ren- | these was ‘the omissions in the official | more interesting facts connected therewith, than the | a delegate to this Statistical Congress, from Englend. dered the more valuable for future reference,by the | retarms. Without ae the patural increase, — areas a SemeaC men, Rave ereloree-e6- point pong pt saleable conte a a ee Cxnsus Orrice, incessant vigilance exercised to the detection of then, the accession to our population, from foreign Pl ‘ e ventistioal ts Wasnineron, Deo. 1, 1851 : Sup] have the honor to report that full and ¢ returns Of agriculture, will admit, at this time, of | as public officer and man of letters, that it is returns of the seventh census have been | correct returns, and the manner of taking our cen- in the ports of the United Stats, have Been as | - ia Tah roe sccounts, though, perhaps to | In order that Congress may judge of the propriety of | to arrive at a right conclusion, But, from all the States of the Union, onthis | S¥8 Bas been calculated to effect such » result. | follows:— | some extent, of the most important separate interests. the plan in contem; {oF preparing the labios ‘ott the | not be Xi! free from error, are ide of the Rocky Mountains, and from the ter- | [mn connection with every Panels of statistics given, . | _ The returns of the wheat crop, for many of the | pepulation and other sta! and be ‘fully advised of | made with the requisite and attention, to anfold th Fitories of New Mexico and Oregon. A ion | the name of each person to whom every entry on | 1842.. | ‘Western States. will not st all indicate the amare crop | apy new features introduced into other portions of the principal sources of lence and refi: Of the California returns were destroyed by the | the tables applies, has been furnished. 1a all cases | ae insoit | of Bote fds from shy epecily te former, | Yoru the statiatioe cf ome Bette, ok Rieke eis, Renta’ | and of only arallshie'inecae fre seen ‘conti mn at San Francisco, an nt which | Where error or inconsistency could be detected, real Peni nc aan Maske » s | laid before the members of both Houses inapeoe oblems e science gendered it necessary for the census agent to pre- | or imaginary, tho individual has bees writven to, in | i#i6,"* 202167 | Total. 1552860 | Extent ot aity per cest throughout the whole Skate the | tion. “Fer tis parpose the Sete Of Marytand has toon | SOT RE Goanied cece fond nlp pare new copies from the originals, which are ex- | order that t) apeare y might becorreeted. Tne | *i°),;; includes fifteen months, to wit: from | grortmess of the wheat crop in Ohio, in 1849, is verified | eelected, as beat adapted from its central Position and | to insure the advancement of nations in the career « pected here daily. The other returns have been | replies have n, forthe most part, prompt and | July 1, 1845, sone Boptanaas 1066. by returns made during the subsequent season, by | combination of more of the various elements which enter | improvement.’ Teeeived. satisfactory. It has necessary, ia only three | + The report from the State Department for {neyo authority of the Legislature. into cur interesis, than any other State of its limited ‘he Commissioners for the Census of Ireland, in 184 The returns from Utah are expected by the | cases, to call the attention of an United States Dis- ives 315,333. as the tetal number of gers arriving extent first mai! from that territory, advices having been the past twelve ¥) errors. The utmost care has been exercised to ensure trict Attorney te require enforcement of the act of ears, in the ordinary course of | to Canada; but it is sources, from 1820 to 1840, From 1840 to 1850, the United States; butof these 30. probeble that the number of 962,479 the pe tn of foreign were citizens of disease in the United States. and present in connection Mr. Porter, of the Board of Trade, has been spocinted AGRICULTURE. poy: economy and statistical knowledge of the ‘ihe g-eat amc unt of labor, requisite to the excrection ritieh Empire, than for the elevated position he holds MANUFACTURES. in the introduction to the census , Whie @ folio of nearly 1,000 pages, and was pabliane of that count ‘i It bas been my endeavor, aecording to the act, to ar- | com >, 5 4 y The period, which has elapsed since the receipt of the tf mf Ded zeceived of their completion. Three sets of sche- | Congress for refusal to reply to the inverrogations | the Atlantic States | Be veine foe vito nmioes, | etursn bes desu $0 ther’ ss i) arte he aoe Senko he taste” ie tia bee ane aney ecmmredient man’ | in 1843, ure the following very sopropeiete language :| cules were transmitted by different conveyances, | of the assistants. In all but one of these cases, re- Sie satires Sticasoine ie teen tae balance, for that | make but a ner for ure.” To judge of the character of » statistic ought to n ‘kin useript, would require the long, laborious, survey, not 4 bare enumeration.” nly one tet reached 4 | turn bas been even made, without the neces- ‘me ? of the most important manufactures. If, in some in- | ¥C7! J . Seemmate fe tos Golay. "Tho canes Beast eee | ay of making costs to —in that exeepted, | rT ta nest ten pears, eg i aS stances, the amount of «capital invested,” in ay branch per in Rieti. a ange ath “onmecttion with the population of England, the tory had been taken on manuscript schedules, and, | the individual paid coste before appearance, and | bocn very little tion of forcigners into the | ff Masfscture, should seem to ¢mall, it must | Means of forming an independent opinion of the matter. | maps of all the countizs and boroughs Iu the kineies at the latest dates, the agent was ei in | made satisfactory return to the office. These facta | Urited Scatesover the Canada frontier; the dispo- | 12 mind. that, where the product is of ‘several