Those marked with a star (*) did not respond to the circular sent: hence, they, including the Seminaries of the insurgent States, are left the same as in the table of last year. 1 Closed until after the war. 8 150 4,000 Rev.R.J.Breckinridge, D.D.,LL.D First Thursday in May. 12 180 50 400 73 263 14 58 180 9 70 42 500 Rev. D. R. Campbell, LL.D....... 3,000 Very Rev. F. Chambige.... 60 117 10 18 127 Rev. C. F. W. Walther, D.D....... September 1. 4,000 Rev. P. McMenamy, C.M.. 300 Rev. S. W. Harkey, D.D.. 2,000 Rev. Alexander Young, D.D...... 20 6,000 Rev. Willis Lord, D.D... Rev. Joseph Haven.... Rev. L. P. Esbjourn... 70 300 3,000 Bishop M. Simpson, D.D....... Rev. W. Sihler, D.D.... 26 400 11,000 Rev. D. H. Allen... ...... 1293,000 125 3 27,000 129 160 3 30 296 140,000 75 3 25 207 5 118 175 20,000 125 1884 6,720 Rev. Bishop McIlvaine.... 2,500 Rev. Samuel Wilson, D.D.......... 9,000 Rev. C. G. Finney, D.D.. 7,000 Rev. Samuel Sprecher, D.D....... About July 1. Second Thursday of June. Fourth Wednesday in June. Last Thursday of March. Sept. Last week in October. Second Thursday in May. Fourth Wednesday in August. 60 300 4,000 Rev. F. J. Pabisch, D.D., LL.D.... June 24. 30 33 32 St. Peter's day, June 29. September 1. 98 Med. Departm't Penna. College... Philadelphia.. *Female Medical College. *Med. School Univ. of Maryland... Baltimore *Washington Medical College...... Baltimore *Med. Dept. Univ. of Louisiana..... New Orleans... Medical College of Ohio.. 1839 Philadelphia.. 678787 50 17 100 319 7,353 105 8 82 25 70 275 4,800 105 150 35 105 68.50 Matriculation Fee. 3 16 5 30 5 5 5 5 5 30 5 25 5 25 5 99 35 90 40 Those marked with a star (*) did not respond to the circular sent: hence, they, in addition to the 1 Suspended until after the war. 2 Suspended: no medical faculty now. Number in 1863-4, 350. 1 Not in operation. Hall burned in 1863 while occupied as United States Hospital. 1858 10 83 60 50 5 25 5 5 25 5 5 1856 6 124 30 46 100 5 30 1848 7 125 68 50 5 30 s, 8 ટકTER S 20 20 30 3A large library. 1 This college is connected with the Bellevue Hospital, and has no other distinct buildings. 7 And end March 1. 8 Preliminary course October 1. POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES AS AFFECTED BY IMMIGRATION. THIS most interesting topic has never received and the same, if that policy had been adopted in the deep study which it deserves, and has never 1810 or 1820. The basis of calculation is the fo been fully developed by our statisticians. Some lowing: if there had been no immigration to the years ago, when the political parties of the United United States after the adoption of the Constitu States were strongly exercised on the subject of a tion, then the increase of our population would proposed restriction of the elective franchise ex- only have been so much as resulted from the extended by our laws to immigrants, an inquiry into cess of births over deaths. This increase is found the extent of the increase of our population by by calculation to be 1.38 per annum. Taking thra immigration was made by Mr. Louis Schade, a the white and free colored population of 1790, and gentleman of mathematical talents, then resident multiplying it by this ascertained percentage of in Washington. The results of his calculations natural increase, and so multiplying and com were surprising, for until they appeared very few pounding the results year by year down to 1858, persons had even a remote conception of the ex- we find what would have been that population in tent to which the rapid increase of our population the last year by such natural increase alone. By was influenced by immigration. Upon the basis this process it is shown that the white and free of the calculations referred to, we have constructed colored population of the United States work the subjoined tables, which present in one view have reached but 8,789,969, instead of the majestic what would have been the white and free colored aggregate of 29,902,174 at the close of 1863. Se population of the United States if it had been left widely different is this result from any existing to the slow increase produced by the excess of opinion or notion of the subject in the popular births over deaths. In other words, these tables mind, that it may be described as startling. Yet show by mathematical demonstration what would the figures appear to be unimpeachable. The have been the white and free colored population rate of annual natural increase assumed (1.38) is of the United States in 1863, if our ports had been higher than that of any other country for which closed against immigration in 1790; they show we have sufficient official data for calculation. what that population would have been if the in- To show how it compares with that of other na flux of immigrants had been shut off in 1800;tions, the following table is presented: TABLE SHOWING THE INCREASE OF POPULATION BY THE EXCESS OF BIRTHS OVER DEATHS, AND THE from 29,902,174, the aggregate of our white and free colored population in 1863, we find the following remarkable results: In 1863, the immigrants since 1790, From the foregoing table it will be perceived Referring now to the table on the next page, and that the percentage of 1.38 allowed for the na-subtracting the totals of the respective columns tural increase of the population of the United States, from the mere excess of births over deaths, is considerably greater than that of Great Britain, the next highest, and very far greater than that of any other country named. This difference in our favor is, beyond question, due to the long periods of peace enjoyed by the United States when other nations were at war. The percentage of France, it will be observed, is the lowest in the table, a result flowing from her almost constant wars, which drain her population of large numbers of her marriageable young men. 21,112,205 19,439,230 and their descendants, number...... 17,223,652 *1850 is taken for the United States, because the number of births for 1860 are not yet published; and the free colored are taken with the whites, because they are placed together in the tables of births and deaths in the census. The slave population is omitted from the tables, because it is not. affected by immigration. The Census for Great Britain for 1861 shows the increase from excess of births over deaths for the previous ten years to be 12.6, which is considerably less than 1.25 per annum. |