SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES-(Continued). No choice having been made by the Electoral College, the choice devolved upon the House of Representatives. A choice was made on the first ballot, which was as follows: Adams-Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Vermont-13 States; JacksonAlabama, Indiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee7 States; Crawford-Delaware, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia-4 States. No candidate having received a majority of the votes of the Electoral College, the pen. ate elected R. M. Johnson Vice-President, who received 33 votes; Francis Granger received 16. 4 SUMMARY OF POPULAR AND ELECTORAL VOTES-(Continued). 1840 26 294 Whig 234 R. M. Johnson.. 48 Wm. H. Harrison.. 19 1,275,017 234 John Tyler.. Liberty 7,059 15 1,337,243 170 Zachary Taylor.....15 1852 31 296 Democratic Franklin Pierce. 1,360, 101 163 27 1,601,474 254 1856 31 296 Democratic James Buchanan... 19 Republican. John C. Fremont.. 11 American.. Millard Fillmore... 1 1860 33 303 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 17 Democratic. J. C. Breckinridge.. 11 Cons. Union John Bell.. Ind. Dem... S. A. Douglas... 1,838.169 174 L. W. Tazewell. 11 Geo. M. Dallas.. 170 1,866,352 180 Hannibal Hamlin 180 3 2 845,763 72 Joseph Lane.. 72 589,581 39 Edward Everett. 39 1,375,157 12 H. V. Johnson.. 12 1864 36 314 Republican. Abraham Lincoln.. 22 2,216,067 212 Andrew Johnson 212 Democratic Geo. B. McClellan.. 3 1,808,725 21 G. H. Pendleton. 21 6 2,834,079 23 1872 37 366 Republican. Ulysses S. Grant... 31 3,597,070 286 23 5,608 5 42 3 18 T. E. Bramlette. 3 4,033,950 185 Wm. A. Wheeler 185 4,284,885 184 T. A. Hendricks 184 81,740 9,522 1880 38 369 Republican.. James A. Garfield...[19] 4,449.053 214||Chester A. Arthur|214 Democratic. Winfield S. Hancock 19 4,442,035 155 Wm. H. English.. 155 Greenback.. James B. Weaver...... Eleven States did not vote, viz.: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia." †Three States did not vote, viz.: Mississippi, Texas, and Virginia. Three electoral votes of Georgia cast for Horace Greeley, and the votes of Arkansas, 6, and Louisiana, 8, cast for U. S. Grant, were rejected. If all had been included in the count the electoral vote would have been 300 for U. S. Grant, and 66 for opposing candidates. POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, BY RACES, IN 1870 Total U. States 50,155,783 43,402,970 6,580,793 105,613 66,407 33,592,245 4,886,387 63,254 25,731 Total Population.... Per Cent. of Increase from 1870 to 1880: 66 66 .... 30.08 per cent. Colored Population............. 34.67 per cent. White Population......................................... 29.20 Chinese Population............. 66.73" NOTE.-The inhabitants of Alaska and the Indian Territory (both unorganized as yet) are not included in the above total. The census of Alaska in 1880 showed: White, 392; Creoles (issue of intermarriages between the whites and natives), 1,683; Aleuts, 1,960; Innuits, 17,488; Indians, 8,655; total, 30,178. The Indian Territory is estimated to contain 60,000 to 75,000 inhabitants. The Indians included in the census in each State and Territory are those reckoned as civilized, or outside of tribal organizations. Indians not taxed are by law excluded from the census. Estimates of their numbers vary widely-from 200,000 to 350,000 (the latter as estimated in the census of 1870), while the latest census or estimate of the Indian agencies, as reported in 1881 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, gives 246,417 Indians, excluding Alaska. The whole population of the United States exceeds 50,500,000, including Indians and Alaska. In the Chinese column (from want of space elsewhere) have been reckoned 148 Japanese. POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1870 AND 1880. From the Official Returns of the Tenth Census, 1880. NOTE.-In cases where counties are left blank, they have usually been consolidated with other counties, or have been organized since the date of the former census. White, 591,531; Colored, 210,994, including 195 Indians, and 133 Chinese. White, 767,181; Colored, 97,513, including 75, 132 Chinese, and 16,277 Indians. COLORADO. 9,899 11,772 10,851 11,284 White, 191,126; Colored, 3,201, including 612 Chinese, and 154 Indians. Fairfield 95,276 112,042 Middlesex....... 36,099 35,589 Tolland ........... 22,000 24,112 38,518 43,856 Kent White, 610,769; Colored, 11,931, including 255 Indians, and 123 Chinese. Total....... 125,015 146,608 White, 120,160; Colored, 26,448. |