kinds the | Mean of fo deemed the more proper to lay before Con: | In other portions of Europe, the ane opts nea ee transferring the same to the Srinted blank speak loudly in favor of the general inteltigence of | United Siates ove by Quebec having yielded | fpbitel juvested, not being devisible, te connected with | orcs‘ printed copy, ioasimuctt es the oxpaane arth on, taken of what should consitute « statistleel werk, ‘On th, Scptenber tsa loyed in | our pesple, and their deference to the laws, and w" reduced tLe capital rreeted a the eect, | tite work may readily be known, and some standard of | “tne seen oce a comet publications, in point of ex! ws ester ce te magne te | oe ny Ly and neligency wre, ioe, | tasted ai ce ungeeins, | Lent vanes ap ee i inte | ve cel term, nar tanae | Als Ean tal pain ie ex Raichmen, and two Isborers. In the month of | these invettigations, made for the beneGt of the | Pota'nay, nerkape be considered ar equated vy. | of WrocgEe ieee fet ees Sere seme other article | Siooq Mort inconvenient and unwieldy volumes. The onl November it was found necessary, in order to pre- pare certain information in time for the meeting of Congress, to make a large temporary addition Feople, cease to be fears of au excise from contributin; semination of which must lead to the benefit of all. med inquisitorial. Here no duty or tax deters individuals to a stock ef knowledge, the dis- drawn thither by the of foreigners ing into Canada, after landing at ‘New Ma mare having been opportunities of employment general report of the facts relating to a few ‘The aggregate. however, of the capital invested, in the various branches of wrought iron, will, it is comfdently believed, be found correct. ‘The variations from the plans heretofore adopted, in the compilation of the decennial census, with ry portion of which the facilities of comparison are maix- tained, consist: — “ We feel, in fect, that a census jae in its possession, which brary of Belgium aré Le a sock shelves of the not adapted to hold, are thoee « our last census, which have occupied a place on the floc beneath the shelves, for several years. ‘he inconvenie> clerical force of the office, an: ni x The entire capital invested in the various manufac- 1, In the form—that ado being in conformity with of these volumes has led to their destruct PRS Hwee to one iene and ae mt ‘The seventh enumeration of the inhabitants of sen fire oy ‘elite Sf thie. ph tures in the United 8tater, on the Ist of June, 18H0—not | the size and uppearance ote arehing. ion. Their extiomie sarin on’ have performed extra duty. the United States exhibits results which every citi- tien took in the latter half of the decade, it | include any ettabdlishmente less men te 2. In accompanying the statistics of each State with a time, leads me to believe that they have, in many i The demands made by State officers and | 2¢n of ae vd ay cone pions BY co neeny ably be fair to estimate the natural in- aa enact sain ae ao 50,000, 000 bested wits hatory fom pea jecm aioe ey pe peri ae bag hen ded ih) waste p Private individuals for statistical informavion, has | tien and pride. ‘Since the census o! rey am | crease during the term, at 12 per cent, being about | \% 000" i ’ Poy at . roosn they . much increased our labors. All such calls have | been added to the territory of the republia, by an- | Cheinied of that of the white populatiactot che | ees paid for labor: 240000000 | year Sabo: tceS Is proteshog scat szuee £0 the formstion ‘relating to the rlows of eoestartace oot f been. promptly responded to, when compliance | Dexation, conquest, and purchase, E290 square | Cocntry at its commencement This will swell the | serra ter teber. 1,020 300,000 | separate county. from the date of ite settlement, with | tion, and not as an apology for what is doomed sone therewith would not interfere too much with the | miles ; and our title toa region ery | 34 4s @ggregate to 1,739,192. Deducting this accession | Number of perecus employe 1,050,000 | the date of its organization; am account of its pb; and proper. ce Frogress of business. square miles, which, before, properly belonged to | PEEFE population from the whole amount of the | The capital inverted in the ma: features. its rocks, minerals, streams,timber, water, and | — Our materials are more varied and of better charact« schedules used in taking the seventh census | U*, but was claimed and is y occupied by | increasa cf white inhabitants before given, that in. | _ cottcn goods, amounted £0. 74801.051 | edeptation, naturally and artificially, to the purposes | than any uation has ever possessed; and shall re hoe, of the United States, were ar ed on principles | foreign power, has been established by negotiation. crease ig shown to be 3,084,519, F the rate per | Value of raw materisl..... 34,835,056 | of agriculture. manufactures, and comnerce, that, inseveible of their value, we have not known hi aufferent from any heretofore used i that purpose. | and it has been brought within our acknowl: ecnt fs reduced to 25.95. Anonne paid Sas labor. sisi 16,286,304 3 Im the general geological account of the State. to render them useful ? plan adopted for their construction, while aid- | boundaries. By such means thearea of the United | “Tye density of population isa branch of the sub- | yilus of manufac aaphoed a bes ae pe Pid st pom aon Oa es met ~ cgecger ee Reepectfully submitted, le ing immensely to the labor of the office, presents, on | States has been extended, during the past a, ject which aaiurally first attracts the attentionofthe | ‘The capital inverted inthe mauvtactate of by population, to make which conrestiy, Mt has been, nace bi ble A HH, Brvanr, Secret ale! the face of the schedule, much more informa;ion in | from 2,055,163 to 3,221,595 square miles, without faquirer. The following table has been prepared | woollen gocds, amounted to 2818,650 | sary to refer to the criginal returns of theeensusteeces | Ducaretle hua Cee Sie cree fnees Sd = Lersee coma bation ob Deets ee pire erat eee ae die upon our norib. | from the most authentic data accessible to this Yalue of raw materia. 