Add for number of seamen in the United States service, aliens, &c., as per notes to fifth census. Grand total of the United States.. White Persons (included in the foregoing.) 11.130 .12,866,020 Slaves and Colored (included in the foregoing.) Total.... 1,652.......1,905....1,806....3,974.....107,832.. The increase in ten years, adding a correction for the two months (per cent..) is, whole population, 33 92 per cent; whites, 34-52; free colored, 34.85; slaves, 30-75; whole colored, 31-31. [Without this correction, the figures would have been 33.26, 33.85, 34.17, 30.15, 30.7.] The ratio of increase has therefore, in ten years, shown a slight enlargement. The whites have also gained over the colored. The proportion of the sexes continues nearly the same, though the female slaves show an increase of three per cent. The white children under ten years, and the bearing women, have diminished in proportion, showing, as it is argued, a decline in the ratio of natural increase. New-York has now assumed her empire position, and equals, in population, Massachu setts and Pennsylvania combined. Virginia has fallen considerably behind Pennsylvania. Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, continue their extraordinary advances. |