Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1859 — The Army of the Revolution. [ARTICLE]

The Army of the Revolution.

The question of the comparative contribution of men by different States and sections of the country, in the war of the Revolution lias been a subject of some controversy. As early as 1790, however, in ad 'bate on the assumption of State debts by the Union, Fisher Ames, a Representative from Massa- I ehusetts, moved to call upon the-war de-! partment lor information on the subject. The statement was furnished by GeneralKnox, who was then Secretary of War. It appears irom this that of Continental troops the Nort!:c-n States turn shed 172.497, and the Southern States 58,421. Ol militia, the the Northern States furnished 46,048, and the Southern 12,719. Of the Continental troops, Massachusetts furnished 68,937, Coi necticut 3.239. New York 17,781, Pennsylvania 25,608. Rhode Island 5,908, New’ Hampshire 12,496, New Jersey, 10,727, Delaware 2,387. Maryland 13,9 12, Virg nia 26,672, North Carolina 7,263, South Carolina 5,508, Georgia 2,679. The militia were pretty much in the same ■ ratio. In the consideration ot this subject it should also be borne in mind th.it there j was at that time but little difference in; numbers between the population of the Northern and Southern States. By the cen- 1 sus of 1790, the Southern States had a popu- i lation ol 1,956,354, and the Northern States i had a population of 1.968,455; yet, notwith- ! standing this, it would appear that the North ; furnished more men than the South. A Precocious Child—A Boy Nine Years Old Committing Suicide.—We mentioned the other day that a little fellow nine years old,Oscar Musser, living at or near Carthage, I was probably drownpd; but we have since learned that, being chastised by his lather for some misdemeanor, he threatened to throw himself into the canal. There is little doubt that he fulfilled his menace and died by hit wa hand.—Cttti Enquirer.