2708-088 ond thirty years beck, us fellanee could noe be places sy, | D°PATUBEBE of the Interior. tng to persons an an has here‘o: Se > s hee mount paid for Jebor. 899 the figures officially given in the i prea ted rage bn ~ perfectly simple, withous | snd Pacifc shores; all Which hns come within the Fp SESE OE FS: 45,207,565 | “6. In the review of ite charasten te ter health and IMPORTANT COMMERCIAL STATEMENT, complication, but little liable to error; furnishing | scope of the seventh census. tne Savane Mire iw cach Brate axp Tennitony ix tue | Number of hands employ 99,252 | longevity of its inbabitante, an account of the prevailing re easy means of detecting and correcting most of the 1 tie endeavor . porciein the ob iar 3! — Usiox. A Pepuletion Ni “8 4 ss Meda RK, to. 17.846.425 Inge pervect hint of —e with full tabies, Present | ps ee pupa mora : errors which occur. ese blanks were prepared | jopulation-since 1840, it will per to deduct s2rca in ‘epulation No. © pe Ed tore bevy : statistics of disease and mor- Xports of Breadstuffs an: ‘FOVIsion os 3 ye 4 imi 5 Value of product 748.777 . In number of new subjects em' in |) INCLUSIVE, 4 . well adapted for the purpose for which they were | and the number embraced within the limits of C Bud Number &f bands <2, 20448 | statiation detale and ‘in the mecner of alaseitinae | _ 7020) ssctuatys designed. Among the great number transmisted | fornia, and the new territorics at the timo of their 313,611 In maklng these estimates, th marshals did | 0 ss to admit of extracting all the essential facts res’ isn. through the mails, from every portion of our terri- | acquisition. From the beet information which kas ‘964.409 not include any return cf worke which bad not pro | pecting the raw materials of each variety of manufac. yt tory, not one schedule was received at the office in a | come to hand, it is believed that Texas convained, d ced metal within the year, cr thove which had not | tures, together with other features in which the statist mutilated condition, or in any way injured. in 1840, 75,000 inhabitants ; and that when Califor- 79.33 | commenced operatoins, “The same is applicable to all il perceive variations from any previous census, The expenses of the census office have been as | nia, New Mexico, and Oregon, came into our pos- 67.66 | manufactures enumerated | _ Allusion is not made to these things with the view to follows, viz:— session, in 1516, they had a population of 97,000. It 00.04 | The capital invested in the manufacture | Teprecent their advantages, or as predicating auy argu- ‘Dor printing and stationary. including the thus that we have received, by accessions 0.35 ae nape poe Ld! rete | inent for Uhels adoption. The, plan, mith af the disad- 2 a 1 si 2, : vantages Which must reet 7m sudden for: 2 consions of the last Foot ‘toa ye tie » Binge 1640, an secession of 172,000 to the 0231 | Amount ptid Sir labo 5990 | S70 aspertcnant tee fie GROG the vee ee Census Board $33,183 T, | “amber of our people. 2317 | Value of product... 08.185 | study and reflection, and, it is thought, will prove use- ‘ sc 00l ae The increase which has taken place in those ex- 39.30 | Number of hands employ 2589 ‘Should the work be found to possess real value, the 891,245 18 | tended pore, since they ee Sper Led Sasa 2728 The capital Inverted = byes manufact $13005.an0 result must be attributed main! i oe beget ol ma | ri of our government, sho obviously be 15.68 ef wrovght{ iron amount ‘ 19,995,220 | terials collected, and the zeal and intelligence of the per- 105.999 6g | Teckened as Boos of the developement and pro- 15.21 | Value of raw material. 8.518.169 | sons employed therson; come of whom are men whose “~~ | gress of our population ; nor is it necestary to com: 1286 | Amount paid for labor. 4,196,628 | gbility should secure better remuaeration, which, it is 1,207,600 00 | plicate the comparison, by taking into account the 1102 | Value of product... : : 16.987.074 | hoped, Congress will ke willing to accord. ‘It, however, ge | poaen natural increase of this acquired popula- 89 | Number of hands empicyed . . 15.057 | the general plan shail be considered faulty, or by its 208,170 00 | tion, because we have not the means of deter- 1.47 More minute particulars respecting these interests | imperfect execution be deemed unworthy of adoption, it Pe BN ‘The balance due minin, the rate of its advancement, nor the law 2607 | wili be found incorperated in tables A, B, 0, D, B. will bave been well thus to bring it to the test, that it Sar nane ey bals of United States............. 20a 00 | Which’ i ¢ 21.95 | The statistics of the newspaper press form an interest- | may be condemued. 