Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1877 — Our Population. [ARTICLE]

Our Population.

Already people are beginning to speculate as to what the population of the United States will be in 1880. The general estimate ranges between 45,000,000 and 47,000,000. Twelve States have taken their census in 1875. Michigan took one in 1874, and Missouri and Nebraska in 1876. The following table exhibits the figures of population by these enumerations compared with the late United States census in 1870. The righthand column shows the percentage of increase in the population of each State:

-U.S.Ctn- State r n ~ r ,, n .P er SUS, 1870. Censuses. Increaae Ct. lowa 1,194.020 1,350,544 156,542 13 Kansas 364.399 528,437 164,038 45 Louisianaj 726,915 857,039 130.124 13 Massachusetts.... 1,457,351 1,661,912 194,561 13 Michigan....?.... 1,184,059 1,334,031 149,972 13 Minnesota. 439,766 597,407 157,701 36 Missouri 1,721,295 2,085,537 364.242 21 Nebraska,... 1 122,933 257.747 134.7 M 109 Nevada 42,491 52,540 10,0*9 24 New Jersey 906.096 1,019,413 113,317 13 New York 4,382,759 4,705,208 322,449 7 Oregon 90,923 104,920 13,997 15 Rhode Island 217,353 258,239 40,880 19 South Carolina... 705,606 823.447 117,841 17 Wisconsin 1,054,67‘ 1,233,599 181,929! 17 T0ta114,610,636 16,863,020 2,252,384! This rate of increase (about 15| per cent.) would not hold good in the other States, for if the same average percentage of increase were applied to all the States it would give us a population of 44,564,881 for the year -1874, as against 38,567,617 in 1870, and would carry the population above 50,000,000 in 1880, which is hardly possible in view of the fact that emigration has fallen off to a half or third of what it was previous to 1874. The State which will exhibit the greatest gain at the next census will probably be Texas. The enormous size of the State, and the quantity cf its fertile land, have attracted vast swarms of immigrants. We should not be greatly surprised if Texas reaches fully 2,000,000 oi souls in 1880, making her the Empire State of the South, as she will eventually be of the Union if not divided into at least three States.— Chicago Tribune.