APPENDIX. 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. Indiana, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont, Free. Slave. Total. 529,164 435,132 964,296 324,323 111,104 435,427 380,015 380.015 460,151 460,151 110,420 1,798 112,218 78,686 1,057,327 1,711,753 1,711,753 - 1,350,479 1,350,479 674,948 674,948 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. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 3 Louisiana, 4 4 Arkansas, 2 3 Texas, 2 4 10 8 Kentucky, 10 8 Ohio, 21 19 Delaware, 1 1 Missouri, Maryland, Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, 8 7 Florida, 1 1 California, 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: The following tables show the Free and the Slave population at each decennial period since the first census was taken: The following table shows the total population of the United States at each decennial period: The increase of the free population of the United States has averaged, at each century, about 35 per cent.; the increase of the slave popu Estimating the increase of each kind of population at century to come, the results at each decade in round decade, for the last half lation about 27 per cent. these figures for the half numbers, are as follows: |