2 “an Mare! . | which governed its progress, while yet beyond the 1012 | tug feature in the returns of the ceventh census, ‘he work, of course, has not been submitted to the ma a ea | influence of our political system. “The year 1849, 4.01 | Te appears that the whole number of newspapers and | public for its judgment, but where opinions have been $e tte,, to the 6th day of” Juns, 1885, these rather than the date of the annexation of Texas, 49.56 | periodicals in the United States, on the first day of June, | at all expressed, by those deemed good authority, om the de! ‘wul’be required an appropriation of one has been taken for estimatieg her population, in Er] Beto. amounted to, 3500. Of these, 2/006 were Selly s0- | ‘propriety of oar claasitiontions, they, pasaters 'sraceby Pe et 7 Tos * ed, 23 the facts excepting circulat: , 5 Tha coshet seine Linc aretnatisa ce eee ae | connection with that of the Unica, becaese it, may 767 | and Ta are estimated. toe Onlifortta, the tercitorieg, Gui | public dncumenca, “In the’ thirty ascced: bnetal scport Do. The cost of printing the compilation of theseventh | be safely assumed that, whatever the iscrease, dur. 10 vg goed . census, forms ko portion of this estimate—that must ing the five intervening years, may have been, it Bed for eee that may have been omitted by the assistant I iam Me Somme Total. > determined oe ey adopted by Congress for Valea Beteet not altogether, derived from the = + ~ um calculations made on the Le seored returned, hen guage Apes my romps f oe pened Cotton Exports. the execution of the work. : gor ager F ‘ OT | ertimated circulations where they have been omitted, i | of such portion of the wor . fi =e 2 ; In the few cases where payment has not been | Owing to delays and difficulties mentioned in 03 | Spears that the egcregate aes ef these 2800 pa- | the directors of that institution:—" Such a list will fur Saarauent Snow 10 3 MgusT, VALUE AND Aven zeade to Marshals, and their assistants, in full, their | ¢ompleting the work, which no action on the part -2 | pers and periodicals is about 5,000.00¢ and that theen- | nieh valuable materials, never possessed to auy exten Uxtrep Starrs PRom 162] ro 1851, Incuaan es accounts have been delayed, either on account of | = t eevee eeu obviate, me of the a - - ie number cf englon petntod eupually in the United Per an se ng 4 fe yea fe pan negligence ia making @ proper or timely return of | from fornia have not yet been reecived. As- - — | Btates, amounts to . 5 io ie Oud hax), samanl sopent, ‘dedienh -ceian, Total. iF rou 65,000, - — | The following table will show the number of daily. | interert. We endeavor, in our : ten, in pet daha Ses wm a scihes aae ‘nhl Lo Spey i Mgt aay by caiten s1gst —_ger.as | TSR, Monthly, end other ieuer, with the aggregate pi ganna vy ho ean canes of the epneas, i the act of Congress, to be fixed by the Secretary of that of Utah, entimated 15,000, the total number imate, productions, and the | “*™st< of eaeh clas: No. copies So far as our judgment of the public press is concern- the Interior, and the data still too imperfect to en- | of inhabitants in the United States was, on the Ist | Fr? ‘and pursuits of their inkabitents, the States No. Circulation. printedannuaily. | ed, its expression has been much more favorable than able him to decide the matter, without, perhaps, | of Jane, 1950, 23,246,301. The absolute increase 7 -- ha ae be prenecie cunamaed 1206 hs 750,000 235 000.000 | could be wished, with itsimperfect knowledge of the doing injustice to the parties themselves, or the | from the Ist of June, 1540, has been 6,176,545, and | ef the Union m properly ng 75.000 11,700,000 | plan, as expectations may thereby be raised which the governmert. the actual increase per cent is 36.18. Bat it has — P No. Inhabi $0. 320.000 | results will not justify. eee toe meetin, so i> x Oi | r cae ae eee 2.876,000 149 509 000 in the volume of « . has been promulgated, F To such Marshale as the act of Congress autho- | been shown thet the Probable amount of popula. fan ~ fa. | eee 56 + fodscree nyt JC emgage nd vizes the payment of “a reasonable amount for | tion acquired by additions of territory should be Miles SquareMile. pens wee padi mir sang py my eo mae ot elas 58 2 clerk hire, provided the cha ender the act for | detncted fo making @ ee between te re- tes. (6) 5226 BTUTECT 4207 p aoenreer ll beg "$0,000 | ment, and through him to Congress; and it would not i anc EB taking the census, do not re: 10,” the primeiple | sults o: ent the census. ese hee a dee be = forestall the dis} nate judgment of $13,556 Bas been adopted, to pay, inne case, larger deductions reduce the total poptlation cf the couo- eet Catal eer a mee ie <n sree gm : Sreest 970 Br @mourt than that which, added to the other charges | try, as basis of compariton, to 23,074,301, and the 4 — " " <, 87 it seer me & wor' 2° expense 72 of the Marebal, «il mek his gross recsiet ual ingen to 6,004,848. | The relative increase ed bee a es tn eam Rtctee ia hn te Smee eer eed tae which je shared by the wile, somamsnity shoul bs of & to that rom is construction of the act of Con- | tl howance, is foun ¢ 35.17 percent. The “ Ww. States. ; possi : gress ie believed te be im accordance with its in- aggregate number of whites. in 1550, war 19,619,- oa "ihaenionk oa —— average circulation ot papers in the United States, | compilation of mere columns of figures, Interesting ony & tention 305, exhibiting a sein upon the number ofthe same | Louistaua..........(0) 286,077 2,507,089 12.96 | ie 1786. ‘There is cme publication for every 7,161 free | to the x a aaa ne ntaniol oF yet hs BAB Be ‘The compensation of sewe of the Aesietant Mar- | class in 1840, of 423,371, and @ relative increase | Central Slave States: Vir- ihnabitante, in the United States and territories. rece po tothe statesmen ond phil. Sour ou 7608. a64 Bhals, p rly in romote regions cf the United | of 38.20 percent. Butexcluding the 153,000 free North Caroiina, 'n eecordance with the views expressed in the com- copher, ana dey = ony the legislator, it will contain, Reasas Basen States exc territories, which are mot included —— ion supposed to have been acquired by the ereee, Kentucky, mission with which the depectanent Senaeed mia ie also, matters interesting to every portion of the commu, sme Bt Within the provisions of the supplementary — a gh yom since - 4 hg gain is 5,270,- opp and oe 3 senmne 600,000 rors | 2 Bee yrne Bape = — cumme' = of En. | nity,furnished eomewhat in advauce of thore ded: 547 858.056 August 50, , is entirely inadequate to the 71, an e ease per cent 37.11. le see cases sccc secs x . portant government: S Be 310.238 amount of duty performed. [t is a opinion that The number of slaves, by the present census, bg ohne ye Re Teele tee te presen bonne a mee SS ; additional compensation is equally due to some of | is 3,195,298, which ghows an increese of 711.085, ~ maine lean, 260.060 2.726.000 30.02 | esare enumerated by those govermmente in their statie. Qeagzess, 160 TS 6 5} the Marshals equal to 288% per cont. If we deduct 19,000 for ‘isconam, and Lows (! ) poses sey eng ae | eee conde] aan en oureuncamn mizht. | *ruction w: uealous eerate, theagh letied Wility, 181 im 237,039 112,315,417) Tothe Marsholsend assistants, with but a few | the ble slave population of Texas in 1540), the ni “! 