The Daily Dispatch: March 27, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Census of the United States.

The following corrected table of population and representation, according to the returns of the Eighth Census, is from the Superintendent of the Census Office, Washington.--It will be seen that some of the States lose Representatives in Congress, while others gain from one to four members:

Census of 1860.

States.	free.	slave.	Total.	Rep. in 38 Cong.	Loss.	Gain.
Alabama	529,164	435,132	964,296	6	1
Arkansas	324,323	111,104	435,427	3		1
California	380,015		380,015	3		1
Connecticut	460,151		460,151	4
Delaware	110,420	1,79	112,218	1
Florida	78,686	61,753	140,439	1
Georgia	595,097	462,230	1,057,327	7	1
Illinois	1,711,753		1,711,753	13		4
Indiana	1,350,479		1,350,479	11
Iowa	674,948		674,948	5		3
Kansas	107,110		107,110	1
Kentucky	930,223	225,490	1,155,713	8	2
Louisiana	376,913	332,520	700,433	5		1
Maine	628,276		628,276	5	1
Maryland	599,846	87,188	687,034	5	1
Massachusetts	1,231,065		1,231,065	10	1
Mississippi	354,699	436,696	791,395	5
Missouri	1,058,352	114,965	1,173,317	9		2
Michigan	749,112		749,112	6		2
Minnesota	162,022		162,022	1	1
N. Hampshire	326,072		326,072	3
N. Jersey	672,031		672,031	5
N. York	3,887,542		3,887,542	31	2
N. Carolina	661,586	331,081	992,667	7	1
Ohio	2,339,599		2,339,599	18	3
Oregon	52,464		52,464	1
Pennsylvania	2,906,370		2,996,370	23	2
R. Island	174,621		174,621	1	1
S. Carolina	301,271	402,541	703,812	4	2
Tennessee	834,063	275,784	1,109,847	8	2
Texas	420,651	180,388	601,039	4		2
Virginia	1,105,190	490,887	1,596,083	11	2
Vermont	315,116		315,116	2	1
Wisconsin	775,879		775,873	6		3
Total	27,185,109	3949,557	31,134,666	233	24	19
Territories. Colorado	34,197		34,197
Dakotas	4,829		4,839
Nebraska	28,832	10	28,842
Nevada	6,857		6,857
N. Mexico	93,517	24	93,541
Utah	40,268	29	40,295
Washington	11,578		11,578
D. of Colum.	71,895	3,181	75,076
Total	27,477,090	3952,801	31,429,891

The whole number of Representatives is by law fixed at two hundred and thirty-three, who are apportioned among the States respectively, by dividing the number of the free population of the States, to which, in slaveholding States, three-fifths of the slaves is added, by the number two hundred and thirty-three, and the product of such division (rejecting all fractions of a unit,) shall be thereto of representation of the several States; but as the number and amount of the fractions among so many dividends would, of course, in the aggregate, be sufficient to reduce the number of Representatives below the number specified, it was provided that the whole number should be supplied by assigning to so many States having the largest fractions, an additional member each for its fraction, until the number of two hundred and thirty-three members should be assigned to the several States.