CENSUS OF THE UNITED STATES AT DIFFERENT PERIODS.

OFFICIAL CENSUS TABLE,

SHOWING THE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES AND TERRITORIES, ACCORDING TO THE

SEVENTH CENSUS (1850), AND THE EIGHTH CENSUS (1860), RESPECTIVELY.

982,405 517,762 583,169 583,034 994,514 606,526 682,044 397,654

6,077 317,976 489,555 3,097,394

869,039 1,980,329

13,294 2,311,786

147,545 668,507 1,002,717

212,592 1,421,661

314,120 305,391

384,984
239,459

58,161
472,528

States.
Alabama, .
Arkansas, .
California, • .
Connecticut, •
Delaware, .
Florida, - .
Georgia . .
Illinois, •
Indiana,
Towa, -
Kansas, .
Kentucky,. .
Louisiana, -
Maine, - .
Maryland, . .
Massachusetts, -
Mississippi, .
Missouri, - .
Michigan, · ·
Minnesota, .
New Hampshire,
New Jersey, ·
New York, - .
North Carolina,
Ohio, . . .
Oregon, • •
Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island. .
South Carolina, .
Tennessee, .
Texas, - .
Virginia, - .
Vermont, ·
Wisconsin, .

Total. 964,296 435,427 380.015 460,151 112,218

140.439 1,057,327 1,711,753 1,350,479 674,948

107,110 1,155,713

709.433 628,276

687,034 1,231.065

791,395 1,173,317 749,112 162,022 326,072 672,031 3,887,542

992,667 2,339,599

52,466 2,906,370

174,631 703,812 1,109,847

601,039 1,596,083 315,116 775,873

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The following table shows the number of members of Congress apportioned to each State in 1850 and in 1860. In 1860, the ratio of representation was 127,216.

1850. 1860. Maine, . . . . . 6 5, Mississippi, . . . 5 5 New Hampshire, - - 3 3 | Louisiana, • • - . 4 4 Vermont, a

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| Arkansas, - Massachusetts,

Texas, - .. Rhode Island, .

| Tennessee, • • • 10 Connecticut, . .

Kentucky, • New York, ·

33 30 Ohio, . - . . New Jersey, ...

Indiana, · · Pennsylvania,

Illinois, . . . Delaware, ..

Missouri, • • . Maryland, • . .

Michigan, - . . Virginia, . . . . 13 11 Wisconsin, · · · North Carolina, . . . 8 7 Iowa, . . . . South Carolina,

4 Minnesota, . Georgia, . ..

7 Oregon, Florida, •

1 i California, • . Alabama, .

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Total, . . . . . .For 1850, 237. For 1860, 233.
The following tables show the increase of population in 1860, in the different
States, over the population of 1850:

SLAVE STATES.
Increase.

Increase.
Maine, . - - - · 36,780 | Delaware, . - - - 20,821
New Hampshire, · · · 8,096 | Maryland, -
8,096

- 148,531 Vermont, •

. • 1,707 Virginia, - . . . - 171,538 Massachusetts, .. . . 236,980 North Carolina, • . - 139,303 Rhode Island, - - - - 27,079 South Carolina, . . . 46,864 Connecticut, - . .

89,098 Georgia, . - - . 176,642 New York, - - 754,169 Florida, -

• 58,249 Pennsylvania, .

Alabama,

• 184,294 New Jersey, . - . - 186,479 Mississippi, . . . . 280,132 Ohio, - . • 397,588 | Louisiana, .

• 148,669 Indiana, ...

'. 362,386

Arkansas. - . . . - 230,878 Illinois,

Texas, . . . . . 438,363 Michigan,

· 356,737 Tennessee, - - - - 133,973 Wisconsin, . • - - 458,094 Kentucky,

• 168,152 Jowa, • •

| Missouri, • • • • • 519,170 Minnesota,

. 166,719 Oregon, • . - - . 39272 Total, · · · · 2,820,539 California, - - - - 292,173

Total, . . . 5,347,651 The following tables show the Free and the Slave population at each decennial period since the first census was taken:

SLAVE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES. 1790, . . . . . . . . 697,897 Increase. 1800,

893,041 195,144, or 29 per cent. 1810, . .

1,191,364 298,323, or 33 1820, - - - - - - - 1,538,064 347,700, or 30 " 1830, -

2,009,031 470,967, or 30 1840, . . . . . . . 2,487,355 478,324, or 24 " 1850, -. - •

- 3,204,313 716,958, or 1860, . . . . . - - 3999,353 795,040, or 25 "

FREE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES
. . . . . - 3,231,075 Increase.

- - - - 4,412,911 1,180,036, or 36 per cent. . . . . . 6,048,450 1,635,530, or 37

. . . . 8,100,067 2,051,517, or 33 . . . . . 10,357,880 2,757,822, or 33 "

. 14,575,998 3,718,109, or 33 . . . . . 19,991,645 5,415,616, or 37 ob

• • 27,642,624 7,550,680, or 38

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The following table shows the total population of the United States at each decennial period: 1790, • : . . 3,929,827 1 1830, •

12,886,020 1800, . . . . 5,305,925 1840, - . . . 17,069,453 1810,.

. 7,239,814 | 1850, . . . . . 23,191,876 1820, . . . . 9,638,131 | 1860, . . . . 31,429,891

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The increase of the free population of the United States has averaged, at each decade, for the last half century, about 35 per cent.; the increase of the slave popu. lation about 27 per cent. Estimating the increase of each kind of population at these figures for the half century to come, the results at each decade in round numbers, are as follows:

Total. 1870, . . . . . . 37,000,000 5,000,000 42,000,000 1880, - - - - - 50,000,000 6,500,000 56,500,000 1890, - . - - - - 68,000,000 8,000,000 76,000,000 1900, • • • •

92,000,000 10,000,000 102,000,000 1910, - -

- 123,000,000 12,500,000 135,500,000

Free.

Slave.