190/000 165.000 ‘87 of the greatest value to ourselves, poe rm .. faye = facts pa ort exteptionr, too mach credit cannot be accorded for | result of the a will be slightly diffe- There points of agreement in the general | and nct seem inferior to thore of countries which have ite publi ¥ plished Goods Imported, Re-Exported, and C ihe prompt and offcial manner in-which they have | rent. The absolute increase wil! be 692,055, and | characteristics of the States combined in the above | the credit of having paid more attention to statistical tytn ae dod toy come Chit the puniteerss sumed. disearged the duties prescribed ‘ty the law, and | the rate, per cent, 27.83. groups, which warrant the mode of arrangement | trivnce, sithough (hey may net nave mode srester | rarnish mush of the information we leclade, foeush it | Srareuaxe Exwinrrive ene, Vauce ov Fo for the readiness with which they have responded ‘The number of free colored im 7850, was 428,637; | . Maryland is classed, as heretofore, with = in what we esteem ratio Govern- may be replied that, while these publications cHaxnise Iw 1 Be-Bxpon ran, . 2c calls for informetionon avartety of subjects,some | in IS#), 386,245. The incremee of this class has the Middle States, because its leading interests ap- "F 5. desizable to poneess every ray of light | test Value,and are all replete with tastruction, many Asxuariy, raom Isat tr) 188, of which were not embraced ir the sch . To | been 42,342, or 10% per cent. pear to connect it rathor with the cemmercial aud | op ‘em vulject, When guassaetang teh toe Present cen. | Present but @ reprint of former editions, with the title ie PRArOD. them is due the credit of returns being made end From 1530 to ISi0, the imerease of the whole ‘turing section to which it is here assigned, | cus is one of une: impertance to ourselves and [adem ape Sums the Gols, on a few cameras ign Merchandise. ; yendered irom this wideiy extended country, in time | population was at the rate ef 3267 percent. At than with the purely agricultural States. Okie ie our posterity, r# ex our comditicn to the middle pap aye hoon ool on ae ae a “ aang wk to admit of & the aggrogate enumeration of | the samme rate of advancement’the absolute gain for placed inthe same connection for nearly similar | of a century, and ill of the progress of 8 people, } pane ee ‘Goa ye Re oe - Fopulation the C Succeeding that | the ten laet past would tave beea 5,578,533, | reasons. fourisbing beyond all precedemt, under a new form of | Cetin tbe maintained by eae ae dens qigrted, hand. Populasn which enacted law, and on the first day of its | or 426,516 less than it baa been, without including There seems to be a marked ‘iety for sett: Cermneat cee wanes history and example must, as it | PPOI0t previous publications, but they ate, hewever, ges ase : 4 fret session. The zeal an€ ind of many of | the increase tent upon additions of . | off the new agricultural States, of The Norte ‘West | becomes known, exert ey open et cakes at variance with the best authority on this subject. rap Se oe Weaoe bap them have contributed to furnish the office with ma- | ‘The aggrega:e increase ¢! population, from themselves, as a preliminary to the comparison pen bentncmyopmng! ‘sith a precision acd cer, | The dedimition of “statistics,” as given by one author, 27 sy MB BLLSSD 10 52.28) terials, rich and various, illustrative of the history, | sourocs, shows a relative advance greater tham that b fm progress with other portions of the Brien, tae aa line eovatey hte deem able to | Consists in “such @ description of # country, or any part, Ree ieee lee geegray and geol @f the country, end it | of other decimal term, except that frem the | The occu; ons which give employment to th enjon and ving & reality to the facts, unattainable | ®# Rives the present or actual state thereof,” but as it is Staus iss | Sede eT ort Soula grati! to Superinvendent of Con- | second to the third o during which time the of central range ef States, sonth of the | with ' to any other people, disclores the pre- | Oply by @ thorough ero of ae poveom, state of 31 ba6.017 ae a7 1h gan 485 Pus to be permitted to send to each Marshal and as- | country received an coosnabon of inhabi‘ante, bythe pore Potomac, distinguish them to som: went 6 joal bistery, and that for the first time, pig oe: end ite bee: ped ball oy te. 16 gsaere or e.e ted tistant, who bas thus respected the calls upon his | purchase of Louisiana, considerably greater than 1 from that division to which wo have given tho ap- | of a country embracing more than a million square miles — pyre a rit cocaine of tae wos. |S + 13 ae 6 time and lebor,a copy of that census, whick their | per cent of the whole number. Rejecting from the pellation of the coast planting States. In the lat- | of territory, the future destiny of which is inse iy people, #0 sa Lo enjoy the knowledge neccasary for the F) port a9 3 1NT007 bnited exertions have contributed to in | census of 1810 1.45 per osat, for the forslation of | ter, cotton, sugar, and rice, are the groat staples, | Connected with eee eren te erie retnees int | bmnatgpnaion. Of (nti Ghroummieanel, or lathes whee RT RRO RTE 14 127 1a value. (rood results would, doubtless, be experi- | Louisiana, end ‘from the census of | 1 per cent, | the cultivation of which is so absorbing as to stamp foe 7 Leh yore te oval ives | Condition, it te to & retrospective glance, Sura pp,3av eet 14.9679» enced in future years from liberality thus di d. | for that of Texas, California, &c., the result ie in | its impress on the character of the people. The aaa iepabecenente Semechoned dete ‘the last evususes | &24 study their past history, and trace itto its fet he 21.746 HO i6asie7s 1B | When it is remembered that previous to date | favor of the last ten yearc, by abou: one fourteenth | ing: of the central States is more ified, | of iuabegs, $0 aneaaoente poennocunone apt entianal finnings, ss we survey « river to ite source, to acquire « #849 322 1 gs i of ite commencement, eight days only elapsed after | of | per cent; the gain from 1810 to 1810 the lace of the country is more broken, the modes | worl. on the best but for many cf the practical | "DOwledge of its geography, or of the permanent charac- eee, iaonon i the — of w fe take the seventh census, | 35.05 per cont; and from 140 to 1X, 35 12 per | of eultivation are different, and the minuter divis. | purposes to which etetisties ase ‘applied, and deemed pi Ey came : haiti iniiid, i 85,951,207 and, considering Wy increase of population | cent. But without g: behind the sum of the re- | jong of labor create more numerous and less. ascori- | valuable, it seemed desirable to effect tome arrangement | 4! "oonsue’ 7 more lo ri phe tered Hell. dae 1 ag ir oe and the immense extent of new territory comprised | tarns, it are that the increase from the second | gntinterest. So far as Texas is settled, ite popula- which the publication of the results of the t | byt ely page gy . Livy. in ble | monthe tesune 0 vidi Within ite scope, it is not to be supposed thet this | tothe thire census wae thirty-two handredths of 1 | tion closely assimilates with that of the other | ary facts among mations should iy f- first bork of the history of Kome, chapter 42 speaking | 1f45.. 64.7637% 6,662,707 6, 201,002 fice oan be charged with delinquency; in view of | per cent greater than from the sixth to the seventh. coast planting States; but it would obviously convey | early simultanecus as Pop By- ld | Servius Tullius, says'—'He then entered on the tim. | Lear fo Jue 3, the fact that we have received at the returne from The reletive progrese of the several races and | no well founded idea of th lensity of population in 7 xm Principles, se Mop y dy Fy ement of the civil polity of the utmest importance, | Ii. .108 £8. every portion of the coentry, (e: ing ‘tah and | classes of the population is shown in the following | thet section, to distribute le over the vast |? suinas hea from this suntsetion be instituted the census—an erdinance of the moat those accidenta!ly destroyed in California,) within ement :— uninbabited region of T ‘Sep tie anase Teaton, | enjoy the advantage of bel eto arrive at « similar | *#Utary conrequence in our empire that was to rise to a shorter time than were received after the ERT oF mcm Case OF Ismanetante in the additional one of the isolation of her posi: | aneiyris with respect to cther mations, and that, white | *uch ® pitch of Sreatness, and according to which the commencement of the census, for the taking a> Brares ven Sexty Fane ion, California is considered distinet from other | contemplating cur own progress. from time to time. we fgg ys peoee oad wee on dd ad of which the law was enacted fifteen monthe previ- 3790 2000 1810 1680 1880 1848 | Cae | may be able to imetitute comparisons with the ad- rs wf. M iss ge ve A ous, anny gave ample time for executing the pre- 1850 ‘Taking the thirty-one States together, their aren | a — me <,cthes peste , Hleretot = a maaed aw poopestann wes and after deoclintag toe cena rod Sukie db weds Ba petro pn Bla oy ogee Mew dais | etal aren of the United States ia 3,220,000 | Sieuity arising fret the different elements elucidated ard gave in the amou ion Derdeme ieee ante—to each of venga go oe the aneieins, 4 square miles, and the rerage density of population he diverse methods of combination adopted. which fem ofl the pene ane bbe . imo Bach Fiscau Yaa ‘were seni = instruction, 7 21% to the square mile. lesen the of their reciprocally, and in the etucr with form ” schedules ready filed ep for | ‘Theceneur had been taken previously te 1880 cn | "7! reas assigned to those States and territorian | abcenee erases Sateeis ante” led? tote fret one eceencenree wae completed with prota ir nce the first of August; the enumeration began that | in which public lands are situated, are deubthoss | of one et of ciements to ascertain the condition of some he speaks of por Payment bar been made to these officers in two year on the first of June, two monthe earlier, so | correct, being taken from the reserds of the Land fad ot, yeeaaming Terults equally yy | and a description of all the eclu yortione—the first, on the receipt of the Marshal's | that the interval betweon the fourth and fifth cen- | Office; Wut, “at to those attrivered to the sides mode the bess of the the Coane net lecisiation | Ut@ revenue of the Roman certificate tha! the assistant bad made proper euses was two months lece than ten years, which | States, the means of verifying their asoarsey, | Sra ecvernment sn al . twelfth book, it is stated that turns to his office; and, the second, after an exai time allowed for would briog the total imerease up | or the wart of it, do not exist. But care has been . adie oan ean ration of every item of the work in detail by this | othe rate of 34.90 per eon. token to consult the best loeal authoritier, for asoor- | 1? a to the effort to elleet a cfiice, and adding to or abating the amount certi- | © ‘The table given below shows the increase frem | taiming the extent oCeurface in those States; and as | Paty oF concert <f ection among nations. with rete hed to be his due, as the result justified. The en- | 174) te 1850, without reference to intervening pe- | the.figures adopted are found to agree with, or differ | tu. AK 59 mown dh 5 ae = pa My | @ re cumber of payment: made to Marshal and as p= iy htly from those assumed to be correct,at the Publiebed rerorde, to ure & tittante, bas been $5,950.t In some case: the assist. eneral laud Office, i is probable they do not vary | condition of the Of all classes in each ceuntry ant has preferred to receive payment at one time, truth. tonum- after the examination of his return estomtiaily frem the ex Th 179, area of same of the Gtaten aa nd (he preduete of their agriculture and manu- In the compilation of the seventh census, it bas | Number ot whites. 17246) factures, their social and moral condition, the stste not been deemed necessary to divide the population | Free er lor Bah 43 tt of their territory. which may be accounted from | of cation. the price of Imbor, end the practical n we have such (ae bas been done eretolore) into divishon , other | Bi mt bes 13 | the supposition that the portions of the rurface, witht anagement cf the farming interests; in no case. how- | good modern authority not only as to the r ing of than by counties, cities, wards, or boroughs. Each Tews AID 255898 grey | thelr eaterior limite, covered by large bodies of water. Felying upon information not either obtained from | fhe terme, but the racticul carrying into effest what the | county in the United ~ poseesses a copy of ite o20Sa7 «2.U6.Wi 10.5844 «oh ag | bere berm subtracted from the acgrezate amount, This sl obrervation. or derived officially. and ina man- | jot Gistinguished stati-ta understand to be comprised 7, end tr 00 ¢ aoe a ondane dos Sixty. y since, the propertion between the | is known to be the cate in regned to Maryland. the super- hieh can leave no doubt of its correctness. My op- | within theit meaning ‘The term “statietion'o “4 : Gane an Oh the foterents of the ep rate | whites and blacks, bond PA, ree, was 42 tol. Im | Seialextentof which. within ty: outlines of ite bounda- | portunities abroad will not enable me toeflect valu | Lngiand. with sir John Bincluir, with Mae m4 itiew of arri uy reste of the separate 180 itwas 5 26 tol, and the ratio in favor of the | Tet. ir 13000 equare miles: and in dee able improvements im compiling our census, but it will the twentieth volume of bis statiscioal ateoane ra 2 A towns or townsbips—division-, uninteresting to the = A referecee to Virginia. from the fac th be my alm to mnke the statistical facts useful. to the | land. he remarks,“ Man ie e ret t-4 community at large. Each soparate State porsessos | former race is increasing. Had the blacks incrone- | Peer given ite total ance as high « ccuntry, by forming them into e report to be supplemen- | at my using the new Gots’ stances sy one ee 10s also & copy of the complete returas of the whole | ed as fast as the whites during theso sixty yours, it appear from the returns th: tal hereto. the completion of which has been retarded by | The ties t annex tothe term is an imjuiry into the stete lie State, po f from these may be able earily to sun. | their number, on the let of June, would have been | ing cn the firet of June. 1860, my other ¢Mfcial duties of # country, for the p one of sanertonntcy thequantum | lair 26, divide, for State purposes, ae minucely as iesirable 1.657 289; so that, in comparison with the whites, | owners one thousand and eleven elav.*. and that doring Another object had in view. was the procuring infor- | of bappiness enjoyed by its inhabitants. the imeans of | jx:9 1? ‘5 ‘To inelude all the sub-divisione of each State would | they have lost, in this period, 1,085,340. the same period fourteen hundred and sixty-seven were | waticn with rete: nee to the inanner in whic! ite foture improvement.” With 164 4 such an understanding of | 15# the term, he applied the title “ Statistical Account” to a ‘a manumitted The number of bot! In the following table — his disparity is much more than accounted s J. make the work, if not now, very soon, entirely too classes will appear onwieldy. The sub-divicions are, however, laid down in the original returns, and if it shoull be deemed detirable, may casily be designated in the aaron emigration to the United States Ohi ickering, in an liehed at Boston in 184k, Masemitten avr ersay upon immigration, pub- istinguished for great Foorrie State 1860. Manumaite! Fugitives work. perbape, of the greatest magnitude, importance and public utility ever attempted by one individual, devoted to a perfect history of Beotland ple To the attainment of these Foreign and Domestic Exports. Among alinost number. ; Delaware +e tT Tpcees. the few weeks to which my time limited me.and | les other feat: the statistical it | ” general work Ganerateness of research, estimates the gain of the Age 9 | [ho'aivarsity of languages amoue thoes uith thas, may | comtaine the anctemt aod modern ames of eech peru, | CATAMEST cExwirtrine | ew The original returns should be carefully pro | white populaticn, from this couree, at 3,922,152. No | Virgh be | iRYestigaticns were pursued, interposed diMoulties only | its bistcry, exteut, the nature of the soll and setae: | RArOhT%s 207 served hereafter, and sheuld, as heretofore, be | reliable record was kept of the number of immi- 96 | rurmounted by « zealous determination to effect the duty | tent and deseription of eon eomst lokns rivers, frlanda, | FROM HQ Te bourd for their better preservation. |: see nited States until 1#20, when, by gq | Ubdertaken—< ne in which failure must have eneu lle, rocks, caves aud woods, the climate, diseases, longe. | me doubtful whether the office pseee-sed the rch, IF1%, the collectors were required $ were ft not for the official character sustained in couneo- | Vity. state of the church. mange alebe. the minerals rity to expend more in the preservation of these | to make ay i of foreign pacsengers ar- fq | [08 with the cfticr here.and that wish which the Depart- mineral springs, eminent men, ities, parochial | valuable recorde, than would secure them from in- | riving in their districts. For the first ten years, 18 po my Ee as ite ee Geese amor we habita, snd | ih ory, While in actual use for preparing the census. | the returns under the law affords materials for only 29 pb my t as much valuable fas Rome | Stetptce oom a i. , ont " an approximation to @ true state of the facts in- aa wae policited in return: the other giving fact p ‘D years aod 1 i The only expense incurred for this purpose, has P " 41 | ties of intercourse, and » claim to consideration. which Pilation ¢rgsged the at hundred | i} il Deen for book boards, which can be used for bind- | volved in this inquiry ; So | RAE never slighted by any coer of # foreign govern. | mien. and fiitwenty volumes [ts nahh ry irg then : Chickering arsumes. a¢ a reeult of bie investi- | qrase. 29 | went | Parlismentery survey of England een Walon coors ; ae uty tocoming generations reyuires that docu . that, of the 6.431.088 inhabivants of the | Arkanens ai In Kingiend, in addition to the free intercourse enjoy | what similar principles, ° If similar vue romerte (an mente containing #0 many proofs relating to the nited States, in 1520. 1,430,006 were foreigners, | Missouri... ed with the officers of government e¢onnected with eta | the founder of Britian statiation, were instituted ta the -— 1 bietory of the present, should be caref arrived eee an Ay i799, . ~e Mere inte of Totals ; To Setlond roy “aor Rg en ang Rd | ue hina me Kah it udebt be the means of 4 } from injory or berm le outain the last euch. Accordain Ie. Seybert, an carlier writer aa ee 7 ‘ ringing ihe objec BY mission befo ie i * ehing cn sure foundation rineiples of that £ gerd of the Guna tor ws they somprion no ie. | upon statistion, the Dumber of forvigh pesssomers, aus ctecse othe ret enna esenatvating tbe | cnet and invitations were fendered me to Address the | Suet aperent ofa wines eee meh ee he ‘| ry of every man, wo- | from 1790 to 1810, war, as nearly a6 could be axcor- | [eteral increase of the, preps te tele tence | members of the Londen Sta pg AT wrepliy the eieneg in preference to say } ater all those whose tained, 120,000; and from the estimates of Dr. Sey- | ihe year to which the cetrus applier, the Ocionisation | Riches rite A : coutipues) con farntes to Guy mind capable of reveivins i passed from earth, bert, and o' evidence, Hon. George Tucker, | peeiety emt 562 cclored emigrate to Liberia. ia cur | tf orntel meeting, which ful information. eo much fenl entertainment, hoot i f of our onee heviog author of uable work on the census of 1540, | caleulations respecting the increase of the free eolored | bert cue cf tee members & h yiwid auch Maportant bits for the Improves. ; Htved, fo it children and smpposes the number, from 1810 to 1520, to have | population. we baye considered that class of persons in | gviehed literary and ecientifi reviculture. for the extension of our commercial jadu } cur pr Kusethemtolenra | been 114,000 spore Cg re meas for the ok eek ee —” which respectively sweil | in 006 the continent wy fre puiat ve the conduct of Individuals F for ox 2 et rie € ng unheard of, m thirt H <20, 234,01 | and di t | gium. BM. Quer ding the prosperity of the State; none can tend « 2 be bef _ i, and the search y hot sie ye ode in Mt tng bt of, these omigrante at | ie of mortality me ensue Se | Beara st ene of On each opporta- | much to premete the feneral Bappineer of the s — 1 =e A ave led to the distore rela {he average rate of the whole bedy of white popu- | S505 cd she tatic kcite ee rere ites pope. | Tutz it gave me pi one a fall secant of the | Tht exaaeple of all calightoncd Burope « # the i derelopemente have got lation during these three deeader, they and thelr | iation, or ar ten to each 12.6 of the population ‘The rats | out of Congress for fentog. therevoute’ couch fo taame, | kit in ihe catenl meta ‘Within thelt Coed F mary fawilies deveendante, im 1520, id amount to about 360,- | ef mortality in thie statement, seems so much lees than | Afair and impartiol exbibic of our progress in wealth | {istic — ‘ d be well worth the exrence to have ro 000. From 1420 to 1830, there arrived, according | pay le | portion of Europe, that it must, at present, | ang humbers during the past fen years, and at the same | MeCullough, in the Snteodustory chapter to the jax mee, aiphabdetically orrerged, the to the retarnsof the Custom Houses, 135, 86 foreign | be received with rome of allowance time urge the propriety ot mutual efforts towards the | editicn of © Pmith’s Wenith of Nations,” uses the foliow oan pamesof every adult citiaen, cr bead of ® family, as | paseengers, and from 1830 to 1840, 579,970, maki abe BO v0 FMEGIOe, POOTE tie Lana or tich time wil) | attainment of more unierm und ‘ieefalstatistieal publi: | ine Innruege =" Te arrive Kia true kurwiote ane cael AB a dt appears jp (bo return, witb hig opcupation, and | Jor the twenty years, 716,986. During this | emabje vs vo exerglee, prove the revurpe of the mumber of Gotiops by digerent governments, Propriety ofthis | Jeve which regulate the production, distribucion,and | 'N as pits av'en Sonat